ENS DAO Delegate Applications

ENS Name: cory.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate
Personal Identity is a fundamental human right. In the digital world, our personal identity will be our web3 identity. It is critical that the technology underpinning personal identity on the Internet is governed through fair, open, transparent principles.

I believe I possess those principles and the perspective to make, execute, and champion good, thoughtful decisions for the future of ENS. In my free time, I have written about ENS on social media many times. I was one of the first people on Twitter to make my name my ENS domain.

I have the time to engage with the DAO, thoughtfully research and question proposals, and vote with both intent and forethought.

My view on each section of the Proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right

Strongly Agree.

Personal Identity is a human right. All human beings should have the inalienable right to choose their name. No individual or entity should be able to restrict anotherā€™s ability to choose their name in the digital namespace.

In the case of exceptional and unpredictable scenarios which I presume to be malicious or harmful to ENS or humanity, I will reflect on history and philosophy to guide my choice.

  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism

Strongly Agree.

Registration fees and expiration are critical to the mechanics of ENS. Registration fees disincentivize squatting by putting recurring capital risk on domain holders. Expiration allows people to claim names which are abandoned.

Anecdotally, my preferred username on Twitter, Xbox, and Instagram are all squatted by abandoned accounts with no activity. At scale, this is a loss of human value by preventing humans from expressing their identity how they prefer.

I am a mathematician and can analyze the pricing and incentives based on a goal framework. The primary concern to consider is ensuring personal identity is not restricted by capital burden in developing communities, while balancing for squatting, first-mover advantages, and other downsides.

  • Income funds ENS and other public goods

Strongly Agree.

ENS is a public good and all funds should go towards development of ENS or ENS-aligned projects.

Funds should first go to ENS. When there are additional funds, they may be used to fund other public goods.

I am weary but open to ideas around a treasury which utilizes DeFi tooling to generate yield. While it feels sketchy and risky today, the rapid experimentation in web3 will likely surface better ideas than simple holding.

  • ENS integrates with the global namespace

Strongly Agree.

This feels particularly obvious. The global namespace shall include ENS and ENS shall integrate with it.

My web3 qualifications / skills

  • Experienced crypto Investor, passionately involved since 2013.
  • Work in web3 full-time as independent polymath
  • Mathematician and Computer Scientist. Intense self-study in Economics.
  • Tens of thousands of pro-crypto social media comments over last 8 years.
  • Onboarded all my friends, family, and even a coworker who became a core dev. Lost count of how many.
  • Creator @ethburnbot on Twitter
  • Developer for 12 years
  • Solidity/web3/JS full stack
  • Five years in Big Tech, two years at Seed->B startup as Employee #2 / Principal Engineer
  • Bachelors of Science in Honors Mathematics and Computer Science (double major)
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ENS name: born.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
I have a decent amount of experience in identity and crypto and I believe I can help positively shape the future of ENS. Iā€™m also a long time user of ENS; Iā€™ve owned and used domains since when it first launched. Iā€™ve been working in the identity space for 7 years (between Microsoft and Celo Labs) and working on web3 for 5 years. I currently lead the Identity team at Celo Labs.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree. No tyranny of the majority.
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree. For lack of fairer method, fees are a decent solution.
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree.
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agree.

My web3 qualifications / skills:

  • Worked on Ethereum tech on the Microsoft Blockchain team for 3 years
  • Lead Identity engineer at Celo Labs
  • Creator of TokenCast (NFT art display - incorporates ENS)
  • Advisor on a handful of crypto projects
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ENS name: starky.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I want to support the ENS community as well as the development to make it more efficient, i aslo believe ENS can represent any entity as a Web3 standard naming.

My view on each section of the [proposed ENS Constitution ] (Proposed ENS Constitution )

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment)- Agree
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment)- Agree
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment)- Agree
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment) - Agree

My web3 qualifications / skills: I am a Developer, cryptocurrency researcher,trader,investor

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ENS name: dwlz.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I believe in the decentralized web, but a big chunk of the crypto space is invested in centralized solutions. Weā€™ve been there, done that, and look where it got usā€”single points of failure, invisible governance, etc. This is not the crypto ecosystem I want to be a part of or support.

However, ENS proposes a new way of viewing identity on the Internet, and is so much more than just a domain-name service. The current iteration has only scratched the surface of whatā€™s possible. Iā€™d like to see further integrations with web3 projects involving account identity and authentication. There are so many cool things to be done!

I am a very good listener, a careful decision-maker, and have been in leadership positions throughout my career. But most of all I just really want to be a part of the revolution.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: Agree
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: Agree, with comment
    • The constitution holds that a secondary goal of fees is ā€œto provide enough revenue to the DAO to fund ongoing development and improvement of ENSā€. Itā€™s important to clarify what ā€œenough revenueā€ means, here. Specifically, if the DAO attains a certain low-water mark of revenue, should certain fees no longer taken? Perhaps this is something the DAO decides on later.
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree, with comment
    • Similar to the thoughts on Section II; I wonder how soon the DAO would need to consider how quickly spending occurs. Does the DAO hold onto funds until the perfect candidate for funding or investment emerges? Or are investments made at a constant cadence? A mix? Just food for thought.
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Agree
  • Amendments to this constitution: Comment
    • I know this wasnā€™t prompted, but I do I have a few comments. Is 5% a common value for DAO token participation? Basically, do I read correctly that amendments could ostensibly be passed with only 3.34% of tokens in favor of a proposal?

My web3 qualifications / skills: Iā€™ve been using Bitcoin since 2011 and more recently sold most of it and went all in on Ethereum. Iā€™m a professional software engineer (full-stack, more or less) and have been for over a decade. I work mostly with TypeScript, Python, Go, and maintain a few iOS apps as well (Swift/Objective-C). I recently picked up Solidity through the CryptoZombies course. Iā€™ve deployed a few solidity contracts on mainnet (nothing major, just for fun). I also run an Eth2 validator. Yay merge!

I also happen to be participating in Uniswapā€™s Hackathon this week; my project actually integrates with ENS, believe it or not!

Ultimately, Iā€™m not the most experienced web3 hacker, but Iā€™m a quick learner and have been building early-stage projects on the web for over a decade. I donā€™t plan to stop learning now :slight_smile:

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ENS name: pescennius.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:

ā€œIntelligence is not a privilege, itā€™s a gift. And you use it for the good of mankind.ā€ - someone wiser than I

Beyond being a technically curious person with relevant experience, the reason I want to be further involved with ENS is its potential to be one of many crypto projects that help bridge the gap between the developed and developing world.

While am American, I have worked on development projects in Africa and South America (I speak spanish as well) in addition to my day job since I was an engineering student. As a black American, Iā€™m also acutely aware of what the lives of the economicly marginalized within my own country look like. It is the economically marginalized who have the most to gain from open, permissionless, and community owned protocols/apps that are the promise of smart contract blockchains.

We canā€™t just build the technology and hope they come. The decisions that are made now at the protocol level need to be made in such a way that maximizes developers ability to leverage the protocol for consumer applications. Just like people never learned how DNS works while using web 2.0, the masses are likely never going to understand the intricacies of ENS. Instead we need to create a system with a robust set of incentives that protect the community from bad actors.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree that every individual (human person not legal person) should have the opportunity and sufficient access to leverage ENS. However
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** 100% agreed. I believe it is appropriate to apply a permutation of the land value tax to ENS which would disincentivize rent seeking behavior. Everyone should be able to afford an (meaning one) ENS name, but pricing should be controlled to disuade speculators.
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** 100% agreed. Income should be sufficient to cover associated costs to ensure sustainability.
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) I believe ENS will be the global namespace within a few decades.

My web3 qualifications / skills: I have basic web3/solidity skills. Iā€™m more familiar with the algorand ecosystem from a development perspective. However I am also a software developer and data scientist by trade and have experience with a number of programming languags, databases, and machine learning frameworks.

ENS name: clipinclout.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I am learning about web3 and discovered ENS a few months ago. ENS is a great community and I visit the Discord channel frequently. I would be excited to be involved with this DAO.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

Name ownership is an absolute right: Agree
Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: Agree
Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Agree

My web3 qualifications / skills: Career executive assistant with strong administrative skills. Passionate to learn more about crypto, NFTs, and web3. I love this space!

ENS name: cryptonerdtokyo.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I am an engineer of VR, WebFront, and BlockChain in Tokyo, Japan. I think I can support the development of ENS to make it greater. And I also want to make it the Web3 standard for naming with your guys.
Iā€™m a trilingual(Japanese/Chinese/English). I also run a community to share blockchain information with Chinese and Japanese people.

My view on each section of the [proposed ENS Constitution ] (Proposed ENS Constitution )

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment)- Agree
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment)- Agree
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment)- Agree
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment) - Agree

My web3 qualifications / skills: I am a skilled developer who is very familiar with Javascript, C#, Swift, and also have enough experience with C/C++, go, python and Java. In blockchain developing area, I have solid knowledge of EVM and solidity.
I have created some web3 program that interactive with ETH, Polygon, BSC, also some minor chains, and won some rewards in blockchain hackathons.
I also have experience with deploy contract for NFT mint.

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ENS name: anselmo.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I would like to participate and contribute towards the initiatives of Web 3.0 and decentralization by promoting the foundations of equity through delegation.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: Agree
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: Agree
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Agree

My web3 qualifications / skills: Solidity programming skills, web and software developer, nft collector and community supporter

ENS name: ericstrate.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I have the time, effort, and energy to help bring web2 users to discover ENS and web3. I believe having an ENS domain name is the first important step for web3 adoption.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment)**
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment)**
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment)**
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: ( Agree /Disagree/Comment)

My web3 qualifications / skills: I am a professional Digital Marketing Specialist in web2 and I know that web3 is very difficult for a lot of web2 users to understand. I believe ENS is a perfect first step in order for web3 adoption to increase. I am very bullish on ENS domains becoming a proof of social sign on, a NFT wallet/vault to hold tokens, documents, NFTā€™s and the primary web3 identification of users.

I am a web3 enthusiast, and I am actively participating in 2 future DAO communities. It would be an honor to help the ENS community become the #1 way web2 users are adopting web3.

Looking forward,
Eric Strate

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ENS name: hashnews.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Make the use of ens more widespread and fair

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)-Agree**
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)-Agree**
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)-Agree**
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)-Agree

**My web3 qualifications / skills: Metaverse product data analysis https://www.k1ic.com/cvb-zh.html **

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ENS name: blakeburrito.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Since getting involved in crypto (mid 2018, full-time since late last year) I quickly recognized the value in naming services and their contribution to making crypto more accessible. ENS is the leader in this space and a project whose values align with my own and Iā€™ve supported for some time as a user.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

Name ownership is an absolute right: AGREE, would support clearer language regarding regarding ā€œunfairly discriminateā€ against usersā€™ rights.
Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: AGREE
Income funds ENS and other public goods: AGREE
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: AGREE

My web3 qualifications / skills:
TL;DR Experienced user with availability & experience necessary to represent community on day 1.
Long time crypto/defi user, minted my first ENS name in Nov 2019. Iā€™ve been involved in the proposal side of governance as a user and successfully managed DAO working groups charged with community representation in the past.
Working with DAOs has been my primary focus for about a year so I do this full time. Iā€™ve never applied for a delegate role prior to this but have fulfilled the duties of one as a leading community member: reviewing proposals, relaying value to community, contributing to forum discussions, messaging strategies and informing on history of proposals, etc.

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== ENS name ==

jessepollak.eth

== My reasons for wanting to be a delegate ==

TL;DR ENS has the opportunity to be a key component of our new global identity infrastructure, I believe in the efforts core values, and I want to lend my expertise in shaping the protocolā€™s future. If youā€™d like to support me, please RT my announcement tweet.

Iā€™ve been thinking about identity and crypto when I dropped out of college in 2013 to build Clef, a passwordless two-factor authentication product that doubled as a native identity system. We started out by working with WordPress products, but pretty quickly realized that some of the folks who needed usable, secure identity most were crypto companies. That led to us expanding our product offering (by decentralizing the key storage and management to our partners) and working with some of the biggest crypto exchanges at the time to do their login.

When that business didnā€™t work, I joined Coinbase, partly because I loved crypto and partly because I believed the company had a huge opportunity with identity. In 2017, I wrote:

ā€œAt Coinbase, weā€™re building the open financial system for the world. On top of this system, I believe we have the opportunity to build the next widely-accepted identity platformā€”and leveraging the cryptographic properties of digital currency, I think we can do it in a decentralized manner.ā€

Reflecting back on my perspective on Coinbaseā€™s opportunity, I now realize that Ethereum is the open financial system and the opportunity to build the next widely-accepted identity platform lies with ENS. And, while I remain excited and engaged by my work at Coinbase, Iā€™m equally inspired to continue pushing my lifelong pursuit of a decentralized identity platform forward.

Beyond just the opportunity, Iā€™ve also been deeply inspired by ENSā€™s approach over the last three years. The protocol has moved deliberately, prioritized decentralization, and worked to create ā€œgood vibesā€ for the whole community. I share these observed values and Iā€™d like to lend my expertise (more below) to help ENS succeed over the next many decades.

== My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution 104 ==

Name ownership is an absolute right - Agree

Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism - Agree

Income funds ENS and other public goods - Agree

ENS Integrates with the global namespace - Agree

== My web3 qualifications / skills ==

I spent the last 4.5 years building all of the consumer-facing teams and products at Coinbase (Coinbase, Coinbase Wallet, Coinbase Pro). Starting in the middle of this year, I shifted out of that role to focus on DAOs and governance full time. Iā€™m now working on two DAOs oriented around supporting public goods while supporting DAO and decentralization efforts internally at Coinbase.

At Coinbase, I led major strategic technical initiatives (e.g. replatforming our entire mobile stack to React Native) as well as significant organizational growth (i.e. grew the team from 3 ā†’ 150). I have a technical background, comfort with web3 programming (though not expert), and experience operating in governance discussions. I also have a significant amount of people management and organizational strategy experience and enjoy coaching, supporting, and growing humans more than anything else. I believe that this combination of deep technical background and broad people skills will be a strong addition to the ENS delegate group.

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ENS name: 0x-hodl.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: ENS is a way provide a core and essential service to the Web3 infrastructure. Iā€™d like to do my part to preserve, protect, and enhance the system.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree. Every organization needs a treasury
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agree, .com just doesnā€™t provide the same web3 feelz

My web3 qualifications / skills: I have been a traditional web2 dev/engineer since 1999 and web3 is an extension of that foundation. As a co-founder and executive at a multi-million dollar company, I can also contribute at a leadership level.

ENS name: cottons.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: i am passionate about the future of web3 and its ability to bring good to the world. i have committed to its long term success.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: agree.
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: agree.
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: agree. much we can do.
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: agree. there should be no disagreements or confusions created by ens.

My web3 qualifications / skills: i am profecient in end-use web3 and general contract structure and logic.

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ENS name: jeeves.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Iā€™m interested in volunteering in the ENS community because of the critical role in plays in the web3 world. The community needs to be able to trust ENS as a fair and open custodian of identity.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agree
    Name registration and retention infrastructure and services should be impartial and not pick winners and losers. While some names may incur social penalties, those penalties or discriminatory behavior should not extend into the name registration process itself.

  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agree
    Registration fees should primarily be for preventing excessive squatting and maintaining a healthy namespace. I would hope the treasury would get to the size where collecting fees for supporting ongoing operations would be unnecessary.

  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agree

  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agree

My web3 qualifications / skills:

  • 10+ years in software development/architecture/product management working remotely. I can get things done.
  • 10+ years in serving on board of non-profit. I can get along well with people.
  • Half-way up the degenscore leaderboard, early believer in pooltogether
  • First bought bitcoin in 2012 and run my own node
  • OK at bass clarinet
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ENS name: BitcoinLouie.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: It is my duty to help Ethereum succeed and I volunteer to help in as many Ethereum Applications as I can.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)**
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)**
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)**
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)

My web3 qualifications / skills: Early adopter of NFTā€™s, Defi, Mist Browser, Ethereum POW mining since Genesis and ETH2 Node operator. Also, I like Validator.eth tweets a lotā€¦soooo. he owes me.

ENS name: liangfenxiaodao.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I would like to participate and contribute to the future of web3.0, DAO, and metaverse.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: Agree
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: Agree
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Agree

My web3 qualifications / skills:

20 years in software development.
2 years in solidity development.

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**ENS name: KynAdams.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: As an IT Support Specialist i deal with DNS on a regular basis so naturally I see the absolute utility in ENS usage and want to be a part of the movement

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Definition or Decentralized)**
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Valuation helps drive competition)**
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/the results of the NFT market proves this)**
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/It is Metaverse ID)

My web3 qualifications / skills: I am a Novice in Web 3 but am learning quickly with the 40 Acres DAO

ENS name: yuggren.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
I have been active in various crypto communities all year round.
I am very good at listening to the voices from the community.
I believe I can become a hub between the ENS community and community members.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: Agree
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: Agree
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Agree

My web3 qualifications / skills:
My profession is a product manager in the cryptocurrency industry, and I also have some programming skills.
I have developed smart contracts and simple DApps based on the EVM/Solana chain.
At the same time, I am an open-minded person with excellent analytical skills.
I believe that I will become a qualified DAO participant.

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ENS name: yomionileowo.eth

My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I am motivated by the possibilities and capabilities of etherium and web3 and I believe I can be a voice to drive the adoption of ENS. I am also willing to be of help to the community and make the lives of people better.

My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution

  • Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree.
  • Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree.
  • Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree.
  • ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agreeā€¦

My web3 qualifications / skills: I am a Microsoft Certified Profession and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (back in the days MCP and MCTS) and I now have an MSc in Cyber Security and I am always of seeker of knowledge for things that can be beneficial to myself and the community at large. I am into cryptocurrency, researching into various projects. I currently work as a Configuration Analyst for Electronic Patient Record systems.

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