CL Web3 Grants #18
🚀 Fresh Web3 grants just dropped! Dive into top picks from Arbitrum, Lisk, and Uniswap. Plus, highlights from ETHBucharest and public goods funding talks.
Welcome to the 18th edition of the CL Web3 Grants newsletter!
CL Web3 Grants is a bi-weekly newsletter featuring curated grant opportunities for Web3 projects. In CL Web3 Grants, you’ll find new grant opportunities, insider tips for writing winning applications, pitch competitions, and events to elevate your Web3 journey.
🔍 This Week’s Top Web3 Grants
Here’s a fresh batch of funding opportunities for builders, researchers, and innovators in Web3:
Arbitrum D.A.O. Grant Program- The Arbitrum D.A.O. (Domain Allocator Offering) grant program is a 1 year program divided in five Domains, aimed to be the entry point of grants in the Arbitrum ecosystem and support builders aligned with the vision of the DAO. The grant program is an open application type related to five different domains of interest: “New Protocols and Ideas”, “Education, Community Growth and Events”, “Gaming”, “Dev Tooling on One and Stylus” and “Orbit Chains”.
Lisk DAO Season 1– Season 1 is structured around five core intents, each with measurable outcomes: * Make contributing to Lisk DAO engaging and rewarding * Accelerate Lisk programs and builders * Grow Lisk’s Total Value Locked (TVL) * Strengthen Lisk’s contribution to the Superchain * Provide insights for the LSK token burn vote
Unichain Foundation Request for Builders – To galvanize the next generation of DeFi projects, Uniswap Foundation launches a Request for Unichain Builders: the 10 ideas they believe will shape the future of onchain markets. Swapping experience, Stable pools, Bringing Real World Assets to DeFi, Staking, restaking and BTCFi, Trustless lending, Uniswap native markets, Next-generation Automated Liquidity Management, LVR protection and fee optimization, Issuance & treasury management primitives, Payments & commerce.
New 🇪🇺 EU funding opportunities from EU Digital & Tech on AI & Agents, Virtual Worlds & Metaverse, Digital Identity, Digital Skills & Fact-checking
🗂️ Just visit www.web3grants.co, select the ‘European Union’ filter under the Ecosystem category to explore! 📅 All calls open from 15 April 2025!
👉 Explore all active grants in the CL Web3 Grants Database
🚀 Have a grant to share? Submit it here.
Let’s keep building Web3 together!
ETH Bucharest 2025 – A Pleasant Surprise 🇷🇴
Just got back from ETH Bucharest and honestly — such a pleasant surprise. The event was perfectly organized, with a well-balanced agenda that combined local and international voices in a way that felt fresh and grounded.
✨ Side events? 10/10. From a morning run to a screening of Vitalik: An Ethereum Story — the energy was unmatched.
📍And not to mention the venue — the National Library of Romania! Hands down one of the most iconic and unusual event locations I’ve ever been to. Made the whole experience even more memorable.
Here’s some alpha from my favorite sessions on fundraising and public goods funding:
🚀 VC Panel Recap
“Let’s get ugly quickly and make mistakes early.”
Some 🔥 takeaways from Daniel Luca, Lior Messika (Eden Block), Victor Florea, Mihai Grigore (Tech Metrics), and Ethan Pierse (Borderless Ventures):
AI x Blockchain: AI is no longer just a tool—it is the product. Blockchain’s role in coordinating data and resources is only getting more important.
Next-gen founders: You don’t have to be technical. What matters is obsession, the right team, and relentless iteration.
GameFi Reality Check: Big potential, but still early. Dev cycles are long and gamers aren’t easy to convert.
Investor POV: Less hype, more substance. Tokenomics ≠ a good product.
🧙♂️ “Degens & Dragons” by Nico Gallardo from Octant
A magical talk that combined storytelling, sustainability, and public goods funding in a way that really hit home. This is exactly the kind of inspiration behind what we’re building with web3grants.co — a public good for the ecosystem ⚔️
🪙 Impactful Auctions: Crypto's Public Goods Opportunity
Loring Harkness from Paddle Battle explored how auctions can reshape funding models for public goods. “We laughed. We cried. We auctioned off cool shit and donated the money to public goods.”
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Already looking forward to the next one. Big kudos to the ETHBucharest team for putting together something truly special 💛
🗓️ Upcoming Events
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