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What a busy few weeks here at Octant! Allocation window, accelerator, v2 work, and sweepstakes have kept us on our toes.
ICYMI, we've been highlighting projects and builders from this epoch on Spaces. We wrapped up our #Epoch5Spaces series on Monday. If you missed us live, you can listen to the recordings here. And, while you're at it, we've also got a quick breakdown of all the projects participating in this round.
⌛️ The Epoch 5 AW deadline is looming
Allocation Window (AW) closes on 27 Oct @ 10am UTC | 12 pm CET so make sure you allocate before then. This is what the current leaderboard looks like:
We have our epoch darlings Protocol Guild, EAS, Rotki, ECH, L2Beat and Tor Project on top of the list followed by two new contenders Aestus MEV Relay and Greenpill Dev Guild who are quickly rising up the ranks.
Looks like the next few days will be pretty interesting as more users allocate. If you're wondering how Quadratic Funding (QF) works, here's a great resource.
Shout out to everyone tweeting about the sweet sweet matching (a feeling unlike any other, we know!) – we see you, and we appreciate you. All the social love makes our day and week!!!! That said, the matching leverage will inevitably go down as more users make their decisions, but hey it's still a pretty great number. So please keep tweeting and tagging @OctantApp. I promise to reply back with an ever-joyous gif ha!
💰💰💰Sweepstakes too sweet to be true?
ICYMI, we announced our biggest experiment yet! It's so big we're constantly hearing it sounds too good to be true. Because how could $100K in prizes be real?
Well I'm here to confirm it is indeed real, and you're missing out big time if you don't participate. We've got a grand prize of 200K $GLM and five mid-tier prizes of 40k $GLM each!
How can you participate?
Step 1: Lock $GLM in Octant
Step 2: Donate to public goods in Octant
Step 3: Join the Octant guild + earn points
Your chances of winning are weighted according to your donations to public goods + points you’ve earned in the guild. More details here.
💌 You're invited to our Demo Day
We've finally reached the end of our first Octant Accelerator. It's been weeks of learning and building and we're excited for you to finally meet the cohort.
14 Projects. 28 Speakers. 34 Sessions. 4 weeks.
Consider this an official invite. We'd love to have you be part of this special milestone (and we've got a surprise for all attendees).
Attend our Demo Day tomorrow at 1:30 pm UTC | 3:30 pm CET | 9:30 am ET.
💚 We're also hosting a watch party at the Funding The Commons with our Head of Engineering, Artem and Head of Growth, Rev. Come through if you're at the residency in Chiang Mai.
Meet our cohort
- Modular Crypto is a media platform educating the Portuguese-speaking community about Web3 and blockchain
- WebHash is a no-code decentralized website builder for ENS and DNS.
- LottoPGF allows public goods to incentivize their funding and donations through lotteries.
- KarmaGAP is a grantee accountability and reputation protocol.
- SummitShare is a digital platform for the repatriation, preservation, and economic empowerment of African cultural artifacts through an immutable, decentralized registry.
- FrameTrain is a Canva for Frames
- Bitskwela is an EdTech company focused on localizing blockchain education for retail users and developers in the Philippines.
- TogetherCrew is helping Web3 community builders 10x their productivity.
- x23 is automating DAOs with AI tooling
- Impact Garden enables you to seamlessly record onchain the impact your contributions have generated on others.
- Dragon Academy is a reputation-based learning game.
- BCard helps people fund their favourite communities with their everyday spending in exchange for the community's social token.
- Farcastle turns a Warpcast channel into a Moloch v3 DAO
- Bitsave Protocol helps African users avoid the inflation in their currency by saving in Crypto.
See y'all at Demo Day!
