Grants-Program VS substrate-open-working-groups

One of the most notable partnerships for Polkadot is with the Web3 Foundation, a Swiss non-profit organization that promotes the development and adoption of decentralized technologies. The Web3 Foundation was the organization that created Polkadot, and has provided funding for research and development to over 70 projects on the blockchain.

If you (or anyone else reading this) are interested in building it, that sounds like a cool project to apply for a Web3 Foundation Grant or via the Decentralized Futures program!

The Web3 Foundation Grants Program has reached the milestone of 600 projects funded. This is from a pool of over 1’500 applications from 54 different countries. https://grants.web3.foundation/

The project was build for the Web3 Foundation Grants Program. TPScore consists of two main parts:

Interested in building on Polkadot? Web3 Foundation offers an extensive grants program for technical development and research. https://grants.web3.foundation/

Reminder that Web3 Foundation Grants Program is looking for teams interested in building on Polkadot. https://grants.web3.foundation/

Add a sub-consensus mechanism (there is an RFP out for this)

Interested in building on Polkadot? Found a useful feature missing or a problem unsolved in the ecosystem? W3F u/Web3Foundation grants team has Requests for Proposals here https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/blob/master/docs/rfps.md

There are some Substrate-based chains, such as Aleph Zero, already using alternative consensus systems to have block times of around a second. There's also an RFP that I worked on last year looking for people to work on it for a W3F grant.

The W3F Grants team actually has a whole list of things we are looking for and would like to see in the ecosystem! https://github.com/w3f/Grants-Program/tree/master/rfps

Polkadot Developer Community - Official community forum to discuss Substrate, PolkadotJS, and building cross-chain dApps.

And of course you can always develop your own blockchain with Substrate to support it.

A great framework for building your own blockchain, and use numerous off-the-shelf modules, with Substrate - https://substrate.dev/

If you're interested in developing yourself, check out substrate.dev.

Assuming you are working through the substrate.dev tutorials I have just had this same problem as worked around it by reverting the node template to the `polkadot-v0.9.25` tag.

Well. Polkadot created substrate (substrate.dev) which is a framework for building a blockchain, with a lot of general components to make it easy to "plug-and-play" your customizable blockchain. I tried using their "Getting Started" guide to spin up "my own blockchain", it was done within an hour or so.

Check out https://substrate.dev/ !

Substrate is not a chain; it's the default address style, named after the Substrate development framework which virtually all (if not all) parachains are currently built with. https://substrate.dev/

Do contact the Substrate project (basis of the Polkadot/Kusama project), which is based in Berlin. You can contact them on their channel (see their website on http://substrate.dev), they're friendly and many of them are native German speakers.