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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
[Executable] Endowment permissions to KPK Update #10
This proposal is a routine update to the ENS Endowment Manager permissions, expanding access to RWA and fixed-income positions, adding curated Morpho yield vaults and Aera, and updating KPK authorities so the endowment can be managed more efficiently and safely.
- Vote: Pending
- Discussion: Open
- Results: Pending
Updates from ENS Labs
ENS-Powered zk.money Names Pair Payments With Privacy
zk.money’s name.zk.money tags resolve through ENS CCIP-Read, giving users a shareable payment name. Behind each tag, a zero-knowledge proof derives a new deposit address for every transfer, so names stay consistent while balances and payment histories remain private.
→ zk.money Is Back, with ENS-Powered Names | ENS Blog
GDC 2026 Explores Naming as Onchain Infrastructure
An ENS Labs recap of GDC 2026 examines how identity, payments, AI agents and tokenized assets need persistent references across changing wallets, keys and networks. It argues ENS can provide naming continuity without becoming an identity or payments provider.
→ GDC 2026: Identity, payments and infrastructure moving onchain | ENS Blog
ENS App dashboard unifies profile management in one interface
The ENS App introduced a personalized profile dashboard that consolidates name, address, and social account management into one interface. Greg Skril demonstrated the feature, which replaces the need to navigate multiple settings pages separately.
ETHGlobal Tokyo builders use ENSv2 in six prize-winning projects
At ETHGlobal Tokyo, six teams shared $10K in ENS prizes for projects built on ENSv2. The winning entries spanned access control, DeFi, collectibles, and private messaging, reflecting a range of developer use cases for the protocol.
ENS Labs and GLEIF Explore Verifiable Organizational Identity Onchain
ENS Labs and GLEIF are exploring a proposed standard that would link an organization’s ENS name to its verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI). The aim is to let apps and counterparties verify the legal entity behind an onchain name; the work remains in development.
→ Read: ENS and GLEIF Explore Verifiable Organizational Identity Onchain | ENS Blog
ENS team attends Sibos Miami to discuss identity and onchain infrastructure
Members of the ENS team are attending Sibos Miami this week, engaging in conversations about names, verifiable identity, and how financial systems connect with onchain infrastructure. Connect in person with the ENS Labs team at the conference.
ENS Labs Presents ENSv2 at ETHGlobal Tokyo
At ETHGlobal Tokyo, ENS Labs’ Kevin Krone outlined ENSv2: a redesigned registry for flexible subnames, resolvers and permissions. He covered profiles and multichain addresses, with Sepolia testing ahead of audits and mainnet migration.
→ Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtCoMHf9R_w
DAO-Wide Headlines
MetaGov Safe Executes SPP3 Payment and September Steward Compensation
MetaGov’s main Safe executed two transactions on 30 September 2026. The first paid Nomentum Labs $30,000 USDC, the first of three monthly installments under its $500,000 SPP3 Marketplace RFP award, with remaining funds held against performance gates and an ENSv2 readiness milestone.
The second paid $15,560 USDC in September steward compensation and communications stipend, drawn from residual Term 6 funds.
→ Discussion: MetaGov Transaction Transparency (Term 7 Index) - #6 by abdullahumar.eth
ENS Labs Takes Over Durin, an ENS L2 Subname Tool
ENS Labs has taken over Durin, a tool for issuing ENS L2 subnames. Originally developed by NameStone through an ENS DAO grant, its domain, GitHub repo, infrastructure and smart-contract ownership were transferred after NameStone shut down.
→ Durin: https://durin.dev
ENS Endowment Reaches $93.1M in August
The ENS Endowment ended August at $93.12M, up $15.78M as ETH rose 32.5%. It generated $230,305 in yield, shifted funds into Aave and Compound, and held 66.5% in ETH—above its 60/40 mandate target.
→ Endowment Monthly Reports - #45 by kpk
Endowment Reports September Figures
The Endowment reported a $98 million net asset value, an approximately 60/40 stablecoin-to-ETH allocation, and a 3.228% blended APY against a 2.286% benchmark. September’s reported result was approximately $231,000; options research was described as nearly finalized for a forthcoming forum discussion.
Final week to earn $ENS by delegating to an Active Delegate
Blockful announced the final week of its delegation incentives program, under which $ENS holders can earn rewards by delegating to an Active Delegate. ENS DAO shared the announcement via retweet.
Mint Manager Skill Enables AI Tools to Issue ENS Subnames
Namespace, an ENS DAO Service Provider, released a Mint Manager skill that lets AI tools issue ENS subnames on Ethereum, Base, and Optimism. The tool is described as offering customizable subname issuance and was shared via retweet on ENS DAO’s X account.
Pull Requests
ens-app-v3 PR restricts composite resolver unwrapping to trusted addresses
A PR to ens-app-v3 fixes a trust-boundary issue where ENS Manager could unwrap resolver abstractions based on an untrusted composite resolver’s self-report. The fix adds a chain-specific allowlist, keeps unknown composites visible as repairable custom resolvers, and includes new spoof-resolver test fixtures with unit, component, and E2E coverage.
→ Pull Request: fix: only unwrap official ENS composite resolvers by storywithoutend · Pull Request #1166 · ensdomains/ens-app-v3 · GitHub
ENS contracts PR replaces .transfer() with .call() for wallet compatibility
A pull request to the ens-contracts repository replaces Solidity’s .transfer() with low-level .call() across ETHRegistrarController, BulkRenewal, and StaticBulkRenewal contracts. The change addresses reverts affecting refund and renewal transactions for smart contract wallets, such as Gnosis Safe and ERC-4337 accounts, caused by the 2300 gas stipend limit post-EIP-1884. Foundry tests confirm the fix resolves the issue without regressions.
Commits
ensjs Restores Sepolia’s V1 Public Resolver
ensjs restored Sepolia’s ensPublicResolver to the V1 address after it was mistakenly set to V2. The error broke DNS imports and legacy wallet actions that need the V1 addr interface, including DNSRegistrar.proveAndClaimWithResolver.
→ fix: point Sepolia ensPublicResolver at the V1 resolver · ensdomains/ensjs@2ab7495 · GitHub
ensjs Fixes Role-Account Type Widening
ensjs corrected a TypeScript type that reduced returned ENS roles to a generic string, forcing developers to cast them manually. The fix preserves role information using the pattern in getNameRolesForAccount; runtime behavior is unchanged.
ensjs Adds Reverse Registrar Addresses to L1 Config
ensjs added the default reverse registrar and two HCA adapter addresses to its L1 network config, replacing Sepolia-specific copies in the apps monorepo. The addresses were verified on Sepolia; mainnet remains set to zeroAddress pending deployment.
ensjs Fixes Registration-Date Lookup for Re-Registered Names
ensjs now finds a name’s registration date by its stable labelHash rather than its changing token ID. The old lookup returned null for re-registered names; the change also removes an extra chain call and adds a logic-only test.
ensjs Bundles Sepolia Resolver, Proxy Salt and Test Fixes
ensjs PR 385 fixes the Sepolia public-resolver address, creates a fresh salt for each proxy deployment, and sets a fixed gas limit for test registrations. The changes address resolver failures, repeated-deployment collisions and intermittent CI seeding failures.
Meta-Governance
Nomentum Labs Marketplace Provider Receives Initial Tranche
The marketplace provider’s KYB and award notice were finalized, and its first $30,000 tranche was released. Its funding arrangement also includes a stream and performance-gated compensation.
Unruggable Presents Agent Identity Work
Unruggable described ENS and NFT identity standards, including support for multiple accounts associated with a name and an adapter that binds agent identities to collection NFTs. The team reported more than 20,000 NFT registrations and introduced AdapterScan, an explorer for data held in its adapter contract.
Digraphia Links ENS Names Across Scripts
Leon demonstrated a way to link ENS names written in different scripts using reciprocal text records and matching resolved addresses. He described an ENSIP draft and plans to seek a small grant for further work.
Researcher Discusses DAO Governance in Practice
Talha described PhD research comparing DAOs’ democratic claims with how decisions and power operate in practice. He is reviewing governance documents and forum discussions and seeking conversations with DAO members.
Working Group Outlines October Budget Lines
The anticipated request includes steward compensation, DAO communications, approximately $50,000 for discretionary activities, and a conditional $100,000 contract-audit allocation. The discretionary line was described as covering community and governance initiatives and travel, rather than grants or hackathons themselves.
Governor Nexus Audit Prompts Approval-Sequencing Discussion
Participants questioned whether the working group should pay for a Governor Nexus audit before the DAO signals support for using the contract. A social proposal before audit spending was discussed; no decision on that sequence was recorded during the call.
ENSIP
ENSIP-28 Proposes Standard for ENS Name-Owned Accounts
A draft proposes using ENSIP-24 data records to list additional accounts controlled by an ENS name across chains. Listings are owner claims, not payment instructions; verification is still open. Replies debated using existing address records or subnames instead.
→ Discussion: ENSIP-28: ENS Name Owned Accounts
ENSIP-31 Draft Proposes Chain Preferences for Multichain Token Payments
ENSIP-31 proposes letting ENS names publish an ordered, token-specific list of preferred chains for receiving payments. The preference is stored as a standard ENSIP-24 data record, requiring no new resolver methods.
→ Discussion: ENSIP-31: Payment Preferences
Ecosystem Highlights
HL Names Links Hyperliquid Identities to ENS
HL Names launched .hl.hn, allowing supported wallets and apps to resolve existing .hl names through ENS while the names remain on Hyperliquid. The integration uses ENSIP-10 wildcard resolution and ERC-3668 CCIP Read to fetch the associated address.
Governance Research Proposes a Ten-Proposal Delegation Record
A research draft proposes rewards based on voting, delegate attendance and re-confirmed delegation over 10 proposals, using diminishing returns instead of hard caps. Blockful says its three-month review will test the ideas against data.
→ Discussion: [Research] ENS-GR-01: A Ten-Proposal Governance Record for Delegation Incentives - #2 by blockful
ENS Contributor Helps Make DNS Imports More Economical
ENS profiled estmcmxci.eth and how they helped update ENS’s DNSSEC verification to use Ethereum’s native P-256 precompile. For Algorithm 13 imports, signature verification fell from 1,340,706 to 10,493 gas—a 99.2% reduction—though total import costs still vary with gas prices.
→ Blog: CitizENS 001: What Makes a Name Trustworthy? Marcus on Making DNS Imports Cheaper | ENS Blog
ENS Advisor launches non-custodial tool for expiring .eth names and sales data
ENS Advisor (ensdesk.com), built by a solo developer, offers public data pages on .eth names leaving grace or entering premium auctions, plus a weekly sales report drawn from OpenSea data. Its registration flow and a new budget-based auto-register feature use a scoped MetaMask permission (ERC-7715) so funds move directly from the user’s wallet to ENS contracts, with the underlying registrar contract published as open source.
→ Discussion: ENS Advisor: buy an expiring .eth name at your budget without handing anyone your ETH, plus a weekly .eth sales report
Security
Auditor Flags Missing Ownership Transfer in KPK
Blockful’s security review of the revised KPK Update #10 execution found the switch should not yet be scheduled on the Endowment Timelock, since kpk has not transferred ownership of the new Roles Modifier contract.
The Endowment Safe’s two-call batch would swap the current Roles Modifier (v2.1.0) for an updated one (v2.1.1) carrying the same MANAGER permissions plus the PUR #10 additions. Once the ENS Foundation schedules the batch, the Security Council retains a nine-day window to cancel it.
→ Discussion: [DRAFT] Endowment permissions to KPK Update #10 - #7 by blockful
Governor Nexus audit update: firm quotes in, proposal next
The Governor Nexus implementation audit feedback window closed Sep 2, with quotes received from all three firms contacted. None of the feedback required code changes, and the team is now working with MetaGov stewards on firm selection ahead of an audit proposal that will bring the chosen firm, scope and price to the DAO for approval, with the audit targeted for the quarter starting October.
→ Discussion: Governor Nexus - Implementation report - #6 by blockful
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