Protocol Guild · Crypto · Legacy classification: Other
Sponsor a Core Dev
Protocol Guild launched Sponsor a Core Dev on December 18, 2025 as a funding vehicle that lets corporations, DAOs and individuals sponsor Ethereum core development at the scale of one contributor. Sponsorship tiers are anchored to a $160k annual compensation gap per core dev, payable in tokens, ETH or stables: $160k covers one core dev, $320k two, $640k four and $1.28M a team of eight. Contributions vest over one year to Protocol Guild's curated pool of core contributors, whose membership is audited every quarter, and the page says all funding vests to the entire membership regardless of the per-individual denomination. The page says Protocol Guild was gathering an initial cohort of funding partners to announce the program more formally in early 2026, with sponsors asked to email hello@protocolguild.org. Recipients are registry members; the page describes no applicant route.
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