Who receives the yield

Public goods recipients

The flip side of the validator dataset. These projects and groups received redistributed staking yield in the last 12 months.

Protocol Guild

Pseudonymous collective of Ethereum core developers. Funds maintainer compensation across clients, research, and tooling.

Received2,400 ETH

Gitcoin matching pools

Quadratic-funded grant rounds for open-source projects across the Ethereum ecosystem.

Received1,800 ETH

Drips Network

Ethereum-native streaming payments protocol for open-source maintainers.

Received920 ETH

Ethereum Foundation grants

Direct grants from EF to ecosystem projects, separate from EF's own validator operations.

Received850 ETH

rotki

Open-source portfolio tracker and tax tool for crypto. Local-first, privacy-preserving.

Received340 ETH

BrightID

Open-source social identity network. Sybil-resistance infrastructure for grant rounds.

Received280 ETH

ETHGlobal hackathon prizes

Onchain-delivered prize pools to public goods builders at ETHGlobal events.

Received410 ETH

EthBoulder

Community-governed unconference and hackathon. A small-scale public goods experiment in regional Ethereum gatherings.

Received120 ETH