The Infinite Garden is Growing

Community-managed forum where EIPs are discussed, debated, and refined. The social layer of Ethereum's technical governance.

Coordinates network upgrades, documents All Core Devs meetings, creates EIP explainer videos/podcasts. Makes Ethereum governance accessible to non-devs.

Independent collective funding mechanism for Ethereum L1 core protocol contributors. $100M+ raised. ~190 contributors across ~30 teams. All fund flows fully onchain and transparent.

Independent watchdog for L2 ecosystem. Risk assessment, analytics, smart contract upgrade monitoring. Industry-standard L2 risk framework.

Brings Ethereum to Wall Street and Washington. Represented Ethereum at Treasury, SEC, Congress, White House. $40M Series A (Paradigm + Electric Capital).

Coordinates policy efforts among teams building core onchain infrastructure. Together they secure over $100B in assets. EF publicly endorsed via Tomasz Stańczak.

L1-L2 synchronous composability framework. Fixes Ethereum's fragmentation. Smart contracts interact across mainnet and rollups atomically. "One Ethereum, not a hundred islands."

Builds tokenless infrastructure that burns ETH. Products: BlobKit, BETH, Glassbox, EVA, Ethereum MCP, Blobdrop, Swapboard. "We show up where the EF is missing."

Builds Hardhat, the industry-standard Ethereum development environment. Used by most professional Ethereum developers.

"The Security Standard for Onchain Finance." 700+ smart contract audits. OpenZeppelin Contracts library used by thousands of projects.

Pioneered quadratic funding for public goods. $69M+ distributed to public goods projects. Allo Protocol for decentralized capital allocation.

50K+ member community for solo/home stakers. #StakeFromHome movement. Client diversity promotion. Offers grants to staking ecosystem projects.

8+ years of continuous grant programs. Perennial Grant Experiment. Pensieve accountability framework. "Legitimacy doesn't grow in a blackbox."

DVT infrastructure. $15B+ TVL. 5M+ ETH staked. 11% of total Ethereum stake. 1,800+ operators. $5M grants program.

Distributed Validator infrastructure. $1.24B+ TVL. "1% For Decentralisation" (donates 1% of staking rewards to public goods).

Plug-and-play hardware + open-source software for running Ethereum validators at home. Makes solo staking accessible to non-technical users.

Largest liquid staking protocol. Issues stETH. Historically 30%+ of all staked ETH. Integrates with SSV and Obol for DVT.

Permissionless decentralized liquid staking. Anyone can be a node operator with 8 ETH. "Built in alignment with Ethereum's core values since day one."

Restaking protocol. $12.9-15B TVL. $220M+ raised. Category creator. Pivoting to "EigenCloud" (verifiable cloud).

Liquid restaking on EigenLayer. Issues eETH. Building "EtherFi Cash" DeFi neobank.

Enterprise-grade institutional staking. $15B+ in staked assets secured. Whitelabel solutions, API infrastructure, custody integration.

Leading crypto media. 350K+ newsletter subscribers, podcast (3x/week), market analysis. Bankless Ventures ($35M+ fund).

Independent daily Ethereum commentary, education, and analysis. Tens of thousands of subscribers. Respected independent voice.

World's largest Ethereum hackathon series. 95+ hackathons. 150,000+ members. $13.5M+ in grants distributed. $350M+ raised by hackathon alumni.

Latin America. Ethereum education in Spanish/Portuguese. Partnered with Argentina's Ministry of Education to bring Ethereum to high schools.

Chinese-speaking (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore). Bridges Chinese-speaking builders into global Ethereum. Media, events, education. Cypherpunk values.

Kenya / Africa. African Web3 community. Events, incubation, education. Focus on payments and identity for Africa.