Happy New Year!
Hello and welcome to the Ethereum Name Service DAO Newsletter.
In case you missed it, our previous edition contained a review of highlights from 2022.
New editions are published every Tuesday.
This newsletter is available on the ENS DAO Governance Forum, Substack, and Twitter*.
*Please note: Twitter’s newsletter platform, Revue, is shutting down on January 18, 2023.
Recent Proposals
There are separate authors for either Treasury Management proposal. ¹ ²
| Status | Proposal | Vote | Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft | Endowment: Initial Conditions & Required Steps | N/A | Discussion |
| Draft | [Social] Routine DAO treasury management ¹ | N/A | Discussion |
| Draft | [Executable] DAO Treasury Management ² | N/A | Discussion |
| Passed | [Social] [EP2.2.5] Selection of an ENS Endowment Fund Manager | Snapshot | Discussion |
For details on the ENS DAO proposal process see our Governance Docs.
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ENS Calendar
Keep up with important dates by subscribing to the ENS DAO’s calendar.
Next Monday, January 9th, 5:00pm – 5:45pm (Eastern Time), a tentative Twitter Space is scheduled to kick off our first term of 2023.
Note: Working Group calls are expected to resume in the next week, please stay tuned to our communication channels for further notice.
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DAO-Wide Updates
Agora
New year, new delegation?
As we begin a new term, now is a great time to review your ENS delegation.
Token holders of $ENS token delegate votes to Delegates, who participate in the governance of the ENS protocol by voting on DAO proposals.
Visit ENS Agora, where you can see more information about the Delegates, including their voting record, and delegate your votes.
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Q1/Q2 2023 Working Group Stewards
Congratulations to our newly elected working group stewards.
- nick.eth (@nick.eth)
- simona.eth (@simona_pop)
- Katherine Wu (@katherine.eth)
- slobo.eth (@slobo.eth)
- limes.eth (@Limes)
- Yambo (@Yambo)
- avsa.eth (@AvsA)
- coltron.eth (@Coltron.eth)
- vegayp.eth (@vegayp)
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Integrations
CoinLedger
Automatic tax reporting for ENS domains is now live on CoinLedger.
Just add your ENS domain name!
CoinLedger imports all of your ENS-based transactions, calculates your gains & losses, and auto-generates your country’s necessary tax forms.
CoinTracker
You can now add a wallet to CoinTracker using ENS names.
Check it out here!
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ENS Promotion
Twitter Ads
If you use Twitter, you may have seen a couple of official ads for ENS in your feed.
Here are a few we have found:
2023 will be so web3.
— ens.eth (@ensdomains) December 25, 2022
Hop on the late gifting train!
— ens.eth (@ensdomains) December 25, 2022
Stake your claim on the new internet.
— ens.eth (@ensdomains) January 1, 2023
It’s not too late to gift an ENS name! ENS Fairy makes it quick and easy.
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Market News
ENS Stats for December 2022
- 53,000 new .eth registrations (total 2.83m names)
- $1.6m in protocol revenue (all goes to the ENS DAO)
- 22,000 new eth accounts with at least 1 ENS name (total 630,000)
- 6,727 avatar records set (total 67,000)
- 2,112 DWeb content records set (total 18,100)
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Tip of the Week
Having trouble setting your ENS as your primary wallet address? 
sadaf.eth, ENS Labs Community Advocate, has put together a thread to help explain and configure the resolver, which connects your ENS name to the ENS contract.
Check it out below.
having trouble setting your ENS as your primary wallet address? 🤔💡
— sadaf.eth (@sadaf_eth) January 2, 2023
let’s talk Resolver! Resolver is an often forgotten and overlooked aspect of your ENS domain, but boy is it important! 🧵
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Get Involved
- Follow the ENS DAO and ENS DAO Newsletter accounts on Twitter.
- Join our Governance Forum.
- Join on our Discord to chat about ENS or speak to a moderator.
- Visit our Governance Docs.
- View our Support Docs for answers to common questions about ENS.
Thank you very much for reading! Take care.