# \[Governance Proposal\] Should the Uniswap community participate in the Protocol Guild Pilot?

**URL:** <https://gov.uniswap.org/t/governance-proposal-should-the-uniswap-community-participate-in-the-protocol-guild-pilot/16824>\
**Category:** Requests for Comment\
**Created:** [May 17, 2022, 9:45pm UTC](https://gov.uniswap.org/t/governance-proposal-should-the-uniswap-community-participate-in-the-protocol-guild-pilot/16824 "2022-05-17T21:45:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![trent](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/gov.uniswap.org/trent/32/5305_2.png) [@trent](https://gov.uniswap.org/u/trent)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://gov.uniswap.org/t/governance-proposal-should-the-uniswap-community-participate-in-the-protocol-guild-pilot/16824/23 "2022-12-15T16:38:44Z")

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Hey Uniswap community!

Stopping by to provide a quick update on the [Protocol Guild](https://twitter.com/ProtocolGuild), a new public goods funding mechanism that was launched with your backing, as we’re currently **6 months into our 1-year pilot**.

In case you need a reminder, the Protocol Guild aims to enable a decentralized and sustainable funding mechanism for Ethereum’s core protocol development. It creates an easy and effective way for anyone to donate funds to a single address, which gets vested over time to active core protocol contributors. Over the long term we hope to see Ethereum’s ecosystem and community band together to normalize donating a portion of treasuries / revenues to this mechanism, to secure the future of Ethereum’s core development work.

Uniswap was a trailblazer in this regard, generously donating 500k UNI tokens, worth $2.7m a the time, back in July. Thank you again for your support!

Here’s where we’re at since launching:

- $10 million raised to date from 3.8k donations (185 unique donors)
- $5m has been distributed to 128 members (up from 90 to start), on average $39k per member
- Work is currently underway for the Guild to adopt Moloch v3 tooling and allow consolidation of L2 donations
- Our next fundraising push will target raising $100m over four years, from the end of the pilot (May ‘23)

I’ve shared a few links below if you’d like to read more about this, and of course happy to also field any questions here - wishing everyone a happy holidays

- [Mid-pilot update](https://protocol-guild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/5-initial-pilot.html#mid-pilot-update-dec-7-2022)
- [Mid-pilot update Tweet thread](https://twitter.com/ProtocolGuild/status/1600912258694930432)
- [Tim’s recap](https://tim.mirror.xyz/zLdl8bEiDmobHZ5RlvG2LrlZLWV9c2XvkuKQ-vpljSU) see section “Protocol Guild Update”
- [Member list](https://protocol-guild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/9-membership.html)
- [Documentation](https://protocol-guild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)

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