A Look Back at the Epoch 9 Application Process

gm, beautiful people 🌞 This is a look at what the Epoch 9 application process looked like.

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, you had to be a creative who has created Ethereum content.

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

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

We asked folks to show us the campaign, series, or investigation they'd run to make Ethereum a part of everyday conversation.

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

Second, the work you do had to fit into one of these three categories.

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

👉 Funding was intended for the applicant's next project + informed by their track record.

Third, you had to be able to say YES to these three.

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

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

✅ Submit a short proposal for 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.