🗳️Epoch 5 Results Are In!
By Marta Brewer Mashal Waqar
6 min read

🗳️Epoch 5 Results Are In!

gm, folks! We're in a pretty cheery mood! We're a few days away from Devcon, where we're hosting Impact Spaces on November 14-15 (Days 3 and 4), so come say hi! Lots on the updates front: we've completed another incredible epoch and

gm, folks!

We're in a pretty cheery mood! We're a few days away from Devcon, where we're hosting Impact Spaces on November 14-15 (Days 3 and 4), so come say hi!
Lots on the updates front: we've completed another incredible epoch and rounded up last week with a successful Demo Day, sweepstakes, and a surprise SQF announcement!

💰Summing up Epoch 5:

💚 322.6 ETH allocated to projects (that's a whopping ~$829,000)
💚 187.6 ETH claimed by users
💚 17x matched average leverage
💚 30 projects supported

💰💰💰So who got funded?

Here are our Epoch 5 results along with what they've shared as part of the funding requests on our gov forum.

(PS, if you've got questions about funding as a donor, go on to the forum and directly engage with the projects!)

Congrats to all the projects who participated, and a big big THANK YOU to our community for allocating and donating to public goods. Looking at this list, it's safe to say Ethereum is in good hands!

🚨 Now for our favorite part after each epoch... it's POAP time!

Get Your Epoch 5 POAP

🎟️ Over $100,000 for Sweepstakes Winners

Epoch 5, the epoch that just keeps on giving! We have some sweeter news for you if you donated this epoch with over $100,000 in prizes for winners.

  • 1 Grand Prize winner = 200,000 $GLM
  • 5 mid tier winners = 40,000 $GLM

How can you participate?

1) Lock GLM and donate to projects next epoch.
2) Get more points on the Octant Guild Platform. The more points you have, the higher your chances at winning!

Read all the details here.

Grow Your Winning Points

Road to Demo Day

ICYMI, we had our Octant Accelerator Demo Day last week.

We had 4 action-packed weeks with some of the best builders and speakers from this industry. The aim was to equip builders with everything they needed to grow, with a pretty intense structure where they'd implement learnings right after. And, suffice to say, we're pretty proud of the results.

To recap some numbers:

14 Projects. 28 Speakers. 34 Sessions.
10 Pizza Parties. 12 JokeRace Rounds.
7452+ New Followers. 1000+ Attestations.
1000+ Leads.
137 Closes. 30286 Mints.
$800,000 in Pipeline
$371204+ in Revenue.

To recap unquantifiable value:

Partnerships. Connections.
Figuring out business models.
Figuring out pricing.
Doing the work. Results-driven approaches.
Testing and experimenting with value propositions.
Pitching, pitching, pitching to users, leads, partners.
Becoming comfortable with discomfort.

It was pretty amazing to hear each project share their journey. We're still making intros to the cohort, so if you'd like to connect to any of our projects, reach out, and we'll make it happen.

🚨 Surprise Surprise! Introducing a Streaming Quadratic Funding round.

If you're an Octant epoch participant, you're eligible to participate in our inaugural Streaming Quadratic Funding (SQF) round in partnership with Flow State and Superfluid. We're bringing a 15 ETH funding pot to experiment with a new funding model.

SO what's SQF?

It's Quadratic Funding (QF) but better. In the current QF model, users donate to the round and BOOM: projects get matched and the round ends.

With SQF, Instead of a one-time donation, you stream donations that get matched and received by projects in real-time. You decide the amount you want to stream to each project and decide the cadence with the options to opt for a fixed amount daily, weekly, or monthly.

If a project is doing amazing and starts to excel (inspiring you to donate more), with SQF you absolutely can. On the flip side, if a grantee rugs the project or is not delivering on what they've requested funds for, you can also stop future streaming of funds.

This empowers donors with flexibility on streams as well as giving new donors the ability to grow the overall funding pot by adding more funding to it. (So if you'd like to be more generous to make our week and add 1 ETH or 15 ETH to this SQF pot, by ALL means please do! <3)

This is a big moment for us. As we think through sustainability, we know how impactful the success of this round and this tech can be. It could mean changing the game for donors and grantees in a p big way.

If you’ve voted in our past epochs OR attended our demo day, you should have an NFT that makes you eligible to donate/vote. You’ll need ETH on Base to participate.

As for who's getting funded, who better than our Octant Accelerator cohort? All that hard work deserves some 💰💰💰

Happy Voting!

Donate To SQF Round

We're hosting a Twitter Spaces on Monday to share more about the round with our partners and participating projects. Listen in

When: 4 November, 11am EST ❘ 4pm UTC

Set Reminder

Until the next gm <3

By Marta Brewer Mashal Waqar
Updated on
epoch 5 accelerator

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