Argot Collective is a non-profit, independent research and development collective that maintains core programming languages and developer tooling for the Ethereum ecosystem. Argot Collective's Twitter Score is 36 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #27,024 (top 10%) among 498,348 tracked accounts.
Argot Collective was formed on October 31, 2024 by roughly 25 former Ethereum Foundation members with backgrounds in compiler engineering, formal verification, and programming-language research. The collective incorporated in July 2025, at which point it transitioned employment contracts, infrastructure, and project repositories away from the Ethereum Foundation into its own governance structure. Argot Collective operates under a non-hierarchical, democratic model built on consent-based decision-making, and explicitly rejects equity sales, token sales, closed-source development, and monetization of closed data as funding paths.
Argot Collective's primary projects include Solidity, the dominant smart-contract programming language for Ethereum, alongside Sourcify, Fe, hevm, Act, and ethdebug. In a notable maintenance action, Argot Collective issued an emergency Solidity 0.8.34 security release on February 18, 2026 to address a high-severity bug in IR code generation. Funding for the collective comes from several public-goods sources, including the Ethereum Foundation, Octant, the ENS DAO Public Goods Working Group, Gitcoin, and Optimism Retro Funding.
Argot Collective has published 562 posts on the platform and has 2,668 followers as of October 2026. Argot Collective has been mentioned by 36 accounts, with 52 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Argot Collective include 130 founders, 47 angel investors and 35 influencers. Among them are Tarun Chitra, Eric Wall, sassal.ethacc, Banteg, Gabriel Shapiro and Binji.