NEXT MOVE · WITHIN THE HOUR
1. Write your one page impact sheet
45 minList orders held, orders cancelled after the prompt, and active traders. Add one tester quote. Keep it to one page with one chart.
OWNER PLAYBOOK · VOYAGE CHART
Chart your voyage with Cooling Off
Pick where you want to go. Every route starts with a move you can make within the hour.
Raise for it
You want grants, accelerators or investors to back it.
MOVES MADE
00/ 5
STREAK
0 days
WHY THIS ROUTE
Consumer trading safety is a story grant programs and accelerators understand, and your journal data shows real behavior change.
ARRIVED LOOKS LIKE
Two applications submitted (one chain grant, one accelerator or Gitcoin style round) with live usage numbers attached.
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2. Apply to a chain builder grant on the chain you deployed
60 minHyperliquid, Base and Solana ecosystems each run builder grant or retro style programs. Find the current one on the chain's official site, read its rules, and submit with your impact sheet. Grants are competitive and never promised.
3. Message a program lead before applying to an accelerator
20 minAccelerators in the Alliance or a16z CSX style accept applications on their sites. A short note first helps you learn whether consumer safety tools fit their thesis.
FIRST MESSAGE · X DM OR EMAIL · TO A PROGRAM PARTNER AT A CRYPTO ACCELERATOR
Hi, I run Cooling Off, an onchain brake that holds trades after losses and asks one question before they go through. 40 traders, 120 orders held, most cancelled by choice. Is consumer trading safety something your next cohort would consider? Happy to send a one page sheet.
4. Enter a Gitcoin style round as a public good tool
50 minIf you open source the brake logic, community funding rounds may accept it. Write the listing around fewer liquidated retail traders.
5. Track every application in one table
15 minKeep program name, date sent, contact and status. Follow up once after 14 days.
FIRST MESSAGE · EMAIL · TO THE PROGRAM CONTACT OR GRANTS CHANNEL
Hi, quick follow up on my application for Cooling Off. Since submitting, we have added new users and shipped one improvement. Is there anything else your reviewers need from me? Happy to send a short demo video.
Check in on me
Leave an email and we nudge you at 24 and 72 hours with your next move. Optional.
Or to keep this voyage on your profile.
PORTS ALONG THE ROUTE
Apps that stack well on this route
LIVE DEMOGrant Ready
A project-in-a-box: contracts, site, docs and impact metrics shaped for grant applications.
Reserve · refundable deposit
$349Base · Optimism +2
LIVE DEMOLaunch Receipt
Every launch gets a printable safety receipt: locks, caps, owner keys, all checked live.
Reserve · refundable deposit
$89Base · Solana +2
LIVE DEMOTemperament
Prove your trading discipline, not your profits: stops honored, sizing kept, tilt avoided.
Reserve · refundable deposit
$349Hyperliquid · Base +1
Put your name on the bow
Every route goes further on a vessel you own. Built on order, refundable deposit.