This interview is a part of our on-going series, where we highlight our epoch 2 participants.
What's Protocol Guild?
The Protocol Guild is a collective of Ethereum contributors, who have a high-impact track record of core protocol research, implementation and stewardship.
Why should you vote for Protocol Guild in epoch 2?
Protocol Guild has enabled a funding mechanism that can be used by Ethereum’s ecosystem to fund its core protocol dependencies, in a way that creates strong incentives for retain Ethereum’s core protocol contributors over the long term.
Protocol Guild reproduces the qualities inherent to the production of a software commons as a funding stream. With it, the ecosystem can share the collective responsibility of funding core protocol stewardship:
- Comprehensively curated: a single mechanism surfaces the people actually doing the deep work, affiliated with many different teams
- Long-term oriented: vesting distributes funding over time, giving stability to recipients and helping transfer institutional knowledge to new maintainers
- Equitably distributed: member time-weighting considers retroactive contributions
Next milestones for Protocol Guild:
The next milestone in Ethereum's core protocol development is the Dencun hard fork upgrade, which will enable EIP 4844 (aka proto-danksharding), a critical step in scaling L2s.
More information about Dencun can be found here.
Beyond Dencun, the focus will shift towards narrowing down the scope for the next hard fork upgrade - Prague / Electra.
➡️ Follow on X at @ProtocolGuild
➡️ Read the full Protocol Guild update on our forum
⛓️🛡️ Vote for Protocol Guild this epoch
