Funding for builders advancing the network.
The Bantu Blockchain Foundation funds projects that grow the ecosystem and serve its mission — financial inclusion, tokenization, public-good infrastructure. Grants are paid in XBN, milestone-based, and structured to compound work back into the commons.
What we fund.
Wallets, remittance, merchant payments
Mobile-first products that bring under-banked populations on-chain. Cross-border corridors. Merchant tooling for informal economies.
RWA issuance & custody
Platforms that tokenize property, commodities, securities, agricultural products. With audit-grade attestation and compliance hooks.
Currency rails
Fiat-backed stablecoins, lending markets, liquidity pools, DEX aggregators. Compliance-aware DeFi for emerging markets.
Validators, RPC, indexing
New validator operators expanding the federation. Independent RPC providers. Indexers, explorers, analytics — the layer above the protocol.
Tutorials, courses, translations
Long-form developer guides, video courses, university programs, localizations of Bantu documentation into more languages.
Humanitarian & civic
Cash transfers, identity, voting infrastructure, civic governance — non-extractive uses of the chain that serve the spirit of Bantu.
How it works.
Submit your proposal
Email the operations team with a one-page write-up: what you're building, who it serves, milestones, what you need, what you'll deliver back. Use the button at the top of this page to open a prefilled draft.
Foundation review
Foundation reviews monthly. We evaluate fit against the focus areas, plausibility of execution, and how the work compounds back into the ecosystem.
Milestone-based funding
Approved grants are paid in XBN, in tranches tied to public, verifiable milestones. We don't gate work behind paperwork — we gate it behind shipped artifacts.
Open the work
Grantees commit to open-source code, public writeups, and citing the Foundation. The Foundation does not take equity, IP, or governance rights in funded projects.