Protocol Guild

$11,398.28 crowdfunded from 6773 people

$38,710.18 received from matching pools

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Initiative to fund Ethereum core contributors with community-sourced, onchain, transparent funding autonomously distributed to around 160 members from various projects for protocol maintenance and evolution.

Direct funding for Ethereum protocol maintainers!

A collective of ~160 Ethereum core contributors working together to enable commons infra funding that is:

  • sourced from the community
  • transparent & onchain https://dune.com/protocolguild/protocol-guild
  • autonomously distributed

Members come from over 20 different projects, including developers working on clients (eg. Geth, Lighthouse), researchers, and coordination (eg. Ethereum Cat Herders): https://protocol-guild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/9-membership.html

Using independent, existing governance processes (eg. All Core Devs call, Magician's Forum) members help stewards both Ethereum (the network) and the EVM, taking care to consider current needs and how they may evolve.

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