Checkout last month’s This Month in ENS DAO. Expect these to typically come out the second week of the month.
ENS DAO takes a few weeks off over the holidays so there were no calls until mid-way through January.
There were two big areas of focus for ENS DAO governance over the last month:
- Funding Working Group budgets for Q1/Q2 2023
- Treasury Management through a (now successful) proposal to sell 10k ETH into USDC and the continued work on the ENS ENDAOment
Additionally, there was also a lot of activity on the ever-so-important NameWrapper update
Working Group Q1/Q2 budgets
| USDC | ETH | $ENS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENS Ecosystem Working Group | 935,000 | 254 | - | Link |
| MetaGovernance Working Group | 364,000 | 125 | 3,500 | Link |
| Public Goods Working Group | 250,000 | 50 | - | Link |
| total | 1,549,000 | 429 | 3500 |
This does not include the $4.1m that is streamed daily to the ENS Labs development team, so total yearly budget would be about $8m+
In terms of where these funds are going, the Public Goods Working Group ($250k & 50 ETH) is all on funding grants and teams in the ecosystem, like ENS Small Grants(50 ETH), Gitcoin Grants ($50k), Rapid Grants ($50k + 10 ETH), and Large Grants ($150k)
Compensation for the nine governance stewards and secretary fall under the MetaGovernance Working Group. Here are the other planned expenses as well as the allocation for the Ecosystem Working Group
Caney Fork voted for the execution of this on-chain proposal. Notable: brantly.eth voted against it.
Treasury
Two big initiatives the past few weeks.
First, was the passing of the sell 10,000 ETH to USDC, which was successfully executed yesterday through CoW Protocol. Caney Fork voted against this proposal (reasoning in the ENS forum), because the trade was not split up into multiple orders. Prior to the vote, this was discussed in the forum & on last week’s governance call. Regardless, it is nice to see another DAO venture into the sovereign treasury management space.
Elsewhere in treasury, the ENS Endowment led by Karpatkey is moving along. It aims to take about 25% of the ENS treasury (16k ETH) to be managed in a Zodiac-enabled SAFE by Karpatkey. They posted a series of strategies to be used in mid January for community input, and then just this week have prepared a draft for an executable on-chain proposal in the forum. Also check out a recent FAQ Karpatkey posted in the forum.
ENS Name Wrapper update
The long-awaited upgrade wraps existing ENS names as ERC-115 tokens, which includes better permission control over wrapped names and subdomains. This would enable a single ENS name to issue a series of subdomains as connected NFTs. Nice explainer here.
It was first deployed to Goerli last July, and then was sent back for another round of audits. It was re-deployed in mid-January and once again on Jan 30 for what seems to be 
) the last time. Jeff Lau explained the differences in the latest update: more explicit about the state of subnames and what a wrapped name is, .eth expiry and allowing forever subnames.
Goerli deployment and Github code
Other updates and interesting stuff
- ENS Fairy - a cabal that buys names for new entrants to the ENS ecosystem (companies, celebrities, etc), when names expire - has received a lot of attention in the forum on who decides what names to be purchased. The good type of DAO drama imo.
- Incredibly simple tool to resolve ENS names to addresses for Google Sheets from gregskril.eth. Takes 60 seconds to install
- Postmortem on vulnerability in ENS subgraph
- Public Goods Small Grants winners of the month
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