Note: this option is intended to allow business sponsors; if you're an individual - well, honestly you probably shouldn't be sponsoring folks anyway (get your employer/company to do that!), but if you insist, mgravell is probably a better option.

protobuf-net is an entirely independent protobuf implementation for .NET; while it has a rich set of features, it is far from complete! However, time is the ultimately limiting factor. By sponsoring protobuf-net, you're helping fund my time

Right now, the key thing I want to deliver (given the time) is: AOT; this is important for tons of reasons, including:

• cold-start performance (no reflection, no emit)
• linker support (for trimmed deployments)
• better usage in scenarios like unity (where emit is restricted)

Other things I want to improve:

• more performance focus
• invest time fully exploring unity usage and compatibility
• features; for example reference-tracking, Any, better analyzers, ...