Understanding Capital Providers and Their Communities
At launch, the first Capital Provider using Octant v2 is the Golem Foundation.
Capital Providers are organizations, such as foundations and DAOs, that use Octant to generate and distribute funding for public goods. Depending on their program, they can:
- Deposit treasury assets into Octant vaults and direct generated yield toward funding
- Support a community token that users can lock to accrue rewards
- Choose whether locks can delegate their voting power to another address
- Supply a matching pool for a funding round
- Select eligible projects from applicants in Octant Atlas
- Configure whether voters can participate with accrued rewards, direct Wallet WETH, or both
The locking and rewards application is separate from the funding-round application:
- octant.app is the generic v2 application for locking tokens and managing rewards.
- glm.octant.app is Golem Foundation's instance and also provides historical Octant v1 metrics.
- epoch.octant.app is the Octant voting app where admins create rounds and users distribute funding.
How Configuration Affects Participants
Each round can enable one or both participation paths:
- With Accrued Rewards, users commit WETH rewards earned through a supported token lock.
- With Wallet WETH, users contribute directly from their wallet and do not need to have locked a community token first.
When more than one Capital Provider is available in the same app, an Ecosystem switcher appears in the header so you can move between providers (and, where offered, between their with delegation and without delegation variants).
Not every Capital Provider instance offers the same locking, reward, or historical-data features. Funding paths can also differ between rounds. Review the live round in the Octant voting app before participating.
For the complete participant workflow, see Participating in a Funding Round.