By Isaac • June 30, 2026 11:44 pm •
ENS co-founder Nick Johnson has effectively blocked the renewal of the ENS DAO Security Council, using a voting share large enough to decide the outcome by himself.
The Block reported on June 30, 2026 that Johnson abstained from the Snapshot vote to renew the council, then voted against the executable on-chain proposal.
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At the time of the report, the executable vote stood at 82% no, with Johnson’s share dominating the result. The vote is set to close July 5 at 8:59 PM.
This is a real governance stress test for one of Ethereum’s most important pieces of identity infrastructure.
THE BLOCK: ENS co-founder Nick Johnson voted against renewing the DAO’s Security Council, with his roughly
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