zadao.aiDeGrants · funded by the Stacks Endowment
Community-led microgrants
Small, practical projects that create value for Stacks: education, culture, tooling, public goods and community work. Community Stewards choose the recipients.
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Apply
Describe what you will deliver, why it matters for Stacks, the funding you request and your timeline.
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Steward review
Three Community Stewards read each application. Seats rotate across cycles.
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Award decisions
Stewards score and discuss with the DeGrants rubric once the window has closed.
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Deliver
Grantees complete their milestones and share progress with the community.
Funded projects · 65
kenzmanAkinbola Kehinde
Scaffold Stack
Scaffold-stacks is live on crates.io and already used by Stacks developers to scaffold, test, and deploy Clarity dApps with auto-generated TypeScript bindings and a live debug UI. With this DeGrant, we will ship a v0.2.0 -ready release (v0.1.10 equivalent, just a switch in the progression of version numbering): expanded SIP contract templates, polished deploy and upgrade workflows, agentic skills,…
$4,000 · 0 of 3 milestonesAwarded 12 Aug 2026
jimdotbtcJim Crane
Xtrata - Forever Twins
Forever Twins gives any NFT collection a permanent, fully on-chain twin, with the artwork inscribed directly onto Bitcoin via Stacks, so the culture survives even when the original's off-chain image disappears. The original NFT is never modified and nothing is taken from any holder. Every twin is hash verified against the source art, so preservation is provably faithful rather than an approximatio…
$4,000 · 0 of 3 milestonesAwarded 11 Aug 2026
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Binta
Retroactive PoW funding awardee - Community Choice award Source category: Retroactive (Community Choice)
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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Felix
Retroactive PoW funding awardee - Creator category Source category: Retroactive (Creator)
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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Parrot Radio
Retroactive PoW funding awardee - Builder category Source category: Retroactive (Builder)
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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ZeroAuthority (gigs/bounties)
Facilitated 130+ gigs, 40K+ STX exchanged, 100 bounties completed; reputation badges for 1,000+ users Source category: Community
$1,389 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
DeGrants Cohort 1 (Historical)Historical Cohort 1
Governance & DAOs Research
Hamish: research on incentives, participation, transparency and audit-cost reduction; delivered recommendations Source category: Governance
$2,318 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
DeGrants Cohort 1 (Historical)Historical Cohort 1
Reputation SIP / Reputation Onchain
xyzero.btc (Zero Authority DAO): on-chain trust framework for verifiable, portable reputations Source category: Governance
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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StacksLink
GoodKitty: ultimate community resource hub bringing together 20 ecosystem leaders Source category: Community
$1,389 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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Tacovation
Nietta: recognition program; 100+ members engaged, 10K+ monthly impressions, weekly round-ups Source category: Community
$1,389 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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Music for Science
Anibal: onboarding Spanish-speaking users via educational content and interactive Manuelita NFT Source category: Community
$1,389 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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#100Day Giveaway
BitByBit & Stuart: created 2,000+ wallets - largest wallet onboarding in Stacks history; covered gas costs Source category: Community
$1,389 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
DeGrants Cohort 1 (Historical)Historical Cohort 1
BNS One
Snazzy: all-in-one BNS app; 582 active users and 1.2K sessions within two weeks of launch Source category: BNS
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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BNS Community Website
Snazzy: dedicated education site to grow BNS ecosystem and showcase decentralized identity Source category: BNS
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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Audiobox
Rocky: music NFT streaming app prototype for musicians and superfans Source category: NFT / Music
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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MixMi
Sandy Hoover: music rights/licensing framework; mint remixes as NFTs, groundwork for licensing standard Source category: NFT / Music
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
DeGrants Cohort 1 (Historical)Historical Cohort 1
Gated
Stacks' first multi-split payment platform for creators (Gary Riger, collab GoodKitty); music player for When Walls Break Source category: NFT / Music
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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When Walls Break
NFT album, 8 musicians + 8 artists; produced by GoodKitty, released on Gated.so (100 collector editions, 80 STX) Source category: NFT / Music
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
DeGrants Cohort 1 (Historical)Historical Cohort 1
NFT Afrika 2024
Sherie: 3-day IRL events across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania; 500+ attendees, onboarded 30+ new artists Source category: NFT Events
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
DeGrants Cohort 1 (Historical)Historical Cohort 1
The BlockWeb
Reece Swanepoel (South Africa): 552-piece gamified art collection, 30+ artists engaged, 50% complete Source category: NFT / Art
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
DeGrants Cohort 1 (Historical)Historical Cohort 1
A Museum of Metamorphosis
Gavin Kendo (Kenya): 5-piece emotion-driven surreal art exhibit Source category: NFT / Art
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
DeGrants Cohort 1 (Historical)Historical Cohort 1
JingCash
Audited, slippage-free order book for BTC-STX swaps and SIP-010/009 tokens; $21K+ total value traded Source category: DeFi
$3,473 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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Syndi
Community Co-Pilot project; growing community learning AI and deploying ideas Source category: AI
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025
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Stacks NFT Arcade Games
3 Stacks arcade games created using new AI tools Source category: AI / Games
$2,315 · 1 of 1 milestonesAwarded 23 Jan 2025