Introduction

Web3 cannot be what it is today without the power of communities all over the world. Being part of the communities, DoraHacks is thrilled to start Multi-chain DAO&Community Grant(MCDG), a long-term grant funding the sustainable development of Web3 communities and DAOs, as well as showing our love and appreciation to the contributors for the past, present and future of Web3.

The grant provides every qualified community with an initial grant plus a long-term grant by milestones. In Round 1, $100K will be provided for the grant pool.

This round will be closed automatically when the initial grant pool is 100% distributed. Please continue reading to learn the rules.

Timeline

Application Starts: Nov 1st.

Application period: Long-term, the application portal will always be open and communities can apply for the grant anytime.

Round 1 Funding Closes: Not fixed, will be closed when initial grant pool is 100% distributed.

Eligibility/How to Apply

1. Virtual and local Web3 dev communities are eligible for this grant program.
2. Your community/platform must be created over 3 months.
3. You must finish the given task to be eligible for the initial and following grants. (Read below to learn about the task)
4. Your community/platform must keep active during the initial grant and long-term grant period.

How to Apply

The portal for application will not be closed. Communities can apply for a grant anytime as long as the page is available.

Initial grant task: Please share a recent community activity you're going to host. Any type of activities are acceptable if they're hosted for your developer community, e.g. workshop, lecture, meetup, demo day, hackathon, etc..

Must Submit

1. Basic info: a. Name of your community b. Category of your community (Virtual or Local Developer community?) c. Link to your community d. Social links of your community
2. Community operation info: a. Blockchain ecosystem b. Number of community members c. Member attributes(overall portrait of your community members, demographics, interests, etc..) d. Major community activities and frequencies(with examples if applicable) e. How do you connect with members and send them notifications? f. Do you have funders for this community already?

For Reason to apply , you should clarify: 1. Proposal of the usage of the grant. 2. Expected amount of the grant.

What's Next?

1. DH team will start reviewing your application ASAP. You'll be contacted if we're ready to give a grant.
2. If you want to speed up the reviews, please contact @dorahacksofficial via Telegram directly.
3. After direct communication with DoraHacks, finish a task from the task wishlist provided by DoraHacks to receive the initial grant and get accepted by the long-term grant program.

Initial grant task: Please share a recent community activity you're going to host. Any type of activities are acceptable if they're hosted for your developer community, e.g. workshop, lecture, meetup, demo day, hackathon, etc..

How to Grant

The grant provides every qualified community with an initial grant plus a long-term grant by milestones. In Round1, there will be:

1. Initial grants: according to initial review result of the applications from communities, every grantee will receive $300 - $1,000 in initial grants according to the initial review results.

2. Long-term grant pool. All the grantees from Initial Grants will enter the long-term community&DAO grant program, which means they will keep receiving grants when achieving certain milestones.

   1. Milestones will be set in two ways. Grants can either select a milestone from the wishlist provided by DoraHacks, or propose a new milestone for discussion. For both ways, direct communication with DoraHacks is necessary.
   2. Grants in the long-term grant program are NOT fixed amounts. It needs to be proposed by the grantee community based on the corresponding milestone, and be approved by the DoraHacks team.

Judging Criteria

• Growth: number of community members and length of time since this community was created;
• Vitality: how active is the community?
• Management: the environment of this community should be friendly and resistant to scams.
• Intention: planned usage of the grants, and intention to sustain the development of the community.

Contact

Feel free to get in touch with us if you have any questions, would like to explore collaboration opportunities, or share any additional ideas you may have.

• Email operation@dorahacks.com
• Telegram @dorahacksofficial
• Discord https://discord.gg/gKT5DsWwQ5

About DoraHacks

DoraHacks is a global hackathon organizer and one of the world's most active developer incentive platforms. It creates a global hacker movement in space tech, blockchain and quantum computing, and provides a wide range of toolkits to help developers around the world team up and fund their ideas and BUIDLs via hackathons, bounties, grants, idea networks, developer games and more.

By far, more than 6,000 startup teams from the DoraHacks community have received over $40 million in grants and other forms of contributions from supporters worldwide. A large number of open source communities, companies and blockchain ecosystems are actively using Dora's infrastructure (http://dorahacks.io) for open source funding and community governance.