ENS DAO Delegate Applications

💬 General Discussion
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ENS name: curia-delegates.eth

Our reasons for wanting to be a delegate:

We’re Curia Lab, a governance-focused team that works full-time across DAOs like Arbitrum, Optimism, Uniswap, Compound, Obol, and Everclear. We build governance analytics tools, dig into on-chain data, and participate in DAO’s proposals.

ENS matters to us because it’s one of the few protocols that genuinely touches the entire Ethereum ecosystem. Almost every wallet, dapp, and user interacts with ENS in some way, so getting governance right here really counts. We’d like to bring what we’ve learned from working across multiple DAOs to help with that.

Here’s what we’d focus on:

What we’d focus on as a delegate:

  1. Long-term sustainability. We care about making sure the protocol and treasury are managed in a way that keeps ENS running strong for long term.
  2. Data-driven decisions. We come from an analytics background, so we naturally lean toward grounding discussions with actual data.
  3. Ecosystem growth. We want to see more ENS adoption, better developer tools, and deeper integrations across Web3.
  4. Showing up. We’ll vote, explain our reasoning, join forum discussions, and work with other delegates and working groups. Consistently.

Our view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution:

  • Name ownership shall not be infringed: Agree. This one is non-negotiable for us. If someone legitimately registers a name, it’s theirs. Governance should never be able to take that away. That principle is what makes ENS trustworthy as a censorship-resistant public good.

  • Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: Agree. Fees should be there to discourage squatting and make sure names end up with people who actually want to use them, not to squeeze maximum revenue. At the same time, the DAO does need enough in reserves to cover security, maintenance, and development. It’s a balance worth getting right.

  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree. ENS is a public good and should operate like one. Revenue goes toward keeping the protocol running and supporting public goods in the Ethereum ecosystem however spending should be transparent and accountable.

  • ENS integrates with the global namespace: Agree. For ENS to reach mainstream adoption, it needs to play nicely with the existing DNS system. The goal should be to complement the internet’s naming infrastructure.

Our web3 qualifications / skills:

  • Professional DAO governance team with 3+ years of experience across Arbitrum, Optimism, Uniswap, Compound, Obol, Everclear, and others.

  • We built and maintain Curia Hub, a governance analytics dashboard that tracks delegate activity, proposals, and voting patterns across multiple DAOs.

  • Strong technical skills in Python, SQL, data engineering, and blockchain development, which we use for on-chain governance analysis.

  • Published research on delegate behavior, voter participation, and incentive design

Conflicts of Interest:

We work with several other DAOs including Arbitrum, Optimism, SafeDAO, and GnosisDAO. If a conflict comes up, we’ll flag it publicly and sit out the vote.

Links:

ENS DAO Newsletter #110 — 4/15/2026