# $2M prize for Decentralized Web ideas, funded by Mozilla and NSF

**URL:** <https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/2m-prize-for-decentralized-web-ideas-funded-by-mozilla-and-nsf/655>\
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**Created:** [June 22, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/2m-prize-for-decentralized-web-ideas-funded-by-mozilla-and-nsf/655 "2017-06-22T22:06:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![flyingzumwalt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/flyingzumwalt/32/12_2.png) [@flyingzumwalt](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/flyingzumwalt)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/2m-prize-for-decentralized-web-ideas-funded-by-mozilla-and-nsf/655/1 "2017-06-22T22:06:10Z")

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Anyone looking to fund their IPFS-based projects?

> **[A $2 Million Prize to Decentralize the Web. Apply Today – The Mozilla Blog](https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/21/2-million-prize-decentralize-web-apply-today/)**
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> We’re fueling a healthy Internet by supporting big ideas that keep the web accessible, decentralized and resilient. What will you build?   Mozilla and the National Science Foundation are offering ...

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**Author:** ![haniawni](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ipfs.tech/haniawni/32/68_2.png) [@haniawni](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/u/haniawni)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2017, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/2m-prize-for-decentralized-web-ideas-funded-by-mozilla-and-nsf/655/2 "2017-06-23T06:37:09Z")

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relevant discussion over here in other topic on this; I kinda deep dove and ended up proposing a relatively small addition to libp2p that allows turning e-waste-bound outdated android tech into a public IPFS meshnet.

> [@Mozilla + NSF: A $2 Million Prize to Decentralize the Web](https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/mozilla-nsf-a-2-million-prize-to-decentralize-the-web/654/6):
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> Hey! so I kinda lost today- did none of the work I was supposed to do- but here’s what I found: A) MeshKit/Opengarden stuff and almost everything else is closed-source. HOWEVER, batman-adv is open source, has been part of the [official linux tree since 2.6.33](https://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/Download#batman-adv-in-the-Linux-tree), and: supports connections via Bluetooth or Wifi (of course) has 2 different node runmodes master: integral to the network, higher power draw, constantly talking to each other, propogates data along slave: essentially a leech- only ever…