Agenda and Minutes for Meta-Gov Meeting, August 22nd, 2023
Details
Time/Day – 11pm ET (3pm UTC), every Tuesday.
Google Meet Link – meet.google.com/ihz-hdvb-bbq
Stewards: @katherine.eth | ENS Profile, @nick.eth | ENS Profile, @5pence.eth | ENS Profile
Read up on the minutes from prior calls above.
Agenda
- General DAO Updates
- Endowment Update (@kpk )
- DAO Tooling
- Reserved for Open Discussion
- Refund Proposal Update (if any)
- Rethinking Small Grants Discussion
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Agenda and Minutes for Meta-Gov Meeting, August 22nd, 2023
Details
Time/Day: 11am ET (3pm UTC).
Google Meet Link: meet.google.com/ihz-hdvb-bbq
Stewards: @katherine.eth (ENS | Twitter), @nick.eth (ENS | Twitter), @5pence.eth (ENS | Twitter)
Read up on the minutes from prior calls above.
minutes by @184.eth
Agenda
- General DAO Updates
- Endowment Updates (@kpk )
- DAO Tooling
- Reserved for Open Discussion
- Refund Proposal Update (if any)
- Rethinking Small Grants Discussion
Attendance
katherine.eth, nick.eth, 5pence.eth, alisha.eth, elbagococina, eskender abebe, evan, greg skriloff, limes, maintainer.eth, marcus estmcmxci, senad dilji (senad.eth), tomas, vincent (zadok7), 184.eth
1. General DAO Updates
Forum thread: Rethinking ENS Small Grants discussion space.
- Small Grants redesign is still underway.
- The round is anticipated to begin in the first week of September.
- Submission period will be ~10 days, followed by a 4-5 day voting window.
- ERC1155 token will be used instead of POAP.
2. Endowment Update
Tomas | @kpk gave the weekly update.
- Since the last call EP4.1 was executed and the extended strategy has been deployed.
- Karpetkey will post to the forum a review of Endowment – See it here.
- This review paves the way for a request for the second tranche in the September voting window.
- If approved, there will be a disbursement of 16,000 ETH.
- The community is encouraged to engage and reach out on the forum.
Discussion continued into diversification.
- Strategic plan is to diversify the staked ETH, and other strategies and collaborate with new protocols.
- The approach remains to focus on low-risk, long-term oriented strategies.
- There’s active monitoring and research into alternative options, and proposals will be presented once they align with the risk appetite and overall objectives.
Also see Forum Threads: Endowment Monthly Reports & ENS Financial Reporting by Steakhouse
3. DAO Tooling
No items this week.
4. Reserved for Open Discussion
MetaGov Grants/sponsorships
- MetaGov sponsors DAO-specific events and DAO hackathons. Those interested are encouraged to reach out.
Revisited discussion on Scopelift – improving Governor Contracts
- Resources:
- Article: Introducing Flexible Voting: A Powerful New Building Block for DAO Governance
- Past minutes: May 23rd, 2023 & August 1st, 2023
- Gitcoin’s upgrade proposal: [GCP-009] Upgrade Gitcoin Governance Contracts
- The discussion moved to the potential benefits and risks of upgrading the core governance system.
- Nick emphasized caution when altering core governance contracts, allowing others to demonstrate before ENS adopts, and reviewing the contracts extensively.
- Additionally, there are minor upgrades (e.g., proposal delay) and patches of vulnerability (below).
Discussion into Vulnerability
Forum Thread: Security advisory: A malicious DAO update could reduce the registration duration of registered .eth 2LDs
- This is recommended as a standalone change with its own vote and deployment.
- An audit is seen as beneficial however doesn’t address whether the change is worthwhile.
- An appeal was made for more nuanced discussions around the topic..
- The idea was proposed to initiate a Snapshot Vote (i.e. Offchain Temp Check) to gather more feedback.
Multi-Delegate Token Contract
- This topic was presented during the ENS Town Hall for Q2 2023. You can find the video here (timestamp: 15:15)
- The code is currently under review. A merged version might be available this week.
- Any official deployment of the wrapped token would likely necessitate an audit.
- Read the PRD: ENS Multi-Delegate Manager