🌱 Perennial Grant Experiment Epoch 1: Announcing Week 5 Winners

We launched the 10-week Perennial Grant Experiment with a simple conviction: public goods deserve sunlight. No black boxes. No closed-door committees.

Every profile, vote, and payout is in the open on Pensieve.

After 5 weeks , Nov. 11 to Nov. 18, we’re excited to see this vision taking root. Today, we celebrate the first seeds sprouting by announcing our Week 5 winners for Top Transparent Projects and Top Accountable Projects.

💰All-Time Prize Leaderboard

(Total Award: $4000 USD)

Create once, and receive rainfalls from both tracks.

🏅** Web3Radio:** 1300$

🥈**ETHChiangmai: **950$

🥉**Dapp Learning:** 720$

🥉**Hubs Network:** 720$

🏆 Top Transparent Projects — Week 5 Winners

(Total Award: $400 USD)

Congratulations to the projects that have set a high bar for building in public.

• **1st ($200): ETHChiangmai | **Cumulative 950$
• 2nd ($100): Web3Radio | Cumulative 1300$
• 3rd ($50): **Dapp Learning *| Cumulative 720$*
• 4th ($30): Hubs Network | Cumulative 720$
• 5th ($20): ETHna | Cumulative 260$

🏆 Top Accountable Project — Week 5 Winners

(Total Award: $400 USD)

Congratulations to the projects that have set a high bar for building in public.

• 1st ($200): **ETHChiangmai*| Cumulative 950$*
• 2nd ($100): **Web3Radio* | Cumulative 1300$*
• 3rd ($50): **Hubs Network* | Cumulative 720$*
• 4th ($30): **Dapp Learning* | Cumulative 720$*
• 5th ($20): **ETHna* | Cumulative 260$*

To understand the methodology behind these scores, please see our guide:

*Official Announcement: Perennial Grant Experiment Epoch 1*

*How the Elderwand Evaluation Engine Works*

What’s next?

Challenge Time

Starts: 12 PM CET, Nov. 18th; Ends: 12 PM CET, Nov. 25th.

Next week, we’re opening Community Challenge Week for the Week 5 winners. The community will verify that each winner’s item page is up to date and meets our core eligibility (public good • no investment • no traded token). Please contribute your writing and knowledge to the project pages. Only challenges on core eligibility can change the ranking; the official ranking follows the snapshots published by @ECFPensieve.

1. Top Transparent Projects Pensieve Pages

• **1st: ETHChiangmai | **Cumulative 950$
• 2nd: Web3Radio | Cumulative 1300$
• 3rd: **Dapp Learning *| Cumulative 720$*
• 4th: Hubs Network | Cumulative 720$
• 5th: ETHna | Cumulative 260$

2. Top Accountable Projects Pensieve Pages

• 1st: **ETHChiangmai*| Cumulative 950$*
• 2nd: **Web3Radio* | Cumulative 1300$*
• 3rd: **Hubs Network* | Cumulative 720$*
• 4th: **Dapp Learning* | Cumulative 720$*
• 5th: **ETHna* | Cumulative 260$*

Winner Chat

Please schedule a call with ECF Pensieve team, to get to know each other for us to proceed with prize distribution.

• Schedule link: https://calendly.com/commscalendly-ecf/30min
• Time: deadline Nov. 25.
• Contact info: hello@ecf.network

Note: If you fail to get in touch with team before the deadline, it is considered the prize is forfeited.

Prizes will be distributed after Challenge Time and chats.

Week 6 is open!

｜Starts: 12 PM CET, Nov. 18th; Ends: 12 PM CET, Nov. 25th

Later entrants can absolutely win as new items go live and requirements evolve. As Perennial Grant Experiment Epoch 1 is a living experiment, the bar for transparency will continue to rise, and we invite you to rise with it. If you:

• Have no traded token, Token Address Item = N/A (core eligibility)
• Are pre-investment stage, Investment Stage Item = No Investment (core eligibility)
• Public goods project, Public-Goods Nature Item = Yes (core eligibility)
• Recommended to fill-in the following items: Links & Contacts, Treasury Vault address
• Are seeking long-term transparent and accountable financial support

just create your project on https://pensieve.ecf.network and and our evaluation engine will do the rest.

Quick start guide: https://medium.com/ecf-pensieve/your-first-project-on-pensieve-a-primer-3fc8143fc727

We are here to support

Need a hand getting started? Try the live chat on pensieve.ecf.network powered by Chatwoot, and get in-time support.

Thanks to every builder who showed up in Week 5. Onward to Week 6. 🌱

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