Filecoin Foundation Next

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Filecoin Foundation Next Compute

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Free tier	'Next Step Microgrants are awarded in the amount of $5,000, paid in FIL tokens.' The intended audience is 'independent developers, small studios, non-profits, activists, researchers... and you!', with work finished in 3 months, open-sourced under MIT or CC-BY-SA 3.0, and weekly updates. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-shot-grant
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	write-gated The gate is a working Filecoin prototype before applying plus a signed grant agreement and a W-8/W-9 tax form; review runs every two weeks. source The gate is a working Filecoin prototype before applying plus a signed grant agreement and a W-8/W-9 tax form; review runs every two weeks.
Binding	write-gated The gate is a working Filecoin prototype before applying plus a signed grant agreement and a W-8/W-9 tax form; review runs every two weeks.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	USD 5,000 in FIL at FIL USD 0.9653 is about 5,180 FIL; rented GPU time at roughly USD 0.30 per hour would turn it into about 16,600 GPU-hours, more than the 3-month window can consume.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Payment in FIL means the dollar value is whatever the token is worth on the payout day; USD 0.9653 is a 2026-10-22 quote. Whether the pod pays an individual outside the US was not established; the FAQ only says selected grantees receive a form.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	raw.githubusercontent.com/filecoin-project/devgrants/9074213	award of USD 5,000 paid in FIL, five qualification criteria, 3-month completion, fortnightly review, W-8/W-9 collected after selection
2026-10-22	fil.org/grants	three live categories: Open Grants, FIL Builder Next Step Grants, and RFPs, all via the devgrants repository
2026-10-22	devgrantsdaily.com/items/2026-09-19-filecoin-open-grants/	Open Grants pay up to USD 50,000, rolling, no fixed close date, open source dual-licensed MIT and Apache 2

More fields (1)

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  "shape": null
 }
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Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated