Web3 gaming platform Ultra has announced a sizable Developer Grant Program that provides an initial of $1 million in funding for builders looking to create various products within this growing next-gen gaming ecosystem.

What Is Ultra’s Grant Program?

Ultra’s Grant Program is a funding initiative designed to support developers looking to build within the $UOS-powered ecosystem.

The program kicks off with an initial pool of $1 million in funding, or around 20 million $UOS tokens, with up to $250k available per project depending on the grant tier provided. Creators building infrastructure, services, tools, and dApps are eligible, no matter the size of the development team.

This initiative offers 3 grant tiers:

  • Micro Grants (up to $5,000)
  • Seed Grants (from $5,000 to $50,000)
  • Strategic Grants (from $50,000 to $250,000)

Micro Grants are given for prototypes, MVPs, and proof of concepts, while Seed Grants are offered to projects developing complete tools, dApps, or integrations. To be eligible for a Strategic Grant, you will have to be working on creating high-impact infrastructure, web3 games, or platform-level integrations.

When applying, the requirements state that it is necessary to provide context around the project’s development or growth strategy. It’s also important to offer a clear explanation of the problem you are solving and your proposed solution, while also giving an outline of your project’s expected impact on the Ultra ecosystem. Should you receive a grant, you will start receiving funds through milestone-based unlocks, which are said to be linked to “project delivery and ecosystem impact.”

If you'd like to build on the Ultra blockchain and have an impactful idea or are already working on a project within this ecosystem and in need of a financial boost to completing it, then you should definitely try and apply to this grant program. Here’s how.

How to Apply for Ultra’s Developer Grant Program

Whether you’re building a web3 game, service, infrastructure, or innovative tools, you can apply to Ultra’s Developer Grant Program by heading to the initiative’s dedicated page, where you will find an “Apply Now” button at the bottom.

Once you’re on the application form, you will have a couple of mandatory fields to fill in to successfully submit your proposal. These include your project or company name, an email address, Telegram handle, short description of the project, a brief summary of key problems you’re aiming to solve; your go-to market plan and KPIs, the amount of funding you’re applying for, how you’ll use the funds, and a Google Drive link to any supplementary files such as a business plan, pitch deck, demo, and so on.

After submitting your proposal, the Grant Committee will evaluate your submission. This committee consists of Ultra team members and ecosystem advisors, and their goal is to ensure “technical feasibility, network alignment, and fair process.” When they’ve finished screening your proposal and if they’ve decided to go forward with it, the submission then moves on to the voting stage, where $UOS holders have the power to vote from a list of shortlisted projects. 

If the community votes in your favor, all that’s left then is to come to an agreement on the final grant terms and milestones with Ultra’s legal team. If everything goes well, you can start properly building your project and completing milestones to unlock funds from the provided grant while making bi-weekly check-ins to update the team on your progress.

Applications are said to be reviewed on a rolling basis over a 4-week period. There does not seem to be any deadline at the time of writing.

About Ultra

Ultra is a web3 gaming ecosystem and purpose-built, next-gen L1 blockchain designed for real-world applications such as blockchain games. The on-chain gaming platform comes with its own PC storefront acting as an accessible Steam-like store for web3 games. It also has its own NFT marketplace that gives players a free and secure way to trade digital assets that are built using Ultra’s programmable Uniq NFT standard. This standard is designed for real-world utility and makes it easy and cheap for developers to deploy NFTs as well as integrate on-chain assets into their games.

Games made on the Ultra blockchain are easily accessible to a wider gaming audience as there are zero gas fees to pay, removing friction for both gamers and developers in order to provide a seamless blockchain gaming experience. Next to no gas fees, the chain is also designed to be fast and scalable, providing high throughput and low latency for smooth on-chain gaming. When the network is at maximum capacity however, developers can stake the $UOS ecosystem token to reserve network capacity and sponsor user transactions, gaining priority on the network to have transactions processed in under 0.5 seconds. This gaming blockchain is also built in C++, making it simpler for not only experienced C++ developers to get started with building on this network, but also for studios hiring programmers, as there is a wide pool of developers well-versed to work in the popular programming language.

Next to all these user-friendly features, the Ultra team also offers loads of developer tools to make it as easy as possible to start building in their ecosystem. This means that they provide a dev suite of SDKs, APIs, analytics, NFT explorer, WalletConnect, and more to lower development time and costs while allowing studios to put more focus into creating quality games instead of spending plenty of time handling blockchain technologies. On top of all this, teams have full stack control to build, launch, and monetize without ever leaving the ecosystem, with a 15% distribution fee in place instead of the standard 30% found on platforms such as Steam, Apple's App Store, and the Google Play Store.

Any developer interested can check out the official Developer Portal, through which you can access the official documentation and find out everything you need to know to get started.

Join the Ultra ecosystem by downloading its launcher for Windows PCs to start playing loads of different blockchain games, including Blocklords, Champions Tactics: Grimoira Chronicles, Ashes of Mankind: Citadels, and more.

Earlier this year, Ultra raised $12 million to propel web3 gaming. At the start of 2025, THOMSON Computing teamed up with Ultra to drive gaming distribution and strengthen European sovereignty in technology.