ENS DAO Proposal Allocates 5 Million ENS to Mitigate Voting Power Concentration
ENS community member AvsA proposed a draft in the governance forum, suggesting that approximately 5 million ENS held by the DAO be allocated to various governance stakeholders through a multi-delegation contract to alleviate the issue of voting power being highly concentrated in the hands of a few representatives.
The plan proposes to draw tokens from the DAO treasury, selecting candidates among stakeholders such as users, integrators (wallets, exchanges, applications), developers, traditional domain service providers, and governance communities, with approximately 1 million ENS delegated equally to each category.
Delegates will only receive voting rights without the authority to dispose of the tokens, and if they do not participate in voting for six consecutive months, the delegated tokens will be reclaimed and redistributed.
Source: Public Information
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ENS, as an Ethereum domain service protocol, has faced issues of decision-making efficiency and representation due to high token concentration in its DAO governance. AvsA's proposal continues the common practice in the crypto community of enhancing decentralization through delegation mechanisms, similar to discussions on token distribution and voting incentive reforms previously held by DAOs like Curve and Uniswap.
In terms of capital strategy, the DAO aims to incentivize multiple stakeholders to participate in governance through treasury token delegation rather than direct sales or airdrops, retaining control over the tokens while binding voting rights to increase community engagement and long-term ecological contributions. The motivation is to enhance the protocol's long-term sustainability and resistance to capture.
This proposal resembles the delegation incentive plans of MakerDAO or Arbitrum, or the path of traditional open-source projects that disperse decision-making power through governance tokens. Currently, ENS is transitioning from early-stage concentrated governance to broader participation.
Essentially, this represents a transition from capital concentration to restructuring the industry chain: DAO token distribution is shifting from a few whales to diverse stakeholders, reducing governance capture risks while reshaping the contribution distribution structure of the domain service ecosystem through incentive mechanisms, promoting the protocol's evolution from a technical tool to a more inclusive Web3 infrastructure.
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