Alex Van de Sande - ENS Foundation Director Nomination

Legal Name: Alexandre Van de Sande Twitter handle: @avsa Are you 18 years of age or older? Yes Are you a U.S citizen or permanent resident? No Do you live in the U.S or one of its territories? No

Why should you be appointed as a director of the ENS Foundation? I won’t lie: I believe this role is purely cerimonial and believe that as long as everything is working as intended, Directors should do nothing but rubberstamp what the DAO approves. But as a symbol, I do think it’s important for the Directors not to be all from ENS Labs, nor for them to be in any jurisdiction that is not welcome to Crypto – and at this moment, the US is such jurisdiction.

So that’s it, that’s the whole of my pitch: I do not work for ENS labs, I do not respond to them, nor do I am subject to US jurisdiction. I also have been in this space for the last 10 years and you can expect me to be around in the next 10 years.

How would you handle a request from the SEC for information about the ENS Foundation and/or the $ENS token?

I am not not subject to american laws, but that doesn’t mean I intend to break any of them, as I still intend to keep the privilege of landing in US soil. I still believe the US to be a reasonable thriving democracy that is just right now a bit on the wrong side of the pendulum. I also believe that the ENS airdrop was a great precedent on how to do token distribution to the community: no “investor” ever received it in the airdrop, because there were no investors in ENS before the airdrop. All that received them were either involved in the community or the development.

If I ever received a request from the SEC of any other legal institutions from anywhere I would take the reasonable route: talk to my lawyer, open it with as much as possible with the community and, in an extreme case in which I believed I the requests would hurt ENS and I couldn’t be open to talk about it, I would resign from the foundation.

Is there any other information you would like delegates to know about you or your nomination?

I am not Dutch either, despite a lot of people seemingly believing it so :wink: