what's octant?
Octant is a decentralized platform designed to foster sustainable growth within the Ethereum ecosystem by funding creators, projects, and narratives. It operates through structured funding mechanisms like epochs, where community-voted grants distribute matching funds to selected initiatives, and yield-donating vaults that generate returns to support ongoing development. These tools enable targeted support for Ethereum builders, emphasizing long-term viability over short-term hype. The platform facilitates ecosystem expansion via partnerships, events, and hackathons, such as the Octant DeFi Hackathon in collaboration with Uniswap Foundation and others. Octant also hosts summits and co-organizes gatherings like d/acc Berlin with key figures in the space, promoting collaboration among developers, protocols, and communities to advance decentralized finance and public goods on Ethereum.
Octant showcased stack-too-deep/performance solutions with Solidity/Ethereum Remix on Jan 12, 2026.
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x.com/octantappParticipated in a joint showcase event with Solidity and Ethereum Remix on January 12, 2026, demonstrating technical solutions for stack-too-deep issues and performance improvements.
540 people visited the booth at EFDevcon and received POAP collectibles, with these collectors now eligible to vote in the StreamVote voting pilot.
V2 of the application introduces on-chain "Funding Graph" feature for streaming-based public goods funding, explained in presentation by team member vpabundance.
Team member arlery represents OctantApp as a guest at Solana Breakpoint conference.
Protocol Guild joins StreamVote as a voting option for funding Ethereum L1 production contributors.
StreamVote uses Superfluid protocol for mainnet token streaming to enable voting, with rotki among participating projects.
StreamVote public goods funding experiment launches, allowing votes for EAS and other selected teams with community feedback collection.
Shutter's Shielded Voting selected for Best of the Best epoch 10, scheduled for January 6-20, 2026, featuring 25 projects.
OctantApp and hypepartners co-hosted a candlelight concert event in Buenos Aires.
An ecosystem plinko activation booth operates at the Devconnect EFDevcon venue among creative project activations.
OctantApp v2 session takes place with vpabundance presenting on building continuous public-goods funding directly into DeFi primitives.
Octapad wins an entry with a token launchpad that routes fees into Octant's YieldDonatingStrategy wrapped in a Yearn vault, using Uniswap v4 hooks to capture swap fees in a regenerative loop for public goods funding.
A fireside chat between Octant and Shutter Network titled "DAOs & the Future of Growth" takes place at the Governance Geeks Hub during Devconnect on Thursday, November 20 at 17:00.
The DeFi Summit includes a session on stablecoin opportunities and challenges featuring Aragon Ecosystem Lead.
The DeFi Summit includes a session on crosschain liquidity featuring speakers 0xCerberus and 0x_Arjun.
Francesco Renzi will speak at the DeFi Summit on October 30 at 10:40 am ET about DeFi for Ecosystem Funding, joined by panelists vpabundance, vinayvasanji, and _schmitted.
Over $5.5M distributed to more than 341 projects through Ethereum staking yields converted to public goods funding.
A speaking session will be held for creator program participants covering Twitter and social media growth strategies.
Epoch 9 officially closes with confirmed allocation for a 6-episode Tornado Cash documentary series that will include professional marketing and audience development support, with potential funding for additional long-form journalism projects.
Final town hall and Demo Day scheduled for Epoch 9, with the TORNADO team presenting a reel of their previous work on Crypto Crooks ahead of these events.
Epoch 9 closes in 2 days with 3.41 ETH allocated versus 170 ETH unallocated, with zachxbt leading at 43.3 ETH from 74 donors, followed by theragetech at 34.39 ETH from 50 donors and Crypto_Altruism at 30 ETH from 56 donors.
Free screening tour of Emmy-winning film "White Rabbit" receives funding from the Octant community, with tour stops being planned.
TORNADO, a documentary series about @rstormsf and the Tornado Cash Team, receives funding through an Octant grant as part of the creator funding program.
Epoch 9 Livestream titled "Film-making 101" scheduled for Monday morning at 9am PDT.
Competition results announced with prizes distributed: $15,301.99 to first place winner @BengalCatBalu, $9,437.14 to second place @0xImmortan, and $3,626.68 to third place @kvarxyz for reviewing the capital-preserving infrastructure.
Head of Impact speaks at Schelling Point Buenos Aires during EFDevcon on November 20 about yield-donating vaults built on ERC-4626 standard and inspired by Yearn.
30 creators selected for Epoch 9 funding round, including Ethereum documentary "Vitalik: An Ethereum Story" launching on Amazon Prime streaming.
A security competition is live with a $60,000 prize pool, targeting the platform's vaults, allocation mechanisms, and routing contracts, running until September 29.
Final hours of Epoch 8 funding allocation featuring Dappnode; concurrent livestream discusses validator infrastructure.
Final 24 hours to allocate funds to Protocol Guild, benefiting 190 Ethereum network developers.
Current funding epoch features 380x matching multiplier for public goods contributions.
Demonstrating MCP-powered encrypted mempool integration on Gnosis Chain, marking technical milestone.
Founder connection revealed between Golem Project and platform through Julian Zawistowski's dual role.
Selected as one of 30 projects in Octant funding round.
Epoch 8 allocation period begins in 2 days.
New V2 release introduces burn rate optimization and community alignment mechanisms
Hosting d/acc event with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, indicating high-profile industry engagement.
Match funding multiplier reaches 1308x, converting small donations to 0.5 ETH through platform mechanics.
Active public goods funding round with ENS Domains and Giveth offers up to 500,000 GIV tokens for $5+ donations.