Most ecosystem grant programs — the Solana Foundation, Superteam, chain foundations, and fund-run dev grants — ask for a short written summary before anything else. It is read fast, often by someone triaging dozens of applications in a sitting. A clear one-pager does not win the grant on its own, but a vague one gets you moved to the bottom of the pile.
This guide is about that document specifically: what a grant reviewer is checking for, how it differs from an investor or exchange one-pager, the details that reviewers say are most often missing, and a template you can fill in.
A grant reviewer is not deciding "is this a good company". They are deciding three narrower things:
Everything in the one-pager should serve one of those three questions.
Complete "We are building a ___ that ___ for ___." Skip the vision paragraph. The reviewer will read your links if the sentence lands.
Two or three sentences on what is missing today for builders or users on this chain, and who feels it. Tie it to the grant program's stated priorities if they have published any — most do.
The single most important section, and the one reviewers say is weakest. List the concrete deliverables this grant funds — an SDK, an audit, a set of docs, a reference integration, a research report. Each deliverable should be something a reviewer could later check was delivered. Avoid "continue development"; name the artifacts.
Break the scope into two to four milestones, each with a deliverable, a rough date, and the portion of the grant tied to it. Milestone-based disbursement is standard now; showing you have already thought in those terms is a positive signal.
A short breakdown: engineering time (roughly, in person-weeks or a rate), audit or infra costs, any third-party services. It does not need to be to the dollar, but the total should visibly add up from the parts.
Who is doing the work, what they have shipped before (links to repos, mainnet contracts, prior grants completed), and whether they are full-time on this. Real names or a clear statement of pseudonymity with a way to verify past work.
One or two sentences: is this maintained, does it become part of something sustainable, will the code be open source and licensed how. Reviewers want to fund things that persist.
Chain, repo, docs, demo or testnet link, prior funding, requested amount, and contact. Put anything the reviewer will copy into their notes here.
Copy and fill in. Keep the body under ~600 words plus the facts block. Prefer a form? The free one-pager generator covers the shared structure; add the scope, milestone, and budget sections below for a grant.
# [Project] — grant application one-pager **What we're building.** We are building a [category] that [what it does] for [who in the ecosystem]. [One sentence on the single most important thing.] **The ecosystem problem.** Today, [builders / users] on [chain] [what is missing or broken], which means [concrete cost]. This maps to [program]'s priority of [stated priority, if any]. **Scope of work for this grant.** - [Deliverable 1 — a checkable artifact] - [Deliverable 2] - [Deliverable 3] **Milestones.** 1. [Milestone] — [deliverable] — ~[date] — [% of grant] 2. [Milestone] — [deliverable] — ~[date] — [% of grant] 3. [Milestone] — [deliverable] — ~[date] — [% of grant] **Budget.** Engineering: [N person-weeks @ ~rate]. Audit: [amount]. Infra / services: [amount]. Total requested: [amount]. **Team.** [Names or pseudonymity statement]. Previously shipped: [links — repos, mainnet contracts, completed grants]. [Full-time? Since when?] **After the grant.** [Maintenance plan]. Code is open source under [license]. [How it becomes sustainable.] --- Chain: [x] · Repo: [link] · Docs: [link] · Demo/testnet: [link] Prior funding: [amount / none] · Requested: [amount] · Contact: [email / TG]
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