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Representing organizations on ENS

Author: 1a35e1.eth arnold@lighthouse.cx

WG Coordinator: jkm.eth james@lighthouse.cx

Version: 0.5.0-draft

Date: 9 June 2025

ENSIP-X: Representing organizations on ENS

Background

At Lighthouse, we surface DAO metadata from multiple systems to help users vote more effectively on mobile. Currently, much of this data (including contract addresses and delegate information) requires manual discovery and ingestion.

We would prefer to source and present this data from an official, public canonical source such as ENS, rather than relying on manual updates.

Introduction

This RFC outlines a standard for DAOs to write metadata to ENS in a canonical manner, building on historical attempts in the ecosystem.

ENS innovations like subnames, CCIP-Read, wildcard domains, and the upcoming Namechain L2 provide the components for a global, trustless, and crawlable graph of organizational data. We propose a minimal, flexible schema that can:

• Model DAO structures, including delegates, working groups, and treasuries.
• Store structured DAO metadata via ENS text records.
• Facilitate discovery of DAO-related information.
• Support fine-grained attributes that can be resolved from diverse off-chain vendors.

Approach

ENS is uniquely positioned to become the canonical source of truth for organization metadata across EVM-aligned blockchains.