☎️ ENS Ecosystem – 2026 Bi-Weekly Meetings: Thursday at 11am EST (Starting 22 Jan)

cap · March 19, 2026, 5:21pm

1. ENS Labs Updates

New content on on.eth (interoperable addresses)
- on.eth Chain Registry blog post.
- Added to the Docs.
- It’s the safest way to transfer funds across Ethereum
Public comment was made to the ICANN upcoming TLD round about Name Collisions.
The first-ever ENS Developers office hours call was hosted.
Hackathons: currently participating in the Synthesis hackathon.
Events: ethGlobal Cannes + ethCC happening in the next few weeks
Two apps to test ENSv2:
- http://app.ens.dev/
- https://explorer.ens.dev/
ENSv2 Contracts are going for audit in the next week.

Metagov has been leading a retro evaluation for ENS
They are looking at key challenges and making recommendations
Phase 2 of the work is finished, and preliminary recommendations have been made.
Final recommendations will integrate feedback and provide actionable implementation details.
The point of research is to inform decisions.
Governance is about optimized decision-making.
The research has identified 3 categories of decision-making that ENS is facing: 1) accountability, 2) transparency, and 3) structural reform.
Remedial actions should be phased to ensure decision-making is not premature and is based on adequate evidence and data.
Recommendations are divided into recommendations and action items for implementation
The first recommendation is a flexible, light-touch master plan.
Master plan should be an enabler, not a constraint.
Master plan helps ENS set transparent, cohesive objectives for every entity in the DAO.
For transparency infrastructure - setting up cohesive documentation practices.
Implementing standards and templates around reporting.
Standardized templates and reporting timelines that feed into master plans.
For accountability - Documenting expectations and performance metrics for delegates, conflict of interest structures, etc.
Treasury oversight - Standardizing capital allocation procurements (Labs, SPP)
Sanctions - ENS should correlate sanctions to different types of undesired behaviors
Holding office hours and additional workshops for feedback.
More details here.

Thomas from Unruggable created: https://enswhois.com/
You can enter a name, address, hash, or Label token ID to retrieve data about that name.
ENS Indexer website: https://ensindexer.com/
ENS Indexer is the product powering the ENSWhois product.
It’s an indexer for ENS, designed as “dRPC for indexing,” with a centralized entry point and a decentralized network of indexes.
It uses a RESTful API for querying data about ENS names
API-first integration is the future of ENS, according to Thomas.
There have been 24 ENS-related contracts since 2017
- This makes it difficult for new entrants to parse the data.
Therefore, more integrations will happen through API due to simplicity.
Anyone can deploy their own indexer with a single click for about $10 a month.
Project will be open-sourced in the future.
The idea is to create a decentralized network where anyone can deploy their own indexer.
When an indexer starts, it automatically owns home.
The proxy pings the indexer every minute to verify data integrity.
Read more in his blog post: Indexing the Ethereum Name Service.

ENSIP-27 – Clarifies the format to always be ensname@label
ENSIP-26: Minimum set of text records for agents (ENS AI group discussion).
Introduces two keys: agent context and agent endpoint.
Agent Context can evolve over time, potentially using markdown or embedded JSON.
Learn more about ENSIP-27.

Jaw.id iz is an identity-centric smart account infrastructure
The demo showcases advanced workflows enabled by the permission layer.
It highlights using ENS as a gamer tag across different games.
Session key functionality highlighted:
- Starting a new session creates a private key (access key or session key) in the background, which changes on each session.
- The session key is never funded or directly touched by the user.
- In the example, permissions are delegated to this access key to spend 2 USDC for 1 hour.
Demo included onchain execution
- Every click in the game costs 0.1 USDC.
- After clicking multiple times, all calls are grouped into a signal tx and executed onchain.
- If the original allowance is exceeded (2 USDC), the transaction should have failed.
Launched CLI SDK:
- Goal: Maintain security properties of the Jaw stack while allowing CLI usage, especially with AI agents.
- A local daemon runs on the user’s device and communicates encrypted messages via a relay.
- The relay is open source and can be self-hosted
- CLI can be used to call wallet connect and sign transactions
- The CLI SDK provides rails to develop stronger use cases, especially with machine payment protocols (MPP) recently announced by Tempo.