🗳️ Voting Period Bulletin — Term 7

🗳️ Meta-Governance
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Term 7 Proposal Bulletin

About the Proposal Bulletin

The Proposal Bulletin provides updates on recent ENS DAO proposals. Its purpose is to keep community members informed about the status, substance, and outcomes of proposals under consideration or recently concluded during Term 7.

By consolidating this information, the bulletin aims to improve transparency and make ENS governance easier to follow.

About Proposals

Proposals are the mechanism ENS DAO uses to coordinate decisions and implement change. Broadly, proposals move through three phases, then fork by type: social votes finish on Snapshot, while executable proposals proceed onchain through the ENS Governor and Timelock.

  1. Temperature Check – an informal poll in the Temperature Check category to gauge sentiment.
  2. Draft Proposal – a proposal is formalized and refined prior to moving to a vote.
  3. Active Proposal – the vote runs at the venue and thresholds set by the proposal type.

There are two main proposal types covered in this bulletin:

  1. Social Proposals – offchain proposals voted on through Snapshot. These are binding socially and do not execute onchain.
  2. Executable Proposals – onchain proposals that proceed through the Governor and, if approved, are queued in the ENS Timelock before execution.

How to Submit a Proposal

The ENS DAO proposal process is designed to support structured and transparent decision-making.

Proposers may begin with an optional Temperature Check on the ENS governance forum to gather feedback. From there, a proposal is developed as a draft and then proceeds to Active Proposal & Voting at the venue appropriate to its type.

Proposers may use Snapshot to post either a social proposal or an executable proposal for consideration. For full details, refer to the ENS Proposal Submission Guide.

Proposal Table

Criteria Social Proposals Executable Proposals
Type of proposal Offchain Onchain
Venue Snapshot Governance Portal
Proposal threshold 10,000 ENS 100,000 ENS
Quorum ≥ 1m $ENS, 50% Approval ≥ 1m $ENS, 50% Approval (Votes ‘For’ + Abstain count towards quorum)
Vote period ~5 days ~7 days
After approval Binding socially; no onchain execution Queue, then minimum 2-day timelock, then execution
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July 2026

  1. [Executable] Delegation Incentives Program (Funding Transfer)*
    This proposal funds the ENS Delegation Incentives Program with 90,000 ENS + 5 ETH, sending treasury assets to the MetaGov stewards multisig for a 3-month pilot that rewards active delegates and delegators, sponsors gas, and returns unused funds to the DAO.

  2. [Executable] Renewal of the Security Council*
    This proposal renews the ENS DAO Security Council for another two years by deploying an updated contract with DAO-only extend() logic, keeping its cancel-only veto role intact, rotating one signer, and avoiding future full redeployments for renewal.

  3. [Executable] Establishing a new Security Council*
    This proposal establishes a new ENS Security Council based on EP 6.50 election results, appointing the elected members to serve a two-year term through July 16, 2028, formalizing the new council’s authority and transition within ENS DAO governance.

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Social Proposals:

  1. [Social] Term 7 Steward Election*
    This proposal elects three stewards for the Meta-Governance Working Group for Term 7 (July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027). Voting uses ranked-choice selection with the Copeland method and Shielded Voting, meaning ballots stay private during the voting window and are revealed afterward. The three highest-ranked candidates will be elected, and the election is only valid if it reaches the 1% ENS supply quorum threshold.

  2. [6.47] [Social] Proposal for a New Security Council*
    This proposal establishes a new Security Council with a tighter public mandate, a 5/8 threshold for action, and a transition plan to maintain continuous coverage.

  3. [7.1] [Social] SPP3: Marketplace RFP
    This proposal authorizes a one-time, open RFP for an ENS marketplace using up to $500,000 from SPP3’s previously approved but uncommitted budget after the original marketplace/revenue award was declined. The selected team would be milestone-gated, expected to launch quickly, and aimed at driving registrations, renewals, and secondary-market activity without requesting new DAO funds.

→ Governance Dashboard (Community Built): Proposals | ENS Governance

Note: proposals annotated with asteriks are Term 6 proposals (past term), included for reference during the Term 6 → Term 7 transition.