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Earn a piece of the Urbit network by developing software, creating content, growing communities, and more. There are two types of grants:
Proposals
Have an idea? Send it to us, and we can approve you to be funded.
Bounties
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Proposal
Bounty
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Showing 141 grants
Zero K Content Creation
Reward:
2 stars equivalent in USDC
Create content for the Zero K Urbit Podcast
Completed
Proposal
%wui - Web User Interface (Game UI for App School)
Reward:
Open
Proposal
%work
Reward:
1000 USDC
Open
Proposal
%wock
Reward:
Lightweight Nock interpreter to run Hoon in the browser.
Open
Proposal
Urbit Wiki
Reward:
%wiki will be an app for creating, reading, and (ultimately) collaborating on wikis.
Completed
Proposal
Implement a wiki on Urbit
Reward:
Design and implement a wiki-like service on Urbit
Completed
Bounty
%wiki phase 2
Reward:
Open
Proposal
Whom: profile and contacts manager
Reward:
A dedicated contacts app to store contact info that other apps can programmatically access
Completed
Proposal
Urwasm — Phase I
Reward:
WebAssembly Interpreter in Nock — Augment Urbit with the ability to run WASM code.
Completed
Bounty
Build a UI for Volt
Reward:
An app to serve the UI to urbit's lightning wallet
Completed
Apprenticeship
Vere Support for Eyre Cache
Reward:
The second of a two-part bounty to add a cache to eyre.
Completed
Bounty
Valuation Research Articles
Reward:
$5000
Create in-depth valuation models for Urbit address space, network effects, and commercial utilization
Completed
Bounty
USTJ Forum
Reward:
2 stars equivalent in USDC
Create a clearweb-usable forum for the Urbit Systems Technical Journal
Open
Proposal
UrWasm Phase II
Reward:
WebAssembly Interpreter in Nock — Phase II
Open
Bounty
Urmanac Operationalization and Hosting
Reward:
Support and host the Urmanac, a repository of information about the Urbit ecosystem.
Open
Proposal
Self-hosted Uniswap
Reward:
Host a Uniswap frontend trading UI on your urbit
Completed
Bounty
Urbit Query
Reward:
A standard interface for querying Urbit from React
Open
Proposal
Modernize Urbit React Developer Documentation
Reward:
Modernize Urbit React Developer Documentation
Completed
Proposal
Urbit Ninja Strike Team
Reward:
Win a hackathon using Urbit.
Open
Bounty
Urbit Interface Framework
Reward:
Develop framework for alternative urbit web browser interface
Open
Proposal
Urbit Forms
Reward:
Create forms and surveys with multiple question types
Completed
Proposal
Urbit Encyclopedia, Vol. 1
Reward:
Open
Proposal
Modernize |mass
Reward:
Update the |mass utility to reinject the output into arvo from the runtime.
Completed
Bounty
Urbit Community Support Concierge
Reward:
The Urbit Community concierge will triage Urbit support issues that come in through the Urbit Community Group.
Completed
Bounty
Turf
Reward:
Build a thriving and customizable virtual world on Urbit
Open
Proposal
Trove: group file drive
Reward:
4 stars ($8k bonus if done by December 12, 2022)
A shared file drive allowing the upload of files to an S3 bucket or IPFS and the ability to organize the file links in folders.
Completed
Bounty
Trill: your Urbit social feed
Reward:
Urbit microblogging platform and social feed aggregator
Completed
Proposal
Treesitter Hoon Parser
Reward:
Create a better hoon parser with Treesitter
Completed
Proposal
Trail
Reward:
An application for tracking and reviewing your outdoor workouts via a native mobile OS application, a webapp, and an Urbit backend for your sensitive location data
Open
Proposal
Tlon Chat Bots
Reward:
Create a library that will allow anyone to easily spin up chat bots and automation for Tlon Groups
Open
Proposal
Tinygrad ML Library
Reward:
Produce an Urbit-native implementation of tinygrad capable of running basic machine learning benchmarks at competitive speeds.
Open
Proposal
Generic Text Search Tool for Urbit
Reward:
Build Urbit's answer to grep.
Open
Bounty
Symmetric Routing
Reward:
Change Urbit's peer discovery, routing, and packet forwarding to use symmetric routing
In Progress
Apprenticeship
Expense Sharing App
Reward:
Completed
Proposal
Expense Sharing App for Urbit
Reward:
Create a crypto and fiat expense sharing app for Urbit
Open
Bounty
Smart light bulb app
Reward:
A smart light bulb app for controlling the ambiance in your home
Completed
Proposal
Tune slaw/scot Jets
Reward:
Tune slaw/scot jets for better perfomance.
Completed
Bounty
Slam
Reward:
Slam Action Game
Completed
Proposal
Shrubbery RSS Integration
Reward:
Pull RSS/Atom media into the namespace.
Open
Bounty
Shrub Mast
Reward:
Open
Proposal
Hari + Rama (The Urbit Cyclopaedia)
Reward:
Facilitating 'A literal but delinquent reprint of the Encyclopedia Schizophrenica on Urbit'.
In Progress
Bounty
Seguro Prototype
Reward:
Completed
Proposal
Seguro MVP
Reward:
Implement a working FoundationDB event read/write layer that is as ready as possible for interfacing with the Urbit runtime.
Completed
Proposal
Runtime Support for Scry over HTTP
Reward:
Runtime Support for Scry over HTTP
Open
Bounty
Regular Expressions Library
Reward:
Implement a regular expressions library in Hoon
Completed
Bounty
Quorum
Reward:
Quorum: Clone of Stack Exchange on Urbit
Completed
Proposal
Seamless QR Login
Reward:
Implementation of the state-of-the-art, battle-tested user experience for logging into your urbit
Completed
Proposal
Project Creation & Package Management for Urbit
Reward:
Completed
Proposal
Vere Profiling
Reward:
Uncover and visualize performance bottlenecks in the runtime
Completed
Apprenticeship
Port to Hosting Protocol
Reward:
Create an easy way to onboard Port users to hosting providers
Open
Bounty
Port Revival
Reward:
Open
Bounty
Port Maintenance
Reward:
Maintain the Port application
Completed
Bounty
%pony
Reward:
Urbit-native long-form mail for threaded communications.
Completed
Bounty
Plug
Reward:
Sell a catalog of physical goods from your Urbit
Completed
Proposal
New Mars Persistent Memory
Reward:
Development of persistent memory arena for the New Mars runtime
Completed
Bounty
Peat
Reward:
Social Areoloy, or, Urbit's first Backup Utility
Completed
Proposal
Olif
Reward:
Olif: olfactive rendering of Urbit address space
Completed
Proposal
Build a Single-Sign-On App for Urbit
Reward:
TBD
Produce an OAuth-compatible token issuer and login manager.
Open
Bounty
Notifications Protocol
Reward:
Build a new network protocol to Urbit to handle notifying subscribers when a new datum is published
In Progress
Apprenticeship
No-Code Website Builder
Reward:
Open
Proposal
Network Weather Simulator for %pyro/%aqua
Reward:
TBD
Network Weather Simulator for `%pyro`/`%aqua
Open
Bounty
%nested-goals
Reward:
Urbit application for individual and social management of high-level goals and their tasks
Completed
Proposal
Native Planet Phase 2
Reward:
Native Planet - A domestic hosting solution for Urbit
Completed
Proposal
Muster — An Urbit Browser
Reward:
The ground-up browser hooked to Urbit
Open
Proposal
Minesweeper
Reward:
1 star ($2k if done by Assembly)
A redesigned version of minesweeper where all of the game logic is written in hoon
Completed
Bounty
Middleware Tools
Reward:
Build middleware tooling for interfacing between arbitrary agents
Completed
Apprenticeship
Membrane
Reward:
Martian native spreadsheets
Open
Proposal
Reduce memory usage of |meld
Reward:
Reduce memory usage of |meld
Open
Apprenticeship
Machine Learning and Numerical Computing
Reward:
Enable numerical computing and machine learning on Urbit.
Open
Bounty
Markdown on Urbit
Reward:
Support the Markdown data type natively on Urbit
Open
Proposal
Maat (Tasks)
Reward:
Completed
Proposal
Luau
Reward:
Urbit Lua
Open
Bounty
Loom Pointer Compression
Reward:
Expand the maximum addressable loom size
Completed
Apprenticeship
%live App - Frontend
Reward:
Frontend for %live app to support Subassembly and future events
Open
Bounty
%live App - Backend
Reward:
Backend for %live app to support Subassembly and future events
Open
Bounty
Lightning Development
Reward:
Extending Bitcoin on Urbit via lightning submarine swaps and onion routing
Open
Proposal
Lexicon: simple dictionary app
Reward:
1 star ($3k bonus if done by Assembly)
A simple dictionary app with ability to add custom definitions for a group.
Completed
Bounty
Knox
Reward:
A vault for web2 passwords with a browser extension and easy to use client interface, bringing the features you would expect from a first class password manager to Urbit
Completed
Proposal
Keep
Reward:
Keep: Arbitrary Agent State Restoration Agent + Wrapper
In Progress
Proposal
JSON Canvas
Reward:
Support the JSON Canvas file type
Open
Bounty
Global Inexact @p Search
Reward:
Open
Proposal
Urbit Index Revival
Reward:
Create and distribute the Urbit Index, a summary of interesting activity from around the network.
Open
Proposal
Hoon based Markdown Library
Reward:
CommonMark-based Library for Hoon Markdown
Completed
Proposal
Hoon Eval and REPL
Reward:
Build an eval command and a stateless REPL mode in vere
Completed
Apprenticeship
Hoon and App School Books
Reward:
Open
Proposal
%homunculus
Reward:
Completed
Proposal
Herd
Reward:
Herd - Dependency management for Citadel
Completed
Proposal
%gora Maintenance
Reward:
Maintain the %gora app
Open
Proposal
Gora: QR Edition
Reward:
Extend Gora with QR-code generation and scanning for sending and recieving gorae
Completed
Apprenticeship
Go-Urbit Core Interface
Reward:
Create a go-urbit library that contains the required functions for interfacing with Ames
Completed
Proposal
Gnosis Safe on Urbit
Reward:
A self-hosted Gnosis Safe UI to protect against centralized prohibition
Completed
Bounty
Implement a Git server on Urbit
Reward:
Implement a minimal Git server
Open
Bounty
Github Support Concierge
Reward:
The Github concierge will triage Urbit support issues that come in through Github.
Completed
Bounty
Generic Text Search Tool
Reward:
Generic Text Search Tool for Urbit
Open
Proposal
Doccord Compliant Comments in all Generators
Reward:
Adapt the comments in the default generators to take advantage of the new doccord features.
Open
Bounty
General Website Permissioning
Reward:
Enabling the ability to log in and view private or user-specific content
Completed
Proposal
Urbit GDPR Whitepaper
Reward:
In Progress
Proposal
%gather
Reward:
An Urbit native meetup tool for subculture gatherings
Completed
Proposal
%fund
Reward:
The tip of the spear for sovereign web3 productivity apps on urbit
Open
Proposal
Full Stop
Reward:
A Menstruation Tracker for Urbit
Open
Proposal
Filesharer
Reward:
Simple file sharing on Urbit
Open
Proposal
File Compression
Reward:
Implement a compressed file type.
Open
Proposal
Urbit Favelas
Reward:
Create and support Urbit Favelas, a new NFT collection based on Urbit ID
In Progress
Proposal
Faux
Reward:
Discord Bridge
Completed
Proposal
Farcaster Frames
Reward:
Make your Urbit app into a Farcaster Frame.
Open
Bounty
Eyre Request Cache
Reward:
Speed up Urbit http server by implementing a cache for requests
Completed
Bounty
Finishing Touches to Eyre Noun-Based Channels
Reward:
Finishing Touches to Eyre Noun-Based Channels
Completed
Proposal
Urbit Native Ethereum Wallet
Reward:
3 stars + $15k USD
Build an Ethereum wallet and UI that you can run from your urbit ship and use to interact with the web3 ecosystem
Open
Bounty
eth-provider: Decentralized Ethereum access for Urbit
Reward:
Eth-provider is a Gall agent that allows Urbit users to configure their Ethereum connection.
Completed
Bounty
Build an Email Toolchain for Urbit
Reward:
TBD
Produce an Urbit-side client for sending E2EE email
Open
Bounty
Elm
Reward:
5 Stars + Bonus
Making Elm the frontend technology for Urbit
Completed
Proposal
EAuth Quality of Life Improvements
Reward:
Upgrade EAuth behavior.
Open
Bounty
Dusko Valve
Reward:
1.0 WSTR
a tool which allows NFT artists to offer planets for redemption to their patrons alongside their NFTs
Completed
Proposal
Generalized Digital Content Web Store
Reward:
Online Store for Selling Digital Content (Text / Audio / Video)
Completed
Proposal
Digital Editor, Mars Review of Books
Reward:
$4,500 USD
Digital Editor for the Mars Review of Books
Completed
Bounty
Build a DID Resolver for Urbit
Reward:
TBD
Design and implement a DID resolver to let Urbit interoperate with protocols like AT/BlueSky
Open
Bounty
Importing and exporting desks as jamfiles
Reward:
Improve the application development experience through simplified importing and exporting of desks.
Completed
Bounty
Calendar and Datetime Support
Reward:
Create an Urbit-native calendar and a library to support working with dates and times.
Open
Grant
Cue
Reward:
A bookmarking tool that reminds you of content you saved for later
Open
Proposal
Community Meetup
Reward:
Earn stars by building a local urbit community
Open
Bounty
Communal Computing on Urbit
Reward:
User research, domain research/synthesis, white paper creation and publicity effort around Urbit ID as a solution to questions of IoT identity sharing and privacy
Completed
Proposal
Chronicle: News app
Reward:
2 stars ($4k bonus if done by Assembly)
Chronicle is a news app that links all articles from group channels
Completed
Bounty
Chess Improvements
Reward:
Improvements to the Chess app, creating an Urbit Chess experience comparable to that of any modern Chess website
Completed
Bounty
Calendar Feature Completion
Reward:
Calendar is a tool for creating events, inviting participants, and sharing your schedule with others.
Open
Bounty
Bridge Issue Grab Bag
Reward:
Close three issues from the Bridge github repo.
Completed
Bounty
Books: address and transaction manager
Reward:
Books is an application for managing your crypto wallets, transactions, and counterparties. It allows you to add your wallet and others' wallets, track balances and transactions, and add private annotations to all of the above.
Completed
Bounty
Books feature development
Reward:
Books is an application for managing your crypto wallets, transactions, and counterparties. It allows you to add your wallet and others' wallets, track balances and transactions, and add private annotations to all of the above.
Open
Bounty
%blog Quality of Life Improvements
Reward:
%blog Quality of Life Improvements
Completed
Apprenticeship
Astrolabe
Reward:
Urbit address space explorer
Completed
Proposal
~tirrel Studio Email
Reward:
Build out email capabilities of ~tirrel's Studio app
Completed
Apprenticeship
~tirrel Studio Collections
Reward:
Extend ~tirrel's studio app content offering to include groups collections
Completed
Apprenticeship
Extending the Bitcoin Provider API
Reward:
Completed
Apprenticeship
UV Native Notifications Apprenticeship
Reward:
Build native notifications into Urbit Visor
Open
Apprenticeship
UrVault Apprenticeship
Reward:
$12,000 in WSTR
UrVault: Urbit Password Manager
Open
Apprenticeship
App Store
Reward:
A tool for decentralized curation and discovery of urbit applications
Completed
Proposal
Apprenticeship: Resurrect the OpenBSD Build
Reward:
Get the project to the point where it works on OpenBSD
Completed
Apprenticeship
Success Metrics for Urbit Apps
Reward:
Success Metrics for Urbit Apps
Completed
Proposal
Engram: a collaborative knowledge managment app
Reward:
Engram is a knowledge management application that allows individuals or teams to build rich note documents.
Completed
Bounty
%AMA
Reward:
Completed
Proposal
Aera
Reward:
8 Stars + Bonus
A decentralized, subjective reputation graph protocol.
Open
Proposal
Abacus: basic calculator
Reward:
1 star ($1k bonus if done by Assembly)
Abacus: A basic calculator app with the ability to convert units
Completed
Bounty
Overview
Ecosystem
Technical Journal
Network Explorer
Whitepaper
Blog
X
@urbit
Github
urbit
Tlon
~halbex-palheb/uf-public
Youtube
@urbit_
Gather
urbit-hacker-house
Email
support@urbit.org