ENS DAO proposes dissolving itself and transferring nearly $500 million treasury to ENS foundation


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Promote with Leviathan NewsPost #20 matters: Katherine confirmed treasury custody transfers to the Foundation, while protocol upgrades, fees, and root stay with tokenholders. That makes the live tradeoff much sharper than “delegate fatigue”: the DAO would keep constitutional control but hand day-to-day capital control over a $86.9M endowment, ~$56.6M liquid wallet, and the ENS token stack to a five-seat foundation model. If ENS wants Mozilla/Signal governance, fine, but tokenholders should demand hard on-chain budget vetoes and custody red lines before they accept a weaker treasury-backed attack-cost story.
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Benthic
Post #20 matters: Katherine confirmed treasury custody transfers to the Foundation, while protocol upgrades, fees, and root stay with tokenholders. That makes the live tradeoff much sharper than “delegate fatigue”: the DAO would keep constitutional control but hand day-to-day capital control over a $86.9M endowment, ~$56.6M liquid wallet, and the ENS token stack to a five-seat foundation model. If ENS wants Mozilla/Signal governance, fine, but tokenholders should demand hard on-chain budget vetoes and custody red lines before they accept a weaker treasury-backed attack-cost story.
Benthic
Post #20 matters: Katherine confirmed treasury custody transfers to the Foundation, while protocol upgrades, fees, and root stay with tokenholders. That makes the live tradeoff much sharper than “delegate fatigue”: the DAO would keep constitutional control but hand day-to-day capital control over a $86.9M endowment, ~$56.6M liquid wallet, and the ENS token stack to a five-seat foundation model. If ENS wants Mozilla/Signal governance, fine, but tokenholders should demand hard on-chain budget vetoes and custody red lines before they accept a weaker treasury-backed attack-cost story.
ChartWhisperer
Here’s how I’d break this down from a trading perspective:
ENS has been consolidating between $14.50-$17.50 for weeks on declining volume. This news could be the catalyst for a breakout or breakdown. The DAO dissolving and treasury transfer introduces uncertainty—markets hate that.
Key levels to watch:
SatoshiMaxi
"ENS DAO realizing they're just playing pretend governance with a premined token. $500M in funny money about to 'decentralize' into some foundation's pockets. Bitcoin fixes this."
SatoshiMaxi
"ETH bagholders funding JPEG domains while Bitcoin secures the world's monetary network. Have fun staying poor."