☎️ ENS Ecosystem – Weekly Meeting: 12pm ET, Thursday – Term 5

tags: Ecosystem

Ecosystem Meeting, February 1, 2024

Details

Time/Day – 12pm ET (5pm UTC) every Thursday
Google Meet Link – http://meet.google.com/ecv-oizn-psi

Stewards: @slobo.eth | ENS Profile, @limes | ENS Profile, @184.eth | ENS Profile

:information_source: Please reach out to @slobo.eth Warpcast l X if you would like to present on a future call

Agenda

  1. ENS Labs Updates @gregskril
  2. Project Highlights: namefi
  3. Budget
  4. Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement
  5. Next ETHglobal Event: https://ethglobal.com/events/london2024
  6. Open space for service providers
  7. Weekly Review of Canny
  8. Open space for additional topics

37 Participants in Call


1. ENS Labs Updates @gregskril

Gasless DNSSEC is live!

  • Enables any DNS owner to connect with ENS for free
  • Announcement: Gasless DNSSEC on Mainnet | ENS Blog
  • Working with popular apps in the ecosystem to ensure support and resolve issues
  • Exciting announcement about using DNS names as ENS names next week

Protocol Updates

  • Deployed manager app to testnet (Holesky) to support next Ethereum upgrade (Dencun)

NFC Cards

  • Big hit, bringing back for EthDenver
  • Gives POAP for meeting people
  • Pre-register here: Swag - ENS Domains

2. Project Highlights

Victor Zhou fron https://namefi.io

  • Bring all names onchain; Namefi tokenizes general DNS names into NFTs
  • “GoDaddy for Web3 with a better database”
  • Ecosystem contributor to ENS
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/namefi_io
  • Access app at this link: https://app.namefi.io
  • 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

3. Budget

Link: 2024 1H Budget: ENS Ecosystem Working Group

  • Stewards want to transparently document where money is being allocated
  • Reach out to stewards if any questions

4. Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement


5. Next ETHglobal Event

  • Going heavier into ETHGlobal this year than previous years, build for ENS and win prize money
  • Next is London: https://ethglobal.com/events/london2024
    • March 15 – 17, 2024
    • ENS Labs will be there; sign-up to hack!

6. Open space for service providers

Last year DAO approved funding for 9 service providers; developers building special products/projects for ENS

  • @lightwalker.eth from namehashlabs.org
  • NameKit: Toolkit to help app developers build amazing ENS onboarding experiences, open-sourcing, and building relationships with Teams to utilize
  • ENS referral program: Working with team at Axiom (zk) to work through tough technical challenges
  • Question on how to provide updates

7. Weekly Review of Canny

Engagement and upvoting on Canny are helpful, offering direct feedback to ENS Labs & Working Groups that benefit the ENS protocol. ENS.canny.io includes feature requests, integrations, bug reports, and community upvoting.


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

Additional information on the discussion around intricacies of current DNS system

Responsible integration of DNS into Web3 being worked on; needs to mirror life cycle of DNS name


Notes by @don.nie

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