Lido Finance's governance forum has passed a vote to allocate $6 million via the Protocol Guild, a funding tool that supports developmental activities, pertaining to the Layer 2 space. In addition to that, it also offers autonomous recruitment, retention, and reward mechanisms for contributors to the core Ethereum protocol.
The Protocol Guild offers a public goods funding mechanism for maintaining the Ethereum protocol to create a financial incentivize for improving the core Ethereum codebase as well as supporting both individuals and teams.
The funding concept came about as a response to correcting the inadequacies in terms of retroactive funding methods. Other issues include problems among individual contributors since their designs are prioritized mainly by projects and teams.