We're collaborating with the Ethereum Foundation’s Strategic Funding Coordination team to bring you Epoch 9, Ethereum Stories.
It’s time to make Ethereum's narrative stronger. It's time for creatives to shine.
This epoch, we're funding the journalists, storytellers, content creators, and researchers who’ve helped make Ethereum legible, credible, and engaging to audiences.
We’re looking to fund high-impact marketing, educational, and journalistic content that push Ethereum forward.
We want to see work that belongs in classrooms, newsrooms, and dinner table conversations. Think Bill Nye for Ethereum: smart, clear, impossible to ignore.
If you’ve got a vision for how Ethereum’s stories should be told, this is your stage.
Show us the campaign, series, or investigation you’d run to make Ethereum a part of everyday conversation.
For the application, our ask is to share how/what you want to do, to market Ethereum.
Eligible Content Formats
Your past work and proposed new work may include:
- Long-form: Documentaries, explainers, podcasts, essays, investigative journalism
- Short-form: Reels, animations, short-form video content/Tikoks with educational value
- Sequential: Educational series, event coverage, recurring media campaigns
How will selection work?
This is a retroactive and forward round.
- You must have already created Ethereum-focused content (not just general crypto or DeFi content though Layer-2 or L2 content can count).
- Funding is for your next project + informed by your track record.
We want to reward past excellence and provide fuel for future work.
Our review process will be similar to the previous 2 epochs. No snapshot vote for the initial selection with the community allocations deciding how the final matching funds are split up.
There will be multiple review cycles by the Octant and EF's Strategic Funding Coordination team for the selection of projects.
To apply, you need to:
- Provide proof of past Ethereum content (video, podcast, article, campaign, etc.)
- Show its impact (audience size, engagement quality, influence).
- Submit a short proposal for your next project, with:Concept and intended impactDistribution planHow 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.
- 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.
