Hello, world!

We are the Argot Collective: A non-profit, democratically organized, research & development group focused on maintaining free and independent software related to Ethereum.

Read the announcement on our blog for all details or follow this thread for a tl;dr ▾

Solidity is an object-oriented, high-level language for implementing smart contracts on Ethereum.

Argot Collective is a non-profit, democratically organized, research & development org focused on free and independent software related to Ethereum. → argot.org

Over the last year, we've been working as a functionally autonomous group within the @ethereum Foundation, exploring our future governance mechanisms and preparing for independence. We are thankful to the EF for fully supporting us in this exploration phase. 🌱

We believe that Ethereum requires dedicated individuals focused on its core infrastructure, working free from commercial pressures, and supported by long-term funding.

Argot has an explicitly non-profit and open-source mission, and aims to be a balancing force against overly finance-driven entities in the space, whilst also serving as a positive example of values-aligned governance models.

Financial and organizational transparency is one of our core values. Hence, we'll publish budgets, roadmaps, and details on our governance framework.

We will be seeded with a grant from the Ethereum Foundation and aim to transition into our own legal entity in 2025.

We are very happy to be sharing our plans publicly and look forward to continuing our contributions to Ethereum in our new home.

A big thank you to all the orgs and collectives we have reached out to along the way for sharing their knowledge, expertise, and resources!

If you're interested in learning more about us, our governance philosophy, why we are moving into a new organization, and our future plans, please do check out our detailed announcement blog post.

See you at @devcon!

If you're interested in learning more about us, our governance philosophy, why we are moving into a new organization, and our future plans, please do check out our detailed announcement blog post.

See you at @devcon!

https://argot.org/blog/hello-world

With an initial focus on languages, formal and source code verification, Argot will become the new home for
▸ Act
▸ Ethdebug
▸ @fe-lang
▸ Hevm
▸ @soliditylang.eth
▸ Sourcify
The team members of these @ethereum projects are the founding members of Argot.

All current team members of the Fe, Formal Verification, Solidity and Sourcify teams of the Ethereum Foundation are the founding members of Argot. We are around 25 people, specializing as compiler engineers, verification experts, and programming language theorists.