Refer to the official ENS DAO Calendar for meeting links and times. Any other sources are not guaranteed to be accurate. Access the ENS Calendar here.
ENS DAO Term 6 Dashboard
The ENS DAO Term 6 Dashboard is a comprehensive guide to ENS DAO’s governance and activities. It includes key resources such as the ENS DAO Constitution, meeting schedules via the ENS DAO Calendar, and updates through the bi-weekly ENS DAO Newsletter.
The dashboard outlines proposal processes, thresholds for social and executable proposals, governance environments, working group schedules, and details on Requests for Proposal (RFPs) for compensated tasks. It aims to enhance transparency, understanding, and participation within the ENS ecosystem.
ENS DAO Basics: Your Gateway to Governance
Discover how the ENS DAO works and how you can to become involved. View the official guide to ENS governance, proposals, and participation. Whether you’re new or experienced, everything you need to start is here.
Anticapture’s analysis reveals how vulnerable the DAO is to governance capture. Using 30+ signals—from voting concentration to Council delegate overlap—it explains the logic behind the Security Council and surfaces key risks to decentralization.
Awesome ENS is a curated GitHub repo collecting key ENS tools, dapps, docs, and community resources. It’s useful for anyone building with or learning about ENS—perfect starting point for devs, researchers, and DAO contributors.
🏛 Term 6 Proposals
About Proposals
Proposals are how changes are made to the DAO’s status quo. They can be submitted by anyone meeting the required $ENS thresholds and are voted on by delegates based on their token holdings. If a proposal reaches quorum and passes, it is ratified and implemented.
10k ENS: Required for a social proposal — an agreement of the DAO on matters that cannot be enforced onchain.
100k ENS: Required for an executable proposal — involves smart contract operations executed by DAO-controlled accounts.
Proposal Bulletin
The Proposal Bulletin summarizes Term 6 proposals—both onchain (executable) and offchain (social)—from January 2025 to December 2025. It covers key actions like ETH-to-USDC conversions, endowment expansions, service provider funding, and governance process improvements.
The bulletin aims to enhance transparency and keep stakeholders informed about DAO decisions Details of current proposals will be provided
To shape the future of ENS, become a delegate: delegate your tokens (even to yourself), post your intro on the forum, add delegate records to your ENS name, and set it as your Primary ENS. Manage your profile at delegate.ens.domains
gozmangonzalez.eth
@GozmanGonzalez submitted their delegate application, emphasizing legal expertise in compliance & DAO governance to support ENS’s secure, accessible, community-aligned growth. Advocates for the ENS Constitution principles and transparent governance within the Ethereum ecosystem.
ENS approved an executable to enable L2 reverse registrars and set the NameWrapper as the new .eth registrar controller. The upgrade streamlines L2 reverse resolution and supports ERC‑7828 for interoperable, chain-aware ENS addresses.
A proposal suggests enabling the ENS DAO to manually register 1- and 2-character .eth domains like l2.eth and zk.eth for public infrastructure. While supporters see this as a way to secure key namespaces, others caution against potential misuse and revenue loss.
Proposal: Tally as ENS DAO Governance Service Provider?
A proposal suggests onboarding Tally as a dedicated governance service provider for ENS DAO. Goals include improving delegate tooling, increasing proposal transparency, and supporting better onchain coordination. Community feedback is underway.
ENS launched the ENSv2 Hub: a central resource for the next evolution of ENS. It features roadmaps, specs, product previews & updates about the new registry, smart contracts, Namechain & more — all built openly for the next billion users.
ENS is running a short survey to understand how developers are building with ENS and where support can improve. Your input helps shape the future of docs, tooling, and features across the protocol.
ENS finalized core ENSv2 contracts & SDK, launched the ENSv2 Hub, dSheets integration, and two new apps. Renewals overtook registrations as revenue driver. Growth in social, ecosystem & ICANN presence. Team expanded to 31 as ENSv2 gears up for launch.
ENS Labs, the non-profit organization responsible for the core software development of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is searching for professionals to fill the following roles:
ENS Labs Highlighted kpk.io’s $2.36M Win for ENS DAO
ENS Labs highlighted kpk.eth’s skillful use of TWAP swaps on CoWSwap to save $2.36M for the ENS DAO treasury. By timing ETH-to-stablecoin swaps carefully, kpk.io achieved an 18.2% premium — proving strategy maximizes DAO value.
ENS at ETHcc: Ses.eth
Simon Emanuel (ses.eth) gave his first EthCC talk, leading a Zero To Dapp workshop on building & deploying full-stack dapps with ENS. Held July 2 at Taylor Stage, it prepped devs for ETHGlobal Cannes.
ENS upgraded ens-contracts with better CCIP, standardized feature detection (IFeatureSupporter), and multicall resolver support. Improves flexibility, batching, and future-proofing for cross-chain resolutions with updated methods and tests.
Debate over ERC-7982 centers on verifying decentralized storage for CCIP-Read. Amid concerns over validating IPNS and Web3 URLs without complex client changes, proposals include using self-verifying IPNS records or offloading verification to ENS and Layer 2 solutions.
CIDv1.eth provides Solidity libraries for onchain CIDv1 encoding, supporting various multicodecs & multihashes. Discussion raised issues with long CIDs hitting DNS & gateway limits. Workarounds include RFC 4408, local gateways, and hybrid inlined/multihash records.
Are you integrating ENS into your stack, experimenting at the protocol level, or have a unique use you’d like to share? Consider submitting it for inclusion in the Newsletter. Share updates on projects, events, achievements, or community changes for inclusion.
ZK Email introduces Email-as-ENS: turn your email into an ENS name! Map your email to your wallet and use it across Web3. Example: alice@gmail.com → alice$gmail.com.zkemail.eth.
In May, Gregskril.eth & 0xfran.eth called for Rabby Wallet to support ENS name resolution. By July 1, it was implemented. Support for subdomains is still in progress, but this is a noteworthy milestone nonetheless!
Enscribe Launches EFP Integration at EthCC
Enscribe unveiled its EFP integration just in time for EthCC, showcasing Vitalik’s ENS social graph and ENS names in one place. The app, boosted by EFP, makes exploring ENS profiles seamless.
→ Check it out: app.enscribe.xyz
SuiNS Announces ENS Integration
SuiNS acquired sui.eth and is developing cross-chain features to bring ENS utility to SuiNS names. This integration unlocks EVM chain functionality while preserving native SuiNS operations — a step towards portable identities across chains.
Vmint: Onchain Media Platform with ENS Profiles
Vmint lets creators mint ENS-based profiles, upload & mint media as NFTs, set ad prices, and earn through a fee-sharing model. Integrated with EFP for a decentralized social graph, Vmint redistributes platform revenue to creators & NFT holders once $100+ is earned.
ENS MCP Server: Lookup ENS Names with Agents
Austin Griffith recommends the ENS MCP server to let agents resolve ENS names and manage addresses by name. Example: “make atg.eth the owner of this contract.”
Namespace welcomes Pedro Filho, a full-stack developer with experience at Pump.fun, Kraken, Violet & Blockchain.com. He loves backyard automation & ENS infra.
Namespace welcomes Usman Khan, a Growth & Partnerships expert with experience at Chainnodes, Stakater & S&P Global. He’s into gaming, golf & BBQ mastery.
Namefi.io enables tokenized DNS domains from your wallet address in 1 click. Enable DNSSEC, turn on AutoENS, and your domain is imported & ready as your web3 identity.
Ses.eth demonstrates how Fluidkey uses ENS to generate dynamic stealth addresses: every ses.fkey.id resolution creates a new, unlinkable address under user control — enhancing privacy while retaining ownership.
Mat from ECF invites the ENS community to alpha-test Pensieve, a decentralized wiki for web3 projects, by creating & moderating an ENS page. Read the primer & request an invite code to join.
📌 Working Group Bulletin
Term 6 Lead Working Group Stewards + Secretary Appointment
The responsibilities of the Lead Stewards & Secretary are set out in Rule 9.8 and Rule 9.9 of the Working Group Rules.
SafeNotes: Explore DAO Transactions
SafeNotes is a public dashboard for viewing real-time ENS DAO treasury activity. It tracks outgoing payments from ENS Safe wallets—showing amounts, recipients, categories, and descriptions. Great for transparency and transaction review.
ENS Ledger offers a dynamic Sankey chart tool to visualize DAO fund movements in ETH, stablecoins, and $ENS. Explore flows, click nodes for WG breakdowns, and view financial statements for any counterparty.
The ENS Steakhouse dashboard is an interactive data portal on Dune Analytics that gives the ENS community transparent, real-time insights into ENS’s finances. It shows key metrics like revenues, expenses, treasury assets, and endowment performance.
Acknowledging Recepients of the Service Provider Stream
The vote to select recepients of the Service Provider Stream, as established by EP 4.7, has now concluded. Builders are entrusted with improving the ENS system, as chosen by delegates. Become familiar with each Service Provider by visiting their builder profle:
The Meta-Governance Working Group provides governance oversight and support for working group operations through DAO tooling and governance initiatives.
Did you know? $ENS holders can delegate their voting power to trusted delegates to shape the future of the ENS protocol. Use ENS Agora to explore and track governance activity.
The Meta-Governance Working Group has published a formal FAQ clarifying ENS DAO’s proposed $5M equity investment in OpenBox Inc. It addresses legal structure, DAO oversight, expected returns, and precedent-setting implications.
A 5-member committee (+1 observer) was formed to conduct due diligence on the OpenBox proposal. The committee will work with Josh (Intercap) to provide analysis, keep the DAO informed, and maintain transparency. The aim is objective, informed analysis rather than binary recommendations.
Lighthouse Labs: ENS Org Identity Proposal
Lighthouse Labs proposes an ENS-based standard for DAO metadata (e.g., treasury, delegates), suggesting an ENSIP and pilot by ENS DAO. It aims to boost adoption, transparency, and DAO coordination.
The Ecosystem Working Group strengthens the ENS Protocol by facilitating developer relations, identifying and funding high-potential projects that enhance ENS, and supporting ENS-aligned initiatives.
The Ecosystem Working Group is awarding retroactive grants to technically oriented projects that advance the ENS protocol. Grants are reviewed on a rolling basis and presented during weekly ecosystem calls. Apply via the forum.
Ipê City Super App
Ipê City built a governance-ready ENS-based civic app enabling passports, marketplaces, and resource coordination for a crypto-native city. Awarded $10,000 USDC + 200 ENS for showcasing a novel real-world ENS use case.
ENS Builder Highlights
Substream
The Substream team at ETHGlobal showcased a tool that lets Intmax users register ENS subdomains (e.g., bob.stealthmax.eth) that resolve to stealth payment addresses managed in an Oasis TEE. This enables privacy-preserving, seamless payments where senders simply use an ENS name, while funds are securely routed to the recipient’s Intmax account.
The POAPPrivacy team used ENS as the base for resolving stealth meta-addresses, enabling users to receive POAPs to private, unlinkable addresses tied to their ENS name (e.g., name.eth). This preserves privacy while leveraging ENS as the identity anchor for lookups & minting.
Contx.eth transforms an X/Twitter profile into an AI-enhanced ENS identity in 30 seconds. It stores contextual AI data in a .contx.eth domain, enabling personalized AI interactions while leveraging ENS for resolution, ownership, and interoperability.
Elara enables one-click deployment of decentralized AI agents, each with its own ENS-based identity & subdomain. ENS stores the agent’s metadata, identity, and access control list using the contenthash field, ensuring secure interaction & ownership onchain.
ZK Email lets users register their email as an ENS name by proving email ownership onchain using zero-knowledge proofs. Users confirm via email, which is verified & matched to their ENS name.
JustaName advanced wallet infra (backend, smart wallet, multi-owner, scaling), contributed ENS standards (SEAL, ENSIP), and built GTM plans for ENS subnames. Partnered via XMTP, Commons & more, while supporting Yodl, Peanut & IPE City pilots.
The ENS Builder Grants platform supports public goods projects in Ethereum and Web3. With 22 ETH granted across 19 projects, it offers milestone-based funding reviewed by Public Goods Working Group stewards.
