substrate

Substrate
Builders
Program

The Substrate Builders Program directly supports you by bringing you Parity’s extensive resources, taking your Substrate ecosystem project to the next level.

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who the program is for.

The Substrate Builders Program identifies, supports and mentors current and potential Substrate-related projects.

If you are a visionary builder who is considering or already developing a project in the Substrate ecosystem, we want to talk to you.

The program is divided into three tracks:

Chains track: Those that are building impactful chains (independent chains, parachains and parathreads).

Infrastructure track: Those that are building Substrate/Polkadot-related infrastructure, including bridges, UIs, tooling, smart contract support and validator infrastructure (and potentially more).

Application Track: Those that are building applications on top of Substrate-based chains, including areas like DeFi, governance, identity, and anything that hasn’t been possible before without the benefits of the interoperable ecosystem.

what the program entails.

As a builder, you will receive Parity’s support in a systematic manner, including comprehensive support in the following areas:

Technical support:

Category-specific chat support with other program members of the same category and category-expert engineers to collaborate and ask questions.
Regular office hours with tech support lead of the program to give and get feedback and answer questions
Launch support with materials, calls and more to help projects launch mainnet successfully
Regular individual check-ins

Community support:

Media support
Collaboration on events such as DotCon, DotDay, Sub0, and Polkadot and Substrate meetups
Social media community building

Funding support:

Support in helping your project fundraise through: Polkadot Ecosystem Fund, Incubator & Accelerator programs, Polkadot Treasury, and Web3 Foundation Grants

Business development support:

Introductions to relevant blockchain ecosystem players (clients, users, partners, etc.)
A joint announcements/non-technical chat room between all members of both tracks
Regular office hours to give and get BD-related feedback and answer questions

Strategy & Feedback :

Regular individual check-ins with every member team (6 week cycles) to understand roadmap and get feedback

The program will support your project up to launch and will continue to offer longer-term support depending on the project’s needs.

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faqs

Is this support offering exclusive to members of the program?

While nearly everything in the program is in principle available to any team building in the Substrate ecosystem, the Substrate Builders Program guides teams through the available support in a structured manner.

How is the Substrate Builders Program different from the Web3 Foundation Grants Program?

The grants program provides non-dilutive financial support to projects, whereas this program is focused on more comprehensive support throughout a project’s lifecycle. W3F grant recipients are also welcome to apply to the Builders Program!

Is the Substrate Builders Program an acceleration or incubation program?

No, the Substrate Builders Program is complementary to any external accelerator or incubator program that developers can enroll in. Much of what this program offers, such as technical support and invitations to Polkadot branded events, cannot be offered by an external program.