Grant Requests

Get funds through the community grants program

Grant Requests

Grants

The Decentraland DAO possesses a MANA fund that has been set aside to help sponsor and facilitate the continual growth of the Decentraland platform. One avenue used by the DAO to achieve these goals is a grants program that was voted in place by the community.

This grants program allows any member of the community to request funding to make contributions in community building and education, creating 3D content for the world, or implementing new features and improvements to the platform. Grants can be requested by completing a proposal form within the DAO.��Categories: Accelerator - Core Unit - Documentation - In-World Content - Platform - Sponsorship Social Media Content

Grant Requests

Funding

Every grant category has its own category budget, which is renewed every three months. You will see the remaining category budget based on the category that you had previously selected.

Desired Funding

Enter the exact amount of funding you are requesting for your grant in USD. This amount should be within range for the Tier you’ve selected. If it corresponds to a Lower Tier, you can choose for it to be paid in MANA or USD in Stable Coin (DAI) according to the current exchange rate between USD and MANA. If it corresponds to a Higher Tier, it will be paid in Stable Coin (DAI) according to the current exchange rate between USD and MANA.

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Grant Requests

Estimated project duration

Enter the amount of months your project will take to be developed. This will define the amount of months of your vesting contract.

Time of payments

Enter the time of the month you’d like the funds to be released. This could either be:

-1st day of the month

-15th day of the month

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Due Diligence - Budget

Budget Breakdown

-Concept title/name

-Estimated budget

-Duration (in months)

-Relevant link (optional)

Due Diligence - Category Assessment

Depending on the category you have applied to, you will have different performance metrics to measure the impact of your grant. These could be, but are not limited to:

1- Core Unit performance metrics:

-How will your team provide strategic value to the Decentraland DAO?

-List your measurable impact metrics

2- Platform performance metrics:

-Publish the source code and its derivatives developed under the budget provided by the DAO under an open-source license and in a public repository.

-Commit to publishing documentation for the community to understand and contribute to the codebase.

3- Documentation performance metrics:

-What type of content are you planning to produce? (I.e. documentation article, scene example, videos, code examples, other)

-How many pieces of content are you planning to publish under the duration of this Grant?

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Due Diligence - Category Assessment

4- In-World Content performance metrics:

-How many pieces of content (i.e. number of events, scenes, or games) are you planning to produce under the duration of this Grant?

-How many users do you expect to engage with this content?

-How are you going to measure the engagement with your content? (I.e. newly populated land, Active Users, Returning Users, Time on Scene)

5- Social Media Content performance metrics:

-Select the social media platforms where you will publish this content, such as Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Discord, YouTube, Twitter, Twitch, or Other

-Tell us how your audience is relevant to Decentraland.

-How many pieces of content are you planning to generate?

-How many people do you plan to impact with this content?

-Please provide links to your current social media channels

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Due Diligence - Category Assessment

6- Sponsorship performance metrics:

-Event type (Online, Offline)

-Please select the Event category ( I.e. Conference, side event, community meetups, hackathon or other)

-Is this grant the primary source of funding for this event?

-How many events are you planning to organize?

-How many people are you expecting to attend?

-How is your audience relevant to Decentraland?

-How is the Decentraland brand going to be showcased?

7- Accelerator performance metrics:

-Please describe your revenue generation model

-What’s your plan for returning the investment to the DAO?

-How many months will it take the DAO to recover the investment made on your project based on your estimations?