Alex Van de Sande, a co-founder of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), proposed Monday that the ENS DAO delegate 5 million ENS tokens from its dormant community treasury to individual participants, a step he said would end the DAO's reliance on what he called “just a 1-of-1 multisig.”
“Currently, one delegate has enough quorum to not only execute any proposal, but also to outvote the next 50 other delegates,” Van de Sande said in the proposal, in an apparent reference to ENS co-founder Nick Johnson.
Van de Sande filed the idea as a formal draft, "Reform DAO governance by delegating 5M ENS tokens," in the Meta-Governance section of the ENS DAO's discourse forum. In a post on X, he said participants would not own or be able to sell the delegated tokens, which belong to the DAO, and floated adding another 5 million tokens next year, an undelegation trigger after six months of inactivity, and a full sunset of the arrangement after two years.
Van de Sande said the proposal draws on unclaimed supply from ENS's original airdrop five years ago, which set aside half its tokens as a "community treasury" to be distributed over five years. That window has now lapsed with little of the allocation distributed, he said.
