Microgrants
Our Microgrant Program supports early-stage cryptography research projects that aim to secure digital infrastructures and uphold digital human rights with a 5k$ cash grant per project. Our program is built for simplicity, with no need for organizational affiliation and no strings attached.
Grants are evaluated quarterly, with four deadlines each year. All applications are reviewed by PGC advisors and committee members only. Decisions are sent by email within a month of each deadline, and applicants are welcome to reapply if not selected.
- Apply here
- Next deadline: Q42024 (20th December 2024)
Awarded Grants
Events
Awarded Grants (Pre-2024)
These grants were awarded by CryptoNet and funded by Protocol Labs.
Network Grants Program (closed)
2023, Chaya Ganesh: Rational Protocols 2023, Ghada Almashaqbeh: Delegation in Cryptographic Protocols Fellowships Program (closed)
Summer fellowship
2023, Yevgeniy Dodis: Private, Ordered, Verifiable Databases Postdoc Fellowships
2022, Kelsey Melissaris: Witness-based Proxy Cryptography 2022, Lior Rotem: SNARKs with Better Efficiency 2023, Akira Takahashi: Post-quantum Commit-and-Prove SNARKs PhD Fellowships
2023, Weijie Wang: Updatable Vector Commitments with Aggregation 2023, Abhiram Kothapalli: Recursive Arguments 2022, Ioanna Karantaidou: Proofs of Storage 2022, Varun Madathil: Privacy for Decentralized Networks 2021, Arantxa Zapico: Vector Commitments RFP Program (closed)
Vector Commitments
2023, Charalampos Papamanthou, Weijie Want: Tree-based VC 2023, Carla Rafols, Alexandros Zacharakis: Discrete-log VC 2023, Russell Lai, Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Martin Albrecht, Giulio Malavolta: Lattice-based SNARKs 2023, Dario Fiore, Dimitris Kolonelos, Dominique Schroder, Hien Chu: Functional VC Proof of Space
2022, Tal Moran: Redesign PoS 2022, Danilo Francati, Qiang Tang, Giuseppe Ateniese, Dimitris Papadopoulos: Verifiable Capacity Bound Functions