Key Takeaways:
WYDE Association published the Hunger Network white paper and opened the directory to all 501(c)(3) hunger-relief organizations operating one year or more, with verification taking roughly two minutes.
Every cause-pool fee from $EAT trading splits 50/50 between Feed the Children, the exclusive national partner under an 18-month grant agreement, and a community-voted pool that funds the top ten organizations on a monthly curated ballot.
Voting is quadratic, capped at the snapshot moment voting opens, and produces grants disbursed in ETH, USDC, or ACH within ten days of the round closing.
WYDE Association published the Hunger Network white paper and brought the public directory live this week, formalizing the allocation layer that routes $EAT trading fees to verified hunger-relief organizations. The directory pulls registry data from the IRS Business Master File and adds claim, verification, and content tools on top. Search is free, account-less, and runs by ZIP code or city.
The structural pivot is in the membership framing. As Aaron Rafferty wrote in The Tech Buzz this week, members are not donors. They participate in a network that generates fees, and those fees fund the WYDE Association treasury, which makes the grants. No one is asked to donate at any step.
Every cause-pool fee splits two ways. Half flows to Feed the Children under an 18-month grant agreement effective April 1, 2026, with a $50,000 minimum guarantee. The other half funds a community-voted pool. WYDE Association curates a monthly ballot of ten verified organizations, and $EAT holders vote with quadratic weighting, meaning a holder with one million tokens casts one thousand effective votes rather than one million. All ten organizations on the ballot receive an allocation, weighted by share of votes received.
Phase 01 (public directory) and Phase 02 (verification and eligibility) are live now. Phases 03 and 04 (curated top ten and community vote) are activating, with the first round opening on a published schedule. Phase 05 extends the same architecture to other causes (water, education, healthcare, climate, housing), each with its own cause coin.
The launch lands in the same week the Alaska Attorney General's lawsuit against PayPal Giving Fund and GoFundMe is moving through court, alleging the platforms created donation pages for 1.4 million nonprofits without consent. The contrast is structural. WYDE's members govern allocation. The lawsuit defendants did not.
People Also Ask
Q: How does the WYDE Hunger Network allocate grants to nonprofits? A: Cause-pool fees from $EAT activity split 50/50: half goes to Feed the Children under an 18-month grant agreement, and half is allocated monthly by $EAT holders voting quadratically on a curated ballot of ten verified organizations.
Q: Who is eligible to be funded by the Hunger Network? A: Any 501(c)(3) (or international equivalent) operating one year or more, with a valid program offering and a mission aligned to ending hunger. Organizations claim and verify their listing at eat.ong/claim/start. Free.
Q: What is quadratic voting and why does the Hunger Network use it? A: Quadratic voting takes the square root of a holder's token count to calculate effective vote weight. It flattens the influence of large holders and rewards broad participation, which is the design goal for community grant allocation.
Q: When does the first community-voted round open? A: WYDE Association will publish the first ballot date once the curation process is announced. Each round runs ten days (seven for voting, three for execution) on a monthly cadence.