According to Foresight News, the Starknet Foundation announced the launch of the Catalyst Grant Program, which provides large grants to the best-performing applications and distributes a total of 20 million STRK tokens.
Projects funded under the “Pioneer” category include: AMM Ekubo, trading aggregator AVNU, blockchain game Influence, on-chain games and autonomous world network Realms, and DeFi super application Nostra.
The projects that received funding under the "Rising Star" category include: ZKX, zkLend, StarknetID, Fibrous Finance, Focus Tree, Haiko, Carbonable, mySwap, Jediswap, Nimbora, Carmine, Hashstack, 10KSwap, RabbitX, SithSwap and StarkDeFi.