GreenPill

← GreenPill15 Sept · 39 min

S.10 Ep.13 The DAO Security Fund: Round 2 with Griff Green

S.10 Ep.13 The DAO Security Fund: Round 2 with Griff Green15 Sept39 min

New @greenpillnet pod out today!

In this episode of the Green Pill Podcast, Griff Green returns to discuss Round 2 of the DAO Security Fund a new approach to funding and coordinating security initiatives across the Ethereum ecosystem.

Griff explains what the first round revealed about the Ethereum security landscape, why Round 2 is designed to go deeper rather than wider, and how the DAO Security Fund aims to become a Schelling point for security funding coordination.

The conversation covers quadratic funding, security initiatives, RFPs, grants, milestone-based funding, market adoption, formal verification, operational security, bug bounties, and the role AI could play in making Ethereum more secure.

Griff also shares his vision for the DAO Security Fund: making Ethereum safer than banks by building shared infrastructure and moving the ecosystem from a reactive security posture to a proactive one.

In this episode:

- The results of DAO Security Fund Round 1

- What changes in Round 2

- How the new funding mechanism works

- Grants vs. RFPs

- Why market participation matters

- Funding Ethereum's shared security infrastructure