gm everyone! we've got an important ask today. we're doing a retro for leadership in a few days and we're trying to show the impact of our work in the last 12 months.
we'd love to hear from you. how have we been doing from a community + marketing POV in the last 12 months? pls
Spotlighting
@RevokeCash
, a vital tool in our Epoch Two series. offers essential, free, open-source security tools for the crypto community, including a token approvals dashboard and a pre-transaction check browser extension.
🚀 Octant is ready for takeoff! 🚀
We're super happy to announce the launch of our app - a platform for experiments in decentralized governance that reward active participation with $ETH. (1/9)
If you’re a builder/project who’s received at least 1 grant, this one’s for you. Since last year, we’ve keenly been listening and talking to builders, grantees, and grants program operators in this space.
One thing through all this has been p evident: project sustainability is
🚨Partnership Announcement 🚨
We’re partnering with
@She__Fi
to fund builders and founders from the SheFi community 💫💫✨✨
Community has always been at the heart of everything we do. It’s why we want community to decide how the round is allocated and we’re using quadratic
✨Unleashing the power of community, we're thrilled to kick off
#EpochZero
, a community driven event where YOU can help distribute $1M in $ETH to boost transformative
#web3
#publicgoods
projects! Ready to wield your influence? (1/6)
📢 Thread:
1/ Big announcement to share! We're joining forces with
@divastaking
to drive impact to both Ethereum's staking landscape and significantly bolster regenerative public goods funding.
gm public good fundoooors and builders. We got a major announcement today!! We’re launching the first round of our Octant Community Fund 🎉🎉
💰We’ve got 50 ETH in grants funding for 3 categories:
🔨Tools + Integrations
📈 Marketing + Growth
💚 Public Goods Collabs
Details
Okay so time for another major announcement ‼️‼️‼️🚨🚨🚨
We’re transitioning to Quadratic Funding (QF) at Octant. This is one of many steps we’re taking to better support community-driven projects.
Why QF? We’ve had this in the works + on our roadmap since last year. QF
Announcement time 🚨
We’re making a crucial move at Octant. We’re switching from majority client Geth to
@NethermindEth
to protect Ethereum’s health.
Here’s why ⬇️
1/ We're really excited to announce our next community round taking place with
@greenpillnet
! The goal is to support community-driven initiatives that make a real difference. Join us in amplifying this message to support regenerative projects.
octant in a nutshell:
💰💚we staked 100,000 ETH and staking rewards go to funding public goods
our users decide how this funding is split up between projects and how much each project gets (or doesn’t get)
okay but how? well as a user, you can lock GLM into Octant anytime. our
1/x Exciting news! Octant has just wrapped up the first allocation window for Epoch One, distributing a total of 258.39 ETH to various projects in the blockchain and web3 space. 🌱🌱
We’re so grateful to everyone who’s shared and amplified our Octant Accelerator.
After tons of requests and DMs about mentoring and partnership opportunities, we’re opening applications for both.
You’re a good fit if you:
- Have real experience you’re confident in
- Have grown
1/ Exciting update for the Octant community!
The Epoch Two allocation window is now open until Jan 31, 2024. It's your chance to decide where your rewards will go: Keep them, donate some or all to public goods, or contribute to the Matching Fund!
Thread👇
I’m 1 year old.
- I find impactful public goods projects and builders
- I have some fun introducing them to my fam
- I let my fam FUNd them, with impactful funding
- I have one of the biggest sustainable funding sources
- I surround myself with badass public do-gooders
- I
Next up, we’re thrilled to have Jamie joining us as a speaker!
From teacher to full-time DevRel Lead at
@reservoir0x
(EVM infrastructure), Jamie is all about helping builders.
When she’s not creating docs or guides, you’ll find her on Farcaster or leading her Sweet Roll Chi
Someone will make a lot of money building a Public Goods fund.
Brand as a public goods-only fund. Raise $5m. Put $100k into the top 50 PG project deals as early as possible.
Basically run back the frictionless capital playbook but for public goods projects instead of Solana.
@frontalpha_eth
@etheraltog
We're solo-staking 100,000 ETH using a Geth-Nimbus client pairing on hardened QubesOS boxes, which ensure enhanced security through Linux network stack isolation. Considering replacing Geth with Nethermind. Monitoring w/ Prometheus, Grafana, and
It’s The Great Climate Jokerace Space!
We're jamming with
@climate_program
, discussing their mission, roots, and community-powered climate actions.
$25K in prizes up for grabs! Join us Wednesday to learn how you can participate.
18 September - 12pm EST | 4pm UTC
1/ The Epoch One Allocation window is now open! This is the time for anyone who locked $GLM into Octant to determine where your user rewards will go! Keep them, donate them, or a mix of both. There are many amazing causes you can directly support.
We're donating $1M worth of $ETH to some of our favorite
#publicgoods
projects, and you decide how these funds are going to be distributed. ✨
🗳️The
#EpochZero
vote on
@SnapshotLabs
is now open - if you have an
#EZT
, it's time to cast your vote!
🔗
💚 we’re mapping out public goods (across all categories) in web3. we got our epoch participants ++ some bigger players already part of it.
who else should we add to the list?
🚨 The results for Epoch 4’s funding are in:
💚 302.36 ETH funding for projects
💚 62x average matched leverage
💚 30 projects
💚🥳 Congrats to all the builders and projects who participated in this round.
💚💚💚And a big thank you to all our Octant users for donating
Applications are in and the funding round has begun!
⭐ 35 Projects
🌐 10 ETH matching pool
⛔ 27 September 23:59 UTC
👀 Find and support your favs in our QF Community Round here:
gm gm, we've heard a lot of talk lately that crypto has been kind of boring.
So we're going to start hosting a party every Tuesday to have some fun.
We'll play games, vibe together and occasionally we'll drop some alpha.
We already have artists who are interested in playing
damn that was a lot of responses! didn’t expect to get so many folks here. i want to talk to literally all of y’all, so going to dm + schedule a call one by one. pls be patient 🙏🏽💚💚💚
🥳Epoch Zero voters! Connect the Octant app to the wallet address you used for voting in the
#EpochZero
Snapshot poll, and claim and lock 1000 $GLM from the
@GolemFoundation
!
⚠️ Remember: the only way to claim is via the official . This feature will only
Wow!! Y'all came with the passion and it was amazing 💚. This is what public goods commitment looks like. Thank you for the awesome feedback and convo. It could not have been better!
1/3 We're solo-staking 100,000 ETH using a Geth-Nimbus client pairing on hardened QubesOS boxes, which ensure enhanced security through Linux network stack isolation.
We want to thank each and every one of our community members and projects that participated in Epoch 2. And a big congratulations goes out to all of the projects that we're above the threshold. If you are a project, know that you can withdraw your funds now!
Here's the
Bye bye
@ETHWarsaw
👋 It was so much fun, and now we got to give the vocals a rest. It was so great to see old friends and make a whole bunch of news ones.
Big shoutout to our entire community that joined and shared today. It's really inspiring hearing all of the great work these projects are doing, and being able to support that hits you right in the feels❤️❤️
The round has closed!!
We want to thank the entire
@She__Fi
, Octant, and broader participating community for this amazing first round on
@grantsstack
.
The amount of individual support for these great SheFi community projects blows us away, and we are so grateful. This turnout
nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- the number of times you participated in our public goods funding rounds
Epoch 1 Rewards:
Total Rewards: 330.25 ETH
Individual Rewards: 101.66 ETH
Matched Rewards: 228.59 ETH
228.59 ETH plus whatever users decide to donate will be going to public goods this round. As of this writing each user donation is seeing a x39 leverage from the matching pool!!
Thank you all for the overwhelming response to the Accelerator! It’s been humbling and honestly, totally energizing. We’re beyond excited, and we really think this is going to be something special!
If you haven’t applied yet, please do. Applications close on 14 September.
Application Deadline Extended!
A lot of excitement around this so we've extended the application deadline to: September 12th, 23:59 UTC
And all past Gitcoin & Octant grantees are eligible.
If you haven't yet, apply here:
Got $GLM locked into Octant? It's time to vote. The Epoch 3 Shortlist poll on snapshot is now open. 25 public goods are hoping to join our upcoming round in April, and we only have 11 spaces available.
Poll closes this Friday, 11:59pm CET, March 22nd:
There are just a few days left to consider donating in our first partner mini round!
If you have a moment, please consider any of these projects that resonate with you! Even a small donation is magnified because the round utilizes quadratic funding on
@grantsstack
Already
We’re absolutely delighted at the
@OctantApp
@greenpillnet
round results.
Thank you to all of you who donated and supported this round. Collectively, we’ve raised over $35k. THIS is the power of community. 🟢🟢🟢💚💚💚💚
Funding from Epoch One that is sent to
@dripsnetwork
will fund our open source dependencies. Drips makes this a seamless process.
Thank you to Wagmi, Flask, and
@ethnimbus
!!
You can check out our drips list here:
And check
Very happy to announce our Head of Product, Ben Siegel. 💫
@BenLLS
has a passion for building technology that generates societal impact and strengthens communities.
He’s worked to build impact focused products across the web3 & humanitarian sectors, and is dedicated to building
Just used
@dripsnetwork
to fund our open source dependencies. These were the funds from Epoch Zero, and streaming them to each of these projects in one shot was as simple as a few clicks.
Big thank you to Wagmi, , Flask, &
@ethnimbus
for the amazing work
It's time to start talking accelerator because the 26th will be here before we know it!
We're hosting our first space and invite everyone to join us.
Tuesday, 10 September
9am PST | 12pm EST | 4 pm UTC
The first block party was an absolute blast!
Shout out to
@snack_man
and
@Pizza_DAO
community for access to the pizzafaucet
Another one next Tuesday, 5pm UTC, on Discord
We’re sharing updates for Epoch Two and talking with the projects who are hoping to join the upcoming round.
17 projects applied, 6 will get in with the help of your support (if you locked $GLM into Octant.
Gm folks! Catch our Head of Community
@vpabundance
in Brussels at the following events 👇🏽
💚 Monday - Blank Canvas w/
@gitcoin
💚💚 Tue-Wed - The Future of Ecosystem Building w/
@regensunite
💚💚💚 All Week @ Regen Village:
Community funding FTW!
Octant's
#EpochOne
allocation window starts October 19th!
If you took part in
#EpochZero
, claim your 1000 GLM bonus now by connecting the Octant app to your Epoch Zero Snapshot voting address.
Hurry, this offer lasts only until the end of Epoch One!
We're still blown away by the support we received through
@OctantApp
:
Thanks to you, 96.61 ETH ($180.5k) went to supporting public goods through Giveth! 🤯
And anyone who voted in
#EpochZero
got a 1000 GLM airdrop from
@GolemFoundation
!
Prep for the next Epoch!👇🏼