zeitgeist VS Grants-Program

I received a similar question in the last AMA. I'm going to copy and paste my answer from there.. ...there are quite a few projects which are a bit different or are C2C focused, even aside from the ones you mentioned (e.g. Subsocial). For example,Totem Accounting's KAPEX parachain which allows for on-chain recorded accounting. Robonomics allows you to control real-world hardware via its parachain (I've taken a few pictures of different nebulae and minted NFTs from them by controlling a telescope via Robonomics Network). Zeitgeist is developing prediction markets. Of course, if you still see a hole in the market, we'd be happy if you want to build it. We have several different funding sources to help you do so.

However, there are quite a few projects which are a bit different or are C2C focused, even aside from the ones you mentioned (e.g. Subsocial). For example, Totem Accounting's KAPEX parachain which allows for on-chain recorded accounting. Robonomics allows you to control real-world hardware via its parachain (I've taken a few pictures of different nebulae and minted NFTs from them by controlling a telescope via Robonomics Network). Zeitgeist is developing prediction markets.

I met someone from Zeitgeist, a company that builds a para-chain in the Polkadot ecosystem for prediction markets.

Zeitgeist - Logan

As far as we are aware, Zeitgeist and Basilisk are still shipping quality code. We've looked into Zeitgeist latest update (20 hours ago) and it seems that they are getting ready for reward distributions due to the inclusion of the rewards pallet version 0.6.0

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