Develop & Use Decentralized AI Services Get Funded

A brand new Platform!

A 'small' test round with $265,000 in rewards! *

Before opening the gates for Deep Funding Round 4, we are organizing a small-scale Test Round on our new platform.  Apart from some limitations, everything is real! Real awards, real community feedback, and a real voting round. Proposers for the two active Pools have been preselected and invited, but you can still get whitelisted to apply to one of our RFPs

Read more about all the current and expected features on our roadmap.
Join us in testing all features of the first version of this great new portal!

*Including rewards for the 2 RFPs

 

Schedule
Engage

Introduce and promote your project to our community and get valuable feedback.

Get Funded

Get funding through our grants to develop your AI project.

Launch

Launch your AI service on our decentralized AI-platform.

Monetize

Start monetizing your service.

Who can Participate?

Everyone! There are no restrictions on participants.

Whether you are an individual or represent a multinational, we welcome your contributions as long as your project is aligned to the 2 main conditions above. You do need to have the capability to execute. Raising money is only part of the job. Therefore in the proposal, we expect you to give some information on your team. If you are an individual AI developer aiming to get your service onboarded you may be perfectly able to do that all by yourself.

For larger projects, this will often mean that you need a team with a diversity of roles. We expect all projects to have the required skills or a plan and budget allocation to secure this. Of course, you can also use the interaction with our community to ask for support in some areas!

Rules & Guidelines

Our community

Deep Funding is a community-driven program. Our token holders will decide which of the submitted projects will be awarded.

Community involvement also means getting constructive feedback on your proposal. Discuss your ideas with the community and get new insights that will contribute to the success of your project. We will help you in getting even more exposure to your project by using our social media channels! 

Projects & Proposals

Get Started Today

You can submit a first draft of your proposal today and iterate on it over the coming weeks Create Your Proposal

Awarded Projects

View all projects and proposals to contribute ideas.

Blog Updates

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes you can!

We hope to see many proposals for new AI services on our platform. But in the end, having projects that utilize these services is just as important. So if you are an app developer or creating a frontend solution that utilizes an AI service on our platform you can get funded too. 

Other options to apply for funding are:

  • Promotional initiatives that help grow our platform
  • By creating tooling or code that will help the platform itself to become better OR, that will enhance the DEEP funding process 

 

Available funding amounts may change per round and per pool. Please read the rules section for a detailed overview. 

We will ask all teams to add a credible cost breakdown to their proposal. In the end, you need to convince the community that your project is more worthy of getting funded for the desired amount than your competitors. Having a good cost-to-value ratio is an important factor in the evaluations.

There is no fixed date yet. 

We expect the Deep Funding portal to open in the second half of March for proposals in Round 1.
After that, teams will have 5 weeks to submit their proposal and have it reviewed by the community and enhance it if desired. We recommend submitting your proposal in the first 2 weeks so you can fully benefit from community feedback and get maximum exposure. You can perfectly start out with your basic proposal and add enrichments and tweaks during the review period. If you provide us with a short video update we will share that on our social media channels. 

During the 6th week, we will review all proposals for eligibility (see Rules and guidelines) and add them to our voting portal. 
After the sixth week, the voting period will start.