The Secret Network has a on-chain community pool governed by SCRT stakers. The community pool is a way for various teams to get funding denominated in SCRT. Most committees who work on the Secret Network get their quarterly funding from the community pool. The community pool is funded from an on-chain staking tax, 2% of the token inflation on the network is send to the community pool address. To get funding from the community pool one needs to submit an official governance proposal on-chain by using the SecretCLI. Documentation for proposing a funding request can be found here. When creating a Governance proposal we suggest you to follow the Secret Network Charter & Code of conduct as voted on in proposal #81. This Charter lays out the process of creating a proposal and asking for community feedback. The charter also provides a clear guidance for determining the amount of SCRT required for funding certain proposals. Everyone is free to create a Governance proposal to ask for community funds, please reach out to the community via the Forum first.

Community Curated Bounty List

The Community Curated Bounty List was initiated by the Governance committee and is a signalling proposal in which multiple development projects with funding up to 25,000 SCRT get a green light from the community. These on-chain approved ideas will make it easier for developers to ask subsequent funding from the community pool, via a governance proposal, to complete these development tasks. The CCBL was first introduced in proposal #71 and later updated in proposal #101 adding more ideas and a higher max budget. People who approach the CCBL will have the opportunity to get connected to individuals who are happy to help push the idea forward, refine it, and turn it into something that the on-chain community pool would be willing to fund assuming the right entity stepped up to build/execute on it. Before every Validator Survey new submissions will be vetted in a public CCBL Working Group meeting to make sure the ideas conform to the current boundary conditions as agreed to by the validators. The Validator Survey which will determine eventual inclusion in the on-chain proposal is currently sent out every 3 months.

Requirements

• Projects that can have their results (or a proof-of-concept) available within a month of full-time development. In the case of an individual developer there is some leniency.

• No projects that are already in active development.

• Projects need to be specific, so not just 'a casino'.\

Open projects on the CCBL

Stay up to date with the Bounties of the CCBL via SCRT.University

• A SCRT faucet that will use the fee-grant module that will be included with the IBC upgrade

• Secret bet: a decentralized, permissionless, and privacy-preserving betting place where you can set up a bet with your friends or even bet on your favorite basketball or football team (This project is likely to be subject to increased local regulation, please ensure research into local laws and regulations)

• A secret NFT project where you can store identification documents as secret NFTs that only you can see and that you can show to people on request with a temporary viewing key

• A bridge with the Solana ecosystem

• Secret insurance with on-chain implementation of ensuring different events inside the secret ecosystem that could be checked via oracles or smart-contracts

• A domain name service (similar to ENS) with privacy functionality, and potentially using the domain as a web3 identity

• An interface to view and create viewing keys in batches

• A peer to peer NFT trading platform, including escrow functionality

• A crowdfunding platform

Community code repositories (CCR)

The community code repositories are a small bounty framework where developers can take up tasks taking up to 20-30 hours to complete and thereby create an open source code library to be used by any other developer on the network. The CCR concept is budgeted for by the Secret Network development Committee and open projects can be found in the . Before taking on a task the Development committee leads will have a quick conversation with you so they can guide you in the project. Upon completion the code for the created tool is open sourced and the developer is paid the agreed upon bounty of up to $ 2,500 USD. To contribute please reference the in the CCR repository.

Get funding from Secret Network dApps to help them improve their offering.

Overview:

• Shade protocol Grants

Available under: https://scrt.university/bounties See Grants for getting rewarded for building tooling

Want to get warm introduction to VCs and other Angel investors for your dApp on Secret? Contact the Secret Bizdev Team via a Ticket in Discord now!

There are a number of funding methods for Secret Network community members, including:

• Secret Labs Grants

• Ecosystem Fund

• Community Pool

• Shade Grants

• SNAC

Funding

• SCRT Labs Grant Applications - Announcement / ideas / process

  • Best for pre-seed developer funding and tooling creation

• Secret Foundation SNACs - Secret Network Action Campaigns

  • Best for marketing, content and event funding

• The Secret Agency funding

  • Get budget for events with merch or educational content.

• Development committee - mentorship program

  • Learn to work with Secret Contracts and get a personal mentor

• Community Code Repositories

  • Open source repositories designed to take 1 to 5 days to complete with bounties ranging from $500 to $2,500 USD. Jump in, get involved!

• Community Curated Bounty List

  • A list of Developer projects which can be funded by the community pool as signaled in proposal #71 and updated in #101

• Shade grants

  • Work on a novel project for shade protocol and get funding

• Open job board

  • Find a job at applications and organisations in the Secret Network ecosystem

In February 2022, Shade Protocol announced Shade Grants alongside raising $5 million in private funding. The core Shade Protocol team oversees Shade Grants. All grants are designated in to support:

1. Growth initiatives for Silk adoption

2. Shade Protocol integrations

3. Community initiatives

4. User Tooling

All Shade Grants aim to improve core metrics of the Shade Protocol: revenue, TVL, accessibility, and availability. Applications are open to Secret Network developers and community members through the .