Meta-Governance Working Group Steward Nominations Term 7 (2026)

[netto.eth]

Nominations for the 7th ENS DAO Steward Term (Term 7) are now open.

Following the outcome of Path forward on Working Groups for Term 7,
the Meta-Governance Working Group is the sole Working Group for Term 7, so steward
elections will be run only for Meta-Governance.

If you would like to nominate yourself as an ENS Meta-Governance Working Group Steward
for Term 7, please complete the steps outlined below.

Key Dates

• Nomination window: June 2, 2026 → June 22, 2026, 9:00 UTC
• Election (Snapshot): June 25, 2026, 9:00 UTC → June 30, 2026, 9:00 UTC (120 hours)
• Term 7: July 1, 2026, 9:00 UTC → June 30, 2027 (one-year term)

Three Stewards will be elected for the Meta-Governance Working Group (WG Rule 3.1).

Nomination Steps

Step 1: Forum

Reply to this post with the following information:

• Link to Snapshot: (fill this in after Step 2)
• Preferred Name and/or ENS name:
• Forum username:
• Twitter / X profile link (optional):
• Why do you want to be a Steward of this Working Group?
• Any other information you wish to share with Delegates (e.g. potential conflicts or existing engagements)

Step 2: Snapshot

Create a Snapshot vote in the ENS WG Steward Nomination space HERE.
Select “New Proposal” and use the following template:

Template
Title: [Meta-Governance] Nominate [your preferred name or ENS name]

• Example: [Meta-Governance] Nominate yourname.eth

Body: Copy and paste your forum reply from Step 1 (name/ENS, forum username, X link,
why you want to be a steward, and any conflicts/engagements).

Vote Timing

• Start: on or after June 3, 2026 (when you create your proposal)
• End: June 22, 2026, 9:00 UTC

Snapshot uses your local timezone when setting times, please convert 9:00 UTC accordingly.
For reference: 9:00 UTC = 5am ET / 2am PT / 10am BST / 11am CEST.

All votes supporting a nomination must be cast during the nomination window.

Step 3: Threshold

After nominating yourself, you require 10,000 signed votes in support of your nomination
on Snapshot during the nomination window (WG Rule 4.4). Any nominee reaching 10,000
supporting votes will be included on the ballot for the Meta-Governance Steward election.

Steward Elections

Anyone who completes the steps above will be included on the election ballot.

• Election begins: June 25, 2026, 9:00 UTC
• Election ends: June 30, 2026, 9:00 UTC (120 hours, WG Rule 5.1)
• Voting method: ranked choice voting (copeland)

Steward Compensation (Term 7)

• Lead Steward: $5.5k/month + ENS*
• Steward: $4k/month + ENS*

* 2-year vested ENS, calculated using the 6-month TWAP and distributed in the middle of the term, matching the USD value of the salaries.

Questions

If you have questions about the nomination or election process, or need help setting up
your Snapshot vote, comment below or DM @alextnetto on Telegram.

[estmcmxci]

• Link to Snapshot: Snapshot
• Preferred Name and/or ENS name: estmcmxci.eth
• Forum username: estmcmxci
• X profile link: x.com/estmcmxci
• Why do you want to be a Steward of this Working Group?

ENS DAO is at an inflection point, and I feel a responsibility to step up. After serving as a Meta-Governance Steward throughout 2024, I have a strong understanding of the group’s historical role, its operational failure modes, and the DAO’s current structural needs.

With the DAO consolidating into a single working group, I believe Meta-Governance now needs to function as a lean coordination core: one that creates clearer process ownership, defines roles and responsibilities, establishes explicit guardrails and mandate, and helps move proposals and priorities forward without unnecessary drift or ambiguity.

I believe the Working Group should operate with visible public accountability mechanisms — including clear scopes, timelines, and reporting — so execution remains legible to delegates and the broader community, whether through a publicly accessible dashboard, a shared GitHub repository, or similar tools.

Finally, I want to help ensure that consolidation does not come at the expense of ecosystem support. That means rebuilding a practical path for supporting ENS developers, maintaining space for coordination with Labs and the ENS foundation, continuing engagement around hackathons like ETHGlobal, and expanding cross-ecosystem collaboration in ways that strengthen ENS over time.

I’m running because I believe I can help turn this transition from a structural change on paper into a clearer and more functional operating model in practice.

Lastly, I want to be a known and trusted presence in the ecosystem, and to make myself available as needed to support this transition so that delegates and the broader community can have greater confidence in the DAO’s integrity.

Any other information you wish to share with Delegates (e.g. potential conflicts or existing engagements):

• I write the ENS DAO Newsletter
• I manage the ENS DAO socials
• I’m part of a team who has applied to SPP3

[jkm.eth]

• Link to snapshot: Snapshot
• Your preferred name/ENS name: James (jkm.eth)
• Forum username: jkm.eth
• Twitter profile link: @jkm__eth

Why do you want to be a Steward of this Working Group?

ENS DAO has been going through a lot of systemic changes recently, requiring the community to find alignment. At the same time, we continue to see people show up with a desire to collaborate and help build the ENS community. I believe ENS stewards should take charge in helping the DAO navigate these changes and should also enable contributors to participate in the ENS community and feel appreciated. My experience equips me to fulfill these duties, which is why I would like to serve as steward for the upcoming term.

I have been focused on crypto every day for the last 14 years. I got my start in 2012 as a co-organizer of the Tokyo Bitcoin Meetup, where I soon found myself representing the crypto industry in front of TV news cameras in the wake of the collapse of Mt. Gox. A year later, I moved to San Francisco and was an early employee at both Coinbase and Kraken. I then became Chief Product Officer at Breadwallet, where we grew from 4 employees to 45 before being acquired. All of these roles required me to be aware of shifting community narratives and to adapt to the challenges and opportunities they brought: I experienced the birth of Ethereum, the Bitcoin block size debate, the fork of Ethereum Classic, scaling strategy disputes, and all the other successes, failures, rises, and falls.

Outside of crypto, I have real world experience facilitating governance for IRL organizations that have a lot of similarities to how ENS DAO operates today. As one example, I served 4 years on the board of directors for British Mensa, a non-hierarchical society which is owned by its members and has a centralized legal entity that is authorized by the membership to work on their behalf. The board of directors is elected by the members and tasked with overseeing the office, which is led by a CEO. This is similar to how ENS DAO is collectively owned by the token holders, who empower ENS Labs to undertake vital work that keeps the whole system running smoothly. As director, I had to find ways to capitalize on the many contributions of volunteers, while also ensuring those contributions didn’t conflict with the vital work being done by the CEO and her team.

I am also involved in two separate community organizations that operate through formal consensus. I was trained as a consensus facilitator, and have since seen firsthand how these organizations are able to make decisions and resolve disagreements through compromise, without voting. Although voting is still required in ENS DAO, proposals can always be negotiated and improved to make them less contentious before moving to the voting stage.

When it comes to ENS specifically, I have authored an ENSIP, participated regularly in community calls, and submitted an application to this year’s SPP3 program. I know what it is like to be a community contributor, most often volunteering my time for free, and have seen firsthand all the friction, frustration, and satisfaction that can bring.

Ever since I first got into crypto, I have been looking for non-financial use cases that can benefit the real world. Social coordination and digital identity are the most exciting use case I’ve seen, which is why I’ve donated my time to ENS. I believe ENS can foster a vibrant developer community by allowing contributors to make an impact, and ENS DAO can continue to lead by example with community decision-making done right. This is what I will bring if elected.

Any other information you wish to share with Delegates (e.g. potential conflicts or existing engagements)

I am part of a team who has applied for SPP3. No other conflicts.