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Creators Get Paid to End Hunger. The $1 Million Fund Is Filling Up.

WYDE Weekly: the EAT clipping fund reviews applications next week, the first creator videos are out, and every $EAT trade funds creators. Plus the week in giving, tech, health and fraud, by the numbers.

By WYDE Editorial Team·WYDE Newsroom·Oct 10, 2026 6 min read

About the $EAT figures here. They are as of Oct 10, 2026. $EAT is a token, and its price can fall as well as rise. Past moves say nothing about future ones. Not investment advice.

Disclosure: WYDE Newsroom is published by WYDE. This article covers WYDE or a project WYDE operates.

THIS WEEK AT A GLANCE

Nicola Forrest gave A$520 million to her Coaxial Foundation.
Michael Jordan gave $10 million to the UNC School of Social Work.
The FCC approved a 15,000-satellite Starlink network for phones.
A hacker was convicted over a $50 million crypto theft.
Nolla Health says its AI can now write first prescriptions in Utah.
EAT's $1 million clipping fund reviews creator applications next week.

New here? WYDE turns attention into meals. A restaurant gives food. A creator shares it on camera. People eat.

CREATORS GET PAID TO END HUNGER

EAT's $1 Million Clipping Fund Is Filling Up: Apply Now

Creators are applying to EAT's $1 million clipping fund and the first restaurant videos are out. Review is next week. Apply at fund.eat.ong.

WYDE Newsroom • Aaron Rafferty

The $1 million clipping fund is filling up. EAT reviews applications next week.

Applicants have from 1,300 to 1.4 million followers.
Follower count does not decide it. EAT looks at views, engagement and how well your content clips.

Watch the first two videos. In both, the restaurant gave the food for free.

Video: an EAT creator shares six free pizzas from STAT Pizza at a skatepark

Six pizzas, one skatepark. A creator asks STAT Pizza in Corona, California for 500 pizzas. The manager gives six, free. She hands them out at a skatepark.

Video: an EAT creator invites a stranger to lunch at Crab Grabber in Pasadena

FCC Approves SpaceX's 15,000-Satellite Starlink Mobile Network for Phones

The 14 MHz SpaceX agreed to buy equals about 56% of the 25 MHz auction the FCC has proposed separately. Read the full story →

More in tech

Starlink waits on a proposed 5% spectrum charge in India. Urban India has 2.6 times the internet subscriptions per 100 people that rural India has.
OpenAI's math release reaches 719 manuscripts, and 58% lack Lean checks.

THE WEEK IN GIVING

Nicola Forrest gives A$520 million to her Coaxial Foundation

Nicola Forrest Gives A$520 Million, About $360 Million, to Her Coaxial Foundation

The gift equals about 3.0% of her estimated A$17.32 billion fortune. Read the full story →

Michael Jordan Gives $10 Million to UNC School of Social Work in Honor of His Mother Deloris Jordan

The gift equals about 61% of the $16,475,486 in contributions the UNC-Chapel Hill Foundation reported. Read the full story →

Calgary Philanthropist David Bissett Gives SAIT $30 Million for Autonomous Aviation Park

His gifts to SAIT total $65 million across 2014, 2019 and 2026, by reported figures. Read the full story →

More in giving

Marymount Education Foundation committed $5.57 million to Loyola Marymount University. That is about 11% of its $49.18 million in net assets.
Tecsys pledged $5 million to a new Prisma Health behavioral health hospital in South Carolina.
Viterbo University landed $6.19 million in its two largest federal grants. That is more than the $5.68 million in contributions it reported for fiscal 2025.
Crypto gifts to charities topped $1 billion in 2024. The average gift was $10,978.28.
Is Elon Musk the greatest philanthropist alive? We ask the question.

FOR RESTAURANTS: GIVE MEALS, GET SEEN

A creator films at your restaurant and shares your food with the community.
Each clip shows your restaurant giving.
You can claim a food donation receipt from the WYDE Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity.

HEALTH

Nolla Health, Fresh Off a $4.5M Raise, Says It Won First US Approval for AI Initial Prescriptions in Utah

The approval covers initial prescriptions. Utah's January 2026 pilot allowed AI to prescribe only refills. Read the full story →

Life Bio's ER-100 showed early vision signals in 2 of 3 glaucoma patients.
Abaloparatide cut new spinal fractures by 86% in a trial of 2,463 women. The absolute cut was 3.6 percentage points.

IMAGINE IF TRADES MATTERED

Diagram of the Hunger Network: donors, restaurants, the EAT debit card and $EAT trades fund creators and hunger-relief charities

$EAT is the first token that funds creators to end hunger. All trades fund creators.

Every $EAT trade carries a 1 percent fee.
The fee is split into four equal parts: creators, hunger-relief charities, liquidity and the platform.
Run $1 billion of trading in a day through that model. Creators get $2.5 million that day.
Creators are paid for work. They do not need to buy, hold or promote the token.

This is a comparison, not a forecast. $EAT does not trade at that volume today.

FRAUD AND MONEY

Uranium Finance hacker Jonathan Spalletta convicted over a $50 million crypto theft

Uranium Finance Hacker Jonathan Spalletta Convicted Over $50 Million Crypto Theft

The April 28, 2021 attack took about 38 times as much as the April 8 attack. Read the full story →

OKXICE Files to List 60 Tokenized U.S. Stocks for 24/7 Onchain Trading

That is fewer than the more than 70 tokenized tickers OKX already lists offshore. Read the full story →

More in fraud and money

Adam Iza got 78 months for a $37 million Meta fraud. His $23.4 million restitution is about 64% of the $36.4 million he received.
The IMF released $138 million to El Salvador after it waived a bitcoin accumulation breach. That is about 9.9% of its $1.4 billion facility.

THE EAT CHALLENGES APP LAUNCHES SOON

Get ready to take to the streets. Founding creators start when the challenges app launches.

Get the EAT app.
Apply to the fund before the review next week.
Choose a local restaurant you want to film with.

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NEW ON THE SITE

Profiles: Nicola Forrest, Michael Jordan, David Bissett and Dr. Smiles.
Rankings: Largest Charitable Gifts, Largest Gifts to US Universities, Largest Healthcare Gifts of 2026 and Largest Hunger Relief Gifts of 2026.

$EAT BY THE NUMBERS

Meals funded: 73.4K. Next milestone: 100K. $EAT was near $0.000196 on October 9, down 1.78% on the day. ETH fell this week, and $EAT trades against ETH on Uniswap V4 on Base. This is not investment advice.

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Stories we want written

Healthleap raises $38M for its AI that flags hospital patients who may need a closer look (wanted by 2026-10-11)
Phil Knight and Ken Griffin gave billion dollar gifts; others gave big, too (wanted by 2026-10-11)
Cal AI's 19-year-old founder just raised $10M for his new AI startup (wanted by 2026-10-11)
Uranium Finance Hacker Who Bought Pokémon and Magic Cards Convicted Over $50M Theft (wanted by 2026-10-11)

A restaurant gives. A creator shares. People eat. Now it is your turn.

Onward,
The WYDE Team

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