Overview
Eastern Town Hall is a YouTube channel where you can watch recorded community meetings about blockchain grant funding in English, Indonesian or Vietnamese. It is aimed at people across Asia who would rather hear how funding works in their own language than read English documents. The videos are working sessions, not produced content, so you hear the real questions people asked.
The channel belongs to the Cardano Catalyst Community Eastern Town Hall, a community group better known as C3ETH, formed to open up Project Catalyst (the community fund that awards grants on Cardano) to speakers of eastern-hemisphere languages1. Alongside the videos, the group publishes a written Cardano documentation set mirrored into Indonesian, Japanese and Vietnamese, with translations contributed through its public source repository2.
Key Features
- Sessions in the language you speak. Separate breakout-room playlists hold English, Indonesian and Vietnamese versions of town hall meetings, so you watch the discussion your own community had rather than a translated summary3.
- A walkthrough of how grant funding works. The Eastern Catalyst School series records workshops covering every role in Cardano's grant process: writing a proposal, reviewing other people's proposals, and voting on them4.
- Governance material for non-specialists. A dedicated playlist covers CIP-1694, the proposal behind Cardano's on-chain voting system, aimed at community members working out how to take part3.
- Regional event footage. Cardano Summit sessions filmed in Vietnam sit alongside university workshops, career days and pitch reels localised for Japanese, Vietnamese and Indonesian audiences3.
- University classroom recordings. A teaching programme run with Gimbalabs at Gadjah Mada University and Nahdlatul Ulama University in Indonesia is captured session by session, showing students being taught to build on Cardano5.
What to Expect
Expect a meeting archive rather than a produced series. Most videos are screen-recorded calls that run an hour or more, with slides, shared screens and open discussion, and very little editing. Sound quality varies with whoever happened to be speaking.
Uploads arrive in batches rather than on a schedule. A dozen sessions can land on a single day and then nothing for months, so the playlists are a much better way in than the flat list of videos: they separate the language rooms, the school series, the event coverage and the governance material. The audience is small, and the channel reads as a working record kept for the people involved rather than something built for reach.
The companion website is the other half of the archive, a Cardano documentation set mirrored into four languages that covers how the network is put together and how the grant process runs. Much of it is translated material from Cardano's core organisations rather than original writing, which was the group's stated job2.
The group describes itself as rebranding, wording it carries on its X profile, and the stake pool it set up as a fallback in case grant funding ended has been retired on-chain6. The Cardano Foundation profiled that pool and the team behind it, and that interview remains the fullest outside account of what the group set out to do1.
