Octant

Abstract

dOrg partnered with Octant to design and implement the core on-chain infrastructure for Octant V2, a protocol focused on designing and implementation toward a sustainable ecosystem growth engine. The engagement centered on the design of a system of yield donating strategies, ERC-4626 vaults capable of routing earned yield toward a curated list of projects or mechanisms aligned with community preferences.

The work involved developing some of the protocol's foundational smart contracts, including bespoke, modular, allocation mechanisms, and yield donating strategies. dOrg implemented front end integrations with Yield Donating Strategies that connect to Ethereum DeFi protocols, enabling Octant to expand beyond a single capital source and increase flexibility in how capital is onboarded. The protocol included some of the foundations required to bring Octant protocol fully on-chain, while remaining compatible with existing and experimental allocation primitives.

In addition, dOrg enabled custom quadratic funding strategies, continuous funding models via yield donating strategies. The overall architecture was designed to be trust-minimized, automated, and progressively decentralized, providing Octant with a scalable foundation to evolve its funding mechanisms, governance, and community participation over time.

Background

Public goods and ecosystem projects, especially in open-source, civic infrastructure, and social impact — often fail to attract sustainable funding because they do not optimize for revenue generation. Many generate no direct revenue at all, yet still require capital to operate, maintain, and grow.

Octant's mission is to address this structural gap by building a Sustainable Ecosystem Funding protocol, where capital can be efficiently provisioned and allocated to impactful projects based on community preferences.

As Octant prepared to launch Octant V2, the team faced several challenges:

• Public goods and ecosystem funding mechanisms lacked sustainable capital sources
• Capital allocation systems struggled to capture user preferences at scale
• Existing platforms were too rigid, limiting experimentation with new funding models
• Much of the logic remained off-chain or manually operated, reducing transparency and scalability

To address these challenges, Octant engaged dOrg to design and implement the core on-chain infrastructure for Octant V2.

Focus Areas

The engagement focused on protocol-level design and prototyping, spanning the full lifecycle from research to development.

Key focus areas included:

• Designing Capital Onboarding and yield donation protocol
• Building modular, secure, and upgradeable smart contracts
• Frontend integration for Yield Donating Strategy protocol into a Gnosis SAFE application
• Gnosis safe module research and development for trust minimized architecture, enabling automation to reduce manual intervention and operational overhead
• Designing and implementing new funding allocation primitives and mechanisms like Capital Constrained Liberal Radicalism (QF) variants
• Subgraph development to index contract state based on Protocol's event Schema.
• Implementation of Design System components for internal component libraries

Core Projects

Octant V2

• Solidity, Foundry, Wagmi, Tenderly, React, TheGraph
• ERC-4626 vault standard
• Capital Constrained Liberal Radicalism (QF) variants
• Protocol composability
• Progressive decentralization design

Business Objectives

The primary objective of the engagement was to lay the technical foundation for Octant V2, enabling a protocol that:

• Donates yield generated as public goods funding while connecting to an arbitrary yield source
• Allocates funding to ecosystems using community-driven mechanisms
• Progressively decentralizes governance and execution

Conclusion

By the end of the engagement, dOrg delivered some of the core on-chain infrastructure required to launch Octant V2, enabling:

• Sustainable Ecosystem Growth
• Flexible, community-driven capital allocation
• Reduced reliance on centralized operations
• A composable foundation for future funding models and integrations

Octant's north star is to find a sustainable growth funding model that attracts capital and distributes it effectively across the Ethereum ecosystem and the communities it serves.