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I’m really excited to announce that I am moving into my new role as Head of Impact at @octant.   This is quite a funny story if you have a few minutes to read, as it’s really wild to reflect on this crypto journey, starting back in 2015.

I had this eclectic roommate who had hair like sideshow bob from The Simpson. He came home one day extremely upset, because he had just got into a shouting match with an Stanford economics professor in the middle of Stanford’s campus, with the professor ridiculing him how Bitcoin and Ethereum would never amount to anything.  This was the first time I had ever heard about Ethereum, so he began to educate me on the subject and I bought my first ETH at 4.10$.

Head of Impact for /octant 
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Octant v2 is bridging DeFi and ecosystem grants. Learn how you can fund your grant programs sustainably

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But how I got my role with Octant and Golem Foundation is wild, something I’d never expect. Fast forward to Jan 2017, I caught wind of Golem. Bought a bunch of the tokens and became really active in the community.  As Golem began its slide away from one of the top 10 projects in web3, I became increasingly vocal about my disappointment, which is a nice way of putting it. In reality, I was being an asshole. I saw a ton of potential in the project & team, and was frustrated that it wasn’t continuing to be vocal in sharing its mission and vision.  It felt like after they got the money from the community, they didn’t want or need them anymore until there was a perfect product to share.

So she convinced my now boss to consider hiring me. Julian, like any sane person initially thought “hell no I’m not hiring this guy” (at least this is what I think he thought) because rightfully so, I was a giant asshole.  But nevertheless he eventually agreed to sit down and chat. We hashed out our differences and he gave me a chance with a part time role in the beginning of 2022.  His ability to listen in the face of any negative emotions has continuously been an inspiration for me.

As Head of Impact at Octant, I’m focusing on bringing key ecosystems in Ethereum on board so that we can all fund what is critical to Ethereum sustainably. We’ve figured out the model, and now it’s just about getting others to recognize the value.

What if your treasury could fuel sustainable growth without losing a dime of principal? Octant v2 makes it possible. Deploy capital into yield strategies—staking, DeFi, etc & stream that yield to your grants program. Token holders lock your ecosystem token to gain governance power in your ecosystem grants, directing funds to high-impact projects. It’s an impact prediction market, bc they want their token price to go up. This aligns incentives & stabilizes your token price. Your capital stays intact, while yield powers impact.  

Why are we building this? Ethereum Alignment:

Separately from your grants program, at least 5% of your yield flows to a pool where we collectively fund base layer Etheruem Public goods, the things everyone building on Ethereum relies on. Grow your ecosystem, give utility and empowerment to your community & token, and fund what’s critical to Ethereum sustainably. 

If you want to chat, my dms are always open!

This went on for a few years, eventually Golem splitting into two organizations. Golem Foundation and Golem Network, which btw, two completely separate organizations if you didn’t know already. So now I was giving my piece of mind to both.  Foundation ended up hiring a PR agency to deal with the few disgruntled community members who were still voicing their displeasure. What happened next is still wild and totally unexpected. The head of that PR agency after being hired, went back and read all of my long winded rants about how things could be fixed. Dobrusia saw that, even though I wasn’t expressing myself in the healthiest of ways, I did care… a lot. (There’s a whole other story to why, dm me if you want to hear it 🙂  )