ENS DAO Newsletter
Issue #11 - 08/01/2022
👋 Hello!
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As always, new editions are published on the 1st and 15th of every month.
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🗳️ Term 2 Stewards and Lead Stewards
**This term’s Lead Stewards are listed in bold**
Ecosystem: slobo.eth, validator.eth, bobjiang.eth
Meta-Governance: coltron.eth, simona.eth, nick.eth
Public Goods: anthonyware.eth, ceresstation.eth, avsa.eth
🎖Lead Stewards
Lead Stewards are responsible for the operational management and administration of working groups and are expected to provide regular updates to the DAO in the ENS governance forum related to working group progress, achievements, and challenges.
The responsibilities of Lead Stewards include, but are not limited to:
Acting as a representative of a working group
Managing resource requests from sub-groups, workstreams, and contributors within a working group
Initiating the disbursement of working group funds on an as-needed basis
Providing reports of working group spending in the ENS governance forum; and
Maintaining open communications with DAO participants in the ENS governance forum.
✍️ DAO Secretary
Term 2’s DAO Secretary is Coltron.eth; The Secretary is responsible for managing working relationships and communications across working groups as well as performing administrative duties for the DAO.
The responsibilities of the Secretary include, but are not limited to:
Managing a DAO-wide calendar
Coordinating and attending working group meetings where possible and ensuring meeting summaries are posted in the ENS governance forum
Assisting Stewards with coordination challenges within working groups
Acting as a multi-sig keyholder for each working group.
Source: [EP12][Social] Working Group Rules
🗳️ Recent Proposals
[EP16.1] [Executable] Q3 & Q4 2022 Meta-Governance WG Budget - Active
[EP16.2] [Executable] Q3 & Q4 2022 Ecosystem WG Budget - Active
[EP16.3] [Executable] Q3 & Q4 2022 Public Goods WG Budget - Active
For details on the ENS DAO proposal process see our Governance Docs.
📰 Working Group News
⚖️ Meta-Governance
The Meta-Governance Working Group hosted meetings on July 18th, 2022 and July 25th, 2022 at 7PM UTC.
I. Budget Discussion
Attendees reviewed the proposed Q3/Q4 (2022) Budget for the Meta-Governance Working Group. Details regarding funding for DAO-tooling were reviewed. No objections were brought forth. Simona.eth will implement a mid-term spending review.
II. Code of Conduct
Discussion ensued regarding the details within the proposed Code of Conduct. Attendants estmcmxci.eth & vegayp.eth were tasked to sharpen the CoC into a compact and robust document. Moderators are responsible for executing the Code of Conduct once it goes live.
III. Forum Improvements
Stewards deliberated what metrics to include in forum plug-ins. Stewards are weary of possible gamification or presenting irrelevant information to Delegates. The Meta-Governance working group will continue to evaluate how they can better display proposal and voting information throughout the forum.
Attendees: carlosdp.eth, coltron.eth, oakgroup.eth, John Burnet, simona.eth, vegap.eth
🔄 Ecosystem
The Ecoosystem Working Group hosted meetings on July 18th, 2022 and July 25th, 2022 at 6PM UTC.
I. Budget Discussion
Attendees reviewed the proposed Q3/Q4 (2022) Budget for the Ecosystem Working Group. Builders are encouraged to present projects to the ENS DAO during this meeting time to seek feedback for grant funding. TNL will remain responsible for subdomain education.
II. Policy-based ENS subdomains issuance infrastructure
Sinestia.eth presented Community Name Service (CNS) which enables conditional ENS subdomains to be registered and distributed to communities. CNS implements soulbound tokens and are planning to integrate the ENS Name Wrapper as well. This project is open-source, builds on top of the ENS Protocol, and makes issues subdomains easier.
III. ENS Project Highlight
Garypalmerjr.eth is soft-launching a project to bring awareness to Web3 domains. (web3domains.com) It is a news an information website pertaining to web3 domains. They are seeking sponsorship and are open to syndicated content from trusted sources (TNL/ENS/ENSDAO)
IV. ENS Integrations:
The Audit competition has come to an end and an update is expected from the core team within a week on the contract audit status. Delegates are encouraged to review the alpha.ens.domains site and inform the ENS Development team of any issues.
Attendees (20): alisha.eth, oakgroup.eth, slobo.eth, validator.eth, carlosdp.eth, SydMead -eth.limo, anthonyware.eth, coltron.eth, Ernest of Gaia, gregskril.eth, hellenstans.eth, John Brunet, Pochara, Sam Ward, Sinestia.eth, Steve Gachau, tomas dev, Zadok.eth, ginge.eth, garypalmerjr.eth
✅ Public Goods
The Public Goods Working Group hosted meetings on July 19th, 2022 and July 26th, 2022 at 5PM UTC.
I. Budget Discussion
Attendees reviewed the proposed Q3/Q4 (2022) Budget for the Public Goods Working Group. No objections were brought forth.
II. ENS Small Grants
The voting period for the ENS Small Grants has now ended. Winning proposals will be funded shortly. Stewards reviewed some concerns regarding the proposal process including spamming and non-relevant proposal submissions. It was suggested to have a -1/+1 voting system with a threshold that removes down voted proposals.
A Code of Conduct specific to the ENS Small Grants site was suggested as well, including a flagging system to remove proposals that violated this Code of Conduct. Discussion was also held regarding the definition of Public Goods. An informative regarding Public Goods within the ENS Ecosystem will soon be published to help Delegates and Builders understand what projects fulfill the ENS Protocol’s long-term viability.
Attendees: alisha,eth, anthonyware.eth, avsa.eth, chidi, coltron.eth, gregskrill.eth, hellenstans.eth, joshua franklin, oakgroup.eth, ricmoo.eth, slobo.eth.
🖥️ Protocol Development
On July 19th, 2022, Jefflau.eth welcomed dperri.eth as the latest addition to the ENS Design team. They will help improve the design and UX of the latest ENS app (https://alpha.ens.domains) and their design system Thorin.
Makoto.eth issued the State of ENS at EthCC in Paris on July 20th, 2022. Updates include the imminent arrival of ENS Name Wrapper which grants the ability to turn any .eth name into a ERC1155 NFT. Wrapping a .eth domain enables the parent domain to restrict what can occur with subdomains. The name wrapper works by introducing the concept of fuses (rights), each fuse can be enabled/disabled permanently & irrevocably.
Watch the full stream here:
For more details, review the ENS Mirror site.
On July 21st, 2022, ENS announced their partnership with Huboi Global, a leading exchange with a strong presence in Asian Markets. They will collaborate on infrastructure to provide the ability to use ENS domains on their platform.
On July 28th, 2022, Rainbow Wallet announced its latest integration with ENS; their web collection page now works with ENS text records including:
avatar
description
url
discord
twitter
github
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📈 ENS Stats
July 2022 stats for ENS
378K new .eth registrations (total 1.86m names)
$6.8m in protocol revenue (all goes to the DAO)
5,400 ETH in revenue (highest ever month)
48K new eth accounts w/ at least 1 ENS name (total 508k)
99% of OpenSea domain vol
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