All projects
Since 1997 NLnet foundation has funded many projects, on many different layers of the internet as well as on capacity building, standards setting, open hardware, software licenses and education.
Projects supported by NLnet foundation inlude:
| project | fund | start | end | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #Seppo! | NGI0 Entrust | 2022 | 2026 | Portable ActivityPub implementation |
| (H)IDE for Guile Hoot | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Scheme on WASM | |
| /kbin | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2026 | Mobile app and feature additions to /kbin |
| 0cpm | 2013 | 0cpm, open firmware for digital telephony | ||
| 0KNOW | NGI Assure | 2022 | 2024 | Group Theoretic Zero-knowledge Proofs (0KNOW) |
| 0WM | NGI Zero Core | 2024 | Measure and visualize Wi-Fi coverage | |
| 5C | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Continuous Code Compliance Control Center | |
| 802.11n feature of openwifi | NGI0 PET | 2020 | 2020 | Open Hardware implementation of wifi |
| A Distributed Software Stack For Co-operation | NGI0 Discovery | 2019 | 2020 | Facilitating easy ad hoc cooperation |
| A proof of concept of identity-based encryption | NGI0 PET | 2019 | 2019 | Make encryption simpler |
| A Secret Key Store for Sequoia PGP | NGI Assure | 2021 | 2024 | Standards-compliant private key store for OpenPGP |
| A-A-P | 2003 | tools for developing, distributing, and installing software | ||
| AALT (Accelerated Analog Layout Tool) | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2026 | More efficient analog layout generation for chips) |
| Abelujo | NGI TALER Fund | 2026 | Abelujo - free software for bookstores | |
| AbiCollab | 2013 | AbiWord Telepathy and SIP backends | ||
| AbiMacOS | 2011 | Port Abiword to MacOS | ||
| AbiRDF | 2012 | Abiword RDF | ||
| AbiRDF2 | 2013 | Abiword RDF-2 | ||
| Accessible KDE File Management | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Accessible file dialogs throughout KDE applications | |
| Accessible security | NGI0 PET | 2019 | 2022 | Integration effort of independent security efforts like Qubes, Heads, coreboot, etc |
| ActivityBot | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | A full ActivityPub server in a single PHP file | |
| ActivityPods | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2025 | Framework for fully-decentralized social apps, combining ActivityPub and Solid Pods |
| ActivityPods 3.0 | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Encrypted Solid-compatible Pods | |
| ActivityPub community steward | Open Social Fund | 2025 | 2026 | |
| ActivityPub Polls for WordPress | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | WordPress plugin for social polls | |
| ActivityPub Quote Posts | NGI0 Entrust | 2024 | 2026 | Quote Posts in ActivityPub and Mastodon |
| Ada Bootstrap Compiler | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Full source bootstrap for Ada | |
| Adding 32-bit ARM support to QBE and Hare | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Full Arm32 support for QBE compiler | |
| Adding redaction to Cpdf | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Robust, standards-compliant PDF redaction | |
| Adding TPM Support to Sequoia PGP | NGI Assure | 2021 | 2022 | Implement use of TPM 2.0 crypto hardware for OpenPGP |
| Adding Web-of-Trust Support to PGPainless | NGI Assure | 2022 | 2023 | Web-of-Trust specification support for Java |
| Adera | NGI0 Discovery | 2021 | 2022 | Relevant scientific research results |
| Adno | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Annotate and share curated cultural and scientific content | |
| Adopting the Noise Key Exchange in Tox | NGI Assure | 2021 | 2024 | Improved security of Tox instant messaging with NoiseIK |
| Advanced UEFI Capsule Update for coreboot with EDK II | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Secure firmware updates, also via fwupd | |
| AEAP | NGI0 Discovery | 2020 | 2022 | Automated e-mail address porting to a new provider |
| Aerogramme | NGI Assure | 2022 | 2024 | Standards-compliant open-source IMAP server with server-side encryption |
| Aerogramme 1.0 | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Standards-compliant, reliable and secure groupware | |
| AGFL | 2002 | parser generator system for natural languages | ||
| Agorakit | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2026 | Groupware which is a friendly online home to communities |
| AHA! | 2003 | transparent adaptive functionality for web servers | ||
| AI Horde | NGI Zero Core | 2023 | Collaborative infrastructure for running generative AI models | |
| AI-VPN | NGI0 PET | 2020 | 2022 | Local machine-based learned analysis of VPN trafffic |
| Aiohttp type checking | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | 2026 | Improve typechecking for Aiohttp HTTP Client/Server framework |
| Alaveteli GDPR and Search | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Better search and redacting capabilities for Alaveteli FOI request portal | |
| Alder Lake Desktop | NGI0 PET | 2022 | 2022 | Open firmware for widely used Desktop/Workstation motherboard |
| AlekSIS | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2026 | All-libre extensible kit for school information systems |
| AlekSIS: Integration and Communication | NGI Zero Core | 2025 | SCIM, timetabes and other features for AlekSIS | |
| ALIAS | 2003 | analysis of legal and technical implications of the use of software agents | ||
| Alive2 | NGI Zero Core | 2023 | 2025 | Translation validation for LLVM |
| Allmaps | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Towards an explorable database of historical maps | |
| allowd | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Memory-safe policy rules using D-Bus | |
| Alps Webmail | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Minimalist open source webmail in Go | |
| Alternative Disclosure Control algorithms | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | lternative algorithms for selective data disclosure Alternative Algorithms for Privacy Audits of Aggregated Tabular Data | |
| Amaranth HDL | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Design FPGAs and ASICs in Python | |
| Amber | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Modern, type-safe language that compiles to shell | |
| Ambulant | 2007 | providing a reference SMIL 3.0 implementation | ||
| An OpenScience flavour of Bonfire on NixOS for preprints | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Discuss preprints based on W3C ActivityPub federation | |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal Library | NGI0 PET | 2021 | 2022 | OSHW component library for ASIC design |
| Anchorboot | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2025 | Pre-built UEFI replacement firmware for ARM-based ChromeOS devices using coreboot/U-Boot |
| Androguard | NGI Mobifree Fund | 2025 | 2026 | Static and dynamic analysis of Android apps |
| Android translation layer (ATL) | NGI Mobifree Fund | 2024 | Run Android apps on Linux | |
| Anomos | 2011 | a pseudonymous, encrypted multi-peer-to-peer file distribution protocol | ||
| Anonymisation for Data Donations | NGI Assure | 2022 | 2024 | Facilitate platform scrutinization through anonymised data contributions |
| Apicula | NGI0 Entrust | 2022 | 2024 | Open source tools for working with Gowin FPGAs |
| Apicula GW5A 60k & 138k | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Open source toolchain for Gowin FPGAs | |
| Apicula IO primitives | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2025 | Add additional IO primitives to libre Gowin FPGA tools |
| APKpatcher/PyAxml | NGI Mobifree Fund | 2025 | Support tool to manipulate APK and AXML file | |
| AppBundler | NGI Zero Core | 2024 | Package (graphical) Julia apps for all platforms | |
| AppBundler Expansion | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Tool to create cross-platform installers | |
| Arcan-A12 | NGI0 Entrust | 2022 | 2025 | Explorative p2p protocol for fast and secure remote desktops |
| Arcan-A12 Directory | NGI Zero Core | 2024 | 2026 | Server side scripting API for Arcan's directory server |
| Arcan-A12 Endpoints | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Unifying distributed remote desktops | |
| Arcan-A12 Tools | NGI Zero Core | 2024 | A12 clients for different platforms and devices such as drawing tablets | |
| Archiyou | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Parametric design and building | |
| AREXERA Crawler | NGI0 Discovery | 2021 | 2022 | C++ based web crawler |
| Ari | NGI Assure | 2023 | 2024 | Purely functional programming language designed to "type" binary files |
| Arkin | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Optical Tweezers Microscope | |
| Armbian | User-operated Internet Fund | 2021 | Versatile OS for ARM-based single board computers | |
| ARMify | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2025 | Auto-Identification of MCU Models to Simplify ARM Bare-Metal Reverse Engineering |
| ARPA2 | 2017 | Working towards a decentralised global internet that offers security and privacy by design. | ||
| ARPA2 LDAP Middleware | NGI0 PET | 2019 | 2022 | Privacy enhancing middleware |
| ARPA2 resource ACL and HTTP SASL modules for NGINX | NGI0 PET | 2019 | 2019 | Extend consistent access control to NGINX webserver |
| ARPA2 Steamworks | Internet Hardening Fund | 2017 | 2019 | ARPA2 Steamworks |
| ARPA2 Steamworks | Near-instantaneous controlled configuration settings over any network | |||
| ArtistHub | NGI0 Discovery | 2020 | 2020 | Allow creative artists to gain visibility and build reputation on the web |
| AsmJit | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Improve ISA coverage, code generation and performance | |
| Assessing Cyber Security | 2015 | This report aims to assessing what we know about cyber security threats based on a review of 70 studies published by public authorities, companies, and research organizations from about 15 countries over the last few years. It answers the following questions: what do we know about the number, origin, and impact of cyber attacks? What are the current and emerging cyber security trends? And how well are we prepared to face these threats? | ||
| Asynchronous ESP32 802.11 MAC | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | IEEE 802.11 MAC Stack for ESP32 family chips in Rust | |
| Atom-Based Routing | 2003 | Improving global internet routing by implementing atom-based routers. | ||
| Atomic Data | NGI Assure | 2021 | 2023 | Typesafe handling of LinkedData |
| Atomic Tables | NGI0 Entrust | 2022 | 2023 | Self-hostable tabular structured data solution |
| AtomicServer Local-First | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | 2026 | AtomicServer Local-First Headless CMS |
| Audio/Video Calls in Libervia | NGI Assure | 2022 | 2024 | Encrypted Audio/Video Calls in multi-frontend XMPP client |
| Authenticated DNSSEC bootstrapping | NGI Assure | 2022 | 2024 | Secure in-band announcements of DNSSEC parameters |
| Authlib | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Reliable OAuth and OIDC handling in Python | |
| Autocrypt for Thunderbird | NGI0 PET | 2019 | 2022 | Make email encryption extremely simple |
| Autogram 2.0 | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Create and validate eIDAS-compliant digital signatures | |
| Automate FOSS license compatibility determination | NGI Zero Core | 2024 | Check software projects for license (in)compatibility + compliance | |
| Automated clearing of source code files | Binary Analysis Fund | 2022 | More efficient retrieval of security and license compliance contextual information | |
| Automatic component and via placement for Topola | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2026 | Complete PCB schematic-to-layout flow | |
| Automating mobile app interception with Frida | NGI0 Entrust | 2022 | 2024 | Mobile app network introspection for security research |
| Automerge | NGI Zero Core | 2023 | Add Merkle Search Tree support to Automerge | |
| AVantGaRDe | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2026 | Reliable Foundations of Local-first Graph Databases |
| Bab | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | 2026 | Efficient proof of validity of streamed data |
| Babelia | NGI0 Discovery | 2021 | 2022 | Search engine and crawler in Scheme |
| Back to source: trust but verify all the packages | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2024 | Analysis pipeline for mapping and cross-referencing binaries with source code |
| Back2Source next | NGI Zero Core | 2024 | 2026 | Better matching of binaries with source code |
| badkeys | NGI Zero Core | 2024 | 2026 | Detect compromised cryptographic public keys |
| Balthazar | NGI0 PET | 2019 | 2022 | One laptop for the new internet age. |
| Balthazar - One laptop for the new internet age. | NGI0 PET | 2020 | 2022 | A secure fully open hardware laptop |
| Balthazar Casing | NGI0 Entrust | 2022 | 2024 | Open hardware laptop |
| Bana | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2025 | Personal network oriented ActivityPub powered social networking |
| BB3-CM4 | NGI0 Entrust | 2022 | 2024 | CM4 compatible MCU board |
| BB3-CM5 | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Modular OSHW test & measurement equipment | |
| BBBsecureChat | NGI0 PET | 2020 | 2022 | Add E2EE instant messaging to Big Blue Button meetings |
| Bcachefs | NGI0 Entrust | 2023 | 2026 | Next generation file system |
| Bcachefs userspace integration | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Next generation filesystem | |
| BeaconDB | NGI0 Commons Fund | 2025 | Libre wireless positioning database | |
| Bertie | NGI Assure | 2022 | 2024 | Formally verified TLS 1.3 implementation |
| betrusted | NGI0 PET | 2019 | 2019 | A protected hardware device for your private matters. |
| Betrusted OS | NGI0 PET | 2019 | 2022 | An embedded OS for cryptographic devices |
| Betrusted software | NGI0 PET | 2019 | 2022 | A minimalist and secure OS for embedded communication devices |
| Betrusted Storage | NGI0 PET | 2020 | 2022 | Plausably deniable encrypted storage |
| Better support for display notches and cutouts in Phosh | NGI Zero Core | 2025 | Better custom shape screen support for Wayland | |
| Betula |