ENS DAO Newsletter #102 — 12/16/25

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:sun: Welcome

:pushpin: 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.

:date: 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.

:ballot_box_with_ballot: Proposals

Endowment Permissions Update #7

Updates ENS Endowment Manager permissions: approve EURC/GHO, enable deposit/withdraw/redeem on new Morpho (kpk) and Fluid vaults, add Fluid Merkl reward claims, and remove legacy Universal Rewards Distributor claims to improve diversification and risk management.

Collective Working Group Funding (Oct 2025)

Bundles Working Group funding into a single executable, distributing DAO treasury payouts across multisigs: Meta-Gov, Ecosystem, and Public Goods, totaling ~959k USDC plus 15 ETH, streamlining operations and reducing governance overhead.

Assign .kred TLD to Verified Multisig

Assigns ENS ownership of the active ICANN .kred TLD to a verified multisig using DNS TXT proof. Expands ENS–DNS integration, aligns Web2 and Web3 identity, and ensures secure, decentralized stewardship of the namespace.

More information → Proposal Bulletin

:globe_with_meridians: Updates from ENS Labs

ENSv2 Readiness: Universal Resolver

ENSv2 readiness begins with adopting the Universal Resolver. Apps should update ENS libraries to support CCIP-Read and L2-aware resolution, ensuring names resolve correctly across rollups and future ENSv2 architecture.

Reviw the documentation → Universal Resolver

Namechain Is Moving to Surge

ENS is migrating Namechain to Nethermind’s Surge, a based rollup built on Taiko—supporting Ethereum-native sequencing, fast finality, and censorship resistance. A Stage-1 launch with a path to Stage-2.

Learn more → Moving Namechain to Nethermind’s Surge

How ENS is Approaching ICANN’s gTLD Expansion Program

ENS is preparing for ICANN’s rare 2026 gTLD expansion. ENS may apply for .ens as a protected .brand to strengthen security, prevent namespace misuse, and deepen ENS–DNS integration. The future naming layer of the internet is increasingly ENS-enabled.

Learn more → ENS Blog

ENS at Devconnect Buenos Aires: Recap

Two weeks after Devconnect ARG, ENS emerged as core Ethereum infrastructure—powering L2 identities, agent standards (ERC-8004/x402), decentralized websites, ENSv2 previews, cross-chain names, and real-world event onboarding via subnames and apps.

Review the recap → Devconnect Recap 2025

:globe_with_meridians: DAO-Wide Headlines

ENS Q3 2025 Revenue Report

ENS reported $7.18M in total revenue for Q3 2025 — up from $6.28M YoY. The quarter saw $4.5M in registrations, $1.63M in premium sales, and $1.04M in DeFi returns, bringing total annual revenue to $22.1M. August was the strongest month, driven by premium renewals.

View the Report → ENS Revenue Report

ENS Labs Q3 2025 Progress Report

ENS Labs delivered major progress on ENSv2, completing 80% of core contracts and launching the L2 Primary Name App across major rollups. With 1.6M+ active names and new ecosystem integrations, Q4 will focus on audits, migration prep, and DevConnect demos.

View the Report → Q3 Progress Report

ENS DAO Q3 2025 Spending Report

Total Q3 spend: $627K across all working groups.

  • Ecosystem WG: $112,893 USDC + 3 ETH for grants, hackathon sponsorships (ETH Accra, ETH Rome), ENS Cannes event, and Devconnect prep.
  • Meta-Gov WG: $207K USDC for steward pay, ops, and a $60K grant to LighthouseGov.
  • Public Goods WG: $207,678 USDC + 10 ETH funding Vyper, Argot, ICANN advocacy, and builder grants.
  • ENS token distributions: 900 ENS (Ecosystem) and 21,637 ENS (Meta-Gov) via Hedgey vesting.

Read the report → ENS Working Group Spending Summaries

:hammer_and_wrench: OS Contributions

ENS Avatars Live in Ambire

ENS avatars are now supported in the Ambire wallet, making ENS profiles more expressive and recognizable in-wallet. ENS names display with their associated avatars, improving UX, identity signaling, and visual consistency across the ENS ecosystem.

Memory Protocol + ENS

Memory Protocol uses ENS as the identity anchor to unify wallet data, social graphs, and onchain activity. By resolving ENS names into a single API, apps can access persistent, user-owned context across Ethereum, X, and Farcaster.

Ethereum Identity Stack at Devcon

At Devcon, brantly.eth (EthID, ENS DAO Service Provider) presented the evolution of the Ethereum identity stack—from public key cryptography and cypherpunks to Namecoin, ENS, and Sign-In With Ethereum—showing ENS as core identity infra.

ENS Names Across L2s

Enscribe now supports ENS L2 primary names, enabling ENS identities to work seamlessly across Ethereum L2s like Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, Linea, and Scroll—making ENS a truly multichain naming and identity layer.

ENS at Ethereum Monterrey Hackathon

The first Web3 Hackathon in Monterrey brought 130+ hackers together for 36 hours of building across 9 tracks. Supported by ENS DAO alongside Arbitrum and Scroll, the event highlighted ENS’s role in growing local Ethereum dev ecosystems.

ENS-Powered Bridging in Matcha

Matcha Meta now supports sending and bridging tokens using ENS names. With ENS resolution built into swaps, users can move assets across chains by sending to human-readable ENS identities instead of raw addresses—safer, simpler UX.

ENS-Native Web3 Deployments

WebHash Pro lets builders deploy React, Vite, or static sites to IPFS in minutes, then attach them directly to ENS names. ENS becomes the stable, human-readable endpoint for decentralized websites—no dead links, no centralized hosting.

No-Code ENS Websites

Webhash launched the Vibe Website Builder, a no-code/low-code editor for publishing decentralized sites to IPFS and attaching them to ENS names. Creators can ship fast, customize freely, and use ENS as the permanent, human-readable home for their sites.

ENS at Internet Scale

Mely.eth highlights how ENS now powers 30M+ usernames in 2025 through major subname integrations like Worldcoin, Uniswap, Base, and Linea. By serving as the onchain naming layer across apps and wallets, ENS has become the gold standard for decentralized usernames.

Naming Smart Contracts with ENS

Nouns DAO adopted ENS names for core smart contracts, powered by Enscribe and supported by ENS DAO. By making contracts human-readable, ENS improves UX, transparency, and composability—signaling the next iteration of onchain naming beyond wallets.

ENS Holiday Awards in NYC

The ENS Holiday Awards lit up NYC with a public display celebrating apps building on ENS. Led by NameHash Labs, the campaign spotlighted the ENS referral program and showed ENS stepping beyond crypto into real-world cultural presence.

ENS as Onchain Asset Registry

iconregistry.eth demonstrates ENS as a canonical onchain registry for wallet and dapp icons. By serving icons directly from Ethereum instead of CDNs, ENS improves privacy, censorship resistance, and long-term reliability—extending ENS beyond names into trusted onchain metadata.

Developer Tools for ENS Discovery

Kualta.eth developed pretty-ens, a lightweight CLI that helps developers check available .eth and .box names. By making ENS discovery scriptable and fast, tools like this lower friction for builders and expand ENS adoption at the developer layer.

ENS + Filecoin Onchain Cloud

By linking ENS updates to Filecoin Onchain Cloud, communities can store and verify domain data on decentralized infrastructure. ENS names become tamper-resistant coordination anchors for DAOs using Safe and other onchain governance tools.

Basenames CLI for Developers

Basenames CLI is an open-source tool for managing Basenames on Base using ENS infrastructure. Built on the Atlas CLI architecture, it lets developers register names, check availability, resolve records, and automate identity workflows via the command line.

ENS-Resolved Contract Metadata

getcode.eth uses an ENS wildcard resolver to extract Solidity metadata directly from onchain contract bytecode and expose it as ENS contenthash. This enables trustless access to source code, ABI, and IPFS archives—making ENS a discovery layer for contract metadata.

:balance_scale: Meta-Governance

The Meta-Governance Working Group provides governance oversight and support for working group operations through DAO tooling and governance initiatives.

Term 6 Meta-Governance Stewards:

Meeting Minutes:

ENS Protocol Economics (Nov 2025)

Steakhouse released its November 2025 financial snapshot, showing a strong and sustainable protocol footing:

  • $1.3M monthly revenue
  • $164M total reserves
  • 123 months of runway
  • Endowment covers ~20% of cash burn

Full report → November 2025

ENS Endowment Fee Update

ENS updated its endowment fee model to AUM-only pricing, aligning incentives and improving transparency. The new structure keeps a 0.5% AUM fee (capped at $100M) with a decay as AUM grows, removing performance fees while keeping services unchanged.

ENS DAO Retro: MetaGov’s Plan

With DAO support via the social proposal, @Eugene proposes a full ENS retrospective combining financial review and stakeholder analysis. The goal is to assess spend → outputs → outcomes → impact, clarify mission and alignment, and deliver unbiased findings the community can act on.

From Stagnation to Structure: Fixing ENS Governance

Clowes.eth argues ENS governance is stuck because the DAO lacks structure to execute long-term, multi-stakeholder roadmaps. He proposes forming an Operating Company (OpCo) to coordinate operations, improve accountability, and empower execution while the retrospective can inform that redesign

:seedling: Ecosystem

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.

Term 6 Ecosystem Stewards:

Meeting Minutes:

Unruggable Q3 Update

Unruggable advanced ENS infrastructure in Q3, contributing to crosschain identity, ENS+AI standards, and gateway tooling. Highlights include work with EF and Wonderland, DNS ecosystem engagement, ENS+AI group leadership, and ongoing Unruggable Gateways development.

View Q3 Report → Unruggable.eth

NameHash Labs SPP2 Q2 Report

NameHash Labs published its second quarterly SPP2 report to the ENS DAO, showing it once again exceeded delivery targets with ~225% completion. Highlights include ENSNode v1 releases, multichain indexing support, referral tools, ENSAwards, ENSApi, and expanded community engagement ahead of ENSv2 rollout.

View Q2 Report → NameHashLabs

zkEmail + ENS Verification

zkEmail presented a decentralized alternative to centralized identity tools, using zero-knowledge proofs to verify X handles and email addresses. Users generate ZK proofs and submit them onchain to update ENS-linked verification status, with a live demo at ens.zk.email.

Pastens: ENS Name History

Pastens is a tool for exploring the full history of an ENS name. By entering any .eth name, users can view mint dates, expiries, ownership changes, and transfers, providing transparent historical context for ENS identities and assets.

Filify: One-Click ENS Deploys

Filify is a “Vercel for the decentralized web,” enabling one-click deployment of static sites to ENS. It clones repos, builds projects, uploads to IPFS/Filecoin, sets ENS contenthashes, and auto-deploys updates—making decentralized hosting simple for creators.

ENScribe: Solidity Naming Library

ENScribe developed a Solidity library built for Foundry, enabling developers to programmatically name and manage contracts with ENS. A live demo showed usage inside Forge scripts, making ENS-based contract naming simple and automatable for dev workflows.

ENS Toolkit for Google Sheets

Namespace updates highlighted the ENS Toolkit for Sheets, enabling bulk ENS ↔ address resolution directly in Google Sheets. Users can fetch ENS profile data, run forward/reverse lookups, and enrich datasets at scale, with an official Google Workspace redeploy imminent.

Unruggable: Verifiable ENS Credentials

Unruggable outlined a path to add verifiable, inspectable credentials to ENS profiles for users and AI agents. The proposal introduces known resolvers, ENSIP hooks, and the Ethereum Credential Service registry to make credentials discoverable, secure, and composable.

:sun: Public Goods

The Public Goods Working Group supports the Ethereum ecosystem by identifying and funding open-source development.

Term 6 Public Goods Stewards:

Meeting Minutes

Universal Resolver Matrix Framework

The Universal Resolver Matrix proposes a framework for reasoning about heterogeneous resolver architectures across four dimensions—trust model, proof system, lifecycle rules, and verification path. It helps ENS think beyond simple name resolution to systematically anchor diverse namespaces to Ethereum’s trust layer, guiding infra priorities.

Review the Matrix → Universal Resolver Matrix Documentation

ENS Public Goods WG Term 6 Report

The Public Goods Working Group’s 2025 Term 6 was its most productive yet, unifying builder, strategic, and advocacy grants into a cohesive funding framework. It distributed milestone-aligned funding (e.g., Vyper, Remix, Argot, DRC) with clear accountability, co-funded with the Ethereum Foundation, and launched an interactive dashboard to track impact.

View the Term 6 Report → PG Working Group

DRC Advocacy & Policy Report

The DRC presented its grant-funded work educating U.S. regulators on decentralization—briefing Congress, the SEC, and CFTC, shaping the bipartisan Clarity Act, and pushing a control test for true decentralization—while scaling efforts to influence upcoming market rules.

evmtools ERC-7702 Playground Demo

evmtools demoed a new ERC-7702 playground to make the standard easier to learn. It offers a guided UI for delegation and sample txs, sponsored transactions, dev wallets, and tooltips—letting EOAs act like smart accounts, with plans to expand features and integrate into the extension.

Phantom Zone Milestone Update

Phantom Zone shared milestone progress on its grant-funded cryptography work, completing an arithmetic circuits module for its FHE library Pulpy. The milestone was successfully demoed, advancing polymorphic encryption tooling with ties to its RISC-V FHE VM, Phantom.

ETHMexico 2025 Event Report

ETHMexico 2025 brought 1,000+ attendees across conferences, a 36-hour hackathon, and side events, with strong university and government engagement. The state backed the event, explored decentralized identity for public services, and featured 50+ speakers across 19 talks.

Urbe Web3xGood Impact Report

Urbe shared impact results from its Web3xGood IRL event in Rome, engaging 65+ participants on a ~2 ETH budget. With NounsDAO support, it bridged NGOs, universities, and Web3, generated 33.5k impressions, raised donations, and set plans for digital identity onboarding next year.

Note: Posts older than 4 weeks are archival—browse cautiously, as links may be outdated or compromised.

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