"Who cares?...why should people care about this...if you can't come to an obvious answer, maybe it's not newsworthy, and that's okay." Spoke with Jacquelyn Melinek @jacqmelinek, founder and CEO of @StrataMedia_, host of Talking Tokens and Crypto in America, and formerly senior crypto reporter at TechCrunch. Her advice for founders pitching media. Full episode coming soon.

We're excited to share Epoch 12: Octant is for everyone. Allocation window opens at 12:30 pm ET today (16 June) and will close at 11:30 pm ET on 30 June. You can allocate on: This epoch marks a few big changes. This is our first epoch introducing ProperQF. This is our first epoch with zkproofs in voting. This is our first epoch open to ETH contributions. This is our first epoch on v2. So, let's get into it. Epoch 12 is our 13th funding round. We’ve got 200 ETH in our matching pool this time. As a GLM locker, you can allocate your WETH rewards to yourself and/or to projects that are part of this epoch. The matching pool will be quadratically split based on your allocations. For ETH contributions: 50% of the contribution will be converted to $GLM and burnt, and the remaining 50% will be allocated to your project selection. Part of this is to discourage sybil, and the other part is because our funding comes from @golemfoundation's treasury yield and GLM is core to the mechanism. We will be noting addresses who attempt to sybil and penalize them by removal in upcoming epochs. We've done a few deep dives on properQF and built a simulator you can use to model the final allocations: Now for the fun part. We've got an incredible group of projects joining us in Epoch 12: @AestusRelay @BluefilterC @crypto_altruism @dappnode @eas_eth @ECHInstitute @etheconomiczone @ethStaker @EthereumRemix @FundingCommons @GiliEcoTrust @greenpilldevs @growthepie_eth @hypercerts @l2beat @OSObserver @ProtocolGuild @RevokeCash @rotkiapp @SEAL_911 @shefiorg @ShutterNetwork @solidity_lang @argotorg @torproject @zachxbt Allocation dates: 16 June - 30 June (11:30 PM EST). Every allocation makes a difference. Make yours count. Allocate now:

Locking $GLM gets you ethereum:0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead9083c756cc2 rewards on Octant. If you allocate this to public goods/impactful project in our upcoming epoch, we'll match it (quadratically). 2870 ETH allocated to users and projects. All sustainably funded.

In 2010, 10,000 BTC bought two pizzas. Four years later, @RioCryptoHub is still bringing Bitcoin Pizza Day to Brazil and this year we hit a new record: 9 cities participating (up from 7 last year) with the help of @Pizza_DAO, @brave, @ensdomains & @OctantApp and many others, more than 400 this year 🙌 It’s not just about remembering history! It’s about keeping the culture alive and building real community. In Rio, we’re celebrating on Friday, May 22nd, at @appvellora office in Downtown. Pizza, Bitcoin, and good people. The way we like it. Join us:

If you applied, congrats you did it! You bet on yourself and did the scary big thing! If you missed the window, not to fret. There will be future opportunities. We'll keep you all posted (following us here is one of the best ways to stay updated). And, now on to review time. This is a pretty competitive cohort and with a lot of incredible projects. The review process will entail multiple review layers including deeper dives into short-listed projects. We'll share the final pick once the decision has been made. Best of luck until then!

HAPPENING NOW: @nicnode giving a first look into what the new experience will be for our upcoming epoch at the @FundingCommons community call. Reply here if you'd like to test out the app before we officially roll out.

Lots of firsts for us and there is a reason for every decision around the epoch, design, and the guardrails we operate within at @OctantApp. We're not perfect by any means, but we are trying our best to learn and so this epoch and all the new things we're rolling out are going to be a learning lesson for us. (please be kind, there's real humans reading/receiving everything you share)

Join us tomorrow at 1 pm EDT to hear all about how @gitcoin is using our vaults, yield-funded GG rounds, and the future of public goods funding. With @vpabundance @owocki and @arlery