- Free allowance
- '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, and weekly updates.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe 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.
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| 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, and weekly updates. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-shot-grant |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) 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
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| 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. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| 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. |
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