The Soul of Halyard

The Halyard Foundation exists to build a self-sustaining community around the growth of the Halyard Protocol. We design our grants program for durability — funding developers, researchers and governance contributors who hold real ownership in the network and help define what open finance becomes next.

Read our 2026 grant allocation strategy
$23.8M
In grant funding
137
Grants awarded
since 2021
$5.42M
Disbursed since 2021

Get involved

Explore our current developer initiatives, ship a module on Halyard v4, work alongside other builders, and find out how you could shape the next decade of open finance.

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You are the future owners of the protocol. We maintain a suite of developer tools and long-form documentation that carries you from first commit to mainnet.

Start your Halyard journey

Whether you're a developer, researcher, delegate or grantee, the Halyard Foundation is your way into the wider ecosystem. Here's where to begin.

Delegates

Step into the centre of community governance. You'll find the briefing notes, tooling and forums you need to shape proposals and argue the hard calls in public.

Grantees

We fund individuals and small teams. Read how we assess applications, what we look for in a proposal, and which research directions are open this cycle.

Builders

Ready to build something new on an open exchange layer? Start with the SDK, the reference implementations and documentation written by people who ship.

Community voices

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The Foundation's direct engagement changed how fast we could move. They listened to the awkward feedback, folded it into the roadmap, and gave us the confidence to build on the protocol in production. That kind of collaboration is rare, and it shows in the ecosystem they've grown.

— Maya Okonkwo, core team at Driftwave
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"The Foundation's support lifted my work in open finance and gave me room to explore ideas that had no obvious commercial path. That first grant was what made Arclight possible, and it still shapes what I choose to work on."

— Tomas Halvorsen, Arclight
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"The research fellowship gave me the support and the connections to become a contributing member of this field. I was matched with professors and practitioners who helped me turn coding skills into published work."

— Priya Ramanathan, Meridian fellow
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"Working with the Foundation has been a genuinely good experience. They are precise about what the protocol needs when drafting an RFP, they want the work done well, and they stay open to disagreement from outside parties."

— Sami Elder, Northbound Labs

The Foundation as public park conservancy

"When you visit a public park, the upkeep of the gardens, the free concerts, even the benches — all of it is arranged by a team whose job is to create the conditions for community. That is the same work the Foundation does for developers in open finance."
Rowan Castellane Pacific Coast Protocol Summit
at Cascade University
Watch the full speech
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Deep dives on building durable businesses on Halyard and on the wider open finance stack.

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