As part of Cryptonet’s mission to improve the cryptographic building blocks for Web3 applications, we are very interested in funding research projects in the space, and creating collaborations across companies and academia. If you are a researcher working in any of Web3-related cryptographic problems we encourage you to apply to one of our grants, and become part of Cryptonet extended community of researchers and collaborator.
A network grant is a mid-size funding instrument intended to stimulate research on cryptographic problems arising from Web3 applications, such as the ones listed below. We encourage applications that span the entire range of research projects: from theoretical foundational questions, to applied implementation and experimental efforts.
We will fund grants in the following areas:
- SNARKs
- Vector commitments
- Multiparty computation
- Threshold cryptography
- Decentralized and anonymous authentication
- Fully homomorphic encryption
- Security against rational adversaries
- Quantum resistant cryptography
- Proofs of space
Funds can be used to support graduate students, the summer salaries of university faculty, travel to conferences and meetings, participation in summer schools and Web3 events, fellowships for graduate students and postdocs.
There are no strict requirements that funded researchers have to meet, except for submitting a end-of-the-year report on the results of the project (which will be used to evaluate a potential renewal of the grant).
While researchers are not expected to collaborate with Cryptonet staff, we will strongly encourage interactions between funded PIs and our team, and across the network of funded PIs. To that extent Cryptonet will organize events for the PIs to share their problems and progress, and foster collaboration.
Rolling: We will be reviewing applications in quarterly batches. The call will close on July 30, 2023, or earlier if the allocated funding is exhausted.
Commensurate with scope, up to $35,000 per award. We expect the typical grant to last one year (with possible renewal) and be funded on average $25,000.
Paid upon award.
@rosariogennaro. We encourage you to reach out to research-grants@protocol.ai or visit #lobby in the Cryptonet Discord if you are considering applying or have any questions.
Please submit your proposal using our application management system at https://grants.protocol.ai/.
** Results are to be released as open-source under the Permissive License Stack (Dual License Apache-2 + MIT).