Support a better world. Ally to all. No enemies. Just fix the systems. Happiness born of good deeds is what I stand for. Just here to protect it.
RP ≠ 100% FWIW
You say the DAO has wasted money and needs better governance over the money. *Everyone actually agrees with this.* The DAO has already cut its 3 Working Groups down to 1. SPP has a budget % cap and is using a different mechanism for picking projects to fund this year.
Then there's the elephant in the room: Labs gets about 2/3rds of the current spend. Labs doubled its budget 1.5 yr ago to do Namechain, didn't deliver (even ENSv2 hasn't shipped amazingly), and hasn't cut your funding to reflect that.
And then there's the Foundation board proposal. There is *consensus* around expanding the Foundation and putting them in charge of budgeting. This has been talked about extensively in the last 7-8 months. And everyone - Labs and non-Labs people - says they think the board should be independent and hold accountable any organization that receives money.
Months ago Katherine first proposed a Board that would have 2 Labs people, 3 "independent" people *chosen exclusively by her*. It would set budgets that the DAO would approve each year (treasury staying with the DAO). I and many others said this board certainly doesn't appear independent, and legitimacy matters. We said: how about Nick gets a permanent seat (respecting his position as the creator), and the other 4 people are chosen by the DAO in an open process. Katherine can still propose her people, but other people can too. It would give legitimacy to the process. This was months ago.
Months go by, nothing from Katherine. Then suddenly without warning she posts her current proposal: Still a board entirely chosen by her, and now the treasury actually goes to them (that's new!), and Nick is delegating 3m tokens to force it through with no discussion whatsoever. Whoa!
In other words, Nick is going to unilaterally vote to give the treasury to an organization Labs controls while still falsely claiming the board is independent. Sure seems like the last 6 months of good faith discussions about and independent board and accountability were in bad faith and a waste of time.
So your whole framing of "we just want better governance, DAOs don't work, why is everyone against that" is simply false.
Not to mention: All ENS metrics have been down only since 2022. ENS didn't even get a significant bump in 2025. Annual revenue is currently about half of what even just Labs gets. ENS needs radical leadership change to get out of its death spiral. Right now we're seeing the primary leadership that has led this poor performance get more entrenched.
She is only 9 years old.
She is confused and doesn’t even fully understand what’s happening.
This will never be normal. Any culture that does this is evil!