ENS Community Member Proposes Dissolving ENS DAO After Governance Disputes

A member of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) community has proposed that ENS DAO dissolve itself, citing what he described as a collapse in the organization’s governance. According to ChainCatcher, The Defiant reported that Christoph Jentzsch posted on X urging ENS DAO to disband, destroy the ENSv2 Universal Router keys, and distribute remaining funds, with the goal of formally shifting ENS into a public infrastructure role. Jentzsch, who wrote code for “The DAO” in 2016 and now runs Tokenize.it, said he holds no formal position in ENS governance. The proposal follows recent governance controversy involving ENS co-founder Nick Johnson. The report said Johnson used roughly half of the protocol’s active voting power to unilaterally veto a vote to renew the Security Council. It also said that about two weeks earlier, Johnson self-delegated nearly half of the active voting power to support a separate proposal that would expand the ENS Foundation’s control over its treasury.