Despite being a minor delegate, it’s important to model accountable participation and reinforce a culture of strategic, long-term thinking within the DAO—especially because its success is contingent upon consistent and thoughtful engagement from delegates at all levels.
My decisions are grounded in the priorities I’ve identified as critical to ENS and Namechain over the next decade, namely: driving revenue growth, global adoption, infrastructure resilience, ecosystem legitimacy, and developer mindshare.
Consistent with this, I’ve voted for proposals across four tiers:
| Tier | Label | Description |
|---|---|---|
| T1 | Protocol Enablers | Without these, ENS on Namechain cannot function trustlessly or credibly. |
| T2 | Protocol Extenders | Add new protocol-level capabilities (e.g. ZK attestations, identity primitives, fallback resolution gateways). |
| T3 | Protocol Activators | Drive growth, UX, and adoption using what Tiers 1 & 2 unlock. |
| T4 | Protocol Enhancers | Quality-of-life improvements that increase transparency, polish, or discoverability. |
I’ve prioritized initiatives that enable or extend ENS’s modular identity stack and position Namechain to support emerging use cases—from AI agents and subname systems to decentralized data vaults and privacy-preserving coordination.
Postscript: After reviewing the full scope of applications and interdependencies more closely, I’ve refined my rankings based on a tiered framework that prioritizes protocol enablers first, followed by strategic extenders, activators, and enhancers. This approach reflects my view that ENS success begins with resilient infrastructure, and only then can capacity and adoption follow.
| Candidate | Strategic Rationale |
|---|---|
| NameHash Labs | Core indexer, ENSNode, and resolver stack power ENS v2 and Namechain. All downstream SPP-2 deliverables depend on this infrastructure for reliable resolution, record access, and cross-layer operability. |
| NameStone | Focused on back-of-house infrastructure: trust-minimised EVM Gateway, L2 primary-name support, and gas-abstracted sig workflows. These primitives make subnames and record updates seamless on Namechain without relying on central relayers. |
| blockful | Real-time attack-surface dashboards and game-theoretic simulations strengthen the DAO’s credible neutrality and help preempt governance capture—a critical risk over a 10-year horizon. |
| ZK Email | Brings privacy-preserving, zero-knowledge social proofs to ENS records, positioning ENS as the hub for confidential attestations and data sovereignty. |
| Unruggable | Operates shared gateways and resolution tooling that strengthen ENS uptime and content accessibility. Complements trust-minimised approaches like NameStone by offering redundant, independently maintained resolution endpoints. |
| Ethereum Identity Foundation | Bridges ENS to broader identity use cases through dev tooling—Identity Kit and Follow Protocol—enabling reputation, account linking, and interoperable social primitives grounded in ENS names. |
| eth.limo | Maintains high-availability infrastructure for ENS-based websites, pinning content to IPFS / Filecoin to support user trust and reinforce ENS’s ‘it just works’ UX across browsers and dApps. |
| Namespace | Serves as the front-of-house subname growth engine, delivering marketplaces, analytics, and tokenisation features aimed at driving revenue, adoption of wrapped names, and onboarding of autonomous agents via agents.domains. |
| Unicorn.eth | Simplifies onboarding through AI/Telegram bots, reducing technical friction and enabling bot-mediated user flows with a forward path toward agent coordination |
| 3DNS | Extends ENS utility into professional identity and agent-driven services through custom resolver standards, service-linked records, and gasless L2 integrations across ICANN and ENS namespaces. |
| Lighthouse Labs | Improves governance participation and transparency through mobile-first notifications, sentiment polling, and visual dashboards—helping expand voter engagement and reinforce DAO legitimacy. |
| JustaName | Offers ENSvolution, a historical record explorer and tooling hub that improves developer insight and UX while contributing to transparency across the ENS ecosystem. |
| Enscribe | Provides a contract-naming service that helps improve discoverability and semantic clarity in ENS-linked smart contracts, including ABI and metadata publishing—useful but lower leverage for strategic outcomes. |