ENS DAO governance vote sparks controversy, founder casts 3.26 million votes against extending the security committee for another two years

The recent voting results of the ENS DAO, which governs the Ethereum Name Service, have sparked controversy within the community, as some members pointed out.

In the latest on-chain vote, ENS founder Nick Johnson cast approximately 3.26 million votes against the proposal to extend the security committee's term for two years. This proposal had previously passed a Snapshot community vote, but the on-chain execution proposal did not receive support.

As the controversy escalated, some community members expressed concerns about the degree of decentralization in the ENS DAO governance mechanism. However, there are also viewpoints suggesting that this incident reflects more on the distribution structure of governance tokens rather than a failure of the protocol itself.