Proposal

The Façinations contract was deployed in May 2023 with a single curatorial signer: Douglas Crosdale. From the start, this was understood to be temporary. The original whitepaper described the single-curator phase as a “founder’s interval” — a period in which the registry’s editorial standard could be set by one person, with the explicit expectation that authority would be devolved once the body of work could sustain plural judgement.

Proposal #42, submitted to the FXNS DAO on 22 February 2026 by holder fxns.eth/0x7a4…91b, called the end of that interval. Its operative clause was short:

“Resolved: the Façinations curatorial function shall be exercised, from the date of ratification, by a rotating committee of three members, each serving a two-issue term, with one member rotating each issue. The founding member (Crosdale) shall serve through Issue 05 to ensure overlap. Subsequent members shall be nominated by the committee and confirmed by holder vote with a 60% threshold.”

The proposal’s full text — including procedural detail on quorum, recusal, and emergency unilateral authority — runs to 1,400 words and is preserved at xdale.io/dao/42.

The case for

Proponents argued three things. First, that single-curator registries calcify: a sole signer accumulates blind spots, and the quiet harm of those blind spots compounds as the registry grows. Second, that the founder’s interval had served its purpose — Façinations had reached forty-seven works across three artists, sufficient ballast to absorb plural judgement without losing coherence. Third, and most pressingly, that the registry’s credibility with new collectors required visible mechanisms for editorial succession. “A registry without a succession plan,” wrote vivian.lens in the discussion thread, “is a registry that secretly believes it will end with its founder.”

The case against

Opponents — a smaller group, but vocal — argued that the registry’s distinctive editorial signature was the founder’s signature, and that committee curation tends, in practice, toward consensus, which tends toward mediocrity. They pointed to galleries that had transitioned from sole-director to committee models and lost their voice within three years. A counter-amendment was floated, proposing instead a five-year extension of the founder’s interval with quarterly published “blind spot” audits. The amendment failed at the discussion stage and never reached vote.

The vote

What changes from Issue 05

Crosdale remains on the committee through Issue 05 (July 2026) and rotates off after Issue 06 (October 2026). The first co-curators, both confirmed in a separate vote on 4 April, are Eliza Marchetti (contributing editor, Façinations) and Olufemi Ajibade (collector, founder of the Lagos-based Òjò residency). Marchetti’s curatorial debut will appear in Issue 05; Ajibade’s, in Issue 06.

The committee’s first standing decision — issued 9 April — was to formalise a recusal protocol: any committee member may recuse from a single work’s inclusion vote, with reason recorded on-chain. This was, on Crosdale’s reading, the proposal’s quiet point all along. “The founder’s interval was about consistency. The committee phase is about being able to disagree in the open.”