The term “public goods” has been diluted - “dependency” might be better. Round-based funding mechanisms incentivize atomization - how can we avoid this?

Valuable resources are produced within the Ethereum commons: network, asset, & media. Protocol Guild upholds the integrity of these shared resources.

Protocol Guild’s design and traction emerged from a unique context - attempts to replicate should keep this in mind: e.g. Dev Tooling, Basic Infra

Entities which extract profits from software commons like Linux and Ethereum have the greatest incentive and capacity to co-opt them.

Protocol Guild is shaped by its origins and may not work for all contexts. This post explores why + the tradeoffs to consider for your domain.

The permissionless nature of Ethereum has costs — but it is necessary & beneficial

Is anyone gaming out GPU scenarios heading into and after the Merge? I check in every once and a while to miner subreddits r/ethermining and r/gpumining, here's a collection of possibilities and second order effects

A bedtime story takes a child further than they expect.

Ethereum is a protocol undergoing significant changes. In the medium term, we are pushing to upgrade the protocol so it can scale to meet global demand, while also improving security and decentralization. It’s a long and winding road to get there, but our bazaar of researchers and tinkerers is more active than it’s ever been.