When you hear the phrase "the Ethereum community", what institutions do you think of first?

(like: companies, organizations, groups, etc.)

I work for Ethereum at the Ethereum Foundation.

That phrase doesn't make me think of institutions at all, I think of users actively discussing Ethereum every day on Discord, Reddit, etc..

If forced to select institutions that would fall under that umbrella, the Ethereum Foundation, ETHGlobal, ETHStaker, Gitcoin, and Protocol Guild come to mind.

yeah, I see "the community" as an explicitly big-tent phrase that includes everything from core devs to new users. Just interested in what orgs specifically come to mind within that tent.

is there a phrase that *does* conjure up institutions, specifically? or maybe is more suggestive of institutions than individuals?

I'm struggling to think of anything more concise than "Ethereum-aligned institutions."

It would be great to have a term to easily distinguish between institutions that are contributing to positive sum long-term outcomes and the "crypto industry" which seems to be comprised of crypto-adjacent value extractors.

@joncharbonneau it’s alignment all the way down, and I don’t mean that sarcastically lol