The Navigators program will empower teams to experiment, build, and deploy on Mina 💜.

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Season 3 of Navigators will be focused on three areas (Requests For Start-ups):

  1. “Feeding the Proof” by creating consumer and enterprise applications that onboard data and produce verifiable claims against that data using the Mina Private Credentials standard
  2. Verifiable Applications for data privacy and integrity (e.g. Identity, RWA, Voting, Privacy-enabled DeFi)
  3. Infrastructure Improvements (Protokit, o1js, Proof Conversion): Projects building protokit run time models and DeFI applications; o1js primitives and enhancements. Proof Conversion projects aim to bring other proof systems to mina and vice-versa.

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A detailed breakdown of each of these categories is published here.

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We’ll be directing funding towards these categories. However, grant applications will remain open for all ideas aimed at delivering value to the Mina ecosystem, even if they’re outside of these areas.

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What are the types of grants supported by the program?

There are two tracks for grants:

  1. **Starter:** Suited for ****teams that are new to the Mina ecosystem. Teams will be awarded up to 15,000 MINA to build a project over one month. This is an invite-only program and not accepting applications.
  2. Growth: Suited for experienced teams in the web3/Mina ecosystem. Teams will be awarded up to 100,000 MINA to build a project that enriches the Mina ecosystem and pushes it forward, be it tooling, infrastructure, or a zkApp over 1-3 Months.