Hastra bug bounty: up to $100,000 in USDC for critical findings

Hastra launched a bug bounty program covering its vaults, contracts and site, paying up to $100,000 in USDC on Solana for a critical finding. Reports are submitted privately at bugbounty.hastra.io under coordinated disclosure, and testing must use a local fork or controlled simulation, not mainnet or public testnets. Ongoing; no deadline.

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Canton Foundation launches Canton Community Research Grants for research, education and advocacy

The Canton Foundation introduced the Canton Community Research Grants, a new discretionary program supporting independent research, education and advocacy that helps people understand Canton Network, from tokenomics and technical analysis to institutional use cases and educational content.

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Octant Epoch 13 results: 13 privacy projects funded, full 100 WETH matching pool allocated

Octant reported on November 4, 2026 that Epoch 13 funded 13 privacy projects and allocated its full 100 WETH matching pool. Octant's epochs are funded by the Golem Foundation. The same update shares a new report, written by Kairos Research with Golem Foundation and Ethereum Institutional, on how treasuries manage their ETH. This is a results update, not an open call.

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Base Stocks Maxxing: $100,000 in prizes for tokenized stock products on Base

Base announced Stocks Maxxing, a one-month competition to build the next generation of tokenized stock products on Base, with $100,000 in total prizes.

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Amazon Research Awards, AWS Cryptography Fall 2026: up to $80,000 + $40,000 AWS credits

Amazon Research Awards' AWS Cryptography call for proposals (Fall 2026) funds academic research in areas including formal verification, fully homomorphic encryption, multi-party computation, privacy-preserving AI inference and training, and AI-security definitions. Selected principal investigators may receive up to $80,000 in unrestricted funds and up to $40,000 in AWS Promotional Credits, plus training with Amazon scientists. Submission period: October 1 to November 11, 2026, 11:59 PM Pacific; decisions in February 2027.

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Karma launched RFP Search with Ethereum Foundation support

RFP Search is an open index of Ethereum-ecosystem funding — grants, RFPs, hackathons, bounties and accelerators — with a public API, Atom/RSS feeds, MCP/agent skill, and a CC0 open standard, with about 170 listings at launch and every listing linking back to the funder's own apply page.

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Arbitrum Rewarding Active Delegates — October 2026 results: $12,000 to 28 delegates

Arbitrum OpCo posted the October 2026 Rewarding Active Delegates results on 2 November 2026. October counted four proposals; 28 of 32 enrolled delegates qualified for rewards and $12,000 was distributed (budget envelope $12,000 vs September's $15,000). This is a results update, not an open call.

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Intersect proposes Cardano Ecosystem Budget Process for a 2027 trial year

Intersect, working with the Cardano Foundation and PRAGMA, published a proposal for a more strategic 2027 Cardano Ecosystem Budget Process; if DReps approve, CEBP would run for a trial year in 2027 with category-based stewardship and Open Contributions.

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BCH BLAZE 2026: Bitcoin Cash online hackathon, $8,000 in prizes

BCH BLAZE is an eight-day online hackathon for Bitcoin Cash developers, designers and entrepreneurs, running November 14 to 22, with prizes totaling $8,000 paid in ParyonUSD plus sponsor bounties. Register solo or as a team of up to four on DoraHacks; registration closes November 13.

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BNB Chain BNB Bangkok Hackathon and Demo Night (Nov 25-27): $10K developer prizes

BNB Chain is hosting a hackathon and demo night in Bangkok from November 25 to 27, with a developer track and a startup track. Developer-track winners get $5,000, $3,000 and $2,000, plus Kickstart ecosystem support; top teams pitch at Demo Night for a fast track to YZi Labs' EASY Residency. Register through the BNB Chain blog post; no registration cutoff is stated.

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Rocket Pool pDAO treasury report (Sep 24 – Oct 22): GMC grants payment 16,265 RPL

The Grants and Bounties Management Committee claimed this period's 16,265.35 RPL payment, leaving its balance at negative 730.81 RPL. The pDAO reserve took in 12,175.96 RPL from inflation and now holds 158,579.86 RPL. A proposal to raise protocol funding to 60-80% of pDAO reserve funding is in a sentiment vote.

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