Stateful Works

Stateful Works are a group of passionate longtime community members interested in exploring and creating Ethereum culture. Stateful Works' first project, a limited run print book focused on the people and teams that brought the Ethereum Beacon Chain to life. This book will feature profiles, reflections, and stories from Eth2 implementers and researchers. We want to share the stories of the people that made this possible. We have been working on this for the past few months, and have made significant progress towards defining and realizing the vision. So far, we have gathered profiles from over 25 Eth2 contributors, with many more to come. We think the artifact that frames the work can be as important as the content itself. So much of what we consume exists ephemerally in feeds and chats: the Beacon Book captures a snapshot of sentiment, ported into object-form. This artifact will live on as something to be read, referenced, and carefully stored long into the future. The bulk of the Genesis Edition (~100 books) will be distributed on-chain, similar to Unisocks. The main difference is that we plan to use a Balancer Smart pool to allow maximal access for the entire Ethereum community. Learn more about how these mechanisms function through case studies like the Bankless BAP and PERP. Finally, an important goal of this project is to promote and support Ethereum Public Goods. Therefore, any net ETH generated by the Genesis sale net of printing, shipping and contributor costs will be donated to the Open Grants Eth2 stream.