Top Ethereum Protocol Teams Including Aragon, Lido, and the Uniswap Foundation Unite to Launch Global Policy Alliance to Defend Infrastructure Securing $100B
Growing Demand Meets Policy Disconnect
This effort comes as public interest in digital assets continues to grow. According to the Crypto Survey 2025 by Strategy & PwC network, retail investors are increasingly turning to crypto, with typical portfolio allocations now ranging from 5% to 20%. In the United States, recent polling from the DeFi Education Fund and Ipsos finds that 56% of Americans want full personal control over their money, and more than half agree that people should be able to send it digitally without intermediaries. Notably, 42% say they would likely try decentralized finance if clear legislation were passed.
Ethereum protocols have spent the past decade building global, resilient, and verifiable infrastructure that allows users to self-custody and transact without intermediaries. As this infrastructure saw growing global demand and adoption, centralized actors invested heavily in lobbying and gained outsized influence in policymaking. Now, regulators are confronting increasingly complex questions about onchain systems, yet the principles and technologies underpinning the infrastructure are often misunderstood or dismissed.
This disconnect makes clear why the teams building protocols need a stronger voice to ensure policy reflects how these systems actually work and serves the people who access them globally.
Builders Take a Seat at the Policy Table
The formation of the EPAA marks a critical step toward ensuring that public policy is grounded in the technical realities of how onchain protocols operate and is aligned with the values of security, neutrality, and transparency. Leaders from the founding protocol teams emphasized the importance of giving builders a direct voice in policy discussions.
Four Core Priorities
Through shared policy positions, technical input, and educational resources, the Alliance will advance four core priorities:
- Protecting the neutrality of the protocol layer by ensuring regulation does not interfere with the code itself or how it is developed
- Advancing onchain transparency as a real-time verifiable source of compliance
- Preserving flexibility for protocol innovation by avoiding overbroad requirements or rigid standards
- Upholding global, permissionless access to onchain infrastructure
Coalition-Building for Effective Advocacy
The Alliance will collaborate closely with aligned organizations such as the DeFi Education Fund, the Decentralization Research Center, and the European Crypto Initiative to support existing advocacy efforts with pragmatic and technical expertise. By involving protocol teams directly in policy discussions, the initiative aims to ground regulation in technical reality and strengthen the foundations of a decentralized ecosystem.
The joint effort will help ensure regulation is effective, technically grounded, and supportive of the principles that keep Ethereum protocols secure, neutral, and transparent.
About
Ethereum Protocol Advocacy Alliance
The Ethereum Protocol Advocacy Alliance (EPAA) is a group of Ethereum protocol builders coordinating policy efforts and supporting the broader advocacy ecosystem. Representing protocols securing over $100B in onchain assets, EPAA brings the perspective of teams actively building and operating onchain infrastructure.
Aragon
Aragon provides the infrastructure for protocols to manage capital allocation, governance, and ownership onchain. Its full-stack framework helps secure over $40 billion in assets across leading protocols including Lido, Curve, Polygon, Taiko, Morpho, and Katana.
Lido Labs Foundation
Lido is an open-source liquid staking middleware that enables participation in Ethereum network validation without running infrastructure. With a mission to democratize staking, Lido middleware connects users with node operators to make staking more accessible and secure.
Uniswap Foundation
The Uniswap Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to creating a more open and fair financial system by supporting innovation across the Uniswap community.
Frequently Asked Questions
To ensure regulation reflects how onchain protocols work in practice, at a time when protocol infrastructure is underrepresented, misunderstood, and often overlooked.
No. It complements existing efforts by contributing the builder perspective.
It’s led by protocol teams actively building and maintaining onchain systems.
The Alliance was initiated by Aragon, but there is no formal leadership. It’s a loose coalition coordinated by members.
No. Participation is flexible and designed to support existing efforts and workstreams.
The Ethereum Foundation is supportive of the initiative, but not a formal member.
They were invited based on longstanding, credible track records building Ethereum protocols.
Yes. The Alliance is designed to grow over time, though there are no immediate plans to expand membership.
Members may contribute to partner advocacy efforts, but there is no shared budget or central staff.
There are no current plans to do so. The structure is intentionally lean.
Some may, but the focus is on coordination and shared policy input.
The focus is global, with initial attention on U.S. and EU frameworks.
We will work with our advocacy partners where legislation directly affects protocols.
By contributing technical input and reinforcing their advocacy efforts.
Yes. Through our partnerships with aligned advocacy organizations.
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