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The ENS Foundation is a Cayman Island incorporated foundation that represents the ENS DAO in the real world
Overview
The ENS Foundation is a Foundation Company Limited By Guarantee, incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Foundation companies are nonprofits; The ENS Foundation has no shareholders and cannot pay out dividends to its directors or members. For more details on how foundations work, see this article.
Directors
The ENS Foundation has three directors: Nick Johnson, Kevin Gaspar and Alex Van de Sande.
Directors are in charge of the day-to-day running of the foundation.
Supervisor
The ENS Foundation has one supervisor. The supervisor is an administrative role whose job is to make sure that the directors are doing their jobs in accordance with Cayman Islands law. The position of supervisor is filled by a Cayman Islands firm, DS Limited.
Foundation Expenses
Running a Foundation is not free, and comes with some real-world costs. An incomplete list of anticipated expenses includes:
- Registered Office & Secretary Services: $10,000 USD p/a
- Supervisory Services: $30,000 USD p/a
- Agent for service of process: $1,200 USD p/a
- Companies Register Fees: $850 USD p/a
The Directors may ask the DAO for reimbursement of these fees when they are incurred so that the Foundation can continue to operate.
Relationship to the ENS DAO
The ENS Foundation's Articles of Incorporation give significant powers to the ENS DAO (referred to as "The Council" in the Articles). The DAO may vote to:
- Appoint or remove a director, member, or supervisor.
- Prohibit admitting any members in future.
- Instruct the directors to wind up the foundation, and specify what charity or other foundation should receive the foundation's assets.
Though not specified directly in the Articles, the DAO may also instruct the directors to take action on behalf of the Foundation - such as signing a contract, engaging a company for a service the DAO requires, or delegating some of the directors' powers to a DAO working group.
Documents
For transparency, important documents relating to the ENS Foundation can be found below.
Related Links
ENS Foundation documentation in the ENS Governance Docs
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