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- /build: "built to be proven" with the Devnet 3 share-and-lag line and the full-node sentence, in place of a proven-chain claim (evidence row 15) - /grants: paid from the dev fee fund on delivery; before mainnet no IGN with value, payment when the fund holds IGN, nothing promised about when or whether; the fund is zero today Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Grants
This file is the source of igneum.network/grants.
What a grant is
Grants are paid in IGN from the dev fee fund, on delivery. You propose a piece of work, it is accepted with a written definition of done, you build it, and it runs on the public testnet. Not a salary, not an advance, not an investment.
The money is the dev fee fund: the IGN that the Ember dev fee collects. Ember, the official miner, takes an optional 1% of a miner's rewards, in full view and off with one flag; that fee goes to Igneum Labs, the company that ships the software. The protocol itself carries no fee, no fund and no allocation, and no grant is paid from emission. The dev fee has the mechanism.
The tiers
| Tier | What fits |
|---|---|
| Tooling | SDK bindings, indexers, a Hardhat or Foundry plugin for the two gas dimensions, verification tooling, a light client in another language |
| Reference apps | A token, a swap, a registry, a wallet integration, an app that uses igneum_getTransactionStatus and the lock the way it is meant to be used |
| Infrastructure | RPC providers, archive nodes, seed nodes in new regions, pool software, an explorer back end |
| Research | The lottery hash, the finality rule, the proving layer, the fee model; attacks on the public test vectors; measurements the project does not have |
A grant is sized by the work in front of it, not by a table. Two grants in the same tier can differ.
How to apply
Open an issue on git.igneum.network/igneum-network/igneum and pick the Grant template. It asks for:
- What you will build, in a paragraph, and which tier it is.
- What done looks like: what runs where, what a reviewer can click or call to see it working on the public testnet.
- Your public work: a repository, a package, a paper, a deployed thing.
- How you want to be reached.
A short issue is fine. The definition of done is the part that matters.
The review
- Every Friday. Each open application gets one of three answers inside seven days: accepted with a definition of done, questions, or no with the reason.
- Accepted work is tracked in its issue. The reviewer and the builder agree the definition of done there before any work starts.
- Delivery is reviewed on the public testnet first. Payment follows the review, in the issue, in the open.
The honest lines
- Devnet and testnet coins have no value. Before mainnet there is no IGN with value: a grant delivered on the testnet is recorded in its issue, and payment comes from the fund when the fund holds IGN. Nothing is promised about when, or whether, that is.
- No amount, price or date is promised. The fund is what the dev fee collects, and it is zero today.
- A grant is for work delivered, never for a user count, a listing, a post or a referral.
- Igneum Labs may decline any application and may close the programme; what has been accepted and delivered is still paid.
Not legal advice.