Ecosystem
Funding Program
Explore the 2025 Ecosystem Funding Program and our vision for on-chain privacy. If you're building something innovative - we’re here to help make it a reality!
3 Track Variants
The Aleph Zero Ecosystem Funding Program is designed to support cutting-edge projects that push the boundaries of on-chain privacy. We’re looking for privacy-focused solutions that can integrate zkOS by Aleph Zero, whether it's wallets or other applications where privacy is a critical feature.
Our program welcomes projects at all stages - from early-stage concepts to experienced teams deploying solutions across multiple platforms. If you’re building something where privacy truly matters, we want to hear from you!
Fast Track
$5-20K
Choose between Fast Track and public good grant programs from the Aleph Zero Foundation.
Public Goods
Custom
Talk to us about supporting your public goods project, such as developer tooling, libraries, educational content, and more.
Growth Track
Custom
Existing projects with a proven business model, looking to expand to Aleph Zero and beyond
Available grants
The grants will be distributed in various tiers, depending on several factors, depending on your project's needs and the applicability of the idea. Following application, verification, and the approval process, grant tiers are chosen by the project team in conjunction with the representatives of the Aleph Zero Foundation
Consideration criteria
All projects that bring value to the Aleph Zero ecosystem are welcome to apply. However, we’re especially interested in teams focusing on compliance and privacy use cases, particularly those integrating ZkOS to leverage on-chain privacy.
Adoption
as the Aleph Zero’s Foundation mission is to further the usefulness and adoption of the network, grants will be awarded to projects seeking to honestly increase the level of network’s usage.
Anonymity
while it’s okay for you to remain anonymous in public, the Aleph Zero Foundation will need to execute a KYC/KYB background check before making the decision about your application.
Ability to execute
Experience, skills, or the ability to learn extremely quickly are what’s being considered by the grant committee in approving your application.
Milestones
the Aleph Zero Foundation will not consider applications from projects without a clear cost breakdown and a clear development plan/roadmap.
Open Source or Open Learning
while not all projects will be able to open-source the entirety of their code, we do strongly recommend doing so whenever possible. If your project doesn’t require code, please make sure you share your learnings along the way for the benefit of the broader community.
Sanctioned jurisdictions
unfortunately, grants cannot be provided to builders from sanctioned jurisdictions.
Uniqueness
the Aleph Zero Foundation doesn’t fund copy-paste projects.
Application process
The Ecosystem Funding Program application review takes approximately 3 weeks. The best projects that complete the Ecosystem Funding Program may be chosen to pitch Aleph Zero’s VCs and secure further funding. There are also opportunities to have your project audited or receive marketing support.
Submissions should include information about deliverables, projected milestones, and justification for funding requests. Possible deviations from the specified scope of the project should be discussed with the Aleph Zero Foundation.
Application
Project team sends the application
Evaluation
The Foundation evaluates the project according to the criteria
Track assignment
After successful verification, we get together to discuss whether the chosen track is indeed optimal for you and your team.
Welcome!
We'll be excited to onboard you to EFP as soon as the necessary steps and due diligence is concluded.
