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

tags: Ecosystem

Ecosystem Meeting, April 25, 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. Gitcoin Round 20 Live
  3. Project Highlights [ matteoikari.eth ]
  4. Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement
  5. Open space for service providers:
  1. Weekly Review of Canny
  2. Open space for additional topics

26 Participants in Call


1. ENS Labs Updates @gregskril

Launch of .box in the manager app!

Manager App

  • Ongoing maintenance and bug fixes, improving name validation and search
  • If notice bugs, send to developer telegram group

Integration Highlight

  • 500k uni.eth subdomains have been claimed in Uniswap wallet
  • Exciting milestone achieved yesterday

2. Gitcoin Round 20 Live

  • Running Gitcoin round matching 100k USDC for projects growing, enhancing, or supporting the decentralized identity system around ENS
  • Dashboard for stats here: Gitcoin | Explorer
  • Open until 7 May
  • ~$2000 in donations so far
  • 39 projects, 479 donations

3. Project Highlights - Brian

@matteoikari.eth and Frank from https://www.brianknows.org/

  • AI powered API for text to smart contract code (write natural language for onchain transactions, Brian understands and helps user conduct the transaction)
  • Won several bounties as hackathon participants, grew to real startup
  • In public beta, API also available
  • Working on ENS integration
    • Availability check: See if ENS available
    • Register an ENS for a specified length of time
    • Check expiration time for ENS
    • Renew an ENS for a specified length of time
    • Check cost of renewal/registration

4. Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement


5. Open space for service providers

@slobo.eth from Resolver Works

  • https://www.cu-cypherpunk.com/
    • Used to teach students at Columbia Business School to mint NFT on Arbitrum that also gives ENS and tradeable on OpenSea
  • Created post: Resolvers & Latency
    • Post is a work in process to summarize the resolvers that exist in ENS and their latency
    • Goal is to get true performance stats for resolvers

@thecap.eth from Namespace

  • https://app.namespace.tech
  • Everything you need to easily integrate and issue ENS Subnames to your users, players, followers, members, friends, or anyone in Web3
  • New Feature: Easy UI to create a Frame in Warpcast that issues subdomains
    • Working on allowing further customization of subdomain creation Frames
  • Want to build L2 infrastructure for issuing subdomains on L2s

6. 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.


7. Open Space for Additional Topics

  • Discussion occured around resolving ENS names on L2s.
    Currently fragmentation and different implementations across L2s and wallets,
    • @thecap.eth proposed feature to MetaMask Team: Resolve ENS Names on L2 chains - Feature Requests - MetaMask
    • More posts/discussions to be had in the future on the forum and in the dev chat including with Eth Core Devs
    • Reach out to any of the builders with questions on these issues
    • Discussions around making ENSIP process more open

Notes by @don.nie