Brantly Millegan leaves ENS and winds down ethid.org amid governance upheaval
Jul 4, 2026
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by Micah Abiodun
for CryptoPolitan

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On July 4, Brantly Millegan, Director of Operations at ENS Labs, announced he is leaving the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) ecosystem and closing ethid.org, the identity services firm that provided services to the ENS DAO. His exit removes a key identity services provider for the ENS DAO and creates potential short-term operational and governance risks for the crypto naming/identity ecosystem and broader adoption.
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Brantly Millegan, Director of Operations at ENS Labs, announced on July 4 that he has decided to leave the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) ecosystem as well as to close down ethid.org, the identity services company that he operated as a service provider to the ENS decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). His departure removes one of the...


