@ensdomains closed its sealed-ballot election for three Meta-Governance stewards - now the DAO's sole working group, and its operational leadership, for Term 7 (July 2026 to June 2027). This followed @ENS_DAO's vote to fold every working group into Meta-Governance. Seven candidates ran, with ranked-choice ballots encrypted by @shutternetwork until close. 60 wallets cast 1,444,708 $ENS, clearing the 1,000,000 ENS (1% of supply) validity bar by ~44%. - @alextnetto took 28.6%: organized the election, built ENS's Security Council after a governance attack was identified - @sovereignsignal 23.8%: ran grant operations for the Uniswap Foundation, distributing $10M+ via Gitcoin rounds - @spikewatanabe & @abdullahbumar tied at 14.3% - @jkm__eth & @vegaypatino tied at 9.5% - @RagingBitcoin 0%: the only candidate arguing the DAO, ENS Labs, and the Foundation should be governed as separate entities Seats go by Copeland ranked-choice, where full rankings are compared head-to-head - so the tied third seat isn't settled by raw shares alone. With the tiebreaker applied, the three elected stewards for Term 7 are: 1. Alex Netto / netto.eth 2. Sov / sovereignsignal.eth 3. Abdullah / abdullahumar.eth Proposal: