OpenGrants

OpenGrants is open data infrastructure for Web3 grants that maintains the largest cross-ecosystem funding data set, including all completed SCF rounds.

   
Category Other
Website https://opengrants.daostar.org/
Repository https://github.com/metagov/opengrants-platform
Gateway-API https://github.com/metagov/Grants-Gateway-API
First Released September 2025
Intake soft-launch
Budget Requested $20,000

Project Description

Even though billions in Web3 grant capital have been distributed, many ecosystems still struggle to measure performance and prevent waste. We’ve built OpenGrants as the best publicly-available data source for Web3 grants to allow projects to learn from each other, create a more vibrant space for builders, and promote ecosystem-wide growth.

We believe the development of standards and benchmarks, and promotion of data-driven decision-making, is necessary to support the maturation and growth of Web3 grants and DAO resource allocation mechanisms. Through OpenGrants, we seek to address problems with data collection, quality, and analysis, community transparency and engagement, as well as the efficiency and interoperability of grant systems. Ultimately, OpenGrants will help promote the continuous improvement of Web3 grant programs and the evolution of the Stellar ecosystem.

Team & Experience

Sam McCarthy (Ecosystem Growth Lead, DAOstar) - discord: samccarthy27, twitter: @samccarthy27, linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-mccarthy-45488372/

Rashmi (Technical Lead, DAOstar) - github: https://github.com/Rashmi-278, discord: torchablazed, twitter: @rashmivabbigeri, linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashmi-v-abbigeri/

We’ve worked with the Stellar ecosystem since before the inception of OpenGrants, collaborating on the underlying infrastructure and data standard, DAOIP-5. We have previously received three public goods awards from Stellar, taking the DAOIP-5 standard and transforming it into open data infrastructure featuring a gateway API, ecosystem funding dashboard, and SCF grant reporting.

Retroactive Impact

During the Q2 grant period, OpenGrants delivered on its maintenance mandate. We kept infrastructure live with zero downtime and ingested new SCF round data as it landed, maintaining the datasets and integrations built in prior quarters. This was a maintenance grant, and the work reflects that scope.

This generated the following impact for the Stellar ecosystem:

  • OpenGrants infrastructure remained available with zero downtime as the upstream data source PG Atlas continues to build its dependency graph on.
  • OpenGrants maintained Stellar’s 100% DAOIP-5 compliance rate throughout the period, including ingestion of SCF #43 data as it became available.
  • OpenGrants maintained its expanded ecosystem funding datasets, including the ENS integration supporting cross-ecosystem comparative analysis.

Past Deliverables

2026 Q2

  1. Ongoing hosting and maintenance — Completed. Maintained OpenGrants infrastructure with zero downtime and ingested SCF #43 funding data during the Q2 period, keeping Stellar in full DAOIP-5 compliance. The real-time SCF integration and Airtable pipeline shipped prior to the Q2 grant and were maintained, not newly built, during this period.

  2. Operational support for PG Atlas — Completed. OpenGrants remained available and responsive as PG Atlas’s upstream data source throughout the period. No new integration work was requested during the Q2 window.

Proposed Impact

For the next three months, OpenGrants will remain the reliable, up-to-date source of structured Stellar funding data while making targeted improvements to legibility, automation, and downstream usability. Alongside zero-downtime hosting and continued 100% DAOIP-5 compliance, Q3 focuses on reducing manual overhead in data ingestion, improving how Stellar-specific funding data is surfaced, and exposing OpenGrants data programmatically so agents and downstream tools can consume it directly.

  1. Data-driven SCF governance. Recurring, per-round Intelligence Reports give delegates and the community consistent funding and milestone analytics at decision time, building directly on the SCF 41 report that informed community voting.

  2. Lower-friction, more reliable data infrastructure. Polishing the SCF ingestion pipeline toward full automation reduces manual steps and the risk of data gaps, keeping Stellar funding data accurate and current using AI agents for automation.

  3. Programmatic access for downstream tooling. An MCP server exposes the OpenGrants dataset so agents, researchers, and dependent projects (including PG Atlas) can query funding data directly, strengthening OpenGrants as shared ecosystem infrastructure.

  4. Improved legibility of Stellar funding data. A dedicated Stellar project view and an About page make OpenGrants easier to understand and navigate for community members, delegates, and reviewers, directly supporting clearer user signal during evaluation.

  5. Ongoing hosting, maintenance, and continued support for dependent projects. Ongoing operational support for PG Atlas and any new dependencies that build on OpenGrants data.

  6. A source of truth for the Public Goods Award. Consolidating fragmented PG Award data which is currently scattered across SDF Airtables, community-maintained mappings, and Tansu on-chain proposals into OpenGrants gives the community its first reliable, comparable record of award history, ready to ingest binding on-chain funding decisions once they exist.

Proposed Deliverables

  1. SCF Intelligence Report. OpenGrants generates and publishes a funding Intelligence Report to the SCF community for the next round (SCF #45), which includes the following data: funding distribution, category breakdowns, milestone and tranche completion trends, and comparison against prior rounds. Builds on the SCF #41 Intelligence Report that delegates used during community voting, turning a one-off contribution into a repeatable governance input.
    • Ecosystem value: consistent, data-driven context for delegates and the community during the decision-making and voting process of every SCF round.
  2. Data integration automation. Polish and harden the ingestion pipeline toward fully automated data ingestion, reducing manual steps (per PG Atlas team feedback).
    • Ecosystem value: more reliable, always-current Stellar funding data with less operational overhead. Setting this base infra enables us to build towards more intelligent data points.
  3. MCP server for OpenGrants. Ship an MCP server exposing the OpenGrants dataset so agents and downstream tools can query funding data directly.
    • Ecosystem value: makes OpenGrants data programmatically consumable by agents, researchers, and dependent projects.

  4. More legible data with greater signal

    4.a. Stellar project view. A dedicated, improved view surfacing SCF funded project’s funding data for easier navigation. For example: View OpenGrants and its funding history by SCF.

    • Ecosystem value: clearer, SCF-specific legibility for community members and reviewers.

      4.b. About page for OpenGrants. An About page documenting what OpenGrants is, its data sources, and how to use the infrastructure.

    • Ecosystem value: lowers the barrier to understanding and adopting OpenGrants.

  5. Ongoing hosting and maintenance. Zero-downtime operation of OpenGrants infrastructure and continuous SCF funding data updates, maintaining Stellar’s 100% DAOIP-5 compliance rate.

    Ecosystem value: uninterrupted community access to structured funding data that eliminates data loss and fragmentation.

  6. PG Atlas and dependency support. Continued operational support for the PG Atlas team and any other new dependencies. Ecosystem value: sustains downstream projects building on OpenGrants data.

  7. PG Award data integration. Reconstruct and integrate a complete, comparable dataset for the SCF Public Goods Award into OpenGrants, consolidating sources that are currently fragmented across SDF Airtables, the community-maintained round mappings, and Tansu on-chain proposals. Delivers the historical and current rounds as a best-effort dataset, with the pipeline structured to ingest binding on-chain funding decisions once they exist (expected 2027).

Ecosystem value: establishes the first reliable source of truth for the Public Goods Award, making award history legible and comparable alongside SCF grant data.

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