ENS DAO drama triggers radical dissolution proposal
Jul 2, 2026
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by Hannah Collymore
for CryptoPolitan

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Veteran Ethereum developer Christoph Jentzsch proposed dissolving the ENS DAO and placing the ENS treasury under an external steward, arguing the DAO is ill-suited to manage funds. This third competing governance proposal for the Ethereum Name Service raises uncertainty around ENS governance, token stewardship, DeFi integrations and adoption.
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Christoph Jentzsch, a veteran Ethereum developer with no formal ENS governance role, has proposed shutting down the ENS DAO entirely. The treasury would be better handled if it were in the hands of an outside steward, according to Jentzsch. This is the third competing idea for how the ENS should be run, with the two...


