Deadline: 4 days left in Epoch 6 AW

Hey, folks! 👋

New Year, new Allocation Window, new Community Fund grantees... you get the gist! There's a whole lot of new, exciting things upon us. And we're making sure you join us on our journey to do even more good in 2025.

So let's get you up to speed with everything!

🚨 Epoch 6 Allocation Window: Final Countdown

Less than 4 days left for you to decide how to use your rewards and support projects that matter!⏳ Deadline: 25 January, 4 PM UTC (9 AM PDT / 11 AM EDT)Here are the 30 projects participating in this epoch:

🥩 Aestus MEV Relay is a neutral, non-censoring block relay for Ethereum proof-of-stake validators and block builders.

🔱 Alfred by Atlantis is an AI powered bounty master for climate action.

👨‍🚀 🚀 Bankless Academy is a free and open-source web3 educational platform providing explorers with tools and knowledge to 'go bankless'.

🌐 Blockscout is an open source block explorer built for everyone.

🧑‍💻 B<>rder/ess Developers is the Tech Not-For-Profit arm of Crypto Smart, aimed at raising 100 web3 and web2 young developers from university communities annually, for free.

🏰 BuidlGuidl is a curated group of builders focused on nourishing the Ethereum ecosystem through open-source tools and educational content.

💎 Citizen Wallet is the Open source Web3 toolstack to support community currencies.

🔴 Dappnode is a free Open Source Software project with the mission to make web3 infrastructure accessible to anyone.

✅ Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS) is an infrastructure public good for making attestations onchain or offchain about anything.

😺 Ethereum Cat Herders is a group of contributors who support Ethereum Protocol development by providing - education, community building, and help on-boarding.

🥩 EthStaker is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting solo stakers and the decentralization of the consensus layer.

🎙️ EVM Mavericks Weekly Doots Podcast is a recurring, community-driven livestream, hosted live that features industry-leading guests.

🌊 Flow State allows communities to continuously & programmably reward impact.

🤝🚀 Funding the Commons is an ecosystem developing activities that support the creation of new models and mechanisms for funding public goods.

🥧📏 growthepie.xyz helps users see what's going on in the Layer 2 space and helps you navigate different chains.

🛣️ Kernel is an open peer-learning environment built to increase trust between participants on trust-minimized foundations.

🥝 Kiwi News is the Crypto Hacker News providing high-signal news, essays & products for builders. Built on top of a P2P protocol.

💗 L2BEAT is a public goods company dedicated to providing on-chain transparency.

🐻 Open Source Observer maintains a growing registry of open source software projects contributing to Ethereum and adjacent ecosystems.

🍕 PizzaDAO is bringing the world onchain with a Global Pizza Party.

⛓️🛡️ Protocol Guild is a collective of Ethereum contributors, who have a high-impact track record of core protocol research, implementation and stewardship.

🔵 ReFi DAO empowers global communities to regenerate the Earth by leveraging Web3 technologies, decentralized finance, and collaborative public goods.

🌱 Regens Unite is bridging the gaps between the broad range of sectors working on regenerative solutions, connecting expertise with innovation.

💵 RevokeCash is a suite of end-user security tools that help people stay safe in crypto.

🐦 rotki is the portfolio management tool that connects crypto and tradfi and lets you track and manage your portfolio in a privacy preserving way.

🤝🚀 TogetherCrew is a community success tool supporting community builders in their day-to-day tasks with insights and automations.

🧅The Tor Project develop free and open source software for privacy and freedom online, protecting people from tracking, surveillance, and censorship.

🗳️ Vocdoni leverages zkRollups to make secure voting accessible to millions worldwide.

💻 WebHash is a no-code platform that allows users to create permanent websites for ENS and DNS domains, addressing the critical issue of “digital decay.” 

⛩️ ZuCity Japan is buying and restoring abandoned homes in rural Japan to create a permanent Zuzalu village.

Community Fund Grantees

We're excited to introduce our second cohort from the Octant Community Fund: a fund designed to grow the Octant ecosystem.

This round brought:

• An open nomination process for the Grants Council
• Grew our grant pool from ~50 ETH to ~90 ETH. Only 50% of this was used for the cohort.
• Improvements based on feedback from Round 1.

We’ve got an incredible group of projects joining our ecosystem to support growing Octant:

💚 Modular Crypto - a media and education project dedicated to bridging the gap between blockchain projects and the Brazilian market.

💚 EtherScore - they're a badge-based Web3 reputation system providing NFT badges based on user interactions.

💚 Public Goods by Design by Ahmad Khan - a web3 design hackathon aimed at creating innovative solutions for the public goods ecosystem.

💚 Scout Game by Xandra Dozet, Alex Poon & Chris Carella - a fantasy sports for developers. Introducing Octant to talented builders onchain.

💚 Schmoloch: Octant Coffee Talks from CryptoSapiens - a series of good interviews with cool people!

💚 The Fuzzy Cow Podcast by Keisha A. - a pod created to serve communities outside of the crypto sector through education and relevant lifestyle content.

💚 Web3 UNILAG by Aguda Toluwani, Olokoji & Temiloluwa Hamzat - a blockchain club at the University of Lagos bringing Octant to Lagos and the Nigerian community.

💚 Espacio Cripto - a crypto media company bringing web3 news to the Spanish-speaking community.

💚 Yinka - snappy, short-form videos to make Octant v2 more accessible to audiences.

💚 Zero to Hero Octant Course by ShelleyMae - a zero-to-hero course education and awareness platform that will bring an Octant course to their audience.

💚 Dragon Academy by queenwartooth - a reputation-based onboarding game that will help users learn about Octant.

💚 CryptoConexión by Monica Talan & Ana Lopez - a project focused on creating a comprehensive and engaging educational series on the Octant ecosystem tailored for LATAM audiences.

💚 ORBYLINE - they specialize in creating visual storytelling solutions and will work on making Octant and public goods concepts accessible to newer crypto audience.

💚 OAK Research - an intelligence platform focused on data, analytics, reports and mapping/overview of protocols in French and English.

💚 BlockTrend (區塊勢) - Taiwan's leading Web3 media platform, established in 2017.

🔍 In case you missed it...

Our Product Team is cooking up exciting updates for Epoch 6, including:

🌐 A Spanish version of our website and documentation🛠️ UX/UI improvements and new V2 features (like the Dragon Module 🐉)🔢 A fresh Quadratic Funding variant: PQF (Proper QF)

Keep locking GLM, keep earning user rewards, and most importantly keep doing well and doing good.

Happy allocation window!