Applications Now Open
Applications for ENS Service Provider Program Season 3 are now open. The submission window closes June 9th 23:59 UTC
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Timeline
| Event |
Date |
| Submissions open |
May 19 |
| Submissions close |
June 9th (23:39 UTC) |
| Committee review & interviews |
June 2–23 |
Public Calls
Ask questions about the program or the process before you submit.
The committee will host public calls where applicants can ask about the rubric, program requirements, and process.
Notice: Wednesday, June 3rd cancelled to provide more availability for interviews. @coltron.eth will be available during the weekly meta-gov call for questions.
Resources
Next Steps
- Check eligibility: minimum request, scope, category fit
- Read the official rubric post: understand the evaluation criteria in detail
- Attend a public call: ask questions before you submit
- Submit: before June 4 at 23:59 UTC
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Hello — thanks for creating a venue for prospective SPs to engage with the submission process.
I have a few questions about evaluation. Answers to any of these would be very helpful, especially around which signals the committee weights most when selecting SPs.
- For borderline applications, what evidence most strongly increases confidence that outcomes will causally affect ENS registrations and renewals?
- For proposals with indirect effects on registrations and renewals, what specific evidence would best demonstrate a strong C4 score?
- When two or more proposals have similar projected utility, how heavily does prior delivery record decide the outcome?
We have added an additional public call during the submission period to help cover the APAC time zones.
If you are in this time zone and can not make the call, please reach out to me directly.
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Quoting the approved [6.42] [Social] [SPP3: Program Authorization and Committee Model]:
Requesting that the committee exercise this power to adjust the close of the SPP3 application window back 1-week for all SPP3 applicants. This change reasonably improves the process.
Been up all night working on our SPP3 proposal. It’s past 7:30am here now. More time is needed to build SPP3 proposals properly before the submission window closes.
For everyone’s context:
- This significant scheduling concern has already been raised multiple times, including here, here, here, and here on the forum and also in the committee’s public calls on May 20 and on May 27.
- The SPP2 scope of work only ended about a day ago on May 25/26th. We (and I assume other SPP2 providers) have been fully committed to seeing through maximum outcomes for ENS under that already committed scope of work and budget. We take our commitments very seriously and did not agree to interrupt that already committed SPP2 work before it finished, even though it may have benefitted us to break our SPP2 commitments just to commence building a SPP3 proposal early.
- SPP2 teams who have devoted to their existing commitments to ENS have only been able to start building their SPP3 application on May 26/27. This only gives a 1-week gap before the SPP3 application window closes on June 2.
- The desire has been to do everything possible to comply with the current SPP3 submission window. But it’s now through yet another all-nighter and it’s clear that this isn’t enough time to properly describe a year’s worth of problems, solutions, outcomes, and milestones for a team of our size advancing projects for ENS of the scope of our workstreams.
- SPP3 is a huge investment and opportunity for ENS. It does not benefit ENS for the SPP3 proposals to only be given a single week of preparation time for SPP2 teams. ENS benefits when SPP2 teams are given a sufficient gap of time (2-weeks is sufficient) to build proposals for a year’s worth of problems, solutions, outcomes, and milestones.
- Let’s not destructively rush something so important for no proportional benefit.
Appreciate @Coltron.eth’s invitation for me to post this request publicly on the forum so that it may be addressed by the committee. Thank you.
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@lightwalker.eth The committee is extending the deadline 48 hours. The new deadline is now June 4th at 23:59 UTC. The review period is unchanged at this time.
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This is what I encountered when trying to submit the form. I tried multiple browsers, with the same result each time. I will try again later in case it is a temporary issue, or should I contact you directly to coordinate an alternate submission method?
I was not able to replicate it. Send me a DM if this is still giving you an error.
It worked today, so I think the issue is resolved 
@Coltron.eth Appreciate the suggestion in today’s public call to check if other SPP2 service providers who will be applying for SPP3 are also struggling with the schedule overlap between SPP2 and SPP3.
For context: There’s only a short 9-day period between the end of the SPP2 scope of work until the SPP3 submission deadline. The key issue for SPP2 teams is not deciding what to propose. No, the key issue is the time needed to effectively translate their vision for 365 days worth of problems / solutions / outcomes / deliverables / etc–for their entire team!–into the SPP3 proposal format in only this small 9-day window.
I’ve reached out to @brantlymillegan (EthId), @Premm.eth (Unruggable), @cap (Namespace), and @JustRyan (JustaName) in DMs.
Quick replies received from both Brantly and Prem for their respective teams: @brantlymillegan shared that he is ok to extend to June 9 but wouldn’t keep extending beyond that. @Premm.eth shared that generally he thinks there should be more time and noted how he shared a positive reaction on the earlier schedule update request above in this thread.
This situation is causing SPP2 teams to have insufficient time to effectively communicate their case to the SPP3 committee. Without updating the deadline as requested to June 9 (and no later!) the SPP3 committee will not be given proposals that properly reflect the vision of SPP2 teams for the proposed year ahead.
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The committee is extending the deadline to midnight June 9th 23:59 UTC. We are also extending the review period for another week.
No further submission deadline extensions will be evaluated under any circumstance. We will update the documentation shortly.
Chair Rationale
Despite the following,
- There was no clear evidence that any other SPP2 provider experienced an undue burden from the Snapshot ratified timeline preventing them to submit on time. This is demonstrated by multiple submissions from existing SPP2 providers before the previous deadline.
- Additionally, to my knowledge no other provider reached out to directly request a deadline extension.
I personally want this to be a fair process for everyone.
That said, I must remind applicants on the back-channeling rule. Private outreach pressuring the committee for preferential, or unique, treatment in this process is a violation. Please stick to the forum public calls, and the established group chats.
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