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Working Group Bulletin
Term 7 Working Group Stewards
The responsibilities of the Lead Stewards & Secretary are set out in Rule 9.8 and Rule 9.9 of the Working Group Rules.
Calendar
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.
Proposals
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[Executable] Activate ENSv2
This proposal activates ENSv2: freezes new v1 .eth registrations, keeps unmigrated names renewable, reserves existing names, then shifts registration and resolution to v2. Owners migrate when ready; Labs hands all v2 admin roles to the DAO after launch.- Vote: Pending
- Discussion: Open
- Results: Pending
Temp Checks
Funding Request: 201,559 USDC through June 2027
Meta-Governance submitted a social proposal for 201,559 USDC. The funds cover costs from October 2026 to June 2027. It is now the only ENS DAO Working Group. It will review governance, fund security audits, manage SPP2/3, and support endowment handover. Monthly cost: 13,500 USDC.
→ Discussion: [Social] Funding Request: ENS Meta-Governance Working Group Term 7 (Oct. Window)
Updates from ENS Labs
ENS Formally Applies for the .ens TLD
ICANN opened the new gTLD round. The ENS Foundation is the only applicant for .ens. The application is uncontested, so no auction is required. The Foundation will now continue the process to operate .ens and connect Web2 and Web3 naming systems.
→ Source: ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains
ENS brings ENSv2 to Devcon 8
ENS will support Devcon 8 in Mumbai (Nov. 3–6), where its booth will introduce attendees to ENSv2 upgrades and offer exclusive swag. Indian attendees new to ENS will be able to claim their first .eth name free; details are still forthcoming.
ENS backs Cypherpunk Congress 3
ENS is sponsoring Web3Privacy Now’s third Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress in Mumbai on Nov. 2, just ahead of Devcon. The gathering centers digital rights, privacy, open-source software and internet resilience, with themes spanning AI commons and censorship resistance.
What Sibos 2026 Taught Us About Naming Onchain Finance
At Sibos 2026, ENS Labs found that institutions need links between onchain assets and existing identifiers. ENS can name a fund across networks and point to its LEI, issuer and records. The GLEIF work seeks financial-standard compatibility; adoption needs clear data ownership.
→ Read: What Sibos 2026 Taught Us About Naming Onchain Finance | ENS Blog
ENS Immunefi Bugbash
ENSv2 audit competition ran for four weeks with 255 researchers. They submitted 787 reports; 538 were valid. After deduplication, ENS identified 88 findings, including 38 high or critical issues, in the App, Explorer and related infrastructure before launch.
The Reverse Record Issue #9
The Reverse Record #9 reviews ENS work since August. It covers ENSv2, the GLEIF partnership, CitizENS, subnames and tokenized assets. The update links these developments as part of ENS’s work on identity, naming and infrastructure.
ENS Foundation
ENS Foundation Debuts
ENS Foundation announced its mandate: represent ENS at ICANN, IETF and W3C; pursue stewardship of .ens; engage on policy; and protect the brand with ensdomains and ENS DAO. Its inaugural board is accountable to ENS tokenholders and includes 5 directors.
→ Site: https://ens.foundation
ENS Foundation Board Adopts Stand-up Budget, Confirms Two Full-Time Staff
The ENS Foundation Board met for the first time on 15 September, adopting bylaws, core governance policies, and a $382,641 stand-up budget (Resolution 10) covering September through December 2026.
The Foundation has added two full-time staff members, and this publication satisfies the proposal’s requirement to disclose a high-level budget before further Endowment transfers beyond the initial $500,000 cap.
→ Discussion: ENS Foundation Update: Team, 2026 Stand-up Budget, and What's Next
DAO-Wide Headlines
Delegation Incentives Round 3 Distributes 8,000 ENS to 697 Wallets
On October 7, MetaGov completed round 3 of the delegation incentives pilot. It sent 8,000 ENS in 697 transfers. 82% received <5 ENS; the median was 2.11 ENS. 8 recipients received 400 ENS each. The pilot distributed 18,000 of 90,000 ENS. 72,000 ENS will return to the treasury.
→ Discussion: MetaGov Transaction Transparency (Term 7 Index) - #7 by abdullahumar.eth
Eth.limo Ships Q3 2026 Update: BASE L2 Support, PSL Inclusion
eth.limo Q3: new diagnostic error pages, post-quantum TLS, TON contenthash and native Base resolution. eth.limo + eth.link are now on the Public Suffix List. It served 429.7m September requests with 100% Q3 uptime—and argues the PSL needs replacing.
→ Discussion: Eth.limo Q3 2026 - Update
Unruggable reports Q3 SPP3 progress
Unruggable reports its Adapter agent-identity protocol reached production on Ethereum, Base and Robinhood Chain in Q3, with 20,000+ registrations—including 110 ENS names as onchain agents. It also advanced agent metadata and payment standards, while its chain-identity work remains on hold.
→ Discussion: Unruggable: SPP3 Quarterly Reports - #2 by clowes.eth
Blockful Q1 Year 2 report tracks five standing guarantees against roadmap
Blockful Q1 report covers July–September 2026. Indexer lag was under 10 min 99.5% of the time. ENS API uptime was 99.99%. The governance interface handled 19 votes, or 11.9% of voting power, in 6 onchain votes. It reviewed calldata for 5 proposals. Referral/name design begins Q2.
→ Discussion: Blockful - service provider reports and updates - #14 by blockful
Namespace Q3 report: ENSv2 subname prep, Avatar upgrades, Namera launch
Namespace Q3 update: the team prepared L1 subname issuance for ENSv2. Namera gives agents scoped access to smart wallets through ENS subnames. The team upgraded Avatar Service and ENS Components, proposed verifiable ENS records, and began L1/L2/offchain record-discovery research.
→ Discussion: Namespace: SPP3 Quarterly Reports - #2 by cap
Nomentum Labs sets up quarterly reporting thread for SPP3
Nomentume reports that it’s ENS marketplace, Grails, delivered Sepolia-ready ENSv2 support ahead of mainnet: stablecoin bulk registration/renewal, v1/v2 routing, migration-aware indexing and ERC-1155 marketplace flows. It reported $161.5k in Q3 ENS DAO revenue, about 60% of referred revenue.
→ Discussion: Nomentum Labs - SPP3 Quarterly Reports
ENS Endowment September 2026 Update: AUM $98.70M, Rebalanced to 60/40
Kpk.eth published its September 2026 Endowment update, reporting $98.70M AUM and a rebalancing back to the 60/40 ETH-stablecoin target after selling roughly 3,350 ETH into stablecoins.
The Endowment generated $246,752 in yield across 9 protocols, with ether.fi the largest single exposure at 22.4%, while a revised KPK Update #10 execution remained pending after Blockful’s review of the new Roles module.
→ Discussion: Endowment Monthly Reports - #46 by kpk
Steakhouse Releases September 2026 ENS Financial Report
Steakhouse has published the September 2026 financial reporting slides for ENS, providing a broader financial perspective that complements the more operational, endowment-focused monthly reports. The update includes a Dune Dashboard and links to current supporting documentation.
→ Discussion: ENS Financial Reporting by Steakhouse - #54 by Steakhouse
TLD Oracle Design Updated for ENSv2 RootRegistry, KSK Rollover
An update to the TLD Oracle RFC notes the IANA root KSK rolled on October 11, with the verifier updated to accept new trust anchors.
The author also outlines how ENSv2’s RootRegistry changes TLD assignment: DNS TLDs become reserved entries, and a REGISTER_RESERVED permission, grantable by the DAO after ENSv2 handover, would let the Oracle assign reserved TLDs to operators proving control via DNSSEC.
→ Discussion: [RFC] A Programmable Fast-Path for TLD Assignment - #9 by estmcmxci
Meta-Governance
@Sov chaired the Term 7 Meta-Governance call on October 15, with updates from Blockful, Namespace, ETH.limo and KPK and an open discussion on the ENSv2 activation calldata.
- Term 7 funding: Cuts comp from $49K to $13.5K/mo and narrows the mandate: grants, hackathons and growth move to the Foundation and service providers, DAO tooling is dropped, and $50K discretionary covers governance and contributor travel.
- Governor Nexus: Blockful’s completed the governor code with three auditor quotes in hand; the team will share a social proposal moving to authorize the Meta-Governance Working Group to fund the audit in anticipation of the DAO’s approval.
- ETH.limo (SPP2): The team recapped Q3—BASE L2 and TON ADNL resolution, post-quantum TLS, and PSL listing for eth.limo/eth.link—called the PSL’s permissioned process a liability, and said it triages malicious domains with a browser-sandbox agent shared with ENS Labs. More on PSL here.
- Blockful Year 2: The three-round delegation-incentives pilot ended with September’s final round; a performance report is due within two weeks. Year 2 work targets a DAO-wide referral program and auctioning one- and two-letter .eth names for revenue.
- Namespace SPP3: Cap said the team crossed 10M subnames after taking over Caldera’s from NameStone, opened the Namera agent-wallet waitlist, and is building subname.dev, ENS Diamonds (pooled premium-name buys) and ENS Forge, plus subnames for PolyBasket and Bonus Wallet.
- Endowment: Daniel Jean said KPK holds a live NAV near $94M (~56% ETH / ~45% stables, ~5% off the 60/40 target) at ~3.75% blended APY with new Maple and Pendle legs; a proposal to add options to the IPS goes to the Foundation within about a week.
- ENSv2 calldata review: A review found the .eth ERC-1155 token would sit under the endowment, and so under Foundation control; it was changed to DAO control via a 1-of-1 SAFE owned by the Timelock. The proposal is expected live by end of week.
→ Discussion: Meta-Gov Working Group Term 7 Meetings: Thursday, 4pm UTC. Bi-weekly
Ecosystem Highlights
Discussing ENS at the Intersection
As ENSv2 nears activation, the AI ecosystem is converging on agent identity: Namera pairs session-key wallets with ENS subname identities, while Adapter’s UBID adds cross-chain reputation. Social-record proofs (a tentative ENSIP) and payment preferences (ENSIP) point toward portable, usable agent profiles.
Digraphia: A Cross-script ENS Linking System
Digraphia links ENS names written in different scripts. A holder adds reciprocal text records between two names that resolve to the same address. The system needs no new contracts and helps users prove cross-script identity, reduce phishing risk, and discover registrations.
Caldera migrates 9M+ ENS subnames
Caldera migrated 9M+ .era ENS subnames from NameStone to Namespace without downtime after NameStone sunset its API and resolution. Namespace now handles gasless, offchain issuance and CCIP-Read resolution—keeping Caldera usernames live without user action.
ENSv2 arrives for agent wallets
ENSv2 support for MetaMask Agent Wallet exists: this plugin lets an agent wallet register a Sepolia .eth name, deploy its resolver, bind ERC-8004 identity, publish records and set reverse resolution—with fail-closed checks, policy/MFA signing and onchain verification.
ENS names meet stealth payments
ENS records are public by design, but tools such as Cloaked can pair a shareable ENS name with fresh stealth addresses for receiving payments. Privacy Pools V2 lets users deposit into a shielded pool and transact privately within it; it does not make the ENS name or its records private.
Bridge Wallet flags changed ENS names
Bridge Wallet now flags ENS recipients whose ownership or resolved address changed recently, prompting a sender to verify before sending. The feature targets drop-catching: a lapsed name is re-registered by someone hoping to receive transfers intended for its former owner.
Pull Requests
ensjs release PR bundles ENSv2 mainnet addresses and getNames fix
Changesets PR for @ensdomains/ensjs v5.2.0 adds ENSv2 mainnet contract addresses. It sets the mainnet Universal Resolver to an upgradeable proxy. It adds optional blockNumber to read methods. It also fixes getNames to use the deployed DefaultReverseResolvers call signature.
→ Pull Request: [ci] release by github-actions[bot] · Pull Request #401 · ensdomains/ensjs · GitHub
ENS Manager restricts composite resolver unwrapping to official allowlist
A pull request to ens-app-v3 restricts composite resolver unwrapping to a chain-specific allowlist, preventing untrusted resolvers from self-reporting as official ENSv2 mirrors while preserving official Sepolia behavior. The change adds a SpoofCompositeResolver fixture, seeds a test name, and includes regression and isolated E2E coverage for both official and untrusted composite cases.
→ Pull Request: fix: only unwrap official ENS composite resolvers by storywithoutend · Pull Request #1166 · ensdomains/ens-app-v3 · GitHub
ens-contracts PR adds onchain DNSSEC ancestor inception tracking
An ens-contracts pull request updates the DNSSEC and DNSRegistrar contracts to store ancestor inceptions onchain for every (name, type) pair, rather than just the leaf record. The update adds new getter functions, an AnchorsChanged event, and includes key 38696 in the anchor set, while requiring future claims to satisfy newInception >= getInception(name, type).
→ Pull Request: https://github.com/ensdomains/ens-contracts/pull/572
ENS Docs Site Upgrades to Vocs v2, Moves to Cloudflare Workers
The ENS documentation site has been upgraded from Vocs v1 to v2, with deployment migrated from Cloudflare Pages to a Cloudflare Worker using Static Assets. The change consolidates API routes, self-hosts fonts, and restores prior homepage and theming while requiring a paid Workers plan due to bundle size.
→ Pull Request: Upgrade to Vocs v2 and Cloudflare Workers by gskril · Pull Request #575 · ensdomains/docs · GitHub
ens-contracts PR Fixes Invalid OffchainLookup Propagation
A pull request to the ens-contracts repository adds an InvalidOffchainLookup error to CCIPReader and CCIPBatcher, reverting when target/sender data doesn’t match during offchain lookups. It also introduces an ERC7996Checker helper, now used by ResolverCaller, along with added test coverage.
→ Pull Request: Fix Invalid `OffchainLookup` Propagation by adraffy · Pull Request #579 · ensdomains/ens-contracts · GitHub
Commits
ensjs fills in mainnet ENSv2 contract addresses after zeroAddress bug
An ensjs PR fills in 15 mainnet ENSv2 contract addresses that had been left as zeroAddress, which had caused all v2 actions to fail since the mainnet deployment on 2026-10-02. It also notes that mainnet’s Universal Resolver is the ManagedUniversalResolverProxy rather than the public proxy sepolia uses, with the public proxy still fronting URv1 until a DAO vote repoints it. A separate fix addresses a getNames revert caused by a resolveNames signature mismatch with deployed DefaultReverseResolvers.
→ Pull Request: feat: add ENSv2 mainnet contract addresses by v1rtl · Pull Request #402 · ensdomains/ensjs · GitHub
ensjs PR fixes five outdated ENSv2 mainnet contract addresses
An ensjs pull request updates five mainnet contract addresses (UniversalHelper, ETHRegistrar, ETHRenewerV1, LockedMigrationController, and MigrationHelper) to match the ENSv2 deployment finalized on 2026-10-02. The prior values, added in an earlier PR, referenced contract instances that had since been superseded. On-chain checks confirm the new addresses hold the expected roles, though ENS registration itself is still not active.
→ Pull Request: fix: update ENSv2 mainnet addresses to the 2026-10-02 deployment by v1rtl · Pull Request #407 · ensdomains/ensjs · GitHub
ensjs commit skips DNSSEC tests affected by root KSK rollover
A commit to the ensjs repository skips DNSSEC-related tests that were broken by the root KSK (Key Signing Key) rollover. The change affects the test suite only, with no indication of corresponding updates to production code.
→ GitHub: test: skip DNSSEC tests broken by the root KSK rollover · ensdomains/ensjs@b374ef6 · GitHub
ENSIP
ENSIP: Stealth Address Resolution (Updates)
The ENSIP defines ENS stealth address resolution with ERC-5564 meta-address records, client-side or CCIP-Read flows, and scheme verification. It now supports verified mode with an onchain key and hidden-key mode, which leaves resolution unverified to preserve post-quantum privacy.
→ Discussion: ENSIP: Stealth Address Resolution
Security
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