We know what a grant can build.
Before AxonGPU, before AxonOS, we were a team with an idea and a small amount of community funding. Every milestone since traces back to someone who believed in us before we had proof. This is us doing the same for you.
Polygon DeSci Grant
AxonDAO received its first grant from Polygon. Early DeSci funding that let us build prototypes, hire our first contributors, and prove that decentralized health research was possible.
Gitcoin DeSci Beta Round
Community donors on Gitcoin validated what we were building. That crowd-funded signal became the foundation for our governance model and our belief in open funding.
NVIDIA Inception Program
Accepted into NVIDIA Inception, gaining access to cutting-edge AI resources and the venture network that later became the backbone of AxonGPU.
AxonGPU & Oracle Cloud
From those early grants, we built AxonGPU with enterprise GPU capacity, partnered with Oracle Cloud, and launched AxonOS. Now we turn that infrastructure back toward the community that built us.
Compute, mentorship, and connections.
Every grantee receives the same three things we needed when we started: access to serious infrastructure, guidance from people who have done it before, and introductions to the partners who can accelerate your work.
Compute credits on AxonOS
Self-serve V100 access through the AxonOS platform. Full Linux desktop in your browser with direct GPU passthrough.
Mentorship from our team
Office hours, code reviews, roadmap feedback. Guidance from researchers and engineers at the intersection of AI, biology, and decentralized systems.
Industry introductions
Partners across NVIDIA Inception, Oracle Cloud, clinical research networks, and the DeSci ecosystem. Doors we have spent years opening.
From idea to impact.
Rolling applications. Lightweight review. No rigid academic calendars. We care about what you will build and how openly you will share it.
Apply
Submit a short proposal, compute profile, and open-science commitment. Rolling applications, decisions in 4–6 weeks.
Review
Blind initial screen, feasibility check, and merit review by domain scientists. No institutional affiliation required.
Support
Compute credits unlock in tranches. Mentorship begins immediately. Industry introductions happen when they will help most.
Publish open
Share code, checkpoints, and datasets under open licenses. Publish AxonOS-compatible environments so anyone can reproduce your work.
Build the future with us.
Rolling applications mean no waiting for the next funding cycle. If you are working on open science, health AI, or DeSci infrastructure, we want to hear from you.