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Brantly Millegan Remains a Director of ENS Foundation After Failed Attempt to Boot Him

Millegan was removed as a steward from the DAO and the True Names Foundation, but remains a director at the ENS Foundation.

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Brantly Millegan will remain as the director of the Cayman-registered Ethereum Name Service Foundation after a vote to remove him failed.

  • This drama began in early February after a 2016 tweet surfaced where Millegan expressed views condemning homosexuality, transgenderism, abortion and other issues.
  • In the end, the results were 43.39% against Millegan’s removal, 37.51% for it, and 19% abstaining.
  • The ENS Foundation is the legal representation of the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).
  • ENS token holders were eligible to vote. Each token held represented one vote.
  • Nick Johnson, founder and lead developer of ENS, who fired Millegan from True Names Ltd., a company owned by the foundation to manage the code development, abstained from voting, according to on-chain data.
  • In the past, Johnson said he was a supporter of Millegan, tweeting that he had “never seen Brantly treat anyone as different or lesser because of who they are.”
  • After the vote concluded, Millegan wrote that he believes “ENS is for everyone” and he looks forward to getting back to work in building ENS.

Read more: Vote to Remove Brantly Millegan From ENS Foundation Likely to Fail

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Sam Reynolds

Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX's collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC.

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