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Project grants, hardship grants, and event grants for Rust ecosystem contributors and maintainers. Three tracks targeting different needs. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis throughout the year.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Paid 6–12 month fellowships for contributors who want to work full-time on the Rust compiler, toolchain, or ecosystem. Fellows receive a stipend and are integrated with Rust project teams.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Emergency financial support for Rust ecosystem contributors facing unexpected hardship. Designed to prevent burnout and attrition of critical maintainers. Applications are confidential and reviewed individually.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Funding to support Rust community events worldwide: meetups, workshops, and regional conferences. Covers venue costs, speaker travel, and materials. Open to organizers at any scale.
Last reviewed Jun 2026The largest European funding track for open internet infrastructure. Up to €50k per project, three rounds per year. Rust networking, security, and protocol projects have a strong track record — rustls and multiple QUIC implementations have been funded.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Security and assurance-focused track within NLnet/NGI. Targets open source cryptography, authentication, and trust infrastructure. Rust crates implementing TLS, PKI, and secure protocols are strong candidates.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Funds open standards, interoperability, and digital commons infrastructure. Community collaboration tools, federated protocols, and open data platforms built in Rust qualify. Emphasis on broad reuse and social value.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Security-focused grants for critical open source projects underpinning the internet. Alpha works directly with the most critical projects; Omega funds broader ecosystem security improvements. Rust networking and cryptography libraries have qualified previously.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Funds Rust rewrites of critical C/C++ internet infrastructure. Past awards include curl, Apache httpd mod_tls, the Linux kernel NVMe driver, and sudo-rs. Targets foundational infrastructure that the internet depends on daily.
Last reviewed Jun 2026German federal investment in foundational open source digital infrastructure. Typically six-figure investments in ecosystem-critical projects. Has funded rustls, the Rust toolchain, and cargo. STF generally approaches projects directly rather than accepting unsolicited applications.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Open grants program for projects building on Polkadot, Kusama, or Substrate. Three tiers by scope. Rust is the primary implementation language — the SDK and most parachain runtimes are written in it. Public GitHub milestone delivery is required.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Sustained funding for contributors working on Bitcoin and critical FOSS infrastructure. LTS grants provide predictable income so maintainers can focus full-time. Rust Bitcoin tooling — BDK, LDK, rust-bitcoin — is eligible.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Funds open source privacy and security infrastructure critical to internet freedom globally. Rust-based network tools, privacy-preserving protocols, and censorship-circumvention infrastructure are strong candidates.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Manages and funds professional security audits for critical open source software. OSTIF covers audit costs and coordinates with expert security firms. Rust crates with wide downstream use are strong candidates for funded audits.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Quadratic funding rounds where community donations are amplified by matching pools. Web3 and open source tooling rounds run quarterly. Rust projects in the crypto or OSS category can receive significant funding even from small donor bases.
Last reviewed Jun 2026Periodic competition with prizes for projects built on Cloudflare Workers. Rust compiles to WASM and runs natively on Workers — a natural fit for high-performance edge compute. Past winners include Rust-based serverless parsers and edge APIs.
Last reviewed Jun 2026On-chain spending proposals to the Polkadot Treasury, governed by DOT token holders through OpenGov. Rust teams building Polkadot SDK tooling, parachain infrastructure, or ecosystem developer tooling submit proposals directly on-chain with public deliverables.
Last reviewed Jun 2026