Key Takeaways:
WYDE opened applications for the inaugural EAT Street Team cohort at apply.eat.ong, with five teams selected to travel across America interviewing people who have experienced and overcome hunger.
Selected creators are eligible for up to $15,000 in payouts plus first access to the new EAT merch line, with all field content distributed across WYDE channels.
The Street Team is the human-faces layer of the Hunger Network, designed to surface stories that the directory and on-chain allocation can fund but cannot tell on their own.
WYDE opened applications for the inaugural EAT Street Team cohort at apply.eat.ong on May 1, 2026, beginning a content program that mirrors the school-of-hard-knocks interviews creators have built around the wealthiest people in the world, but pointed in the opposite direction. Five teams will travel across America interviewing people of every background about their experiences with hunger, including the ones who lived through it and built their way out.
The mechanic is straightforward. Selected creators are eligible for up to $15,000 in payouts across the cohort, with the structure detailed on the application page. The teams get first access to the new EAT merch drop, which itself routes profits back into the Hunger Network through $EAT purchases. Field content publishes across WYDE channels, the Hunger Network directory at eat.ong, and the partner organizations whose work is being documented.
The framing matters. The wealthiest creators on the internet built audiences by interviewing the people who climbed the highest. The Street Team flips that frame to interview the people who climbed out of the lowest, and asks what tools made the difference. For some of those interview subjects, the answer is going to be the EAT Card and the network they did not previously have. The Street Team is how that becomes a story the rest of the country can see and recognize.
The launch lands the same week the Hunger Network white paper went live and the BitMart Trade-to-Feed competition opened. The directory tells the country which organizations are doing the work. The Street Team tells the country whose lives that work is changing. Both are needed.
Applications are open now and the first cohort is being selected on a rolling basis.
People Also Ask
Q: How do I apply for the EAT Street Team? A: Applications are open at apply.eat.ong. The first cohort consists of five teams selected to travel across America interviewing people about their experiences with hunger.
Q: How much can EAT Street Team members earn? A: Selected creators are eligible for up to $15,000 in payouts across the cohort, plus first access to the new EAT merch line. Full structure is on the application page.
Q: What kind of content does the EAT Street Team produce? A: Field interviews with people who have experienced and overcome hunger, distributed across WYDE channels and the Hunger Network directory. The format is closer to school-of-hard-knocks documentary than promotional content.
Q: What is the Hunger Network and how does the Street Team connect to it? A: The Hunger Network is the public directory and grant allocation layer of $EAT, listing verified hunger-relief organizations and routing trading fees to them. The Street Team surfaces the human stories the directory does not show on its own.