Verified opportunity catalog

AI grants, research funding and technical bounties

Browse source-backed grants, funding programs and bounties across AI, research and Web3.

59 source-backed programs Official organizer links Updated regularly

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59 programs
Bounties open

Folks Finance Bug Bounties

Folks Finance

DeFi lending and cross-chain smart-contract vulnerability bounty

Deadline
2026-12-31
Location
Online
Bounties open

Gearbox Bug Bounties

Gearbox

Security bounty for composable DeFi leverage protocol used by active traders and farmers

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

GMX Bug Bounties

GMX

Security bounty for decentralized spot and perpetual exchange smart contracts and app

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

MUX Bug Bounties

MUX Protocol

Security bounty for multi-chain leveraged trading and DEX smart contracts/frontend

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

Variational Bug Bounties

Variational

Security bounty for automated options futures and perpetuals trading infrastructure

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Grants open

Agentic Engineering Grants

Superteam

Build and ship a Solana product using AI coding tools; adjacent agent-building grant, not a trading contest

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online / Solana
Bounties open

Autonolas Bug Bounties

Olas / Autonolas / Immunefi

Security research for the multi-chain protocol powering autonomous AI services, staking, rewards, governance, and marketplace contracts

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online / local-fork security testing
Bounties open

Deri Protocol Bug Bounties

Deri Protocol

Smart-contract, website and application bounty for onchain derivatives, AMM, options and trading risks

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online Immunefi submission and local-fork testing
Grants open

G-Research Graduate Scholarships 2026-2027

G-Research / University of Oxford Mathematical Institute

Fully funded four-year DPhil scholarship in machine learning with quantitative-research mentorship

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Oxford DPhil
Bounties open

Optimism Bug Bounty Program

Optimism

Discover critical vulnerabilities in OP Mainnet or covered OP Stack code and report them responsibly

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

Polygon Bug Bounty Programs

Polygon Labs

Report vulnerabilities in Agglayer smart contracts, Polygon Chain infrastructure, bridge contracts, or staking contracts

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

Wormhole Bug Bounty

Wormhole Foundation

Find and responsibly report critical vulnerabilities in Wormhole cross-chain infrastructure

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Grants open

Citadel Conference Travel Grant

Citadel

Conference participation support for quantitative students in mathematics, computer science, physics, statistics, or related fields

Deadline
2026-09-25 / 2026-10-05
Location
In-person conference travel
Bounties open

Ethena Bug Bounties

Ethena / Immunefi

Stablecoin smart-contract and web-application vulnerability bounty

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online Immunefi submission
Bounties open

Ethereum Bug Bounty Program

Ethereum Foundation

Bug bounty for protocol, client, compiler and deposit-contract vulnerabilities with local-testnet proofs of concept

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online submission / local testnets
Bounties open

Filecoin Bug Bounties

Filecoin Foundation / Immunefi

Filecoin blockchain, client and infrastructure vulnerability bounty

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online submission / local-fork testing
Bounties open

Lombard Finance Bug Bounties

Lombard Finance / Immunefi

Bitcoin DeFi, LBTC, cross-chain and smart-contract vulnerability bounty

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online submission / local-fork testing
Bounties open

Origin Protocol Bug Bounties

Origin Protocol / Immunefi

OUSD stablecoin, yield and smart-contract/web-application vulnerability bounty

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online submission / local-fork testing
Bounties open

Sei Bug Bounties

Sei Foundation / Immunefi

Blockchain/DLT vulnerability bounty with local four-node-cluster proofs of concept

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online Immunefi submission / local four-node cluster
Bounties open

SSV Network Bug Bounties

SSV Network / Immunefi

Distributed validator technology and Ethereum staking security bounty

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online submission / local-fork testing
Bounties open

Synthetix Bug Bounties

Synthetix

Security bounty for perpetual-futures, DEX, staking and smart-contract/web application vulnerabilities

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online Immunefi submission and local-fork testing
Bounties open

Veda Bug Bounties

Veda

Smart-contract vulnerability bounty for Veda DeFi vault infrastructure

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online Immunefi submission and local-fork testing
Bounties open

Chainlink Bug Bounties

Chainlink Labs

DeFi oracle and blockchain infrastructure vulnerability bounty

Deadline
ongoing
Location
Online
Grants open

DarwinIA SILVER & GOLD

Darwinex

Monthly strategy ranking; algorithmic/systematic trading track record and seed-capital allocation

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online / global
Bounties open

Derive Bug Bounties

Derive

Smart-contract and protocol security bounty program

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

ENS Bug Bounties

ENS Labs

Ethereum Name Service smart-contract, infrastructure and web-application vulnerability bounty

Deadline
ongoing
Location
Online
Bounties open

Kiln DeFi Bug Bounties

Kiln

DeFi infrastructure and smart-contract security bounty program

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

RootstockLabs Bug Bounties

RootstockLabs

Bitcoin DeFi, bridge, blockchain/DLT, and smart-contract security

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

Sky Bug Bounties

Sky / MakerDAO

DeFi stablecoin, lending and smart-contract security vulnerability bounty

Deadline
ongoing
Location
Online
Bounties open

Spark Bug Bounties

Spark

Stablecoin allocation, lending, and yield-engine security

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

TermMax Bug Bounties

Term Structure Labs

DeFi borrowing, lending and AMM smart-contract vulnerability bounty

Deadline
ongoing
Location
Online
Bounties open

Threshold Network Bug Bounties

Threshold Network / Threshold DAO

tBTC, cross-chain liquidity, staking, and synthetic-asset security

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

Yearn Finance Bug Bounties

Yearn Finance

Lending aggregation, yield vault, and smart-contract security

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

Zerion Bug Bounties

Zerion

DeFi wallet, cross-chain, bridge, DEX, and smart-contract/app security

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online
Bounties open

AAVE Bug Bounties

Aave DAO

Aave lending, stablecoin, governance, safety-module and staking-contract vulnerabilities

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online Immunefi submission
Bounties open

Aera Bug Bounties

Aera / Gauntlet

On-chain strategies, perpetuals, lending, restaking and asset-management security

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online Immunefi submission
Bounties open

Sui Bug Bounty Program

Sui Foundation

Sui/Move verifier, consensus, staking-reward and protocol security vulnerabilities

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online submission via linked HackenProof program
Bounties open

Uniswap v4 Bug Bounty

Uniswap Labs

AMM core, hooks, liquidity, fee collection, oracle and Unichain security

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online Cantina submission
Grants open

SoSoValue x AKINDO WaveHack Buildathon

SoSoValue / AKINDO

Multi-wave buildathon for AI crypto research-to-execution products using SoSoValue data, SoDEX APIs and ValueChain

Deadline
Not listed
Location
Online / global
Bounties open

0DIN AI Bug Bounty

0DIN / Mozilla

GenAI and agentic vulnerability bounty for human-authenticated jailbreak/security findings

Deadline
ongoing
Location
Online
Grants open

Anthropic External Researcher Access Program

Anthropic

Claude API credit access for external safety, policy, societal impact and model behavior research

Deadline
not listed / rolling support page
Location
Online / remote research
Grants open

Foresight AI for Science & Safety Nodes

Foresight Institute

Grant program for AI-first projects in security, privacy, decentralized cooperation, epistemics and science/safety nodes

Deadline
2026-09-30 next deadline
Location
Remote / project-based
Bounties open

Microsoft Copilot Bounty Program

Microsoft

Security bounty for Microsoft Copilot AI experiences and related AI/ML vulnerability impact

Deadline
ongoing
Location
Online
Bounties open

OpenAI Bug Bounty Program

OpenAI / Bugcrowd

Security bug bounty for OpenAI systems, APIs, accounts, plugins/connectors and related infrastructure

Deadline
ongoing
Location
Online
Grants open

OpenAI Cybersecurity Grant Program

OpenAI

Cybersecurity research grant program using frontier AI to help defenders, evaluation and security tooling

Deadline
not listed / rolling-style program page
Location
Online / global proposals
Grants open

OpenAI Researcher Access Program

OpenAI

API credit support for safety, societal impacts, robustness, evaluations and policy-relevant AI research

Deadline
not listed / rolling form
Location
Online / remote research
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Two Sigma Undergraduate Scholarship 2026

Two Sigma

Undergraduate STEM scholarship connected to quantitative trading and research mentorship

Deadline
Not listed
Location
US accredited university; no fixed event location
Bounties watch

Anthropic Model Safety Bug Bounty

Anthropic

Model safety bounty for verified universal jailbreaks in high-risk CBRN/cyber domains

Deadline
round-specific
Location
Online
Grants closed

Citadel GQS PhD Fellowship 2026/2027

Citadel Global Quantitative Strategies

Research funding for PhD candidates in mathematics, statistics, physics, electrical engineering or computer science

Deadline
2026-02-28
Location
Application online; finalists present in New York City
Bounties closed

huntr AI/ML Bug Bounty

huntr / Protect AI

AI/ML supply-chain and model-file vulnerability disclosure bounty platform

Deadline
ongoing where in-scope programs are open
Location
Online
Bounties closed

OpenAI GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

OpenAI

Vetted biosecurity red-team challenge to find universal jailbreaks for GPT-5.5 in Codex Desktop

Deadline
2026-06-22 (applications closed)
Location
Online / Codex Desktop testing
Grants closed

Turing AI Global Fellowships

UKRI / EPSRC

Up to five-year UKRI/EPSRC fellowship for world-class AI researchers relocating to the UK to build transformational AI research teams

Deadline
2026-03-12 (closed)
Location
United Kingdom