The term “public goods” has been diluted - “dependency” might be better. Round-based funding mechanisms incentivize atomization - how can we avoid this? Thanks to Carl, Cheeky, Jonas, and Tim for review and comments. Cover image from the NOAA page on corals - “most corals are made up of hundreds to hundreds of thousands of individual coral polyps.”

Valuable resources are produced within the Ethereum commons. The way they are produced matters to their integrity. Protocol Guild is a stewardship funding protocol which upholds that integrity. Thanks to Barnabé, John, Josh, Paul, and Tim for review. *************************************** Commons are productive systems which create resources for

Protocol Guild’s design and traction emerged from a unique context - attempts to replicate should keep this in mind: e.g. Dev Tooling Guild, Basic Infra Guild Thanks to Tim beiko and Josh Davis for review Over the last 2.5 years, I helped to launch the initial version of Protocol Guild and steward it toward its current state. On seeing its success,