Applications for the Arbitrum Foundation Grant Program require to have milestones, the number is related to the Grant Tracks you have selected (1 to 5 milestones). Grant funding is tied to the milestones completion, with portions of the grant unlocked as each milestone is completed.
A milestone is an achievement that marks a significant change or accomplishment within a project, often signifying advancement towards new stages of development.
Goals are the results you want to see once the milestone is completed. The milestone is a key achievement(s), which can be seen as the cumulative result of completing each goals.
Arbitrum Foundation Grant goals should relate to product development and growth metrics :
| Product development goals |
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| Product launch |
| Mainnet implementation completed |
| Integration with other Arbitrum ecosystem teams |
| Finalize a third party security audit |
| … or other relevant metrics for your project |
| Growth metric goals |
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| X amount of WAU (a weekly active user is a user that submits at least 1 tx per week for at least two consecutive weeks) |
| X$M total TVL for a 2 weeks period on Arbitrum |
| X amount of number of transactions |
| …or other relevant metrics for your project |
<aside> ⚠️ The Arbitrum Foundation Grant Program is a growth oriented program and requires each application to : ➡️ include product development and growth metric goals in their milestones ➡️ include a Dune dahsbord designed to Foundation's satisfaction to be able to track progress ➡️ include an expected completion date
We recommend to review our milestones template and examples below.
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