1/ The Q1 2026 Membership Audit for Protocol Guild has concluded For the 15th consecutive quarter, PG has updated its membership list reaffirming its status as an onchain institution representing Ethereum’s core protocol contributors Thread below ↓

3/ Protocol Guild’s membership now sits at 187 - including 11 new members and 8 alumni - a net increase of 3 (+1.6%) since last quarter

4/ New members: • Louis (@0xlouistsai) | STEEL | Led execution layer client benchmarking efforts, building infrastructure for transaction batching, opcode verification, and precompile support

5/ New members (cont'd): • Leo (@leolarav) | STEEL | focused on testing infrastructure and test generation for upcoming forks including EIP-7732 (ePBS) • Satyajit Das (@satyajitdas90) | Prysm | working on Fulu hardfork implementation, micro-optimizations, and bug fixes

6/ New members (cont'd): • Josh (@joshdavislight) | Protocol Support | Coordinates the Ethereum Protocol Fellowship (EPF) program, manages All Core Devs (ACD) calls, and developed ACDbot for call management

7/ New members (cont'd): • Marios Ioannou | RIG | Co-authored EIP-8070 (Sparse Blobpool) and SOON (Selecting Optimal Outbound Neighbors) research on fast bandwidth-efficient P2P propagation

8/ New members (cont'd): • Matt Joiner (@anacrolix) | Erigon | Network/P2P specialist who has greatly improved performance and stability of torrent snapshot sync • Bosul (@1004YUKICHAN) | Geth | Primary work involves formalizing the specification for the sparse blobpool

9/ New members (cont'd): • Bharath Vedartham (@BharathVedarth1) | Prototyping | Maintains the Builder-API and collaborates with EthPandaops on MEV-Boost hard fork R&D. Co-maintains MEV-Boost and relay specifications with Flashbots

10/ New members (cont'd): • Bing (@spiralladder_) | Lodestar | helping accelerate the rewriting of core Lodestar modules using Zig for mainnet deployment in 2026

11/ New members (cont'd) • Karim Taam | Besu | Focuses on Besu's state layer including Bonsai, snapsync, and parallel EVM execution. Developed the Fleet plugin for enhanced RPC scalability

12/ And a special thank you to 8 new alumni for their contributions and stewardship of the world computer 🌐 💻: • Phil | Lodestar • Sophia Gold | zkEVM • Radoslaw Zagorowicz | zkEVM • Bartosz | Erigon • Roman Hodulák | Reth • Radoslaw Kapka | Prysm

13/ Alumni (cont'd) • Tanishq Jasoria | Nethermind • Pop Chunhapanya | P2P

14/ The next quarterly audit will begin in April 2026 and should be fully reflected in our active membership by mid-May.

@anacrolix @1004YUKICHAN 9/ New members (cont'd): Bharath Vedartham (@BharathVedarth1) | Prototyping | Maintains the Builder-API and collaborates with EthPandaops

@anacrolix @1004YUKICHAN @BharathVedarth1 10/ New members (cont'd): Bing @spiralladder_ | Lodestar | helping accelerate the rewriting of core Lodestar modules using Zig for mainnet deployment in 2026

@anacrolix @1004YUKICHAN @BharathVedarth1 @spiralladder_ 11/ New members (cont'd) Karim Taam | Besu | Focuses on Besu's state layer including Bonsai, snapsync, and parallel EVM execution. Developed the Fleet plugin for enhanced RPC scalability

@anacrolix @1004YUKICHAN @BharathVedarth1 @spiralladder_ 12/ And a special thank you to 8 new alumni for their contributions and stewardship of the world computer 🌐 💻: Phil | Lodestar Sophia Gold | zkEVM Radoslaw Zagorowicz | zkEVM Bartosz | Erigon Roman Hodulák | Reth Radoslaw Kapka | Prysm

@anacrolix @1004YUKICHAN @BharathVedarth1 @spiralladder_ 13/ Alumni (cont'd) Tanishq Jasoria | Nethermind Pop Chunhapanya | P2P

@anacrolix @1004YUKICHAN @BharathVedarth1 @spiralladder_ 14/ The next quarterly audit will begin in April 2026 and should be fully reflected in our active membership by mid-May.