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We're back with some fresh, zesty updates 🍋 This is your final reminder to apply to the ENS x Octant Public Goods Round for funding (deadline is tomorrow!)
We also look back on our team's amazing time at ETHDenver, as well as other exciting updates from our community. ✨
📣 ENS x Octant Public Goods Round closes tomorrow
You still have time to apply to the ENS x Octant Public Goods Round but you have to be quick!
As a quick reminder, we've partnered with ENS (Ethereum Name Service) for a special Quadratic Funding round with an $80,000 USDC matching pool.
Am I eligible to apply?
To be eligible for the round, you project must:
✨ Be a high-impact project working on Ethereum intrastructure, utility, or education
✨ Be on Giveth (to add your project, click here)
✨ Be verified by the time the round starts
📆 Applications Deadline: 12 March (tomorrow)
Round Live: 18 March → 1 April
🥳 So... ETHDenver was fun!
ETHDenver was fun! It was pretty cool meeting so many of you, and even cooler seeing your reactions to our new merch (cough cough v2 cards)
Here are a few memories from our time in Colorado 📸
🌱 Featuring our Community Fund Grantees
We're kicking off a brand new series on our LinkedIn profile: Featuring our Growth Fund Grantees.
For the first post, we chat with Ahmad Khan: a designer and product thinker who's been involved in several exciting projects and received funding for launching the Public Goods by Design Hackathon. This is a web3 design hackathon aimed at creating innovative solutions for the public goods ecosystem.
This 3-day virtual event will bring together 20 teams to tackle two major design challenges—all while competing for a Grand Prize.
📅Dates: 14-16 March
📌 Sign up here!
Ahmad, you’re organizing the Public Goods by Design Hackathon. What was your inspiration?
"Web3 has introduced groundbreaking funding mechanisms for public goods—things that benefit everyone but are often hard to sustain financially. However, design is often overlooked in these conversations. Public Goods by Design is an attempt to change that.
The goal is to bring designers and builders together to create more user-friendly, engaging, and sustainable public goods models.
The inspiration came from seeing how difficult it can be for web3 projects to achieve adoption simply because of poor UX, and I wanted to create an event that highlights design as a key factor in solving these problems."
