In this week’s issue:

• Touch Grass: GLM Me Baby One More Time (locking GLM in Octant)

• Hodl Me Tender: 🔥 Web3, Crypto + AI Jobs of the Week

Hodl Me Tender: 🔥 Web3 + AI Jobs of the Week

Looking for your next move in (or into) web3, crypto, or AI? Here are some fire openings for this week, all remote, all posted within the last three days:

• StakeKit is looking for a Senior Project Manager

• Ritual Foundation needs a Smart Contract Engineer

• P2P.org is looking for someone to be their Product Marketing Manger

• Base needs a Product Manager, Base Builder Tools to join their team

• EWOR wants to fund a Blockchain and Crypto Co-Founder

• Messari wants to find a Social Media Community Contractor—is it you?

• Chainlink Labs needs a Frontend Engineer, UX

• Coinbase is looking for a Grants Manager

• Want to be an Ecosystem Associate at Eclipse? Get it.

• The Metaplex Foundation has an opening for a Product Marketing Lead

Want to see your company's job listed here? Reply to this email and lmk.

During SheFi, we each got 400 GLM (about $100) from Octant to play with during, and I'm now head over heels for this whole "democratizing public goods funding" thing. Wait, what are GLM and Octant?

Octant is basically a grand experiment run by the Golem Foundation where they've staked 100,000 ETH (super casual) from their treasury and are using the staking rewards to fund public goods. Bonus: they're letting GLM holders (that's Golem's native token) decide which projects get funded.

How GLM & Octant Operate (fuck if I know, but I’ll give it a go)

Octant works in epochs (90-day periods), and by locking your GLM for the duration, you earn ETH rewards AND voting power. The longer your tokens stay locked, the more influence you have. It's like the crypto version of "put your money where your mouth is," except you're not actually spending your money—just temporarily locking it up.

My first locking experience (sounds dirtier than it is)

During SHeFi, the Octant team made it rain by giving each of us 400 GLM (approximately one hundo USD) to lock into the platform. After creating an account and connecting my wallet, I hit the "Lock GLM" button and felt that familiar crypto anxiety of did I do this right or did I just yeet my tokens into the void?

The live walkthrough helped immensely—shoutout to Mashal, who had the patience to explain epochs, allocation windows, and quadratic funding to a room full of crypto-curious women (read: anxious) trying to figure out if our tokens were actually in our wallets and actually locked. Turns out they were.

1. Picking my public goods projects (decision paralysis central) 

   When allocation time came around, I spent way too long scrolling through the eligible projects. The selection was diverse—everything from environmental initiatives to open-source software development. I ultimately spread my allocation across:

   Seabrick - Decarbonizing global construction

   Rifai Sicilia - Rebuilding a sustainable future for Sicily (my people!)

   Oceanus - Planting mangroves, strengthening communities (double-dipping on ocean conservation, obvs)

   Change Code - Pioneering new financial primitives and tokenomics that will drive impact as the next asset class to be powered by web3

The platform made it super clear how my allocation would impact each project's funding, and I could see in real-time how the community was rallying behind different initiatives. It's like crowdfunding with a dash of game theory.

2. The quadratic funding magic (you lost me at quadratic) 

   Here's where Octant gets really interesting: they use a model called quadratic funding, which I think basically means smaller contributions from lots of people get amplified more than huge contributions from a few whales.

   For example, 100 people each donating 1 GLM would generate more matching funds than 1 person donating 100 GLM. This incentivizes projects to build broad community support rather than chasing a few deep pockets. It's basically the anti-VC funding model, and I’m v down with that.

3. What I especially love about Octant non-custodial locking

   Your GLM tokens remain yours. You can unlock anytime (though for maximum impact, keeping them locked for the full epoch is the move).

Rad quotient: The platform uses your Gitcoin Passport score (which I didn’t even know I had, and perhaps actually don’t) to ensure you're a real human and not a sybil attack in disguise. Higher scores = more matching leverage.

Sybil attack, because I looked it up, is “a type of attack on a computer network service in which an attacker subverts the service's reputation system by creating a large number of pseudonymous identities and uses them to gain a disproportionately large influence.” Whoa.

Transparent impact: You can see exactly how your contribution influenced a project's funding outcome. No black box mysterious allocation here.

Real talk—why Octant matters (beyond the tech): Let's zoom out for a sec. Public goods—things like open-source software, environmental conservation, education, and research—are chronically underfunded because traditional markets don't know how to value them properly. We all benefit from them, but without forced taxation or random billionaire generosity, they often struggle to get resources.

Octant is one of the first serious attempts I've seen to create a sustainable funding mechanism that:

1. Isn't controlled by a single entity (bye, gatekeepers 👋)

2. Has aligned incentives (you can earn rewards while doing good)

3. Amplifies community consensus (strength in numbers, not wallet size)

This matters beyond crypto. It's a prototype for how we might fund EVERYTHING from scientific research to public art in the future. And since government funding is under major demolition in the US, we kinda need other viable options.

In typical web3 fashion, the learning curve is real, but the payoff—getting to directly influence where capital flows without intermediaries—is sick. If you've ever felt frustrated watching money flow to bullshit while critical services struggle (like all the time), Octant offers a tiny glimpse of an alternative.

My only plea to the Octant team? Make the UX even more intuitive, because this is too important to stay in crypto-native circles. This kind of governance experiment deserves mainstream adoption.

PS: Subscribe now if you want in on this arithmetic. Miss the last issue? It’s right here. Also literally none of this is financial advice. I’m sharing what I learn through Babe, and perhaps you’ll learn from my mistakes. Hopefully, maybe, who knows, ily.