🎉 Announcing Fractal's Season 2 Grant Recipients! 🎉
Dear Fractal Community,
We're excited to unveil the recipients of our Season 2 Ecosystem Grants! This season, we've identified and rewarded standout projects that are actively driving innovation and value within the Fractal ecosystem.
First, a heartfelt thank you to everyone who participated and submitted applications. Your dedication continues to inspire us as we shape the future of Bitcoin and Fractal together.
Each project receives 5,000 FB to fuel their innovation and accelerate their contributions to the Bitcoin ecosystem through Fractal!
🏆 Fractal Season 2 Grant Recipients
| Project Name | Project Description | Impact on Fractal Ecosystem |
|---|---|---|
| Shell Finance | Shell Finance is a decentralized stablecoin protocol on Bitcoin Layer 1, leveraging PSBTs and DLCs to support BTC, Ordinals, Runes, and BRC-20 as collateral to mint SUSD. Users access liquidity without bridging assets off Bitcoin. | Shell Finance brings stability to the Bitcoin ecosystem, reducing trading friction and creating native stablecoin utility on Fractal. |
| BtcTerminal | BtcTerminal's Explorer for Fractal is a comprehensive explorer designed for Fractal, offering detailed insights into Fractal transactions and assets, developed by BtcTerminal. | BtcTerminal's Explorer enhances visibility and transparency, making it easier for users and developers to navigate the ecosystem effectively. |
| Ordbit | Ordbit operates as a launchpad for Fractal projects and collections, including marketplaces for Fractal and Ordinals. They’ve launched CAT721 projects and organized community events like Bitcoin Ordinals India. | Ordbit drives marketplace activity, adoption, and community engagement, acting as a hub for creators and collectors within Fractal. |
| SatsPumpFun | SatsPumpFun is a pioneering memecoin launchpad on Fractal Bitcoin. It combines memes, liquidity automation, and CAT20 innovation to enable seamless token creation and trading, with automated reward distribution that is powered by OP_CAT. | SatsPumpFun demonstrates the possibilities of using OP_CAT with its memecoin launchpad product, and drives more users to the ecosystem. |
🔍 Our Evaluation Process
As in previous seasons, Fractal grants are retroactive, rewarding projects based on demonstrated impact in the ecosystem.
Our evaluation framework considers both development and community elements, using a tiered scoring system to assess factors such as code contributions, technical adoption, scalability milestones, and community outreach.
This season, our evaluation framework further prioritized:
Innovation and technical contributions (e.g., leveraging unique Bitcoin-native approaches like PSBTs or OP_CAT).
Community engagement through events, hackathons, and other activities that expand developer possibilities for building on Fractal.
Scalability milestones that enhance the Fractal network's utility or user experience.
While specific scores remain private for fairness, we’re focused on identifying projects that push the boundaries of what’s possible on Fractal.
🌱 Building the Fractal Ecosystem
To all grant applicants: Thank you for your contributions. Whether awarded or not, your efforts are vital to the growth of Fractal. If you didn’t receive a grant this time, keep building — there will be plenty more opportunities in the future!
To the community: Please take a moment to explore and support the incredible work of these projects. Your feedback and participation can further amplify their impact.
⏩ Rolling Grants
Fractal awards grants on a rolling basis, as projects achieve key milestones in their growth.
📝 Submissions for Season 2 are now CLOSED — but don’t worry! Stay tuned for Season 3 of our ecosystem grants; details coming soon!
🌟 View & Vote on the Fractal Roadmap
You can continue to view and vote on Fractal’s roadmap! Head to build.fractalbitcoin.io to see what’s coming next and share your thoughts on our future priorities.
🚀 Looking Ahead
The creativity and ambition in the Fractal community continue to amaze us. As we celebrate these projects, we’re also looking ahead to Season 3 and beyond.
Thank you for being part of this journey and helping us unlock new possibilities for Bitcoin through Fractal. Together, we’re building a decentralized future.
Onward and upward,
The Fractal Team
