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title: DAO Governance Daily - 2026-09-29
date: 2026-09-29
source: governance daily digest cron (job 616c8d3a6eb9) fallback: DAO Governance Terminal
editorial-status: facts only, no ratings commentary
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# DAO Governance Daily - 2026-09-29

**Takeaway:** Lido's expense and buyback restructuring is rejected at roughly 23,000:1 Against. Balancer's winddown and fork ballots close today at 18:00 UTC with winddown "Yes" variants leading on one and "No" leading on the other. Decentraland's names-contract dispute drives its three live votes.

- **Lido vote rejected.** The [expense optimization and NEST/stETH buyback restructuring proposal](https://snapshot.org/#/lido-snapshot.eth/proposal/0x517a6972a1b5ac20b4237b83a794f1ec4230ebe2cd35c293d6c03dafee40980f) closed with a final tally of **1,255 LDO For vs 29,354,889 Against** of 29.4M cast (2.9% of supply) — approximately 23,000:1.

- **Balancer's pair closes today at 18:00 UTC.** On [BIP-928, Orderly Winddown of Balancer and Distribution of the Treasury](https://snapshot.org/#/balancer.eth/proposal/0xeae4f8bab6f2fbfe22cfeae51ec336ef238c82e6e0017ee511ee67995235d53d), the two "Yes" variants lead: 11.26M BAL for "Yes, with tetuBAL at 50%" and 4.91M for "Yes, with tetuBAL at 100%", against 139K No (16.3M BAL cast, ~22.5% of supply). On [BIP-929, Fork and Reincarnate](https://snapshot.org/#/balancer.eth/proposal/0x25ee897681ae8bbae5ae224b14ad6a03ea6920f768d52b2e9aa1a85b7eec0590), "No, this is not the way" leads with 10.19M BAL vs 6.22M for "Yes, let's do it" (16.4M BAL cast).

- **Decentraland's names-contract dispute is the field's largest live voting block.** Three related ballots are open: an [immediate freeze of all Decentraland names](https://snapshot.org/#/snapshot.dcl.eth/proposal/0x9625a84a8d18f3ba1de73d639795e6be9b4f44b556b6995fa026238ff6ddb85e) (1.18M MANA For vs 1.10M Against, closes 10-01) and a [names contract migration and recovery plan](https://snapshot.org/#/snapshot.dcl.eth/proposal/0xe9d3e98934ea05a26d1b379339b1409948719910fe99d41b4603fc9e6ea85a10) (1.15M vs 1.10M, closes 10-01) touch the same contract dispute; a [request to return DAO Committee multisig funds to the treasury](https://snapshot.org/#/snapshot.dcl.eth/proposal/0x6c0cca3df81ad520f8be50a0a65d5934e1e829a01c66fc4fa5ee4d91abe516af) (366K MANA) closes 10-03. A separate poll asking whether the DAO X account should "do the bare minimum" closed 09-28 with 1.86M MANA For and 897K Abstain.

- **SafeDAO's [SEP 56, Fund Safenet Aegis](https://snapshot.org/#/safe.eth/proposal/0x9d226d025170ec4c56adc53dd77dda851da75c712757122c70dea965003278c4) continues** — 16 votes, 508.9K SAFE (0.05% of supply), all leading ballots Accept, running through 10-06.

Elsewhere the 32-DAO field is quiet: no other open ballots and no structural proposals.