Kiba Gateaux

Handshake Development Fund

Michael Rodriguez

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HNS Fund is a community run development fund. It is the only source of non-VC, non-dilutive grants funding in the HNS community. Our goal is to support and empower our fellow open source developers and creators in their mission to create a free and open internet on the dweb.

HNS Fund was created out of the need to source funding and coordinate builders within the HNS community because there is no Handshake Foundation, founding team, or any other centralized entity.

HNS Fund is dedicated to free and open source software. We give donations to community members that are working to expand the ecosystem, build tooling, create new use cases for personal TLDs, and make onboarding and adoption easier for people new to HNS. All projects must follow the Handshake Community Guidelines to receive HNS Fund grants.

We are open to giving grants to anyone working in the Handshake community. We primarily focus on these areas:
* Core Handshake protocol development
* Domain management tools (e.g. claiming, registries/registrars, DNS records)
* Wallets
* Browser integrations
* Auction tools
* Educational content
* Identity solutions
* Community growth
