Polkadot Fast-Grants Programme — Final Update (March 31, 2026)

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The Polkadot Fast-Grants Programme (Bounty #63) launched on January 6, 2025 with a $500,000 allocation from the Polkadot Treasury in DOT. It was designed as a rapid-response funding mechanism for early-stage builders looking to build on Polkadot Hub — offering grants of up to $10,000 with a straightforward milestone-based structure. The goal was simple: lower the barrier for new developers to start building on Polkadot Hub and help grow the ecosystem from the ground up.

Over the course of the programme, we received 119 applications, supported the funding of 28 projects and funded 19 projects, across developer tooling, DeFi, gaming, identity, AI, and energy infrastructure — all focused on bringing new products and users to Polkadot Hub.

The programme has now officially closed. The remaining fund balance was insufficient to meet all outstanding obligations given market conditions. We therefore made the decision to prioritise teams over curators: remaining funds were distributed to active teams proportional to the amounts owed to them based on delivered milestones, with curator payouts cut accordingly.

In this post I wanted to highlight the teams that got funded to showcase their work. I hope giving them visibility might open the doors for some community members to reach out and collaborate to help them continue pushing their projects forward.

Links for more context:

All Milestones Complete

  • PAPI Simulator — Interactive development console for building Polkadot dApps using React and TypeScript. GitHub

  • Insuracle (Paramify) — Parametric insurance protocol with oracle-driven automated payments, focused on flood event coverage via USGS data. GitHub · Article

  • Anarchy Build — Gamified AI creator hub with one-click NFT minting. GitHub · Article

  • DotStriker! — On-chain real-time multiplayer battle game built natively on Polkadot. GitHub · Article

  • PowerGrid Network — Decentralized virtual power plant connecting smart plugs to blockchain for energy trading and AI optimization. GitHub · Article

  • Khoj — Gamified geo-location treasure hunt app with AI-generated clues. GitHub · Article

  • PINK — Toolkit for integrating Asset Hub NFTs into Godot Engine games, including a smart contract suite, backend, and Godot plugin with a game delivered to showcase the stack in use. Built by the PINK community project. GitHub

  • KeyPass — Secure key management and authentication solution simplifying Polkadot wallet interactions. GitHub · Article

  • PolkaRTC — Real-time communication infrastructure on Polkadot. M1 + M2 delivered.

  • .escrow — Decentralized escrow payments platform targeting the global freelance market. M1 + M2 delivered. GitHub · Article

  • AgentDot — AI interaction layer for Polkadot. M1 + M2 delivered. GitHub

  • DotPassport — On-chain identity and passport system. M1 + M2 delivered. GitHub · Article

  • Scaffold-DOT — Ethereum-inspired developer scaffold toolkit for Polkadot. M1 + M2 delivered. GitHub · Article

Partial Delivery — Milestones Outstanding

  • Sacred Protocol — Protocol and documentation tooling. M1 + M2 delivered, M3 outstanding. GitHub · Article

  • Eunoia — Community governance tooling. M1 + M2 delivered, M3 outstanding. GitHub

  • GrantFlow.dev — Grant management tooling for Polkadot. M1 + M2 delivered, M3 + M4 outstanding. GitHub · Article

  • LiquiDOT — Liquidity infrastructure. M1 delivered, M2 + M3 outstanding. GitHub

  • MozaicDotAI — AI-powered NFT tooling for Polkadot. M1 delivered, M2 + M3 + M4 outstanding. GitHub · Article

  • stampika — Digital stamping and verification. M1 delivered, M2 outstanding. GitHub

  • Polka.Space — A no-code platform that lets anyone build 3D metaverse spaces to display, mint, and trade cross-chain NFTs within the Polkadot ecosystem. M1 + M2 outstanding.

  • EchoPay-2 — A voice-activated crypto payment app that lets users send transactions on Polkadot using simple spoken commands like “Send 5 DOT to Alice.” M1+ M2 outstanding.

A Note to the Ecosystem

Running this programme taught us a great deal about what early-stage builders need and what it takes to ship on Polkadot Hub. We’re proud to have supported 28 teams through their first steps in the ecosystem. The programme proved to serve a real gap for builders coming out of hackathons that wanted to continue building with Polkadot. Some will continue building, others may move on — we wish them all success in whatever comes next.

To the broader Polkadot community: if any of these projects caught your eye, now is a great time to reach out. Some of these teams are actively continuing to build and may be looking for collaborators, contributors, or supporters to help take their work further.

— the Fast-Grants Curator Team

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