TL;DR: The future of Ethereum funding isn’t bigger grants, it’s smarter coordination. From the Dev Tools Guild to Gitcoin, ENS DAO, Optimism & Octant, the ecosystem is aligning to amplify impact and sustain the tools we all rely on.
Open source has powered the internet since the beginning, but the people building and maintaining it have often been left behind.
TL;DR: The Dev Tools Guild unites critical Ethereum developer tooling to collectively fund projects and their maintainers (think Protocol Guild but for dev tooling), and boost coordination between protocol and dev tools developers. Coordinated by Conor Svensson (founder) and Andrew B Coathup, starting with a one-year pilot.
Mission: accelerate Ethereum app development through world-class tooling.
The Dev Tools Guild is a coordinated initiative uniting the teams behind many of Ethereum’s most widely used developer tools. Whether you're writing smart contracts, building trading bots, or deploying consumer apps, chances are you’re relying on infrastructure maintained by guild members.
TL;DR: Origin story of Web3j in 2016 and Dev Tools Guild.
After almost a year of coordination, we're finally ready to announce the Dev Tools Guild to the world.
Composed of many of the teams responsible for the core infrastructure powering developers building on Ethereum, the Dev Tools Guild has been established to accelerate the development of DApps on Ethereum.