$ENS Catalyst Posts
July 01, 2026Single-day social intelligence recap and verified catalyst posts · ← Back to $ENS Profile · Market Rankings
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50 source posts analyzed· 2026-07-01T12:59:51+00:00I miss 2021, when I was still in my junior year, and the company where I interned had two post-00s college students who achieved financial freedom through ENS airdrops and bought themselves Porsche 911s. Later on, I too earned the tuition for my grad school in the US through
AI visual analysis: A dark-themed screenshot displays three separate message bubbles containing the Chinese text: "你赶上了 web3 最好的时光" (You caught the best time of web3), "我怀念 2021" (I miss 2021), and "Ens 空投，梦开始的地方" (ENS airdrop, where the dream began). The image visually echoes the post's nostalgia for the 2021 crypto bull run, specifically highlighting the ENS airdrop as the starting point that allowed two post-00s interns to achieve financial freedom and buy Porsche 911s, which later inspired the author to fund their own graduate studies in the US.
· 2026-07-01T09:02:06+00:00I've been at ENS for 9 years now. The first 4 years it was basically just me, Nick, Makoto and a few people that have come and left since then. We were always less than 10 people. Nick has been building ENS for a decade. 10 fucking years. blog.ethereum.org/2016/07/11/tay … This is a blog
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· 2026-07-01T02:53:59+00:00Downright hilarious everyone is just now realizing Nick is a woke r****d and ENS was doomed the second the woke Ethereum mob pushed @BrantlyMillegan out A lot of us Ethereum folks were calling this out years ago Token governance is disaster
· 2026-07-01T19:01:29+00:00Your ENS has been sitting idle in your wallet. Starting today it can do two things at once: > make ENS governance stronger > and earn you rewards from the ENS DAO The ENS Delegation Incentives Program is live.
· 2026-07-01T09:56:07+00:00The crisis in ENS shows that the governance token and DAO model in crypto isn't working in its current form. Governance systems that lack a reward mechanism and rely entirely on volunteerism aren't functioning. I've been holding $UNI since the Uniswap airdrop (~6 years ago) and
· 2026-07-01T21:12:32+00:00Excited to hear with more nuance @nicksdjohnson stance on this crazy ENS situation.
· 2026-07-01T21:19:33+00:00I don't have much hope for ENS the way things are going with Labs but if there is anything you can do with your ENS to help balance the situation is to delegate it. Preferably to a non Labs affiliated delegate. And now there is an incentive program to reward delegations.
· 2026-07-01T06:41:27+00:00ENS needs saving. It was always and is a flagship project of the Ethereum ecosystem. @nicksdjohnson , please allow me to bring in a more radical suggestion. It may be worth considering. I do this as an outsider regarding ENS governance, as I never had any formal roles with ENS,
· 2026-07-01T14:14:41+00:00ENS has always seemed like a decent project to me. I’m pretty disappointed that, as a Ethereum “aligned” project it is centralizing. But humans are humans. And when money comes into the picture, centralization happens I’m more disappointed in EF and Ethereum leadership in
· 2026-07-01T01:10:48+00:00$ENS is cooked
AI visual analysis: This image shows a proposal from "nick.eth" to renew the ENS DAO Security Council, with a significant "AGAINST" vote count of 3,362,913, relating to the post's sentiment that "$ENS is cooked".
· 2026-07-01T20:43:09+00:00Why does ENS need its own token instead of just voting with ETH? Because someone rich enough could buy the ETH and grief the protocol. Kain: "You're talking about Tom Lee?" Nick Johnson: "No, it's Vitalik, to be honest."
· 2026-07-01T20:22:56+00:00No, Nick Johnson doesn't control half of ENS. His vote came out to ~50% of the active supply because barely anyone delegates: about 7M of 100M tokens actually vote. @nicksdjohnson says "there's strong financial incentive to sell something, especially if you got it for free, and
· 2026-07-01T21:47:52+00:00"Governance gets dominated by people who have reasons to want to allocate the treasury the way they want. As time goes on, the votes concentrate in the hands of the people who can make money off owning them" Nick Johnson on the fundamental problem with DAOs and why ENS is facing
· 2026-07-01T10:48:35+00:00recent ENS developments are a HEART BREAKER if we don't put ethereum first, we will all lose so massively that all ur stupid corpo moves matter ZERO i am 100% uninterested in a useless mutable ENS protocol, until there is a "hard guarantee" at the core of the protocol BYE BYE
· 2026-07-01T16:59:34+00:00As of today, the ENS Ecosystem Working Group is no more and this marks the end of my four and a half years as a Steward. During this time, I had the chance to work with great mission driven people. Together we: - Funded hundreds of builders - Held 150+ weekly calls -
· 2026-07-01T20:56:46+00:00Nick Johnson on the ENS treasury bind: "We can't have both: an endowment that's 100% on-chain with a conservative mandate, and one that will actually sustain ENS indefinitely. If we have to choose, I'll choose the one that lets ENS keep operating."
· 2026-07-01T20:51:54+00:00Tay's read on the ENS pile-on: "If ENS fails or gets hacked, that falls on Nick — not the DAO. The DAO is supposed to be accountable, but if something fails it isn't, at all. That's why I have a hard time getting invested in hating Nick."
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· 2026-07-01T16:40:52+00:00with the implosion of ENS, I'm reminded of better times in 2021. this was a banger from @songadaymann !
· 2026-07-01T21:11:16+00:00On why an ICANN-compatible naming system matters: "A lot of other naming systems just sell names that are incompatible with everything else and promise they'll be integrated someday. They're not much different than selling land on the moon, or naming rights for stars," says ENS
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· 2026-07-01T21:14:58+00:00Tay on the ENS critics: "The hard decisions come down to one or two people whose lives are upended if ENS dies, and it's not the people bitching on Twitter. Anyone can talk trash. Show me what you'd do — put something behind it."
· 2026-07-01T02:23:28+00:00Well if @ensdomains happens to go belly up, it's nice to have this permissionless and ownerless alternative.
AI visual analysis: A screenshot of the GWEI Name Service interface, an ownerless fork of wei-names, showing options for Ethereum or Sepolia testnet and a free name minting form for .gwei domains.
· 2026-07-01T11:09:41+00:00i 10,000% agree with this and this man is an important neutral voice of reason in ethereum I REPEAT: ENS is meaningless and useless until we burn the ability to change the core protocol
· 2026-07-01T01:03:09+00:00The ENS moment has confirmed that people do actually care about decentralization.
· 2026-07-01T11:48:45+00:00worth a read, especially if you’ve been larping like you understand ens governance
· 2026-07-01T14:22:34+00:00I am as much of an ENS stan as I can get Anywhere a name goes its zeugh.eth Personal website? eth.limo Collected cool names for the sake of it If I onboard friends to Eth, they get their names I don't like any of the ideas of giving it up for a new name system. I
· 2026-07-01T09:13:21+00:00Respectfully, I don’t think anyone serious is denying Nick’s decade of work or ENS Labs’ contributions. The concern is structural, not personal. A Foundation can improve execution and accountability, but the DAO shouldn’t be weakened or routed around. Fix the DAO; don’t kill
· 2026-07-01T20:06:25+00:00ENS Labs founder @nicksdjohnson and ENS co-founder @avsa join @kain and @tayvano_ on Uneasy Money to talk through this week's ENS Security Council vote and what it means for the DAO. Live now
· 2026-07-01T00:23:38+00:00I haven't read all that deeply into the ENS drama, but from the commentary on twitter from folks that I deeply respect and trust, it seems pretty damning. That said, I also have a great deal of respect for and trust in the folks from ENS that I've connected with over the years.
· 2026-07-01T16:25:51+00:00@ensdomains closed its sealed-ballot election for three Meta-Governance stewards - now the DAO's sole working group, and its operational leadership, for Term 7 (July 2026 to June 2027). This followed @ENS_DAO 's vote to fold every working group into Meta-Governance. Seven
AI visual analysis: Screenshot of an ENS voting page showing delegated votes from users like jeff.eth, Alex Netto, and Abdullah to various candidates.
· 2026-07-01T17:23:31+00:00@ensdomains closed its sealed-ballot election for three Meta-Governance stewards - now the DAO's sole working group, and its operational leadership, for Term 7 (July 2026 to June 2027). This followed @ENS_DAO 's vote to fold every working group into Meta-Governance. Seven
AI visual analysis: An ENS (Ethereum Name Service) shuffle results page showing winners and their ENS token winnings, with Alex Netto leading at 412.8k ENS (28.57%).
· 2026-07-01T05:45:55+00:00Nick and ENS LABS not only rendered ENS DAO a mere shell, but also brought an end to the ideals of the entire crypto DAO. The puppet personally fostered by Vitalik backfired and destroyed it. ".eth" should be a public good, not controlled and monopolized by a single team; the
· 2026-07-01T06:23:46+00:00$ENS 内讧把社区治理分歧演变成了赤裸的霸权展示 ENS 联合创始人 Nick Johnson 近日动用手中约 326 万枚 ENS，对安全委员会续任提案投下反对票。这部分筹码约占本次已投票票数的 80%、全部委托投票权的 50%，直接将链上可执行提案的反对比例推升至
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· 2026-07-01T04:14:17+00:00REGISTERED: 0550.eth For: $483.46 (0.30 ETH) Minter: crispy.eth @Crispy_eth_ Last Sale: 6.56 ETH, 28 Jan 2025 Categories: 4 Digit Palindromes, 10k Club @10kClubOfficial grails.app/0550.eth
AI visual analysis: An ENS domain registration card showing '0550.eth' registered by 'crispy.eth' (Minter) for $483 (0.30 ETH), with a blue gradient background and Ethereum logo.
· 2026-07-01T20:57:36+00:00He does control half of the voting supply. Even more if you count the other Labs token members. So effectively yes he does control ENS right now.
· 2026-07-01T05:43:31+00:00So....all quiet in ENS land
· 2026-07-01T10:27:09+00:00So…are we letting all of our ENS expire then? What’s the plan now
AI visual analysis: ENS DAO governance voting interface showing '[6.48][Executable] Renewal of the Security Council (Term 2)' proposal with 'nick.eth' leading at 3,260,721 voting power in 'FOR' with 538,447 votes.
· 2026-07-01T11:07:16+00:00In my opinion, @nicksdjohnson is one of the highest quality people I’ve ever met, or will ever meet. So many C-tier ETH KOLs (concernooors) spreading misinformation about the proposal so that people sad about prices (and who don’t actually care about ens governance) can bash
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· 2026-07-01T12:20:57+00:00The biggest problem with ENS isn't ENS LAB or ENS DAO, or anything wrong with Nick, but rather the lack of competition. ".eth" is practically the only monopolistic resource on Ethereum, without exception. It should be a public good, allowing any third party to build their own
· 2026-07-01T01:30:28+00:00Your AI agent shouldn’t scrape ENS. Point it at our open MCP server — 9 tools. #ENS #AIagents ens.tools/blog/building- …
· 2026-07-01T18:22:58+00:00The debate about that ENS DAO being too slow to approve operational funds reminds me of how people are tired of the US legislative bodies being too slow to get consensus or approve budgets, causing government shutdowns. I dont get why the only resolution proposed feels like we
· 2026-07-01T21:00:17+00:00Don’t price on vibes. The Activity feed shows what’s actually selling across ENS. #ENS ens.tools/trade/activity
AI visual analysis: Pink/purple gradient advertisement for ENS Marketplace with text 'Thousands of .eth names, one marketplace' and a 'TRADE' button linking to ens.tools.
· 2026-07-01T21:13:28+00:00Here are all Vision contract adresses (register, renew, subdomains) from April 2022 until today, this is how YOU, the community, degENS, squatoors, colectoors and shillers, contributed to ENS and everyone around it including us, Vision. (not even mentioning the "indirect"
· 2026-07-01T13:55:19+00:00Guys chill out you can keep your ens
· 2026-07-01T07:37:43+00:00What would you do about v2? We're pretty much at beta. How about pricing? We can't lock in a single USD oracle contract forever, and ETH is too unstable to price against, so how do you allow for updating it without a centralization issue? Likewise, DNSSEC keys are rotated
· 2026-07-01T12:00:32+00:00Find, trade and manage ENS — one fast, free place. No ten browser tabs. #ENS #web3 ens.tools
AI visual analysis: A promotional graphic for ens.tools with purple text reading 'NO SUBSCRIPTION - Free to find, trade & manage' and explaining that a 5% fee applies only when renewing or registering.
· 2026-07-01T16:30:18+00:00“Norse mythology names” is a valid ENS search now. Find available .eth from a theme, not a string. #ENS ens.tools/find/search
AI visual analysis: AI Search promotional graphic for ens.tools featuring text 'Search ENS names in plain English' with examples like 'three letter animals' and 'Norse mythology', powered by Claude.
· 2026-07-01T16:48:53+00:00I don’t get it. I have lots of respect for ENS founders and builders. I just still don’t get why that DAO treasury should be fully controlled by new foundation. That’s the only core debate and disagreements. Someone educate me the arguments made by both sides please.
· 2026-07-01T17:26:41+00:00There is absolutely a compromise here where at least .eth itself can become purely immutable with Ether-denominated antisquatting fees and Labs can still have the upgrade controls that Nick wants for the DNS integration stuff.
· 2026-07-01T14:58:29+00:00So, are we removing the .eth so as not to be associated with the grift that the ENS DAO has become?
· 2026-07-01T11:34:00+00:00You own a .eth name. You've never issued a subdomain from it. Be honest — is it because you don't know how, or because you haven't thought about it? Subdomains are free to create. Infinite inventory. Yourwallet.yourname.eth. Payments.yourname.eth. Dao.yourname.eth. Some of
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