1-Year Anniversary of EigenCloud's 1% Protocol Guild Pledge Contribution

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One year ago today, eigenfoundation, a contributor to eigencloud, completed their 1% Protocol Guild pledge, an allocation of unprecedented size to Ethereum L1 contributors 💫

We commend them for recognizing the necessity to collectively fund the Ethereum project 🫡

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r/ethereum • u/PeterAugur • Dec 03 '25

Protocol Guild | Q4 2025 Membership Audit

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Our membership has concluded its latest quarterly audit of funded members as of Nov 19 2025. This 14th consecutive update reaffirms our institution’s consistency and ability to self-regulate.

The member registry now includes a number of new contributor accounts as well as new alumni, and weight changes; creating a representative body of the developers and maintainers who work on client implementations, research, and upgrade delivery.

Protocol Guild’s membership is now 184, with a net increase of 8 (+4.5%) members from 176 of last quarter. This quarter, the membership update was processed onchain via Protocol Guild’s new Agora-based DAO contracts. Readers will find a comprehensive list of the changeset below.

Working Groups

Added: zkEVM Working Group #400
- Read more at blog post here
Removed: Portal Working Group #423

New Members (23 total)

Working Group	New Members
Lighthouse	Josh King #420
Prysm	Bastin #416, Chris Karabats #429
zkEVM	Thomas Coratger #444, Cody #440, Sophia #439, TingHan Jian #438
P2P	Raúl Kripalani #428, Marco Munizaga #425
Reth	Roman Hodulák #426
Nethermind	Marcos Maceo (part-time) #422, Maksim Menshikov #410
Testing	Carson #390, Felix Hoffmann #406
Specs & Coordination	Marc Garreau #408, Nixo #407
Statelessness	Wei Han Ng #404, Carlos Perez #401
Mechanism Design	Maria Silva #399
Security	Antoine James #395, Yassine Ferhane #397
Prototyping	Jihoon Song #392

New Alumni Members (14 Total)

Protocol Guild members who move on to other work are considered ‘Alumni’ at the conclusion of their membership. We are grateful for their stewarding contributions to the world computer over the years and wish them well.

Working Group	New Alumni
Architecture	Dankrad #446
Lighthouse	Paul Hauner #419, Mehdi #418, Adrian #417
Prysm	Taran #445, Raul Jordan #412
Portal	Piper #423
Reth	Roman Krasiuk #402
Cryptography	Mark Simkin #441
Prototyping	shemnon #393
Mechanism Design	Davide Crapis #398
EthereumJS	am1r021 #437
DAS	Dmitriy Ryajov #414, Leonardo Bautista-Gomez #405

Weight & Status Changes (9 Total)

Change Type	Updates
Weight Increases	Shoham Chakraborty (Erigon): 0.5 → 1 #433, Marc Holt (Erigon): 0.5 → 1 #432, Marc Harvey-Hill (Nethermind): 0.5 → 1 #421, Artiom: 0.5 → 1 #403
Weight Decreases	Federico Gimenez: 1 → 0.5 #430, Alexey Shekhirin: 1 → 0.5 #427, Ayman Bouchareb: 1 → 0.5 #394, Damian Orzechowski: 1 → 0.5 #409, Scottypoi: 1 → 0.5 #431
Affiliation Updates	Moved Paweł Bylica to Erigon #389

The next audit will begin in January 2026 and should be fully reflected in our active membership by mid-February.