gm in 2026 🌞
A fresh new year also means... a fresh new Allocation Window at Octant! This time you can support our OGs all the way from our first epoch to our last one.
The Allocation Window closes on January 20 @ 11 am ET (in 92 hours as of this writing this newsletter) so head over to our app and allocate your ETH!
We'd also love to invite you to our Epoch 10 Demo Day next Monday, 19 January from 10 am ET to 12:30 pm ET.
You'll get to hear 5-minute pitches and a solid overview of each project from the builders behind them. RSVP here.
If you're looking for a handy, quick read-up on all the projects, check out the full list:
Aestus is a neutral, non-censoring relay for Ethereum proof-of-stake validators and block builders.
Atlantis is building an open, decentralized infrastructure that empowers individuals, organizations, and climate leaders to take meaningful action to make climate impact transparent, verifiable, and rewarding.
Blue Energy Reef from the Gili Eco Trust is a non-profit organisation based in the Gili Islands of Indonesia, which seeks to protect the environment and to create sustainable islands for all to enjoy.
Blue Filter is a nature-based, ultra–low-cost water purification innovation designed to bring safe, reliable water to communities facing pollution, climate stress, and damaged infrastructure.
Crypto Altruists is a community-driven platform that builds connections and provides resources to explore how blockchain technology can drive social and environmental impact.
Dappnode is an OS that allows you to install infrastructure in your local machine without any technical knowledge, facilitating the installation of nodes, validators, local LLMs, agents, etc.
ECH Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization engaged in supporting education, community building and onboarding protocol developers.
EthStaker is a 50,000+ person community made up of stakers and whose mission is to support the decentralization of the Beaconchain.
Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) is an open source infra which lets apps, builders, and agents verify who said what, about whom or what, when, and then choose how to act on that information.
Funding the Commons is a community and neutral, protocol-agnostic partner accelerating innovation and adoption in public goods funding.
Greenpill Dev Guild are a community of builders supporting Greenpill Chapters and regen communities with regenerative tools, product feedback, tech support and workshops.
growthepie is a platform for the Ethereum ecosystem t understand fundamental, economic as well as application metrics, and how Ethereum Mainnet and its Layer 2s are being used.
Hypercerts Foundation is developing open, interoperable standards that make society’s most valuable contributions legible across platforms, communities, and funding models.
L2BEAT is an analytics and research platform dedicated to Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solutions, offering in-depth comparisons of different Ethereum L2 systems.
Open Source Observer is an analytics platform that helps funders understand the impact of supporting open source projects.
Protocol Guild is a collective of Ethereum's active core protocol contributors, who have a high-impact track record of both research and implementation work related to cryptography, distributed systems and cryptoeconomic protocol design.
Remix Project is a powerful, no-setup, Web3 development and learning environment used globally by builders, educators, and researchers.
Revoke.cash provides free and open source security tools for new and experienced crypto users alike.
rotki is a fully open source portfolio tracking, accounting & management tool.
SheFi is a global education and community platform for women+ that drives meaningful adoption of crypto.
Shutter is building Ethereum’s encryption layer by advancing both a universal, enshrined encrypted mempool and a powerful threshold encryption platform for applications.
Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
The Tor Project develops free and open source software for privacy and freedom online, protecting people from tracking, surveillance, and censorship—the Tor network and Tor Browser.
ZachXBT offers community-driven blockchain analysis: comprehensive investigations, threat intelligence, and transparency advocacy.
Epoch 10 versus StreamVote: Explained
StreamVote was our first experimental round we launched on our new rails last year. If you locked $GLM in Octant's last year OR got a POAP from our Devconnect booth, you're eligible to vote.
In case you're wondering how StreamVote differs from Epoch 10, here's a neat comparison:
So we've already established that in Epoch 10:
- Your staked $GLM earned you ETH. You allocate those rewards directly to projects.
- Status: Live. Allocation window ends January 20.
Whereas in StreamVote:
- Your vote directs a 25 ETH matching pool via quadratic voting.
- Eligibility: Devconnect POAP holders & past Epoch participants.
- Status: Ongoing
Happy voting + allocating!
