4. Donate
The Protocol Guild’s funding mechanism was designed to remove friction associated with supporting Ethereum’s core protocol development, by providing a single onchain address which vests funds directly to active core protocol contributors over time.
Note that there are different donation addresses depending on if you’re donating on Ethereum mainnet or L2s / other chains!
All donations can be seen in Protocol Guild’s Dune Dashboard.
4.1 Mainnet
theprotocolguild.eth
0x25941dC771bB64514Fc8abBce970307Fb9d477e9
The Guild’s mainnet donation address is an immutable vesting contract which trustlessly vests donated funds over 4 years. Vested funds get pushed into a pass-through wallet, which in turn sends funds to a split contract for distribution to the membership. You can read more about this smart contract architecture here.
Important: The vesting contract cannot claim funds. If donations need to be claimed on mainnet, then please use this multisig instead: 0x3250c2CEE20FA34D1c4F68eAA87E53512e95A62a
4.2 L2s / Other Chains
Currently vesting contracts have only been deployed on Ethereum mainnet and OP mainnet. For other L2s / chains, 6/10 multisigs have been deployed to receive donations. Multisig funds will be periodically bridged into the mainnet vesting contract.
Arbitrum
Base
Optimism
Vesting Contract: 0xB3d8d7887693a9852734b4D25e9C0Bb35Ba8a830
Polygon
re.al
Scroll
zkSync
Zora
4.3 Protocol Guild Pledge
Protocol Guild’s long-term mission is to make contributing to Ethereum L1 R&D economically rational on a risk-adjusted basis, while avoiding capture. To get there, we aim to normalize that projects built on Ethereum donate 1% of their native token to the Protocol Guild.
You can read about the Protocol Guild Pledge here: https://tim.mirror.xyz/srVdVopOFhD_ZoRDR50x8n5wmW3aRJIrNEAkpyQ4_ng
You can see projects that have already taken the pledge here: https://dune.com/protocolguild/protocol-guild#protocol-guild-pledge
How to take the Pledge?
Projects that don’t have a token yet can take the pledge by making a public commitment to donate 1% of a future token to the Protocol Guild. You can see an example of this here.
Projects that already have a token can take the pledge by donating 1% of its supply to one of the donation addresses indicated above.
If you have questions about taking the pledge, please reach out on Discord, Twitter or Farcaster.