🏛️📞 MetaGov Working Group – 2026 Meetings: Tuesdays at 9am ET

🗳️ Meta-Governance Meetings
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:classical_building: MetaGov WG Calls, 2026 :classical_building:

Time/Day: Tuesday, 9am ET starting on January 20th
Meet Link: Link
DAO Calendar: Link

Stewards:

Changes from last year

  • Meeting time: From 10am to 9am ET, so we have less overlap as possible with other DAOs calendar (in this case Uniswap specifically).
  • Meeting cadency: From weekly to bi-weekly, with the goal of having higher density of updates to discuss and less time spent in meetings.

Overview
The ENS MetaGov Working Group holds public bi-weekly calls. The calls are open to community members and the general public.

The ENS MetaGov Working Group calls are facilitated by the appointed ENS Stewards, and led by the lead MetaGov steward. If you need to get in touch with any member of the working group, please message them on the forum, TG, or on X.

How to Add to Weekly Agenda
If you have items that you would like to add to the weekly agenda please message any of the ENS MetaGov stewards.

How to Use this Thread
Agenda will be posted along with call summaries. Please do not post in this thread unless requested by one of the Stewards.

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ENS DAO Newsletter #104 — 1/15/26
ENS DAO Extended Term 6 Dashboard (Retrospective Cycle)
[Executable] ENS Stakeholder Analysis and Retro
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Agenda and Minutes for MetaGov Meeting (Delegate All-Hands), Jan 20th, 2026

Details

Time: Tuesdays at 9:00 am ET
Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/wua-qjto-umk

Stewards:

Agenda

Happy 2026 :partying_face:! This session will be our Delegate All-Hands, which takes place during the first MetaGov Meeting of each month.
These meetings feature a curated agenda and a broader presence of delegates, focusing on deeper discussions, faster coordination, and more effective progress for ENS governance.

To make the discussion more productive, make sure to read the threads linked below.

  1. Weekly Endowment Updates - @kpk + @Steakhouse
  2. [Executable] ENS Stakeholder Analysis and Retro - @eugene
  3. [Temp Check] Metagov Update: Working Group Operations During the ENS Retro - @Meta-Gov_Stewards
  4. [RFC] Delegation Increase Incentives System - @zeugh.eth
  5. Revenue Reports - @Limes
  6. Holiday Awards Referral Program - @lightwalker.eth
  7. Naming Season Updates - @conor
  8. Open discussion
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1. Weekly Endowment Updates - @kpk + @Steakhouse

2. [Executable] ENS Stakeholder Analysis and Retro - @eugene

  • Continuation to put up the official proposal.
  • The research is organized into 3 phases:
    • Phase 1: Stakeholder analysis and pre-retro data collection
    • Phase 2: Retrospective assessment of spend
    • Phase 3: Synthesis, research, and presentation
  • Milestone-based payouts, funds custodied by MetaGov.
  • Methodology and processes discussed in the proposal (see more in the link above)
  • Collaboration viewed as partnerships with ENS to set the tone for future governance trends.
  • Hopeful that phase 1 and stakeholder analysis can align people around common North Stars (otherwise, it will be hard to move to Milestone 2)
  • If there’s no reaction to the proposal and it barely passes, they might not want to proceed, as they want to feel like they are entering a partnership.

3. [Temp Check] Metagov Update: Working Group Operations During the ENS Retro - @Meta-Gov_Stewards

  • Discussion on possible options and a path forward from the Temp Check above
    • Optino a) Continuing with the extension at the lowest cost (low budget).
    • Option b) Continuing with the full approval amount from October
  • Option c) mentioned – WGs request a reduced budget until April, approved from October.
  • The decision should be a discussion + collective decision vs. a MetGov decision.
  • Public Goods WG needs to maintain builder grants.
  • Ecosystem WG committed to ETHGlobal ($300k spend).
  • Agreed to bring the topic for discussion, discuss, and run the vote.

4. [RFC] Delegation Increase Incentives System - @zeugh.eth

  • Changes added to the incentive program for delegation based on community feedback.
  • The idea is to reward delegates and holders delegating to active delegates
  • The goal is to increase active voting power for safer governance and to make the DAO less dependent on the Security Council.
  • Changes:
    • Delegate pool moved from proportional votes cast to vote power held monthly.
    • Delegator pool changed to time-weighted ENS balance over six months.
  • Will be moved to Snapshot this week.
  • See more details in the link in the title.

5. Revenue Reports - @Limes

  • (next call)

6. Holiday Awards Referral Program - @lightwalker.eth

  • (next call)

7. Naming Season Updates - @conor

  • (next call)

8. Open discussion

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[Executable] ENS Stakeholder Analysis and Retro
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Agenda and Minutes for MetaGov Meeting, Feb 3rd, 2026

Details

Time: Tuesdays at 9:00 am ET
Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/wua-qjto-umk

Stewards:

Agenda

  1. Weekly Endowment Updates - @kpk + @Steakhouse
  2. Security Council - liveness checks - @netto.eth
  3. [Executable] ENS Stakeholder Analysis and Retro - @eugene
  4. Revenue Reports - @Limes
  5. Holiday Awards Referral Program - @lightwalker.eth
  6. Naming Season Updates - @conor
  7. [Temp Check] Delegation Incentives Program reminder
  8. Governance frontend with public RPC - Dawson Botsford
  9. ENS delegation app - Kirill
  10. Open discussion
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1. Weekly Endowment Updates - @kpk + @Steakhouse

  • Full weekly report here.
  • Endowment at 98M USD – ETH + Stables
  • 51.4% ETH, 48.6% stablecoins due to ETH price drop
  • Starting rebalancing to reach a 60/40 split between ETH and stables
  • Saw a -13M in total results despite generating ~61.5k in yields and ~45.9k net yields
  • BTC dropping to 75k and ETH to 2.2k (risk off)
  • Market sentiment low
  • Monthly report available here.
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  • USDC withdrawn from KPK vaults deposited into fluid usdc
  • Public dashboard of positions being finalized for real-time monitoring
  • It’s up to the DAO to be proactive if they want to change something
  • A previous RFC regarding gas fees and risk curve adjustments had limited engagement from delegates
  • Mentioned [RFC] Target Allocations for Endowment

2. Security Council - liveness checks - @netto.eth

  • The second liveness check for the Security Council was conducted
  • Involves signers signing an empty transaction.
  • Purpose was to assess reaction time and consensus-building speed in response to incidents.
  • It took 2 hours to reach the minimum threshold (4/8 signatures) and 2 days for full consensus.

3. [Executable] ENS Stakeholder Analysis and Retro - @eugene

  • The Retro vote has passed.
  • The research has 4 phases, and phase 1 is about 3 months.
  • The plan is to publish a full design protocol for accountability and transparency.
  • Interviews will be conducted to gather perspectives on DAO performance.
  • Stakeholder map and summary of results will describe DAO’s objectives and relationships.
  • There will be a kick-off meeting in one of the upcoming delegate calls.
  • The purpose of the kickoff meeting is to create awareness around the research questions.
  • A list of individuals to be interviewed has been developed to ensure broad representation.
  • The questions for the interviews have also been developed.
  • Phase 1 is the longest due to data collection.
  • Phases 2 and 3 will run concurrently
  • Phase 4 (synthesis and reporting) will only take a couple of weeks.

4. Revenue Reports - @Limes

  • Limes is not on the call, so the ENS revenue reports will be discussed at a later time.
  • Feel free to comment or reach out to Limes for questions and discussion.

5. Holiday Awards Referral Program - @lightwalker.eth

  • Lightwalker provides an update on the ENS referral program (ENS Holiday Awards).
  • This was a pilot program, and it wrapped up in December.
  • The pilot saw great engagement
    • There have been >10k referrals.
    • $80k in revenue contributed to the DAO
  • The next cycle will focus on addressing concerns that referrals might be dividing the existing market rather than growing it.
  • A question to consider: If all the apps disappeared, would the same activity happen through the ENS Manager app, or is it just reallocating demand?
  • The goal is to demonstrate confidence that the referral program is growing the pie for ENS, which would make a case for the DAO to fund the program on an ongoing basis.
  • $10k invested resulted in $80k worth of revenue; however, at the moment, there is no complete evidence that those purchases would not have been made otherwise.

6. Naming Season Updates - @conor

  • ENScribe presentation update.
  • Connor shared an update about the contract naming season.
  • ENScribe aims to change the way people see smart contracts in the Ethereum ecosystem
    • Replacing hexadecimal addresses with ENS names/subnames.
  • Using names improves security, trust, UX, and increases the surface area for ENS.
  • Strategy involves working with protocols to name their contracts.
  • Partnerships: Nouns, Liquity, and Cork, with Giveth to be announced soon.
  • Active discussions: Aztec, Lido, Superfluid, Pyth, Octant, and Human Tech.
  • Working with infrastructure providers like block explorers to integrate contract naming.
    • An ENScribe widget will be launched in Blockscan this month.
  • Adding new functionality to the ENScribe app:
    • Safe, exporting call data, batch contract naming, and features like L2 primary names.
  • Released a Foundry library and a Hardhat plugin.

7. [Temp Check] Delegation Incentives Program reminder

  • The proposal for incentives delegation is going to Snapshot today.
  • Updates have been made based on feedback.

8. Governance frontend with public RPC - Dawson Botsford

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9. ENS delegation app - Kirill

  • Kirill found the ENS delegation manager confusing
  • While testing, he was unsure if the delegation was successful
  • So he built: https://ens-delegate.kirillpolevoy.com/
  • The tool checks if a user has $ENS and guides them on buying or delegating.

10. Open discussion

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ENS DAO Newsletter #106 — 2/15/2026
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Agenda and Minutes for MetaGov Meeting, Feb 17th, 2026

Details

Time: Tuesday at 9:00 am ET
Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/wua-qjto-umk

Stewards:

Agenda

  1. Weekly Endowment Updates - @kpk + @Steakhouse
  2. Recent proposals update
    a. [Executable] Enable Root and Registrar Security Controllers
    b. [EP 6.32][Executable] Transfer $2.5M USDC from Endowment to wallet.ensdao.eth
    c. Governance Security Assessment
    d. [Executable] Register on.eth to the ENS DAO wallet and set the resolver
    e. [Temp Check] Delegation Incentives Program
  3. ENS Pulse - @estmcmxci
  4. Organizational metadata (updates) - @jkm.eth
  5. Open discussion
    a. Brief SPP3 discussion
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1. Weekly Endowment Updates - @kpk + @Steakhouse

  • Endowment at $91M
  • Rebalancing continues due to the $ETH price decreasing
    • Need to convert stables into $ETH
  • The balance will be back at 40:60 soon
  • There is a limit of 1,000 ETH that can be bought per week.
  • KPK’s monthly report will be published later this week
  • Weekly commentary

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  • Final reports on the KPK website for ENS will come later this week.

2. Recent proposals update

2.1. [Executable] Enable Root and Registrar Security Controllers

  • Live for voting.
  • Allows security council to take action to secure the protocol in case of a vulnerability.

2.2. [EP 6.32][Executable] Transfer $2.5M USDC from Endowment to wallet.ensdao.eth

  • Proposal passed last week.

2.3. Governance Security Assessment

  • Security audit by the Blockful team.
  • There are some high-risk concerns that will be discussed in the future.
  • This assessment does not currently present any risk due to Security Council.
  • New Governor upgrade should happen in the future.

2.4. [Executable] Register on.eth to the ENS DAO wallet and set the resolver

  • Live for voting.
  • Official website: https://interopaddress.com/
  • Question about how on.eth will be utilized, whether for users or developers.
  • The chain registry resolver is useful for surfacing metadata about a chain.
  • The new resolver will start with no data initialized, and each chain will initialize its data.
  • Suggestion to use a multisig to initialize data for every chain.
  • This would help with adoption, as opposed to relying on each chain to populate its data.

2.5. [Temp Check] Delegation Incentives Program

  • Proposal passed last week.

3. ENS Pulse - @estmcmxci

  • ENS Pulse is an ENS DAO monitor.
  • It’s a dashboard that aggregates protocol and governance signals into one view.
  • It provides the top 5 signals each time you visit it.
  • Dashboard showcases:
    • Prices (ETH, ENS) + Treasury holdings.
    • Active proposals link to Tally for voting.
    • Snapshot of the attack profitability analysis.
    • Protocol metrics show ENS protocol performance.
      • Total names, participants, primary names, daily/monthly revenue, etc.
    • Lists all DAO-associated wallets.
    • Shows upcoming events and social posts.
  • Security aspect comments
    • It costs $13M to attack the DAO (clearly visible on the Dashboard).
    • The existence of the Security Council should be added to the dashboard.
    • Netto posted about wallets accumulating funds.
    • Compound DAO has been dealing with a whale attempting a takeover for 2 years.
    • Blockful team is closely following the situations.

4. Organizational metadata (updates) - @jkm.eth

  • Received funding to establish a standard for attaching additional metadata to ENS names/subnames.
  • At its core, a standard defines a class and a schema record, which is a self-descriptor.
  • Two main use cases:
    • Expose onchain the organizational relevance of a subname.
    • Expose context-specific metadata.
  • For example, attaching all the details about a contract (version, ABI, source, etc.) as ENS records turns ENS into a canonical resource of data.
  • Working on a draft ENSIP.
  • UI dashboard to illustrate the power of the standard
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  • Can render a tree structure that shows the relationships between all of the subnames.
  • Onchain, a user can specify a data schema to explain what type of attributes should be appended to that node.
  • Schemas are being called in from canonical IPFS records.
  • Standardized IP schema registry allows for collaboration and publishing to canonical representations.
  • The standard is designed for maximum interoperability and flexibility.

5. Open discussion

5.1. Brief SPP3 discussion

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