1. Applicant Information
Company: Tally
Website: www.tally.xyz
X/Twitter: Tally
Primary Contact (ENS): withtally.eth
Primary Contacts:
Dennison Bertram, CEO: dennisonbertram.eth
Raf Solari, CTO: rafso.eth
Frisson, CRO: 0xfrisson.eth
Company Overview:
Tally builds the core infrastructure that powers the decentralization layer of the most important organizations in Ethereum. Our infrastructure is used by leading protocols such as Arbitrum, ZKsync, Eigenlayer, Uniswap and more. Tally’s infrastructure has processed over $1b in value transfers. We currently build and maintain https://tally.ensdao.org.
Requested amount
- $300,000 USD (1 year)
- Tally is not eligible for 2-yr stream
Size of team and commitment
Tally is a team of 16 full time team members, mostly product and engineering. Our backgrounds are diverse with a strong engineering culture led by our CTO, Rafael Solari. Our more public facing members: Dennison, Frisson and Coolhorsegirl primarily work on customer success and ecosystem outreach. We work closely with our partners and are frequently active contributors in the DAOs we participate in.
Commitment:
The ENS community is an important part of Tally’s focus and user base. Tally is the most popular voting platform for ENS. On average ~70% of ENS voters vote on Tally. Tally also believes deeply in the value of the ENS primitive and is excited about the expansion of the protocol to Namechain. Our most recent work to extend the universality of ENS is our integration with the Ethereum Follow Protocol, an ethereum social graph built on ENS.
We see ENS as a critical component for the universal interoperability of governance tooling. In the coming year we want to double down on our support of the ENS DAO and ENS protocol with improvements that make governance easier as well as help expand the utility of ENS across our significant user base of DAOs and governance participants.
2. Eligibility Confirmation
Company Age & Reputation
Tally is in its fifth year as a critical component of the Ethereum ecosystem and is the longest continually operating DAO governance platform. Over $1B has been moved via DAO proposals on Tally and over 7,000 proposals have been made using Tally. Tally has been actively supporting ENS DAO since December 2021, less than one month after the DAO was launched in November 2021. We’ve been proud to support the ENS DAO community over the years and are excited to continue doing so with your support. Our contributions to date include:
- Enabling gasless voting and delegation to lower participation barriers
- Integrating ENS address lookup in both the Explore Delegates page and URL structure for better discoverability
- Supporting in-app Discourse commenting to streamline off-chain discussions
- Highlighting ENS during Delegation Week to increase delegate visibility and engagement
Outside of the ENS DAO, we are the primary provider for hundreds of DAOs in the Ethereum ecosystem including Arbitrum, Wormhole, ZKsync, and Obol as well as being the DAO-funded partner to the Uniswap DAO.
Team Experience
The Tally team has deep domain experience with ENS, Ethereum and blockchain in general. Our expertise spans across smart contracts, indexers, front end, security, and blockchain infrastructure. Millions of crypto users have interacted with the Tally platform.
Tally is the most robust and feature-rich governance platform, supporting the full governance lifecycle—from DAO launch to proposal execution. We support the latest OpenZeppelin Governor standard and offer native support for key tools like Gnosis Safe, simulations, no-code transfers, and MEV-protected swaps. Our public API is widely used across the ecosystem to power governance experiences.
ENS Token Endorsement Requirement
We have secured the support of Simona Pop for this application who currently has 64k in delegated ENS tokens.
OFAC Sanctions Compliance
We, DappHero Corp, (DBA: Tally.xyz), confirm that neither our organization nor any of our employees, contractors, or executive leadership is located in, or a resident of, an OFAC-sanctioned country. We further confirm that none of our business resources are derived from or routed through any country or entity that is subject to sanctions imposed by the United States (OFAC) or equivalent regulatory bodies. We pledge to remain compliant with all applicable sanctions laws and will promptly notify the ENS DAO if our status changes.
Multi Year Stream Eligibility
Tally is not eligible for a multi-year stream.
3. Open Source Commitment
We commit that any work funded by SPP2 will follow the MIT license. If necessary, we will update relevant existing licenses to MIT.
4. Scope of Work & Budget
Explanation Overview
Tally’s scope of work proposal is broken down into improving the accessibility and security of ENS Governance and the proliferation of the ENS as a core internet primitive for on-chain organizations.
To address these two themes we have defined a set of goals that instructs our proposal and roadmap.
Key Goals:
- Goal 1: Make the governance process more accessible and transparent
- Goal 2: Proliferate the ENS primitive and tools across the on-chain ecosystem
4.1 Basic Scope of Work: Accessibility, Security, and ENS distribution
Requested amount
$300,000 USD
Description
Our scope of work focuses on improving the accessibility, safety, and reach of ENS governance. This includes deeper integration with the ENS proposal process, enhanced support for Safes, automatic proposal execution, and the addition of an RSS feed for better governance transparency. We’re also working to expand the utility and adoption of ENS by integrating features into Tally—our governance app used by millions. These features include support for ENS record-based proposal actions, improved ENS resolution, and future compatibility with Namechain once live.
Goal 1: Make the governance process more accessible and transparent
On average, 70% of the ENS DAO voter community uses the Tally platform to participate in ENS governance. This presents a fantastic opportunity to surface and organize information that enhances voter experience, lowers barriers to participation, and improves participation. To support our goal of making the process more accessible and transparent Tally will:
- Build a deeper integration with the ENS governance proposal process
- Integrate the full ENS proposal lifecycle into the core app by surfacing Snapshot proposals, Discourse threads and Github PRs into the application. This makes it easier for voters to understand the lifecycle of proposals.
- Automatically manage the lifecycle of onchain proposals via a proposal queue and execution bot. Currently Delegates and DAO members manually queue proposals for execution. This takes individual effort and gas and can potentially delay proposal execution. Automatic lifecycle management simplifies the proposal process and reduces the burden on Delegates to manually move proposals forward through the process.
- Integrate the full ENS proposal lifecycle into the core app by surfacing Snapshot proposals, Discourse threads and Github PRs into the application. This makes it easier for voters to understand the lifecycle of proposals.
- Enhance support for delegates operating with Safes by enabling Sign in with Safe as well as enhanced support for non-standard multisig setups such as nested multisigs.
- Maintain an independent RSS feed mechanism that exposes a running feed of critical DAO smart contract operations. This feed simplifies the process for third party builders and AI tools to monitor and integrate with the ENS governance operations.
- Build frontend to support any further SPP voting algorithms going forward.
- Let voters rank multiple options (like service providers or budget asks) directly in the Tally interface
- Display clear results for ranked-choice votes, including pairwise matchups and Copeland scores
- Group related options together (like basic and extended budgets) to avoid vote-splitting
- Read proposal metadata to properly format and display ballot options
- Ensure the Tally UI remains simple to use even for complex multi-option votes
- Integrate Karma’s delegate score and contributor metrics into Tally’s delegate page so token holders and DAO stakeholders have access to holistic participation information. Karma will provide the following via their API:
- Onchain and Snapshot voting pct, delegator count, voting power, list of delegators
- Stats for different timeframes: Lifetime, last 30 days, last 90 days etc
- Various sorting criteria (score, voting power, voting pct, forum activity)
- Onchain endorsements by peer delegates
Goal 2: Proliferate the ENS primitive and tools across the on-chain ecosystem
As the largest governance platform in the Ethereum ecosystem, Tally has network effects that allows us to distribute primitives to many other organizations. In the past year on average 80 DAOs per quarter have deployed on Tally. Over $1 billion has been transferred using Tally proposals. This makes Tally an excellent partner to help the distribution of ENS. To support our goal of proliferating the ENS primitive and tools across the on-chain ecosystem, Tally will:
- Create no-code Tally proposal actions that allow organizations to easily update ENS text records through governance proposals. This eliminates the friction of using ENS with DAO owned smart contracts.
- Enhance ENS resolution on Tally by indexing offchain ENS names. Today, Tally indexes names from the core-onchain registry. This improvement would index any ENS name regardless of where it is and show it on that user’s Tally profile (eg: name.cb.id). This enhances the distribution and utility of the ENS protocol.
- Provide ENS Namechain support. Tally is a multi-network platform that supports 30+ layers 2s and blockchains. Tally will offer priority support for Namechain on the Tally platform, allowing users to build and deploy organizations on the Tally platform that are distributed on the Namechain network.
- Automatic ENS names: Over 250,000 users have joined DAO’s directly through the Tally governance product. Tally is exploring allowing for teams launching on Tally to directly distribute ENS names directly in their launch flow.
The following are products we are excited to explore but still need to do more work to validate their feasibility and demand so that we can prioritize what brings the most value to the ENS DAO, protocol and ecosystem.s As such, they are not explicitly included in the SoW but we intend to prioritize research into each of these features and services as part of this proposal
- Deployment build verification: In light of the SAFE hack, Tally has been thinking deeply about how to increase security of the build pipeline of its front end tools. To this end, we are considering a trust verification system to help allow builders to verify the authenticity of the Tally application powered by ENS. This tool could drive significant improvement in safety to ENS and the wider Ethereum ecosystem.
KPIs / Success Metrics
Ongoing Program KPIs
- 90%+ attendance at weekly MetaGov calls by at least one Tally team member
- Maintain 99%+ uptime for the ENS Tally client (web + API)
- Support 100% of on-chain governance proposals with timely frontend updates reflecting user feedback and governance activity
- Add full support for Namechain within one week of its mainnet launch
Quarterly KPIs
- Deliver quarterly reports detailing features shipped to the ENS Tally client and their alignment with ENS governance priorities
- Publish a quarterly feedback and fixes summary documenting bugs, feature requests, and actions taken by the Tally team
- Report ENS-specific usage metrics within Tally, including delegate discovery traffic, proposal creation frequency, and number of unique ENS-based user sessions
- Highlight integrations or UI/UX improvements that expand ENS visibility within Tally, such as showcasing ENS names in proposal authorship, delegate profiles, and voting summaries
5. Past Achievements & Additional Information
Much of our track record is already covered in Section 2 (Eligibility Confirmation), so we’ll keep this brief and highlight a few ENS-relevant contributions and resources here.
Tally has delivered proven results:
- Over $1B moved via DAO proposals on Tally
- Over 7,000 proposals created using the Tally platform
- Tally supports over 40 million token holders
Some of our ENS-specific contributions:
- Integrated Ethereum Follow Protocol
- Enabled gasless voting and delegation for ENS tokenholders on Tally
- Integrated ENS name lookup across the Explore Delegates page and governance URLs
- Supported in-app Discourse commenting for ENS proposals
- Featured ENS during Tally’s Delegation Week Spotlight
- Brantly Milligan’s Recommendation: “Tally is a great set of DAO governance tools. They have a great widget that shows a delegate’s EFP follower and following counts, clickable to their full EFP app profile”
For more:
- Tally GitHub (57+ public repos)
- Tally Documentation
- Live ENS governance interface
- Tally X
- Tally’s DAO Talk Podcast
6. Video Introduction (≤ 5 minutes)
7. Conflict Of Interest Statement
Tally does not have any conflicts of interest or participation in any project that is currently receiving funding from the DAO or is a candidate for it.
Tally is generating revenue and has raised some venture capital funding, but is not yet profitable.
FireEyes is an investor in Tally.