June 26, 2026·Bearish·team activity

ENS Root Controller Transferred from Multisig to New Entity

The ENS root controller was moved from a multisig to a different entity, raising governance and security concerns. The change echoes a scenario Vitalik Buterin discussed in a 2023 blog post about legitimacy in decentralized systems.

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Ethereum Name Service (ens)

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@LefterisJP

In 2023 @VitalikButerin wrote a blog post. "The most important scarce resource is legitimacy". In it he actually ponders about the ENS root controller and what would happen if the signers went rogue. Today the controller is no longer that multisig. The control lies with the https://t.co/nXYcCLcuyD