☎️ ENS Ecosystem – Weekly Meeting: 11am ET, Thursday – Term 6

1. ENS Labs Updates

  • DevConnect was a great success.
  • Labs had team members all over – speaking and hosting panel discussions.
  • The DevConnect app offered ENS Subnames for attendees.
  • ETHGlobal Hackathon – over 50 teams build on ENS.
  • Top ETHGlobal winner: Filify | ETHGlobal
  • Working with Nethermind to build Namechain
    • On top of the Taiko stack.
    • Learn more here.
  • Security incident – quickly patched, no impact on developers and apps.
  • ENSv2 Readiness guide coming soon in the ENS Docs.

2. Project Highlights

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3. Review Upcoming Events

  • No plans for the immediate future for events.
  • ENS plans attendance at ETHDenver.
  • Next hackathon will be in Cannes for ethCC.

4. ENSIP Updates

  • Prem shared an idea to make it easier to name contracts.
  • The idea is to let the contract specify its own name using ERC-7201, which is called Namespace Storage.
  • The contract can set its primary name without doing it in the constructor.
  • It can be either mutable or immutable.
  • It allows for a contract that is deployed on L2 that doesn’t currently support L2 primary names to be able to indicate that they want a primary name in the future if ENS supports that.
  • Learn more here.

5. Space for Service Providers

5.1. zkEmail

  • ZK email presented a decentralized alternative for Dentity, offering cryptographic guarantees for verifying handles.
  • A live demo on ENS ZK Email allows users to update and verify their X handle and email address.
  • The process involves generating a ZK proof locally (for X) or server-side (for email) and submitting it onchain to update a verification status linked to the ENS name.
  • A smart contract acts as a ZK proof verifier, updating a mapping from the ENS name hash to the verification status upon successful proof verification.
  • Demo available at ens.zk.email
  • Premm has been working on creating an open system where anyone can contribute a credential – Hooks.

5.2. Namehash Labs

  • Presented ENS Holiday Awards
    • Running from December 1st to 31st
    • $10,000 prize pool for renewals or registration referrals
  • There are 2 ways to participate:
    • Direct integration into an app for automatic rewards on registrations/renewals.
    • Using a referral link to share with the community.
  • The developer setup involves using 2 separate contracts for registrations and renewals, with a parameter for the referral address.
  • The leaderboard measures referrals in years.
  • Namehash is also building ENS Analytics.
    • A tailored analytics platform for ENS that is like a more specialized dune for ENS-related metrics.
  • Namehash Labs will be running four more iterations of incentive programs over the next few months with a total price pool of $50k.
  • The goal is to incentivize apps with large audiences to integrate .eth name registrations/renewals and to have the ENS DAO fund the referral program indefinitely.
  • Rainbow Wallet removed its .eth name registration functionality.
    • The team will reach out to them about the possibility of reimplementing it.
  • Leaderboard: ENSAwards: ENS Leaderboard for ENS Holiday Awards Referrers

6. Open Space for Additional Topics

  • Steward nominations are coming soon.