2025 Grant Summit
The 2025 Grant Summit is a 2-day virtual gathering focused on advancing the future of funding in Web3. Our goal is to bring together high-context grant operators, legacy grantees, and capital researchers to explore how we fund, sustain, and measure meaningful work in the ecosystem.
This year’s theme focuses on two critical challenges:
1. Sustainable Funding & Growth: How to design programs that last, support ecosystem maturity, and create better outcomes for builders.
2. Outputs, Outcomes & Impact How to measure value, align incentives, and track the real-world effects of grants beyond surface metrics.
Organized by the Grant Innovation Lab at Metagov, this summit is designed for those who are shaping capital allocation across the stack from infrastructure and public goods to grantee experience and capital design strategy.
Who It’s For
Grant Program Operators
Protocols
Legacy Builders / Grantees
Capital Allocation/ Grant Researchers
Format & Dates
Format: 2-day virtual event
Day 1: Grant Operators & Program Design
Day 2: Grantees, Researchers & Support Models
Date: August 20 & 21, 2025
Recording: Sessions will be livestreamed, recorded, and uploaded for later viewing.
Thematic Tracks
Sustainable Funding & Growth
Designing programs for long-term ecosystem health
Post-funding support, off-ramps, and sustainability
Balancing experimentation with structural stability
Cross-ecosystem learnings: Web2, philanthropy, DAOs
Outputs, Outcomes & Impact
What counts as impact in Web3 and who defines it
Tracking and sharing outcomes beyond vanity metrics
Designing grant programs that reward meaningful results
Tools, methods, and research that bring clarity to chaos
Organized By
The Grant Innovation Lab at Metagov, a collective exploring the frontier of public goods funding, capital design, and coordination infrastructure in Web3.