Client: Metagov, for the ENS DAO community · Role: Data & analytics lead · Year: 2025–26
The problem
ENS DAO governs a treasury of over $400M, but the evidence for how well its governance actually works was scattered across onchain votes, delegate activity, forum threads, and working-group records. Metagov’s independent retrospective needed a defensible, reproducible evidence base — not a one-off spreadsheet — so that findings could be verified, challenged, and kept alive after the report shipped.
What I built
A reproducible research data platform that turns raw governance activity into analysis-ready data:
- Pipeline: Dagster for orchestration, dbt for transformation, DuckDB for storage — a lightweight, fully open stack anyone can run locally.
- Coverage: 7 data sources spanning onchain governance (votes, delegations, treasury flows) and offchain signals (forum discussions and related records).
- Outputs: the datasets and analytics behind the retrospective’s findings, published as a live research platform rather than static charts.
The outcome
- The retrospective and its data platform are public: findings can be reproduced from source, not taken on faith.
- The live dashboard is cited in active ENS DAO governance discussions — the analysis outlived the report.
- The stack is a template for any DAO that wants governance research grounded in verifiable data.
Artifacts
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