Software Grant Program
Building Nine Chronicles Together
Planetarium is offering grants to attract software developers who can build something useful for the Nine Chronicles game. Building something from our wishlist will greatly help the community; however, we are also interested in hearing from people who have cool ideas not featured on our wishlist. There is still a chance we can help fund the idea.
The grants we provide may not cover 100% of the development costs. We will do our best to fairly compensate all community efforts with a mixture of fiat, NCG, and special in-game items.
There are 2 ways that Planetarium can help fund teams:
- Teams may be rewarded retroactively for their efforts and without the need for an application. This will be purely based on historical results and community impact.
- Teams actively apply via this program in order to get paid as they work, on a milestone-by-milestone basis.
We award grants for incentivize team to develop the Nine Chronicles ecosystem. Grant sizes are starting from 500 NCG but it can be up to 20,000 NCG if the project size is huge. Mostly, we offer NCG but if the project needs to get Fiat currency for specific reasons, let us know.
The following is our list of criteria for assessing teams to fund.
- Ideal length: 3 months.
- Best to structure the work as 1 month = 1 milestone.
- Open source license preferred
- e.g. Apache 2, MIT, GPLv3.
- Max funding per application: 20,000 NCG.
- We prefer to pay in NCG or items, but amount of fiat can be possible.
- Teams shouldn’t look to cover all of their development costs with a grant.
- Teams should indicate why they are interested in supporting the Nine Chronicles Ecosystem and indicate why their team is a good fit.
The following is a list of projects that we would like to see be created.
- Block explorer with game-like UI
- Wallet integration for NCG
- Browser extensions
- API RPC clients in other languages (Javascript, Python, or language of your choice)
- Miner monitoring tools
- Ecosystem reward automation tool
- Fill in the application form below with all the necessary details.
- One question in the application form requires creating a Google Document (or similar) that includes the following information:
- Tell us a bit about your project goals, motivations, needs, challenges, and any other information you feel is pertinent for us to know.
- Include a roadmap that details the software specification over a number of milestones.
- Once we’ve had a chance to review your application we will respond with any necessary changes.
- Completed proposals will be reviewed at the next committee meeting and then we will let teams know if they have been successful with their application. You'll hear back from someone on the Ecosystem Support team very soon!
We only collect the following information submitted and will not use or share for any purposes other than evaluation.
To apply, please see the following application form
If you have any questions that are not covered here then email us at [email protected] or come say hello on our Discord channel!
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