Open Source Orchestra DAO

The open ledger

The Open Source Orchestra is a circle of musicians who play open rooms at Ethereum gatherings, from Devcon 6 in BogotΓ‘ and Devcon SEA in Bangkok to the Devcon 8 Music Sanctuary in Mumbai, with Lisbon (Devcon 9, October 2027) next. We are applying for public-goods grants in the ecosystems we build on. This page is where every application, every answer and every award lives, in the open.

🎻 Every grant is announced here first, then to the whole orchestra.

11 applications on the ledgerπŸ“¨ 4 applied Β· ✍️ 7 prepared Β· waiting for Shaka to submitAwarded: $0 so far

✨ Every contribution is equal · Todo es posible

Code and music, artist and developer, steward, translator, sound crew: every contribution counts the same, one voice each. When we ask for funding, we ask for the whole circle, and what comes in is shared equally by default, unless the circle decides otherwise, openly, on this page.

How to join: every participant of the Devcon 8 Music Space and every Fork the First Artist builder is invited now. Reply IN (or LATER, or NO) to the invitation email from Shaka, or say IN in the orchestra's Telegram. Didn't get the email? Write to [email protected].

πŸ“’ Grants

Updated 2026-11-09T11:48:26Z. Amounts appear once they are public. Also available as JSON.
ProgramAppliedStatusAskAwardedLink
1inch DAO β€” Aqua Revenue Stream IncubatorPatronage Liquidity β€” ENS-routed artist fee streams on AquaForm accepted 9 Nov; 1inch's forum says new intake was paused on 17 Sep 2026, so this may wait until it reopens.2026-11-09πŸ“¨ Applied$40,000β€”public post
Arbitrum β€” Builders form (ArbiFuel / visibility / mentorship)Fork the First Artist β€” USDC tips on Arbitrum OneSupport intake (gas credits, visibility, mentorship); not a cash grant.2026-11-09πŸ“¨ Appliedβ€”β€”β€”
Golem Ecosystem Fund (Arkiv)Open Source Orchestra Consent Ledger on ArkivProduction consent ledger for the orchestra's artists on Arkiv + an open kit for other creative communities.2026-11-09πŸ“¨ Applied$15,000β€”β€”
Sony Onchain Entertainment Incubation Program (Soneium)Open Source Orchestra β€” Fork the First Artist (music, live performance, fan communities)Incubation support (no fixed grant amount). Review may take several months.2026-11-09πŸ“¨ Appliedβ€”β€”public post
Base Builder Grants β€” Season 2Fork the First Artist β€” USDC tips on BaseWritten; waiting for Shaka (account/login/KYC or his decision).β€”βœοΈ Prepared Β· waiting for Shaka to submit$5,000β€”β€”
Celo Prezenti β€” Frontier poolWritten; waiting for Shaka (account/login/KYC or his decision).β€”βœοΈ Prepared Β· waiting for Shaka to submit$15,000β€”public post
Circle Developer Grants β€” Cohort 2 (Arc)Written; waiting for Shaka (account/login/KYC or his decision).β€”βœοΈ Prepared Β· waiting for Shaka to submit$20,000β€”β€”
Giveth β€” project listing (donations)Lisbon Music Sanctuary donation pageWritten; waiting for Shaka (account/login/KYC or his decision).β€”βœοΈ Prepared Β· waiting for Shaka to submitβ€”β€”β€”
Hedera Foundation / Hashgraph Association β€” Fork the First Artist on Hedera mainnetFork the First Artist on Hedera mainnet (x402 tips + HCS receipts)Written; waiting for Shaka to submit (form needs his details). πŸ’› Any Hedera grant is budgeted for the Fork the First Artist development team.β€”βœοΈ Prepared Β· waiting for Shaka to submit$40,000β€”β€”
Ink Spark builder grantWritten; waiting for Shaka (account/login/KYC or his decision).β€”βœοΈ Prepared Β· waiting for Shaka to submit$6,000β€”β€”
Octant β€” project intake ("put your project on Octant's radar")Open Source Orchestra β€” Fork the First ArtistIntake form for future Octant epochs; written, waiting for a human security check.β€”βœοΈ Prepared Β· waiting for Shaka to submitβ€”β€”β€”

"Prepared Β· waiting for Shaka to submit" means the full text is written, but the program needs an account, a login, KYC or a wallet signature that only Shaka can do himself.

🌱 How funds are stewarded

Artist-first

The same ethos as our tip jar: when a fan tips an artist, 96.31% goes to the artist, 3.69% pays their AI steward's compute, and 0% goes to us. Grants follow that spirit: they go to the work and the people doing it, not to overhead.

Transparent

Every application is listed here with its date and status. Every award is announced here first, with what it is for, and spending is reported back on this page.

No custody games

Grants are received at osoartist.eth, held by Shaka Lei Kaumaka, the human steward of the Open Source Orchestra. No other wallet speaks for the orchestra.

The builders get built for

Grants given for Fork the First Artist work go to the people doing it; Shaka's word: any grant from Hedera is budgeted for the Fork the First Artist development team. Everything else is shared equally by default across the circle. Splits are decided together, in the open.

🧭 Honest status

This is a community ledger, not yet an on-chain DAO. Today decisions are made by Shaka with the circle, and written down here. A short charter proposing on-chain governance (who votes, how grants are split, how the books are published on-chain) is being drafted and will be shared with the whole orchestra before anything changes. On-chain governance: coming.

Applications are written by Shaka's AI Κ»ohana, his digital twin stewards, and say so. Shaka blessed this grants work, and a draft of each application is shared with the development team.

🎢 What we are building

Fork the First Artist

Every artist can own a name under osoartist.eth and have an AI steward that answers from their public work, and fans tip straight from their own wallet. Open source: GitHub Β· artist.opensourceorchestra.org

Music rooms at Ethereum gatherings

Four days of open jams at the Devcon 8 Music Sanctuary with 35 artists: The Mandala Room Β· The room you let us build Β· schedule Β· rider.

The Road to Lisbon

Next stop: Devcon 9 in Lisbon, 11–13 October 2027, with more artists, more languages and the tip jar in every hand.

πŸ› οΈ What we've built (hackathons 2023–2026)

Projects Shaka and friends submitted at ETHGlobal and Devfolio hackathons, each with a public link.

🎁 What we keep openly sharing & building

Code under GPL-3.0 (older releases stay CC0); words, songs and the rider CC0. Fork us like crazy.

🀝 Know a grant we should apply for?

Write to [email protected]. If you are a grant program reading this: thank you. Our door is open.