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ENS DAO has published a new proposal on the X platform, aiming to establish a full-time operations foundation and set up a five-person board of directors responsible for managing the endowment fund.According to the proposal, ENS DAO plans to allocate 1 million ENS tokens for the foundation’s employee salaries. Token holders will retain control over the protocol, including ENS held by the DAO, operational wallets, and the authority to appoint and remove foundation directors.
Noxa posted on X, stating that the team is testing a new ENS interface, which is expected to launch soon. At that time, users will be able to claim creator fees through this interface once again.Previously, the NOXA platform's domain experienced a brief outage due to issues with Cloudflare, and the official website remains inaccessible.
ENS community member AvsA has proposed a draft suggesting that the approximately 5 million ENS tokens held by the DAO be allocated to various governance stakeholders through a multi-delegation contract. This aims to alleviate the current issue of voting power being highly concentrated in the hands of a few representatives. The proposal plans to withdraw tokens from the DAO treasury and select candidates from stakeholders such as users, integrators, developers, traditional domain name service providers, and the governance community based on preset criteria, delegating approximately 1 million ENS equally to each group. Delegates will only receive voting rights and will not have the authority to dispose of the tokens. If they fail to participate in voting for six consecutive months, their delegated tokens will be reclaimed and redistributed.
Ethlabs 发布第二周进展，称随着项目进入启动与融资阶段，外部沟通持续增加。团队表示，正推进基于零知识技术的异步互操作方案，以提升跨链桥安全性和资产分发效率；其中，L2 至 L1 可由 intents 作为过渡方案，L1 至 L2 延迟则有望通过 FCR 改善。
According to The Defiant, ENS DAO is facing a serious governance crisis. ENS co-founder Nick Johnson holds approximately 3.26 million ENS tokens, accounting for nearly 50% of all currently delegated voting power. On June 30, he voted against the on-chain binding vote for the Security Council renewal, causing the proposal to fail with 82% opposing votes; the Security Council authorization will expire on July 24. Previously, Johnson also self-delegated a significant amount of voting power to support a proposal to transfer the DAO operating wallet, ENS token holdings, and the endowment managed by Karpatkey to the ENS Foundation's five-member board, triggering strong community skepticism regarding "governance capture." Rotki founder Lefteris Karapetsas stated plainly "DAO is dead," while Security Council member Brantly Millegan characterized the proposal as "fiscal capture by ENS Labs." In response, "The DAO" original code author Christoph Jentzsch publicly proposed directly dissolving ENS DAO, suggesting destroying the ENSv2 universal router key and distributing remaining funds to formally transform the protocol into public infrastructure. Currently, Security Council on-chain voting will close on July 5, ENS Labs COO Katherine
Odaily Planet Daily: The recent voting results of ENS DAO, centered around the governance of the Ethereum Name Service, have sparked controversy within the community. Community members pointed out that in the latest on-chain vote, ENS founder Nick Johnson cast approximately 3.26 million votes against the executive proposal to renew the Security Council for two years. This proposal had previously passed a Snapshot community vote, but the on-chain executive proposal failed to gain support. As the controversy escalated, some community members expressed concerns about the level of decentralization in the ENS DAO governance mechanism. However, others believe the incident reflects more of an issue with the distribution structure of governance tokens rather than a failure of the protocol itself.
Ethereum developer Tom Lehman published the draft proposal EIP-8182, aiming to natively support private transfers on Ethereum by introducing a shared privacy pool, a fixed-address system contract, and zero-knowledge proof verification precompiles at the Ethereum protocol layer. The proposal states that the solution will be deployed via a hard fork upgrade—without administrator keys, governance tokens, or on-chain upgrade mechanisms—intended to address fragmented anonymity sets and inconsistent trust models across privacy applications. As designed, users will be able to conduct private transfers from their existing wallets to any Ethereum address or ENS name, and support atomic workflows such as “de-anonymize → interact → re-anonymize.”
According to an official announcement, Coinbase has suspended trading of 25 perpetual contracts, as previously announced. All outstanding positions in these contracts have been automatically settled at the final settlement price. The affected contracts include TRB, RARE, NEIRO, A, ME, XTZ, KMNO, RAY, STX, ENS, GMT, SNX, 1000FLOKI, 0G, ORDI, NIL, BIO, UMA, BEAM, INIT, SOMI, EGLD, CLANKER, SOPH, and BIGTIME. The final settlement price was calculated as the average index price over the 60 minutes preceding the suspension. Coinbase stated that this action aims to focus on products that consistently meet liquidity and market quality standards, and that it will accelerate the launch of new perpetual contracts by optimizing internal processes.
The Ethereum-based social protocol EFP has been integrated into Etherscan. Users can view an account’s ENS domain name and avatar, as well as its on-chain EFP followers and following count, by clicking the “Cards” tab on each account’s page. This integration further enriches Etherscan’s social functionality and advances the visualization and application of on-chain social data.