Arts3 Foundation (in partnership with CV Summit) is excited to announce the launch of the Arts3 Foundation Web3 Startup Award #2. This award is intended to accelerate Web3 startups that aim to advance & promote the Arts & Entertainment Industry. The award recipient will receive a $100,000 USD award from the Arts3 Foundation.

• Submissions open until December 7th, 2025 or a minimum of 50 submissions received: submit a proposal via Decentralized Pictures platform at https://app.decentralized.pictures/awards/68bf1c3c939f8e4b370ff42d

  

• Community Voting: The top 3 community voted projects will be reviewed by the Arts3 Foundation Board, who will decide the recipient from the finalists. 

• Review Process: The community will be able to review and vote for their favorite projects at decentralized.pictures to select the finalists.

• Award: The most deserving project will receive $100,000 USD from the Arts3 Foundation to grow their startup project. Additionally, the Arts3 Foundation Board will mentor and guide the recipient project as needed during a period of 6 months to a year as determined by the Arts3 Foundation Board.

The metrics for evaluation for this award will be as follows: 

• Innovation and Creativity

• Impact on Web3 Ecosystem

• Diversity and Inclusion of founding members or mission of the start-up

• Commercial viability of the Project or Startup

 All projects are recommended to submit:

• Pitch deck with all relevant information relating to the project

• 1 min video showcasing the demo of their platform or product & team

$5 USD in TALNT. (All submission fees go to the DCP community for moderation and reviews). 

For Web3 creators with financial need, you may earn the $5 for the Submission Fee by referring one person to the DCP platform. The referred user must sign up and create an account on DCP for the referring user to receive the $5 credit. Referrals may be sent via this link: https://app.decentralized.pictures/account/referral (You will need to be logged in to create your own custom invite link - in order to receive referral credit)

Revisit the first A3 Web3 Startup Award where The Coders Room https://www.codersroom.net/ took home the $100k award to build out their innovative indie film development platform. A place where community films get done. A place to tell stories. A place for horror/fantasy/drama/sci-fi.