Grants Program
The Urbit Foundation's Grants program is the primary mechanisms for distributing address space to creators and developers.
Grant Types
Proposals
The main way to get funding for your project. We fund all kinds projects, not strictly technical ones, so don’t hesitate to pitch your idea!
Bounties
Contracts for work provided by either the Urbit Foundation or from trusted partners in our ecosystem.
Requests for Proposals
RFPs are suitable for people experienced with hoon development but who need some ideas on what to work on.
Showing 62 grants
Community Meetup
Reward: 1 star
Earn stars by building a local urbit community
%homunculus
Reward: 3 Stars
Project Creation & Package Management for Urbit
Reward: 5 Stars
Scry over HTTP
Reward: n/a
Map URLs to scry requests
Generic Text Search Tool
Reward: 2 Stars
Generic Text Search Tool for Urbit
Modernize |mass
Reward: 1 Wrapped Star
Updates the |mass utility to reinject the output into arvo from the runtime.
Urbit Query
Reward: 3 Stars
A standard interface for querying Urbit from React
WebAssembly Interpreter in Nock
Reward: 20 Stars
Augment Urbit with the ability to run WASM code.
Urbit Wiki
Reward: 5 Stars
%wiki will be an app for creating, reading, and (ultimately) collaborating on wikis.
LTO and PGO in Vere
Reward: 3 Stars
Link-time optimization and profile-guided optimization in vere
Expense Sharing App
Reward: 1 Star
Replit & Replit Integration for Site
Reward: 4 stars
Produce a Replit-compatible binary and instance.
Mapping Urbit IDs to Web 2 Domains
Reward: 5 Stars
Aera
Reward: 8 Stars + Bonus
A decentralized, subjective reputation graph protocol.
Elm
Reward: 5 Stars + Bonus
Making Elm the frontend technology for Urbit
Pastebin on Urbit
Reward: 1 Star
Implement a Git server on Urbit
Reward: TBD
Implement a Git server capable of hosting desks as repos
Turf
Reward: 9 Stars
Build a thriving and customizable virtual world on Urbit
Urbit Ninja Strike Team
Reward: 1 star
Win a hackathon using Urbit.
Build an Email Toolchain for Urbit
Reward: TBD
Produce an Urbit-side client for sending E2EE email
Build a Single-Sign-On App for Urbit
Reward: TBD
Produce an OAuth-compatible token issuer and login manager.
Bridge Issue Grab Bag
Reward: 2 stars
Close three issues from the Bridge github repo.
Advanced Portal Features Phase 1
Reward: 3 Stars
Build a DID Resolver for Urbit
Reward: TBD
Design and implement a DID resolver to let Urbit interoperate with protocols like AT/BlueSky
kNock and Property Tests
Reward: 7 Stars
Executable Semantics of Nock in the K Framework, universal testing and verification
Privacy Messaging
Reward: 4 Stars
Communicating Urbit's unique privacy potential
Hoon Linter
Reward: 2 Stars
Goals 2
Reward: 5 stars
Goals 2
Quorum 2
Reward: 6 stars
Improve the usability and accessibility of Quorum in the Urbit ecosystem
%blog Quality of Life Improvements
Reward: 1 star
%blog Quality of Life Improvements
Network Weather Simulator for %pyro/%aqua
Reward: TBD
Network Weather Simulator for `%pyro`/`%aqua
Generic Text Search Tool for Urbit
Reward: 6 Stars
Build Urbit's answer to grep.
Tinygrad ML Library in Hoon
Reward: TBD
Implement a small machine learning library (and jets!) in hoon.
%lick
Reward: 7 Stars
An Earth Communication Vane
Urbit Issue Grab Bag
Reward: 2 stars
Close three issues from the Urbit github repo.
Success Metrics for Urbit Apps
Reward: 5 Stars
Success Metrics for Urbit Apps
Github Support Concierge
Reward: 2 Stars
The Github concierge will triage Urbit support issues that come in through Github.
Urbit Community Support Concierge
Reward: 1 Star
The Urbit Community concierge will triage Urbit support issues that come in through the Urbit Community Group.
Doccord Compliant Comments in all Generators
Reward: 1 star
Adapt the comments in the default generators to take advantage of the new doccord features.
Keep
Reward: 6 star
Keep: Arbitrary Agent State Restoration Agent + Wrapper
Trail
Reward: 4 stars
An application for tracking and reviewing your outdoor workouts via a native mobile OS application, a webapp, and an Urbit backend for your sensitive location data
Lightning Development
Reward: 6 stars
Extending Bitcoin on Urbit via lightning submarine swaps and onion routing
Books feature development
Reward: 2 stars
Books is an application for managing your crypto wallets, transactions, and counterparties. It allows you to add your wallet and others' wallets, track balances and transactions, and add private annotations to all of the above.
Gora: QR Edition
Reward: 1 star
Extend Gora with QR-code generation and scanning for sending and recieving gorae
App Store
Reward: 4 stars
A tool for decentralized curation and discovery of urbit applications
Plug
Reward: 5 stars
Sell a catalog of physical goods from your Urbit
New Mars Persistent Memory
Reward: 4 stars
Development of persistent memory arena for the New Mars runtime
Urbit Interface Framework
Reward: 5 stars
Develop framework for alternative urbit web browser interface
Chess Improvements
Reward: 3 stars
Improvements to the Chess app, creating an Urbit Chess experience comparable to that of any modern Chess website
Full Stop
Reward: 5 stars
A Menstruation Tracker for Urbit
Peat
Reward: 4 stars
Social Areoloy, or, Urbit's first Backup Utility
Olif
Reward: 2 stars
Olif: olfactive rendering of Urbit address space
Build a UI for Volt
Reward: 1 star
An app to serve the UI to urbit's lightning wallet
Membrane
Reward: 5 stars
Martian native spreadsheets
Generalized Digital Content Web Store
Reward: 3 stars
Online Store for Selling Digital Content (Text / Audio / Video)
General Website Permissioning
Reward: 3 stars
Enabling the ability to log in and view private or user-specific content
Hoon based Markdown Library
Reward: 3 stars
CommonMark-based Library for Hoon Markdown
Tune slaw/scot Jets
Reward: 1 star
Tune slaw/scot jets for better perfomance.
Reduce memory usage of |meld
Reward: 1 star
Reduce memory usage of |meld
Valuation Research Articles
Reward: $5000
Create in-depth valuation models for Urbit address space, network effects, and commercial utilization
Hari + Rama (The Urbit Cyclopaedia)
Reward: 6 stars
Facilitating 'A literal but delinquent reprint of the Encyclopedia Schizophrenica on Urbit'.
A book about Urbit
Reward: 12 stars
A short book about Urbit, on Urbit, including Urbit-centric sections about the wider world of computing