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Preferred Name / ENS name: Abdullah / abdullahumar.eth
Forum username: @abdullahumar.eth
Twitter / X profile link: https://x.com/abdullahbumar
Why do you want to be a Steward of this Working Group?
Having been involved recently with my role on the SPP3 committee, I’ve attained more intimate exposure to the ecosystem’s stakeholders, and by assessing many of the problems outlined in the recent Retro, I believe my experience across various DAOs will prove useful for ENS’ coming chapter.
For context, I lead a governance and consulting firm called Arana Digital, serving DAOs including Uniswap, Compound, Aave, Arbitrum, Morpho, Scroll, Rootstock, 1inch, and Velora—managing $40M+ in voting power at peak. We have conducted DAO operations and research by engaging delegates, foundations, and service providers; voted on 1000+ proposals in sum; authored public governance recommendations and parameter changes to uphold protocol efficiency, etc.
Below I outline the areas where my experience is deepest and most directly applicable to ENS:
Treasury management and professionalization.
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I led the Uniswap Treasury Working Group, producing a comprehensive report and set of recommendations for the DAO and currently serve on Compound’s Treasury Management Committee, where we are allocating ~$38M to a cohort of professional asset managers. I’ve also helped generate new treasury revenue rather than just managing existing assets, for example, adopting Chainlink SVR for Oracle Extractable Value to produce >$2M in annualized revenue. And in areas where capital efficiency is subpar, our team passed proposals for allocating latent funds like recently at 1inch.
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I also bring direct capital allocation and risk-management experience from the investment side. I helped run a liquid small-cap token fund for 4 years, handling portfolio construction, position sizing, and rebalancing alongside the execution, custody, and settlement risk that comes with operating in illiquid markets.
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The Retro names treasury governance as underdeveloped and calls for its professionalization under better oversight. I’d help bring financial discipline within DAO-approved constraints, tied to transparent reporting and spend-to-outcome review.
Program oversight and DAO operations.
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As an elected member of the Uniswap Accountability Committee (UAC), I helped run Safe operations and onchain accounting for a $5M+ budget, oversaw $6M+ in incentive programs across 35+ chains, and managed grantee relationships with engineering teams including Tally, Merkl, Oku, Protofire, and Forse, overseeing program compensation to delivered milestones throughout the course of 3 years. Last year, we also used Limes’ safenotes tooling to provide better spending transparency, joining ENS as the other supported DAO.
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I have had intimate exposure to ENS ops through its utilization on behalf of the Uniswap ecosystem. For instance, we helped establish a formalized process for subdomain-based Uni v4 licensing and deployment tracking. Through the UAC, we have been responsible for tracking Uni v3 instances across 40+ chains, transparently, consistently updating subdomain metadata on behalf of the DAO.
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I currently serve on the grant committee for 1inch’s Aqua incubator, allocating funds to teams using 1inch Labs’ new Aqua/SwapVM infrastructure, opening doors for revenue-sharing agreements with builders.
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With MetaGov now absorbing further mandates, this above oversight and operations experience is directly relevant. It’s important to have structured ways of coordinating between various builders, all the while not losing sight of ecosystem ROI from these relationships.
Community management, discussions, and experimentation.
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I run biweekly ecosystem calls for Compound and have for Uniswap in the past. I’ve also worked directly on voter participation itself, designing delegate races and delegation-and-compensation programs to enhance voting systems and defend governance against capture. Driving professionalized relationships between community members has also been one of my priorities. Supplementally, I have experience helping bridge communication gaps between Uniswap Foundation and delegates, ensuring mandates don’t go unevaluated.
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The Retro flags a self-reinforcing exclusion loop where low participation concentrates power. I’d like to address this via well-documented community engagement and experiments in participation that make governance easier to follow and contribute to.
ENS is critical infrastructure for Eth, and this moment of consolidation is a chance to put its operations on a more professional, accountable footing. I’d be glad to bring what I’ve learned across other DAOs to help, building alongside ENS’s existing contributors.
Any other information you wish to share with Delegates (e.g. potential conflicts or existing engagements)
- Currently serving as part of the SPP3 Committee.