On 9 November 2026 Concordium opened applications for its grants programme, which has 75 million CCD behind it. The programme was first announced at Concordium's town hall on 28 October, when BitBasic reported that it was invite-led and that full terms would follow. The new post sets out those terms.
Who can apply
Applications are open now through a form on Concordium's website, and the post gives no closing date. Only registered companies can receive a grant: the form asks for a legal name, registration number, jurisdiction and registered office, and includes questions on sanctions, regulated activities and any relationship with Concordium or the evaluators. Teams that have not launched yet may apply, but their milestones count for more.
Concordium says it wants products people already use to add Concordium, not projects that move over to it. In its words, "The rule behind every decision is that grants follow usage, not pitches."
The four focus areas are:
- agent accountability
- agentic payments
- identity and age verification
- cross-chain integrations
A second route in is the Concordium Trusted Agents Hackathon with Encode Club, which runs from 2 November to 9 December 2026. Winners can present their proposal to the team directly.
How the CCD is paid
Grants are paid in three tranches tied to milestones: the first when the grant agreement is signed, a larger one to fund the build, and the largest when the agreed milestone is met. The size of each grant is set per project, and the post gives no minimum or maximum.
The post does not say where the 75 million CCD comes from or over what period it will be spent. For scale, BitBasic's Concordium dashboard shows a circulating supply of 12.78 billion CCD, so the full programme is about 0.6% of that.
What it means for validators and delegators
Nothing changes on the protocol and no action is needed from validators or delegators. Token holders may want to watch how quickly grant CCD is paid out, since tranches go to companies as milestones are met. Concordium's 76 active validators, paydays and stake are tracked at https://bitbasic.com/concordium.
Sources
- Concordium: Concordium Puts 75M CCD Behind What People Already Use (9 November 2026)
- Concordium: Grant application
- BitBasic: Concordium dashboard
- BitBasic: Concordium plans Protocol-Level Locks for January, a MiCA euro and 75 million CCD in grants
