The ENS Ecosystem Working Group holds weekly calls. The calls are open to community members and the general public.
The ENS Ecosystem Working Group calls are led by the lead steward of the working group. The current lead steward is Alex/slobo.eth. If you need to get in touch with slobo.eth, please message him on the forum, or on X.
If you have items that you would like to add to the weekly agenda please message any of the ENS Ecosystem stewards (@slobo.eth, @Limes, or @184.eth) through the messaging feature on this forum.
The calls for Term 5 start on January 11, 2024.
Comments on this thread are restricted to Stewards and the Scribe.
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Blog builder where the blogs are stored in a decentralized manner
From @limes.eth
ethleaderboard.xyz was cool project that relied on Twitter API to showcase .eth names in Twitter profiles; currently inactive due to Twitter API changes
Farcaster’s data, however, is open and users can select .eth profile names natively. Created leaderboard for Farcaster names at https://ensleaderboard.com
3. Provider Streams
Provider streams have gone to voting; scheduled to start 1 February
4. Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement
EthDenver: 29 February IRL Event, 6-9pm, stay tuned for Luma invite
5. Next ETHglobal Event
Going heavier into ETHGlobal this year than previous years, build for ENS win prize money
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Co-founder of https://onthis.xyz, sends ETH to human readable contracts to bridge, swap, stake, mint and more directly from your wallet
Example: if you wanted to bridge to arbitrum would send transaction toarbitrum.eth, any ETH amount you send will auto-bridge and appear on your destination chain in your wallet (i.e MetaMask)
Difficulty having: Naming standards for shortcuts; what is intuitive for end-user. How do we create a naming system that works well today and is future-proof?
Discussion around possibility of having a UI in lieu of a naming standard so users know the domains/sub-domains are legitimate
Please read forum post and reply to Igor for more robust discussion
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Enjoys working with, not in competition to, companies like 3dns.box to grow the ecosystem holisticially
Working to improve speed and process of transferring DNS to different owner if user wants to do that; need to liason with groups like ICANN to modernize processes
Discussion around intricacies of how DNS and the companies/protocols that support DNS operate; not simple and straight forward hence why namefi wants to help modernize
@hidayth.eth presenting mywallet.is
Anyone who wants to create subdomains can easily do so
Buildling as a result of Gasless DNSSEC update
Open-sourced, will release shortly after bug fixes
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8. Open Space for Additional Topics
Q: With Gasless DNSSEC what are ways to tokenize ICANN domains? A: 3dns tokenizes domain names with sets up gasless DNSSEC (or similar) for the user; legacy way of using DNS with ENS is still possible (import DNS name onto ENS onchain and wrap with name wrapper). Wasn’t heavily used due to the cost (large Ethereum transaction fee). ENS Labs not currently working on separate solution
IPNS.eth is a no-nonsense, free, open-source, autonomous, trustless, keyless and secure IPNS Pinning Service. Users of IPNS.eth do not need to share their IPNS keys with service providers, and can securely and ‘keylessly’ publish to IPFS network with anonymity. More at https://ipns.dev or ipns.eth.limo
Dynamic Avatars: Avatars on ENS profile static and require manual updates (and transactions) each time want to change, but with offchain resolver can have avatars pre-signed so avatar can change at time selected by user
Launching within the next week
Shows how offchain records bring new capabilities to ENS
Needs to be standard for clients serving ENS so offchain records can be supported by all clients
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Specifies how gasless DNSSEC TXT records are formatted, how the resolver’s resolution process functions, and provides a public API for the CCIP-Read DNSSEC gateway used for the implementation
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@limes asked about infrastructure needs/costs of maintaining something like this
@clowes.eth: If ENS is as big as DNS, as we think it will be, need to think big of running ENS in efficient way
@premm.eth: Still issues that need to be worked such as decentralized sequencing that are bottlenecks. Wouldn’t want people to have to bridge ETH to own ENS chain just to get a name
@slobo.eth: Is someone cataloging pros/cons, list of things don’t yet know
@clowes.eth: Intention to document in depth in coming months and format in ELI5 way to pitch to DAO for input and come to best conclusion as an ecosystem
@slobo.eth: Reminder that this is extremely early in research phase, lots of problems to think through before could begin building
@clowes.eth: Want whats best for ENS in the long-term, not immediately obvious what that solution is yet
@slobo.eth: FYI: One team fully dedicated to just researching this, other teams also looking into it
Discussion around ensuring ENS builders have an ENS
@coltron.eth: Does ecosystem have program for builders to get an ENS? So everyone building for ENS has own ENS name?
@slobo.eth: Have been doing/facilitating in the background through personal reach-out. Willing to support as stewards, if good enough to get public goods grant, willing to give them/get funding for an ENS name
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8. Open Space for Additional Topics
Discussion around metadata services, see notes under Greg’s personal project
No call next week as most people will be at ETHDenver
Offchain ENS names are becoming more popular (see Coinbase and Uniswap), so it’d be amazing to have them supported in go-ens
The ENS DAO Ecosystem Working Group is sponsoring a 0.5 ETH bounty for a developer to implement ENSIP-10 and EIP-3668. Please reply to the GitHub issue, or on Farcaster, if you’re interested in working on this feature
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9. Open Space for Additional Topics
Q: What links does one send for grants?
A: Please reach out to working group stewards.
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7. Open Space for Additional Topics
Snapshot has 2 ENS related issues open for voting: Snapshot
Fund Public Goods
Fund Metagov
Definitely vote and post question on the forums
Request for Public Goods should fund a dashboard showing all available opportunities for Public Goods funding
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