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# Substrate Builders Program

The Substrate Builders Program is an initiative by Parity Technologies to take your Substrate project to the next level.

Projects building Substrate-based blockchains, applications, or ecosystem components can receive support for technical challenges, strategy, and ecosystem building from Parity’s extensive experience and resources.

**INFO**

Over 150 projects are using Substrate to create the next generation of blockchain infrastructure and application-specific chains.

### Tracks[​](https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/builders-program#tracks) <a href="#tracks" id="tracks"></a>

There are three tracks builders can take for the program.

#### Chains track[​](https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/builders-program#chains-track) <a href="#chains-track" id="chains-track"></a>

This track supports builders who are building application-specific chains, which include parachains, parathreads and independent chains too.

#### Infrastructure track[​](https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/builders-program#infrastructure-track) <a href="#infrastructure-track" id="infrastructure-track"></a>

This track supports builders who are building ecosystem-based infrastructure, which may in the form of tooling, UI, middleware, bridges, and more.

#### Application track[​](https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/builders-program#application-track) <a href="#application-track" id="application-track"></a>

This track supports builders who are building on top of Substrate-based chains.

Check out the official [Substrate Builders Program](https://substrate.io/ecosystem/substrate-builders-program/) site for more information and steps on how to apply.


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