48 hours left: Apply to Epoch 9!

gm, beautiful people 🌞

We're just a 48 hours away from our applications deadline for newest epoch.

We gave 275.58 ETH ($1.22 Million) in grants funding to projects in our last epoch.

We've got over $1 Million in funding this epoch as well. With just a few hours left, it's time to hit submit on your application.

Epoch 9: Ethereum Stories in collaboration on with Ethereum Foundation's Strategic Funding Coordination Team.

So what's the round? Let's recap with 3 questions.

First, are you a creative who has created Ethereum content?

Part of the eligibility criteria is having created Ethereum-centric content before. Yes Layer-2/L2 content counts. And, yes content in other languages absolutely counts.

We’re looking to fund high-impact marketing, educational, and journalistic content that push Ethereum forward.

Show us the campaign, series, or investigation you’d run to make Ethereum a part of everyday conversation.

For the application, our ask is to share how/what you want to do, to market Ethereum.

Second, does the work you do fit into one of these three categories?

👉 You must have already created Ethereum-focused or L2-foucsed content in the past

👉 Funding is for your next project + informed by your track record.

Third, are you ready to get funded?

If you YES to these 3 questions, we've got your next steps mapped out:

To apply:

✅ Provide proof of past Ethereum content (video, podcast, article, campaign, etc.)

✅ Show its impact (audience size, engagement quality, influence)

✅ Submit a short proposal for your next project, with:

• Concept and intended impact
• Distribution plan
• How you’d execute with a smaller vs. larger budget (detail what you would do if you got less than 0.1x of the financial $ vs. if you got 10x that amount

You can check out the all the application questions here.

💌 P.S. In case you missed it...

It's been a very busy few weeks for us IRL and on the TL. So we're here to give you a recap:

Last week, we supported Metagov in the 2025 Grants Summit this week.

Here's a recording of day 1

and day 2 of the Grants Summit

We've also hosted a few livestreams and spaces.

• learn togETHer and Ethereum Stories spaces with Kacie Ahmed from Ethereum Foundation's Funding Coordination team and Mashal Waqar from our Octant team
• Everything Epoch 9 with our teams
• Rhizome x Octant Micro Grants

48 hours left.

Clock's ticking. Get that application in.

Best of luck from our team <3