May 27, 2022

How to Supercharge Your Project with Polygon Village Grants and Vouchers

Note: Polygon Village was completely revamped in November 2023. Read about the relaunched Polygon Village 2.0, here.

Polygon DAO last month announced the launch of Polygon Village, a full-stack ecosystem for developers to build and grow their projects. The team is now ready to share more about how to apply for grants and vouchers.

The grants line is aimed at onboarding the next 1,000 projects to Polygon and is operated on a cash and voucher basis. Whether you are building for DeFi or NFTs, DAO or zero-knowledge proofs, tools or anything else, any project on Polygon can apply.

Welcome vouchers are for projects looking to spur higher adoption rates and benefit from the top-tiered Web3 service providers. Polygon Village is partnering with some of the best Web3 service providers across domains, hosting, infra support, audit service, listing, liquidity support, marketing, legal and much more.

Benefits

Grants range from $5,000 to $15,000
Free welcome vouchers go up to $40,000
Getting onboarded under DAO accelerator (coming soon)
Dedicated Telegram groups for all grantees for real-time support and ecosystem connects
AMAs and marketing opportunities with wider Polygon community
Polygon investments and connections to VCs
Post bounties/jobs to hire across the broader Polygon community

Timeline

Applications are accepted monthly
Deadline for submissions is the 10th of every month
Evaluation, processing & disbursements will be done by end of the month

Evaluation Process

All grant evaluations are done by DAO contributors spread across L1, L2 and L3 reviews
Voucher disbursements are decided by DAO review committee based on the project’s stage
For any queries, projects can join our Telegram channel or our Discord channel
All grantees will have to go through KYC/ KYB process (powered by Synapse)
Please share your Telegram handles in form, in case our team needs to reach out to you
Detailed criteria can be found here