Yesterday, the Ethereum Foundation published the recap for the ETH Rangers program. This initiative supported seventeen researchers over six months in 2025. The data is out, and we're proud to say that it shows great contributions to the security of the ecosystem.
Looks like all The Red Guild's efforts in making ETH Rangers a reality are paying off! 🙌
The Red Guild ❤️ ETH Rangers
It was The Red Guild who led the whole initial process of ETH Rangers. While funded and originally incubated by the Ethereum Foundation, we spearheaded all preparatory phases up until candidates began their work.
Our team, led by matta and supported by tincho, organized and directed the selection process from the beginning. We set up the technical criteria and vetted the candidates to ensure they had what it takes to meaningfully contribute to public goods security while sacrificing the possibility to participate ourselves.
ETH Rangers was a first-of-its-kind initiative. And you know, we don't take public-good funding lightly. So, we spent months on screening, filtering, selection, follow-ups, and supporting promising candidates. We encouraged everyone to adapt and narrow down their projects to make the most out of their grant. If you were one of them, you know how hard we pushed and insisted on these initial phases.
The impact
After reading the Ethereum Foundation's recap, no doubt all the researchers we selected achieved amazing results during the program. Just look at these numbers 🔥
- Over 5.8 million dollars in funds recovered or frozen
- Over 785 vulnerabilities, client bugs, and proof of concepts reported or cataloged
- Approximately 100 state-sponsored operatives identified across more than teams
- Over 209,000 views and users reached with threat awareness and investigative content
- 800+ teams engaged in sponsored security challenges and investigations
- Over 80 workshops, talks, and technical or educational resources delivered
- 36+ incident responses handled
- 7+ open source tooling repositories, frameworks, and implementations developed or improved
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Ethereum needs public good security
We've been saying it over and over again: we cannot keep Ethereum secure without public good contributions.
The ecosystem must find viable ways to complement profit-driven teams with substantial efforts in open-ended research, educational resources, threat awareness and intelligence, opsec, whitehat recoveries, incident response, open-source tooling, etc, etc etc.
Public good security continues to be underfunded. Our team, having lost financial support from the Ethereum Foundation since the end of 2025, is just one of multiple examples.
We knew ETH Rangers was a fundamental initiative to demonstrate to the ecosystem how important public good security is, and how impactful it can be. Our involvement and work to make it happen is just proof of our relentless commitment to make this ecosystem safer for everyone.