Grants Ships are a new approach to launching and scaling funding rounds: not as one-off efforts, but as reusable, composable units. Think of each “ship” as a complete, self-contained instance of a grant round—equipped with its own governance, funding mechanism, eligibility rules, and review process.
Built on Allo Protocol, a Grants Ship can be deployed with minimal setup, then tailored for the needs of its community—whether that’s a protocol ecosystem, a local DAO, a public goods campaign, or a specific contributor cohort. Importantly, each ship maintains autonomy, while sharing infrastructure and standards with others in the fleet.
This pattern enables:
- Ecosystems like Optimism or Filecoin to support many rounds with shared tooling
- Regional public goods teams to deploy context-aware funding with consistent logic
- Coordinators to launch rounds without reinventing governance each time
Grants Ships also support interoperability: they can plug into dashboards, reputation systems, matching pools, or analytics layers—while keeping the coordination lightweight and decentralized.
Why It Matters
- Repeatable: Launch new rounds quickly, without custom development
- Customizable: Each ship can have its own rules, voters, and logic
- Scalable: Grow a “fleet” of funding rounds across regions or themes
- Composable: Integrates with identity, reputation, and funding sources
- Transparent: Onchain by default, auditable and accountable
Example Use Cases
- A climate DAO launches five regional Grants Ships—each with its own council and funding pool
- A protocol team funds multiple contributor domains (e.g., docs, dev tools, comms) through separate but interoperable ships
- A global public goods coalition deploys Grants Ships in different languages and jurisdictions to increase local access