Hey Octant fam!
We're excited to introduce the 24 projects participating in our epoch 2. This time, we've done individual highlights on each project, so you can get a better understanding of the incredible work they're doing.
🟢 Introducing our epoch 2 cohort
Click the project name to learn more details about what they're building. From Ethereum infrastructure, to community tools *not to humble brag* but we've got the most impactful projects participating in this cohort!
➰🌳 Kernel is a peer-learning environment dedicated to building a better web, together.
💜 Giveth is a zero-fee, year-round, multichain donation platform that offers quadratic funding, public good project verification & rewards for donors.
💚 Gitcoin creates onchain grants and identity management solutions that let communities govern their shared resources with trust and transparency.
🟢 Glo Dollar is the anti-poverty stablecoin: as market cap goes up, revenue is generated and directed to lifting people out of extreme poverty.
🐦 rotki is the local-first and open-source portfolio management tool for all your crypto and financial needs.
🙏 Praise is a peer-recognition tool boosting community intelligence and collaboration with rewards, tested by Giveth, BanklessDAO, and others!
🌟 Hypercerts are the web3 standard for impact certificates.
⛓️🛡 Protocol Guild is a collective of Ethereum contributors, who have a high-impact track record of core protocol research, implementation and stewardship.
🧅 Tor Project allows users to browse privately and explore freely. They’re a nonprofit defending your privacy and freedom online.
🗳️ Pairwise is an open-source dapp that streamlines community decisions and aggregates these choices into clear recommendations.
🐱 Ethereum Cat Herders (ECH) is decentralized project management to support the Ethereum Network.
🥩 EthStaker is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting solo stakers and the decentralization of the consensus layer.
☔️ DAO Drops is the public goods arm of dOrg, with an aim to Drop open source tools for decentralized communities.
🐙 MetaGame is building an ecosystem of DAOs & resources for building DAOs with the goal of offering an alternative career path for corporats & recovering degens.
🏰 Public HAUS is focused on empowering communities with innovative coordination tools, fostering a culture of good faith governance and embracing DAO principles.
🛡Revoke.cash provides free and open source tools that crypto users can use to keep themselves safe. This includes a token approvals dashboard and a pre-transaction check browser extension.
💗 L2BEAT is dedicated to providing on-chain transparency. They strive to be an impartial and independent watchdog that acts in the best interest of users and the broader L2 ecosystem, while remaining credibly neutral and faithful to reality and facts.
🗳 Shielded Voting increases fairness & integrity of DAO votes on Snapshot using threshold encryption to hide how participants vote until after the vote closes.
🤓 Open Source Observer (OSO) helps funders use data to measure the impact of open source software contributions.
🔄 Token Engineering Commons (TEC) is dedicated to advancing the field of token engineering and fostering widespread trust in blockchain technology.
💧 Drips is a decentralized toolkit that enables any organization to continuously fund their critical software dependencies, without any platform fees.
☀️ BrightID is a nonintrusive, decentralized, and open-source technology seeking to reform identity verification–and lay the groundwork for a free and democratic society.
🟢 Funding the Commons is a community of public goods practitioners building new models of sustainable public goods funding and value alignment in open source networks.
⚫️ clr.fund is a protocol for efficiently allocating funds to public goods that benefit the Ethereum Network, according to the preferences of the Ethereum Community through quadratic funding (QF).
🗓 Allocation Window Details
Epoch Two allocation window: 17 January - 31 January, 2024 @ 5 pm CET
You've got 10 more days to decide how to use your individual rewards.
You can either:
💰 Claim the rewards for yourself.
💚 Donate all or a portion to any of the 24 shortlisted public goods projects.
🟢 Allocate them to the Octant Matching Fund, using the Patron mode.
📅 Octant Community Events
- 25 Jan | Thursday @ 1 pm ET | We're discussing mechanism design and big epoch 3 updates. Register for the call here.
- 1 Feb | Thursday @ 12 pm ET | We're reflecting on all things epoch 2, after the allocation window closes. Join the call on our Discord.
Let's make these allocations count. Your votes are helping shape the future of public goods funding.
Happy Allocating! 🥳
