# @OctantApp: Epoch 8 is now open with 30 teams building on Ethereum

Source: https://xcancel.com/octantapp/status/1943341244358496570
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/OctantApp-Epoch-8-is-now-open-with-30-teams-building-on-Ethereum?index=0x687107e0410a151ae97497fbe93c845be45383134773e1eb77a03e059077adcd1e258fba
Submitted by misha on 2025-07-11 UTC, 6 upvotes, 1 comment

Epoch 8 is now open 💝

30 teams making @ethereum stronger
all growing sustainably
all waiting for you

let's show builders what community support looks like

happy allocating fam <3

## Comments

**@timdaub.eth**: Time to, out of spite, to de-promote them and withdraw my GLM, and to say „fuck public goods, make more projects possible through user funding.“

The context is, for full transparency, that public goods funding for Kiwi News has been incredibly flakey and not really sustainable. So I‘ve made the choice to not take it, in hope that other opportunities arise from the misery