First off let me start by saying that this was very difficult. Not only the days I spent talking to many of you and reading your proposals to try and see what my vote could do for the best of the DAO.
Even after all this time spent I had serious doubts about voting today and even considered completely abstaining as described here: https://x.com/LefterisJP/status/1921562225333916094
There is no personal gain from me voting and I only have a lot to lose as the people whose projects I don’t vote for, will remember it and may even subconsciously hold it against me in the future.
That said I decided that I owe it to all the applicants, to all the people who have delegated to me and trust me and finally to the DAO itself to cast the vote.
I want to thank all projects for taking the time to create such detailed proposals and for the effort they put in their applications. Below I will simply explain which projects I voted for and why.
Unruggable (Basic + Extended)
The unruggable team has done pretty great and has created very important infrastructure for ENS in the first iteration of the service provider program. I supported them in their previous ask outside of the service provider program since I think that their work is important to the core of ENS and as such keep my support here.
limo.eth (Basic)
Probably the most well known public ENS gateway that has been helping advance decentralized hosting and ENS usage since I can remember.
Namehash
The only reason I am supporting them is that they plan to solve problems I know exist and am hitting daily as developer of an application that consumes blockchain data related to ENS. The indexing services they propose are a must have.
Now … the ask is huge. I almost ended up not voting for them because of it.
And the proposal is so complicated, so big, trying to do everything under the sun.
Some very strong feedback here @lightwalker.eth, instead of trying to do everything, focus on only the most important and essential parts of your application.
Namespace
Arguably the best and easiest subname service in ENS with very strong track record and also reasonable funding ask.
ZKEmail (Basic)
That project intrigued me. I first heard about them only during reading the proposals and found their suggestion both interesting and feasible. Would love to see them implement their basic scope and prove ownership of email accounts, verify ownership of social media in a ZK way etc.
Blockful (Basic)
As a member of the ENS security council and an active participant in ENS governance I have seen firsthand what blockful has done for the ENS DAO and their proposal to be a service provider seems to continue on the same spirit of their work. I believe they should be funded.
Ethereum Identify Fund (Basic)
Last year I did not vote for EFP as I saw it out scope of the service provider program. I have to admit I am still confused about the scope of the program as I initially thought it’s mostly infra or governance.
But the EFP guys have delivered and keep delivering since then. They have made owning an ENS name more fun, made a protocol around it and enhanced the social aspect.
I would love to see what they can do further with funding in the next year.
Webhash
Unless I recall wrong I voted against webhash last year.
Since then I saw @hidayath.eth and team build webhash into a really nice app that makes it easy to create decentralized websites … even for the normies!
Their ask is pretty reasonable and as such I think they should be funded and am looking forward to see how their work evolves in the future.
That’s all! As you can see I mostly voted for infra/protocol/hosting. I did not vote for governance or apps as I don’t think the service provider program is well suited for them.
If I did not vote for your application, that does not mean what you are building does not have value, and on behalf of the DAO I want to thank you for taking the time to propose it.