Stateful WorksMerge Manual
After many years of work, full Proof of Stake is finally on our doorstep. While many have talked about the significance of the moment, we think it’s best to hear directly from the builders behind it. Merge Manual is a collection of perspectives from 60+ core Ethereum contributors, including client developers, researchers and coordinators from 18 different teams. Note that this is a subset of the whole — not every contributor submitted a response. Responses were collected in August and Septemb...
Stateful WorksAnnouncing the Protocol Guild
Rough outline for an experimental new funding tool which provides recruitment, retention, and reward mechanisms of core protocol contributors - read the full proposal here.Over the past year, Stateful Works has pushed the boundary on how to simultaneously accrue cultural and financial capital to protocol maintainers:Beacon Book: a multimedia project about the launch of the Beacon Chain from the perspective of its contributors, including NFTs, the digital text, and a physical book. Has raised ...
Stateful WorksDelivery at Dawn - a short film NFT
The 1min short film NFT “Delivery at Dawn” is a celebration of EIP-4844 arriving to mainnet, core Ethereum contributors and their ongoing stewardship. Brought to you by the Nouns Community, The Line, & Stateful Works.Subscribe to not miss the NFT drop on March 11 - proceeds go to Protocol Guild: a collective of Ethereum core contributors!SubscribeOver the last two years, the Ethereum community has collaborated to bring EIP-4844 to mainnet. This feature allows layer 2s to significantly reduce ...
Stateful Works creates cultural artifacts to celebrate Ethereum.
Stateful WorksMerge Manual
After many years of work, full Proof of Stake is finally on our doorstep. While many have talked about the significance of the moment, we think it’s best to hear directly from the builders behind it. Merge Manual is a collection of perspectives from 60+ core Ethereum contributors, including client developers, researchers and coordinators from 18 different teams. Note that this is a subset of the whole — not every contributor submitted a response. Responses were collected in August and Septemb...
Stateful WorksAnnouncing the Protocol Guild
Rough outline for an experimental new funding tool which provides recruitment, retention, and reward mechanisms of core protocol contributors - read the full proposal here.Over the past year, Stateful Works has pushed the boundary on how to simultaneously accrue cultural and financial capital to protocol maintainers:Beacon Book: a multimedia project about the launch of the Beacon Chain from the perspective of its contributors, including NFTs, the digital text, and a physical book. Has raised ...
Stateful WorksDelivery at Dawn - a short film NFT
The 1min short film NFT “Delivery at Dawn” is a celebration of EIP-4844 arriving to mainnet, core Ethereum contributors and their ongoing stewardship. Brought to you by the Nouns Community, The Line, & Stateful Works.Subscribe to not miss the NFT drop on March 11 - proceeds go to Protocol Guild: a collective of Ethereum core contributors!SubscribeOver the last two years, the Ethereum community has collaborated to bring EIP-4844 to mainnet. This feature allows layer 2s to significantly reduce ...
Stateful Works creates cultural artifacts to celebrate Ethereum.
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It's been 3 months since we announced our Eth2 book, so we thought we'd give an update on the massive amount of work that's been done since then. We're getting pretty close to launch, read on for details!
Closed Submissions
Finalized Book Specifications
Finalized Distribution
Gitcoin Grants Round 9
Join our Discord!
What's next
We've collected, edited and formatted the contributions from 46 Eth2 researchers and implementers. They're a wonderful bunch, and this book wouldn't be possible without them - all of the submissions are amazing!
This included settling on a size, graphic language, & layouts. We're happy to say this is 95% complete. Crafting something visually compelling and internally consistent has been the bulk of our effort. We wanted to create something we would be proud to own ourselves.
Graphic themes include time, frontiers, individual and collective agency, the humanity of builders constructing immaterial systems.
Final dimensions of 5.5" x 8.5", about the size of a notebook (~A5 or 148mm x 210mm). Here's a sample of what one of the spreads (two facing pages) will look like in the finished product:
This has been another major task, as the design space for funding solutions has massively expanded over the last few months. After a ton of brainstorming, we've settled on what we think is a simple and powerful arrangement. (caveat that this is all subject to change)
We'll be using Mirror (this platform!) to handle distribution. TL:DR - patrons donate ETH to unlock a product, in our case, a physical book. If you've ever backed a project on Patreon you're already familiar with this mechanism.
There will only be 100 Genesis Edition books in this print run: 90 to the top patrons, 6 raffled off to other supporters who don't make the top 90 and 4 given away to community orgs - we'll be announcing these partners soon.
Patrons will get issued Book 1, 2, etc of the Genesis print according to their donation rank at the end of the funding period.
Following that, the Beacon Book text (over 10,000 words to date) will be auctioned as an NFT. This NFT will be culturally important to the Ethereum community long into the future, the text capturing sentiment from its builders shaping the imminent transition between PoW and PoS, the past and the future.
Patrons are then given a token (potentially under BOOK, ticker TBD) in proportion to their donated ETH, which grants them a share of future sales of the Beacon Book NFT. (See John Palmer's ESSAY experiment for a case study on how this works.)
Similar to ESSAY, we plan to retain 25% of the BOOK supply for the Stateful team. We will extend this model to give 25% to the contributing Eth2 researchers and implementers. It's our strong conviction that public infrastructure and the people building it should be celebrated. This book and its associated mechanisms are our way of saying thanks!
Additionally, we've created 7 graphic NFTs that will be auctioned along with the Beacon Book NFT. The narrative and graphic style of each matches the book, and are prominently featured as 2 pages spreads throughout the text. See a partial sample below 👀 to give you an idea of what's coming.
Similar to the book NFT, future sales of these NFTs will accrue a % to holders of BOOK
Stateful / Beacon Book participated in Grants Round 9, and while the dollar amount we received may be small, it's like 32 ETH to us 🤗. Having early supporters is amazing, and helps us keep pushing towards the finish line! We welcome any and all continued donations for this project's continuing vision.
It's pretty barebones for now: Join here. There's an entire universe of experiments to be pursued after the Beacon Book, and we want you to join us and the rest of the Ethereum community in exploring these possibilities.
This is just the beginning.
send and verify test prints (hopefully this week)
get tests back, adjust accordingly
order final prints from printer
finalize the 7 graphic NFTs
Thanks for all your support! Please reach out if you have ideas for the project.
❤️ - Stateful Team
It's been 3 months since we announced our Eth2 book, so we thought we'd give an update on the massive amount of work that's been done since then. We're getting pretty close to launch, read on for details!
Closed Submissions
Finalized Book Specifications
Finalized Distribution
Gitcoin Grants Round 9
Join our Discord!
What's next
We've collected, edited and formatted the contributions from 46 Eth2 researchers and implementers. They're a wonderful bunch, and this book wouldn't be possible without them - all of the submissions are amazing!
This included settling on a size, graphic language, & layouts. We're happy to say this is 95% complete. Crafting something visually compelling and internally consistent has been the bulk of our effort. We wanted to create something we would be proud to own ourselves.
Graphic themes include time, frontiers, individual and collective agency, the humanity of builders constructing immaterial systems.
Final dimensions of 5.5" x 8.5", about the size of a notebook (~A5 or 148mm x 210mm). Here's a sample of what one of the spreads (two facing pages) will look like in the finished product:
This has been another major task, as the design space for funding solutions has massively expanded over the last few months. After a ton of brainstorming, we've settled on what we think is a simple and powerful arrangement. (caveat that this is all subject to change)
We'll be using Mirror (this platform!) to handle distribution. TL:DR - patrons donate ETH to unlock a product, in our case, a physical book. If you've ever backed a project on Patreon you're already familiar with this mechanism.
There will only be 100 Genesis Edition books in this print run: 90 to the top patrons, 6 raffled off to other supporters who don't make the top 90 and 4 given away to community orgs - we'll be announcing these partners soon.
Patrons will get issued Book 1, 2, etc of the Genesis print according to their donation rank at the end of the funding period.
Following that, the Beacon Book text (over 10,000 words to date) will be auctioned as an NFT. This NFT will be culturally important to the Ethereum community long into the future, the text capturing sentiment from its builders shaping the imminent transition between PoW and PoS, the past and the future.
Patrons are then given a token (potentially under BOOK, ticker TBD) in proportion to their donated ETH, which grants them a share of future sales of the Beacon Book NFT. (See John Palmer's ESSAY experiment for a case study on how this works.)
Similar to ESSAY, we plan to retain 25% of the BOOK supply for the Stateful team. We will extend this model to give 25% to the contributing Eth2 researchers and implementers. It's our strong conviction that public infrastructure and the people building it should be celebrated. This book and its associated mechanisms are our way of saying thanks!
Additionally, we've created 7 graphic NFTs that will be auctioned along with the Beacon Book NFT. The narrative and graphic style of each matches the book, and are prominently featured as 2 pages spreads throughout the text. See a partial sample below 👀 to give you an idea of what's coming.
Similar to the book NFT, future sales of these NFTs will accrue a % to holders of BOOK
Stateful / Beacon Book participated in Grants Round 9, and while the dollar amount we received may be small, it's like 32 ETH to us 🤗. Having early supporters is amazing, and helps us keep pushing towards the finish line! We welcome any and all continued donations for this project's continuing vision.
It's pretty barebones for now: Join here. There's an entire universe of experiments to be pursued after the Beacon Book, and we want you to join us and the rest of the Ethereum community in exploring these possibilities.
This is just the beginning.
send and verify test prints (hopefully this week)
get tests back, adjust accordingly
order final prints from printer
finalize the 7 graphic NFTs
Thanks for all your support! Please reach out if you have ideas for the project.
❤️ - Stateful Team
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