Did you know that a lotus plant doesn’t disappear when its flowers are gone?
After the bloom, the lotus can look still, almost empty. But beneath the water, something remains alive. Anchored in the mud, with hidden roots holding through the dark, storing energy for what comes next. The visible flowers? They just come and go, like all moments in life.
Lotus plants reappear in many ways. They can regrow from their living parts, those hidden under the mud, or they can also rise from their seeds. Always patiently waiting for the right conditions to bloom again.
Since our inception, at The Red Guild we dedicated ourselves to contribute to Ethereum's security as a public good.
We managed to position the team in a unique spot between web2 and web3 security, earning our place as one of the most recognized contributors to public good in crypto security. Our work and impact took many forms.
Throughout these years, we've built our reputation with impactful contributions across a wide range of under-provided areas of the crypto ecosystem. We hunted bugs, published research, built and maintained educational resources, supported events, trained people on phishing and scam awareness, created security frameworks, ran undercover security campaigns, and even wrote a book!
Long are the days when people thought Ethereum security was just smart contracts. That’s so obvious today, but wasn’t years ago, when we repeated stage after stage, workshop after workshop, that crypto security must move beyond smart contracts.
Attackers these days are, well, everywhere. Cloud infrastructure, supply chains, developer machines, operational gaps, inside your agents, wallets, etc., etc., etc. Targeting every human edge where trust can be abused.
We cannot expect to defend against that with occasional public-good funding and the hope that important work will, somehow, sustain itself. So, ever since we lost financial support from the Ethereum Foundation in late 2025, we’ve gone into lotus mode, no bloom above, but holding steady below.
Underwater, figuratively and literally, letting the river spread the seeds we’d dropped, quietly grabbing to the mud, slowly restarting to grow for our next season.
That starts now.
New season
The Red Guild is embodying its true identity. What we’ve always been. A guild. A network of security experts with a shared craft, shared standards, and a shared responsibility. We’ll help people connect, learn, contribute, find work, build trust, and apply their skills where they are most needed.
As of today, we’re selectively opening The Red Guild to committed, value-aligned security people who want to help us defend the crypto ecosystem.
We’re building a tight, trusted network of experts with different security backgrounds, that we'll hand-pick and connect with teams that need help securing their systems, users, infrastructure, and operations.
We’re looking for web2/web3 security practitioners to help assess, certify, and harden crypto organizations.
Relevant backgrounds:
- Protocol operations, multisig management, and treasury security
- Infrastructure security, DevSecOps, and supply chain security
- Identity and access management, DNS security, phishing defense, and account takeover prevention
- Wallet security, scam prevention, abuse investigations, and takedown coordination
- Incident response, threat intelligence, and crisis support
- Smart contract security, pentesting, and adversarial reviews
- Cryptography, ZK, formal methods, and applied security research
And any other adjacent areas where crypto teams are increasingly exposed. If you’ve secured how organizations actually operate — not just their code — we want to hear from you.
We still believe Ethereum needs independent security work that serves the public good. This work becomes stronger when connected to sustainable paths for talented people to do it. A guild should not expect people to contribute just out of passion. It should help create channels where their skills are useful, trusted, and valued.
From now on, The Red Guild will be a public-facing security organization, a tightly connected network of experts in the field. Their values matter, as much as their expertise, proficiency, and execution. We'll support ecosystem-level security while helping our members find meaningful work.
Some people will be experienced security researchers. Others may come from infrastructure, DevOps, backend engineering, cloud security, incident response, education, user protection, cryptography, or other fields that crypto security urgently needs.
The Red Guild’s next season comes from a humbling lesson we’ve learned: the work is bigger than us. And we want you to join.
Because this time, we are not blooming alone.
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