<h2>GRAIL Grants Program</h2>
<h3>About Oro</h3>
Oro is building the gold layer for Solana.
Oro issues GOLD tokens, giving users exposure to tokenized gold directly on Solana. Users can buy, sell, and hold gold using USDC &mdash; without dealing with traditional custodians, paperwork, or high minimums.
GRAIL is our new developer first API that makes it easy to integrate gold into consumer apps, fintech products, and onchain workflows. We abstract away the complexity so you can focus on user experience..
This grant program is designed to support builders who want to create real products using Oro&rsquo;s GRAIL API and bring gold into everyday financial use cases.
<h2>About the Grant</h2>
We&rsquo;re funding teams and individuals to build production-ready products that use Oro&rsquo;s GRAIL API to enable people and businesses to interact with gold as easily as they do with USDC today.
We&rsquo;re especially interested in applications that:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Solve real, non-crypto-native problems</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Offer simple, intuitive UX for users unfamiliar with crypto</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Demonstrate strong technical execution</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Explore novel or underexplored use cases for tokenized gold</li>
</ul>
Grants are meant to help you go from working prototype to real users.
<h2>Areas of Focus</h2>
You&rsquo;re free to apply with any strong idea using GRAIL, but we&rsquo;re particularly excited about the following categories:
<h3>Everyday Savings</h3>
Help individuals save in gold effortlessly.
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Round-ups (spare change &rarr; gold)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Subscription savings (weekly/monthly auto-buy)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Savings challenges (gamified goals with friends)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Kids savings (gold piggy banks)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Dollar-cost averaging bot</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Gold portfolio tracker with price alerts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Rewards &amp; Payments</h3>
Gold as a better alternative to points.
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Cashback in gold</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Debit card with gold rewards</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Gift gold (weddings, birthdays, festivals)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Remittances (send gold instead of volatile currency)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Merchant checkout ("Pay in gold")</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Tip jar in gold</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Expense splitting in gold</li>
</ul>
<h3>Business &amp; Payroll</h3>
Help businesses and workers save smarter.
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Treasury savings (park reserves in gold)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Invoice in gold</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Payroll allocation (% of salary &rarr; gold)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Freelancer auto-savings</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Gold-backed escrow service</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Gold subscriptions (SaaS billing &rarr; gold)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Integrations &amp; Tooling</h3>
Make gold accessible everywhere.
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Telegram / Discord / WhatsApp bots</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Shopify / e-commerce plugins</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Accounting software integration</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">API wrappers / SDKs (Python, Go, etc.)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">No-code Zapier / n8n connectors</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Mobile SDK for quick integration</li>
</ul>
<h2>What We&rsquo;re Looking For</h2>
We strongly prefer builders who already show momentum. Ideal applicants typically have:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">A working prototype, MVP, or shipped experiment</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Clear understanding of the user problem they&rsquo;re solving</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Strong product thinking and UX sensibilities</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Demonstrable proof-of-work (previous builds, open-source work, hackathons, shipped products)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">The ability to execute quickly with limited capital</li>
</ul>
Heuristics we care about:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Proof-of-Work &gt; Ideas</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">UX clarity &gt; crypto cleverness</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Working demos &gt; pitch decks</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Real users &gt; hypothetical markets</li>
</ul>
<h2>Who This Grant Is Not For</h2>
This program is not a good fit if:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">You don&rsquo;t have a concrete idea or concept</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">You&rsquo;re not planning to actively build in the near term</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">You&rsquo;re unwilling to ship publicly and iterate</li>
</ul>
<h2>Evaluation Criteria</h2>
Applications are evaluated on:
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Problem relevance &mdash; does this solve a real user need?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">User experience &mdash; can non-crypto users understand and use it?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Technical quality &mdash; is the implementation solid and scalable?</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Innovation &mdash; does this unlock a new or improved gold use case?</li>
</ol>
<h2>How It Works</h2>
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Submit your application on Superteam Earn</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">If approved:</li>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">You&rsquo;ll be onboarded&nbsp;</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Funding is released based on agreed milestones</li>
</ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Share regular progress updates with the community</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Submit final work for review, feedback, and amplification</li>
</ol>
<h2>Questions?</h2>
If you have questions about eligibility, scope, or the application process, reach out to <a href="mailto:support@orogold.app">support@orogold.app</a>&nbsp;or <a href="https://t.me/fahdahmed96">https://t.me/fahdahmed96</a>.

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