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Term 7 Working Group Stewards
The responsibilities of the Stewards 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
August 2026
- [Executable] Next Era of ENS DAO: Empowering the ENS Foundation*
This proposal makes the ENS Foundation the DAO’s operating arm with a 5-seat board and executive director, while keeping protocol control, ~54.6M DAO-held ENS, and the operational wallet with tokenholders—except for a one-time 1M ENS transfer for staff comp and foundation oversight of the endowment.
Updates from ENS Labs
ENS Labs Q2 2026 Report
ENS Labs says Q2 focused on making ENSv2 ready for Beta and Mainnet, including a safer HCA redesign, migration hardening, product and indexer work, and ecosystem readiness across wallets, apps, and libraries. The throughline is shipping v2 without weakening ownership guarantees.
→ Report: ENS Labs Quarterly Progress Reports - #8 by katherine.eth
ENS Labs Backs Ethereum Institute’s Institutional Engagement Push
ENS Labs announced support for the Ethereum Institute as it enters a new phase of institutional engagement, convening more than 100 ecosystem participants. The initiative aims to give institutions clearer pathways to navigate, build on, and use Ethereum.
ENS Labs marks Ethereum’s birthday with anniversary post
ENS Domains posted an anniversary tribute to Ethereum on X, describing it as a decentralized world computer and immutable ledger. The post is a brief celebratory message rather than a technical or governance update.
ETHGlobal Lisbon Names Three Winning Projects Built on ENS
Three winning teams at ETHGlobal Lisbon built their projects on ENS, according to an announcement from the ENS X account.
ENSignv2
ENSignv2 turns alice.eth into a gasless transaction-minisigning account that creates a passkey wallet at signup. No seed phrase or app is required, and recovery is handled through ENS-native guardians like email or another ENS name.
ENSignv2 → ENSignv2 | ETHGlobal
Atlas
Atlas turns natural-language questions about onchain activity into live mini-apps with their own wallet and policy set. Each published app receives an ENS name, framing ENS as infrastructure for autonomous, task-specific onchain agents.
Atlas → atlas | ETHGlobal
VouchMe
VouchMe is a human-only trust graph built on nested ENSv2 subnames, where vouches decay over time and bad behavior reduces trust. Everything is indexed onchain, using ENS as the native social layer rather than just a naming system.
VouchMe → https://ethglobal.com/showcase/vouchme-m6fwb
/ensdomains PRs
ens-app-v3 PR adds ENSv2 resolver abstraction layer detection
A pull request to the ens-app-v3 repository adds support for detecting the ENSv2 resolver abstraction layer. The change is part of broader efforts to keep the ENS app frontend compatible with the evolving ENSv2 architecture.
→ Pull Request: Support ENSv2 resolver abstraction layer detection by gskril · Pull Request #1159 · ensdomains/ens-app-v3 · GitHub
ENS App v3 PR Removes Pay Card Payment from Registration
A pull request to the ens-app-v3 repository removes the Pay credit/debit card payment option from ENS name registration. The change simplifies the payment flow in the primary ENS registration interface.
→ Pull Request: Remove MoonPay credit/debit card payment from registration by gskril · Pull Request #1155 · ensdomains/ens-app-v3 · GitHub
ENS App v3 PR fixes resolver record clearing on registration
A pull request to the ENS App v3 repository fixes an issue where existing resolver records were not cleared upon new name registration. The change helps ensure that newly registered names start with a clean resolver state rather than inheriting stale data.
→ Pull Request: fix: clear existing resolver records on registration by LeonmanRolls · Pull Request #1157 · ensdomains/ens-app-v3 · GitHub
ENSjs PR updates Sepolia subgraph endpoint to v1-graphql.ens.dev
ENSjs PR #360 updates the Sepolia subgraph URL to v1-graphql.ens.dev. The change affects developers using the library for testnet integrations, ensuring queries point to the current subgraph endpoint.
→ Pull Request: feat: update Sepolia subgraph URL to v1-graphql.ens.dev by v1rtl · Pull Request #360 · ensdomains/ensjs · GitHub
DAO-Wide Headlines
ENS Foundation Operating Proposal
Live executable vote establishes the ENS Foundation as an operating foundation with a full-time Executive Director, staff, and a DAO-ratified five-seat board, while keeping DAO token control intact; only 1M ENS goes to employee compensation, and endowment moves face a timelock plus Security Council veto.
→ Discussion: [Draft] [Executable] Next Era of ENS DAO: Empowering the ENS Foundation
Namestone Shutdown Announcement
Namestone.com shuts down on August 3, 2026 after supporting more than 9M subnames. The team says ENS DAO did not fund the service, allocated $2.9M elsewhere, and Namestone now winds down alongside its related tools.
→ Tweet: Namestone.eth on X: "Tomorrow resolution stops." / X
Meta-Governance
ENS DAO Publishes Term 7 Dashboard on Discourse
ENS DAO published a Term 7 dashboard on its Discourse forum, consolidating activity and metrics for the current term. The dashboard offers DAO members a reference point for tracking governance progress.
→ Discussion: ENS DAO Term 7 Dashboard
Endowment Permissions Update #10
A draft KPK proposal expands ENS endowment permissions into additional RWA, fixed-income, Morpho, Aave Horizon, and Maple-related positions while adding a separate reward-claim role. It is framed as a routine diversification update, with no permissions removed.
→ Discussion: [DRAFT] Endowment permissions to KPK Update #10
ENS Endowment Options Discussion
Discussion explores adding structured products and onchain options to the IPS to hedge the endowment’s large ETH position and earn stablecoin yield.
Concerns focus on timing, added complexity, capped upside, and whether fees or cash settlement make the strategy unattractive.
SPP3 Marketplace RFP Update
The SPP3 marketplace RFP is live through August 5, with a public call scheduled for next Wednesday. The committee says the broad language is intentional, wants a fair and objective process, and signals that applicant reach, execution, and brand distribution will matter heavily in evaluation.
Grant and Growth Discussion
Discussion centers on fixing the funding gap for experimental builders, separating public goods from ecosystem grants, and questioning retroactive funding as a primary model.
It also argues future growth and BD support should be tied to measurable outcomes and stronger leadership.
Ecosystem
Measuring ENS’s P-256 Precompile Impact
A new ENS report measures the protocol impact of migrating P-256 verification to the precompile, finding that a single verification now costs 10,493 gas instead of 1,340,706. Across the realized post-migration period studied, that translates to roughly 1.12B gas saved.
→ Discussion: Report: Measuring the Impact of ENS’s P-256 Precompile Migration
Passthrough Resolver Upgrade Proposal
A draft ENSIP proposes “passthrough” resolution so new resolvers can fall back to older ones for records they do not yet store. The goal is to make resolver upgrades reversible and painless, letting users adopt new resolver features without losing existing ENS data.
→ Disucssion: ENSIP: Passthrough resolution, enabling painless resolver upgrades - #11 by raffy
ENS Simocracy Experiment
Protocol Labs, the ENS community, and Fire Eyes launch a $10,000 ENS Simocracy experiment that awards $1,000 per day for the strongest insights on the live Foundation proposal. Participants create AI-guided “sims” to deliberate publicly while humans retain final judgment.
→ Experiment: ENS DAO × Simocracy · Simocracy
ENS Avatar and Header Service
Namespace introduces a live public service for uploading, updating, and serving avatars and headers for ENS names and subnames. It is free to use, requires no API key, supports Mainnet and Sepolia, and includes a REST API, TypeScript SDK, and AI-agent skill.
→ Discussion: Public avatar and header infrastructure for ENS names and subnames
eth.bot
eth.bot turns every ENS name into an agent endpoint. Each name.eth.bot resolves as a wildcard gateway serving ERC-8004 registration, ENSIP-26 endpoints, and ENSIP-25 verification, all read live from Ethereum to make onchain agent identity routable on the web.
→ Visit: https://eth.bot
Anticapture MCP Quietly Opens for Testing
Anticapture says its governance-security MCP is live but still unannounced, with the official launch expected in the next week or two. The team is slowly onboarding testers while governor code sits in final review and engineering works through upgrade-related fixes.
→ Test: API Keys — Anticapture
JustaName Q2 2026 Final Report
JustaName closes out SPP2 with JAW product upgrades, ENS resolution and infrastructure work, and enterprise GTM progress led by Animoca outreach. The team says it is stepping back from active ENS development and consolidating its work around JAW.
→ Discussion: JustaName - Quarterly Reports - #5 by justghadi.eth
eth.casa Client-Side ENS Gateway
eth.casa introduces an experimental client-side ENS gateway that moves ENS resolution, IPFS fetching, verification, and caching into the browser via a service worker. It aims to reduce trust in remote gateway operators by verifying and serving ENS content locally.
→ Discussion: Introducing "eth.casa": Client-side ENS gateway
Verifiable ENS Records Proposal
Namespace explores an optional verification layer for ENS records, where the ENS authority approves an exact record and the external target publishes matching proof. Clients can then verify record-to-resource links for things like URLs and accounts without adding a new onchain verification contract.
→ Discussion: Record Verification - Exploring verifiable ENS records
Unruggable Q2 2026 Report
Unruggable reports Q2 work across ENS interoperability, ENSWhois expansion, and AI agent identity infrastructure. Highlights include advancing ERC-7930 and ERC-7828, launching ENS8004.xyz, growing ENSWhois into a broader ENS data platform, and pushing new agent identity standards into adoption.
→ Discussion: Unruggable Quarterly Report, Q2 2026
Eth.limo Q2 2026 Update
eth.limo reports Q2 work on ENSv2 support, gateway reliability, abuse automation, and infrastructure hardening following its DNS hijack ordeal. It also shares traffic and uptime metrics and highlights broader dWeb adoption, including official publications from a Türkiye government agency.
→ Discussion: Eth.limo Q2 2026 - Update
ENS Diamonds
ENS Diamonds is a new app that lets groups pool ETH to buy expiring .eth names in the temporary premium auction and co-own them through a Safe multisig. The pitch is that collaborative buying could make premium auctions more social and raise more revenue for ENS.
→ Discussion: Introducing ens.diamonds 💎
Naming Season Funds Wrap-Up
The ENS Contract Naming Season wrap-up intends to return the remaining 2,905 ENS to the DAO and close out the program cleanly. The update also clarifies that 70,000 USDC covered only part of the team’s broader naming and Enscribe-related costs.
→ Discussion: ENS Contract Naming Season — Accountability Summary and Open Question on Remaining Funds - #4 by estmcmxci
Railgun Anon Wallet integrates ENS names for private payments
Railgun Project has integrated ENS name support into its Anon Wallet, allowing users to send private payments by typing an ENS name as the destination. The wallet uses zk proofs to keep transfer details private, adding another ecosystem use case for ENS naming.
JAW Self-Custodial Wallet Tool Launches on Soneium Network
JustaName’s JAW has launched on the Soneium network, allowing developers to integrate self-custodial wallets secured by Face ID or fingerprint authentication. The tool is aimed at builders looking to add wallet functionality to Soneium-based applications.
Maxidoteth Joins Namespace as Head of Growth
Maxidoteth announced joining Namespace as head of growth, citing years of advocacy for the ENS protocol.
Resolvio Tool Resolves Ethereum Addresses to Full Profiles
Resolvio has introduced an endpoint that converts an Ethereum address into a full profile, building on standard reverse resolution which returns only a name. The tool was highlighted via a retweet from namespace_eth.
Note: Posts older than 4 weeks are archival—browse cautiously, as links may be outdated or compromised.
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