When you think of community decision-making in Web3, you’re often met with one core principle — fairness through decentralization.
Before Octant v2, Octant V1 introduced the foundation of decentralized funding coordination — a transparent, non-custodial protocol that let communities allocate rewards collectively using Ethereum smart contracts. It established the core model for onchain governance and public goods funding, paving the way for the more modular and extensible Octant V2.
Octant v2 is open, public infrastructure for sustainable onchain growth.
It’s free for anyone to use — like public roads or libraries — but built for crypto funding. Its mission is to help projects and DAOs grow sustainably, by recycling onchain yield from deployed capital into public goods and community-driven initiatives.
Users can select DeFi protocols (like Aave or Yearn) for yield generation, define a donation address (direct or via payment splitters), and optionally run allocation rounds — community-based processes that let token holders decide how yield is distributed.
This creates a transparent pipeline: capital in vaults generates yield → yield is redirected → funding flows to DAOs, open-source builders, and ecosystem growth.
By separating principal from yield, Octant empowers long-term, sustainable impact without sacrificing users’ underlying capital.
The system's core building blocks are its vaults, which handle deployed tokens, strategies, and that connect with yield generation sources. Octant funding vaults support different kinds of assets, including base tokens (non-yield-bearing tokens), as well as yield-bearing tokens (both rebasing and non-rebasing ones).