Announcing the FOAM Grants Program

Supporting a vibrant developer community to build trustless spatial applications

Foamspace is committed to building open and decentralized alternatives to current mapping and location positioning solutions. As part of that effort, a vibrant developer community that builds their own solutions using FOAM’s open-source standards and protocols is vital.

Today we’re excited to announce the FOAM Grants Program for projects building on the FOAM API. Accepted proposals will receive a grant of FOAM tokens between 50,000 and 500,000 per project for use directly in connection with the FOAM platform. The project’s proposed use of tokens should be directly tied to adding points of interest to the open registry of the FOAM Map and or tools build around the FOAM Map API.

Examples of potential projects:

• Map Games
• Tooling for FOAM Map Community
• Code contributions for FOAM Map smart contracts
• Bridges to existing protocols
• New map Interfaces and Designs using the FOAM Registry

Of course, our developer grant, the FOAM Grants Program is not limited to the above. We want to hear your ideas, ranging far and wide. Please note that a separate grant related to FOAM Location will be announced as the first testnets are deployed.

Guidelines

• Grant recipients must use FOAM tokens in connection with the FOAM protocol.
• Project should be open source and designed to use the FOAM API.
• Project should be intended to benefit the FOAM protocol as a whole (Foamspace will not take any equity or commercial interest in your project)
• We have an office space at the New Lab in Brooklyn, New York that may be used during development.
• Project should provide documentation and share process with the FOAM community.
• Projects with existing codebase are a plus.

Grants will be considered on a rolling basis. All projects approved by FOAM Foamspace may be made public in both name and application.

What should a proposal describe?

• The project’s goal, scope, and how it uses the existing FOAM API.
• A clear description of intended outcomes based on a 1–3 month timeline.
• Team member’s relevant coding, research experiences, and Github repo
• The amount of FOAM requested for the intended use
• How the project will share progress with the community

Submit your proposal to info@foam.space

To find more about the FOAM API please visit our developer platform. If you have an idea for community discussion, we recommend our gitter or the grant thread on our community forum.

Thanks for building!

Best,
The Foamspace Team