Grant Funding For Quality Projects
Submitted by: Unicircle, a Scroll Delegate
Category: Grant Programs
Your idea (in no less than 4 sentences).
We propose creating a Quality Projects Grant Fund that funds only the strongest 10–15 % of applicants. Grants are released in tranches as projects hit predefined milestones. To qualify, a project must already show real traction on Scroll or other chains, and can even receive funding retroactively for past achievements only if they are live on Scroll.
How will this idea help ecosystem growth
A targeted grants programme would pull more builders, and therefore more projects, onto Scroll. Base’s On-Chain Summer shows the impact: daily active addresses jumped from roughly 77 000 right after launch on 9 Aug 2023 to over one million by 24 Aug 2024, a surge driven largely by its grants incentive campaign.
Required budget for the idea in SCR.
To begin, grant $20,000 to each of the top 20 projects, with funds released on a milestone basis. This structure ensures builders continue working toward deliverables in order to unlock additional funding.
Cost: 1.4 M Scroll tokens (≈ $400 k at the current price of $0.30)
Who would need to be involved?
- Scroll Foundation
- Project Evaluation Council
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Thank you, @Samater, for the RFI on a Quality Projects Grant Fund.
In the past quarter, based on community discussions and careful consideration of current priorities, we’ve decided to pause the direction of developing new grant programs for now. We had previous proposals, such as the DAO DeFi Grant Program proposal, which was paused in order to redirect focus toward other strategic initiatives.
Something currently being actively pursued by the Scroll Foundation - and which may align with the spirit of your proposal - is Scroll Open Campus, part of the broader Open Economy initiative. This program also focuses on supporting builders and high-quality projects, though through a different structure than traditional grants. More will be announcing in the coming weeks.
Additionally, we’re interested in hearing your thoughts on metrics and sourcing/review. As metrics have come up in previous discussions, we’d appreciate any insights, frameworks, or resources you can share to help refine how we measure impact across programs like these for the future.
When it comes to sourcing and review, do you have thoughts on how this program would get quality projects applying and who would perform the review of these applications?
Thanks again and looking forward to hearing back from you.