Community Staking grants, capped at $10,000, support the growing community of operators participating in the Lido protocol.
A Community Staking grant might be a good fit if any of the following apply to your project:
- Community Resources: You are building guides, tutorials, and other relevant community resources and would like to be supported.
- Community Event-related: sponsorship requests for community events focused on Lido and Ethereum staking.
- Integrations & analytics: You have a product or service used by home stakers or independent operators and want to get a grant to support Lido Community Staking tech (e.g., integrating CSM or SimpleDVT) in your project. Examples include tools like eth-docker, Dappnode, Sedge, or Stereum; please refer to the CSM integration guide to better understand how to integrate CSM. We understand these often exceed the $10,000 cap, but we are happy to facilitate the process with LEGO.
Grants exceeding $10,000 or falling out of scope will be redirected to the Lido Ecosystem Grants Organization (LEGO).
Process
- Application
Reach out to one of the Community Lifeguards. Make sure you understand our scope and criteria.
- Evaluation
Members of the CLI committee read and consider every submission. Keep in mind that the more precise the proposal, the easier it is to evaluate it! You’re always welcome to continue the conversation if you have questions or think of anything else we should know.
- Decision
Unless we reach out to clarify anything, there will be an internal vote, and we will come back with a final decision.
- Activation
We process the grant and send funds in DAI on Ethereum Mainnet.
- Completion
Once the grant is done, we’ll ask you to share a report with us.
Tips for submitting an application
The information you provide us is critical to determining the viability of your grant. While the Community Lifeguards are a lean committee within Lido, we need a deeper understanding of both the “why” and the “how” of the project.
Some things to keep in mind:
- Be clear: we need to understand the goals, how you plan to achieve them concretely, and your work's output(s). Is it an event or a knowledge base? Who and why will it be used?
- Show your work: Providing information about who you are and relevant previous experience helps us better understand and have confidence in the grant's execution.
A helpful template to prepare a short pitch of the proposal:
Past grants
Have a look at some of the previous grants facilitated by the Community Lifeguards to have a sense of what we usually look for:
Community education in APAC; Tané
Tané, a Web3 investment and research firm run by crypto-native product builders, received a grant for community education in Japan.
As a thought leader in the Japanese Web3 community with strong engagement metrics across audio and written content formats as well as in-person events, Tané is well positioned to help develop Lido Community Stakers in Japan.
The deliverables for their grant include various podcast episodes and articles, a localized guide, and an in-person event in Tokyo during EDCON—You can read the complete grant here Tané - Lido community education in APAC.
Educational hub in Spanish; SEEDLatam
SEEDLatam, a LATAM-based organization with a long history of community building, received a grant to build an educational hub in Spanish that will collaborate with universities in Argentina and other countries in the region.
The deliverables included a 6-module long curriculum, with Twitter spaces and a workshop at a local university—You can read the complete grant here SEEDNode - Lido.