“Equity-free microgrants, paid out fast, to get an early Solana builder from idea to a shipped first version.”
Superteam is a network of country-level chapters that run bounties and grants on Solana, and Superteam Earn is the platform where both live. Instagrants are the grant side of that platform: equity-free, fast-turnaround money for a builder to ship a first product or prototype, funded either directly by a Superteam chapter or by a sponsor running a themed listing (the Solana Foundation x Finternet grant is one worked example, offering "up to 10k USDC" with an observed average award of $4,286 and about a one-week response time).
The Solana Foundation names Superteam directly as its own feeder for early-stage builders on the Foundation's own grants page, pointing founders to Superteam Earn for "quick $10K microgrants" before they are ready for a Foundation-level ask. That makes Instagrants both a standalone source of money and a credibility step: a founder who has won a Superteam bounty or instagrant arrives at the Foundation, at Colosseum, or at a Solana-native VC with a public track record the reviewer can check.
There is no single global cheque size or annual total published for Instagrants as a category; each listing states its own budget and the board shows current listings live, so the honest number to give a founder is "check the board today," not a fixed figure.
Key stats:
| Person or team | Role | Where to find them |
|---|---|---|
| Superteam Earn team | Runs the platform, reviews talent profiles and listing submissions | superteam.fun/earn/grants |
| Regional chapter leads (e.g. Superteam Nigeria) | Run chapter-specific grant and bounty listings | superteam.fun |
| Listing sponsors (e.g. Solana Foundation, Finternet, Hxro Network) | Fund and set criteria for individual instagrant listings | Per-listing pages on earn.superteam.fun |
No individual reviewer names are published for grant listings, and we have not guessed.