Ecosystem Meeting, May 25th, 2023
Stewards: @slobo.eth | ENS Profile, @limes | ENS Profile, @yambo | ENS Profile
Please reach out to @slobo.eth if you would like to present on a future call.
Attendance
slobo.eth, limes.eth, yambo.eth, alisha.eth, alex netto, cap, coltron, david chu, dylan mikus, eduardo vega-patino, hellenstans, j eth, katherine wu, light walker, luc van kampen, maintainer, marcus martinez, nick johnson, premm, cthulu.eth, sam ward, shaik hidayath, stevegachau.eth, sydmead-eth.limo, tamara hjelenius, tamara helenius, tyler caldonia, vincent zadok7, yungsb, 184.eth
1. Gitcoin Update
- The Ecosystem group is expected to distribute Gitcoin Matching funds within a week.
- Check out the Top 20 in the image below.
- Check out the Top 20 in the image below.
2. Bug Bounty Update
@nick.eth ENS Profile | Twitter
- Nick has been corresponding with Immunefi to potentially launch on their bug bounty program.
- Immunefi onboards with no upfront fees, provide a platform, rating service, triage service, categorising, and more: for 10% of bounties awarded.
- Onboarding process requires ENSlabs to improve upon their own process
- Nick recommendeds moving to Immunefi for quality of service and attracting more testers
3. ENS core updates
@gregskril ENS Profile | Twitter
- Highlight: @matoken is speaking at SpaghettETH
- content includes: community, subdomains, onchain, offchain, L2s, database and more
- Check out the speakerdeck slides in this tweet
- Highlight: @gregskril offchain demo, which relates to the active work touched upon by makoto
- The demo showcases the power of offchain ENS names, and is accompaied by Docs & Repo
- Check out Gregskrils tweet and test for yourself - offchain.ens.gregskril.com
- On the community feedback side of things:
- ENS Labs aims for more attendance on WG calls to answer relevant questions
- Todays call included @lucemans, @cthulu.eth, @domico.eth, @gregskril
- ENS Labs aims for more attendance on WG calls to answer relevant questions
@cthulu.eth ENS Profile | Twitter
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Changes to ENS Support
- ENS is moving support from Twitter to the ENS Website Support via chat widget.
- Check out the tweet and meet ENS Labs newest teammate: ‘Hopper’
- Users will first be answered by Hopper; which utilizes assisted AI writing, and allows article searching in chat.
- The move is expected to increase efficiency
- Users can still be escalated to a support agent; Or be assisted in the official discord: chat.ens.domains
4. Project Highlights Python Normalization @lightwalker.eth
@lightwalker.eth | ENS Profile | Twitter from namehash.io
- Presented Python Implementation of ENS Normalize*
- ENS Normalize is a new open source library for ENS to make coding in python easier
- Check it out on github — ENS Normalize Python
- ENS Normalize is an open source library for ENS to make coding in python easier
- What’s new?
- New Glossary - for technical ENS name terminology
- Optimized error handling — improved UX for unnormalised name entry
- New algorithm: ens_cure - (more) improvements to UX for unnormalised name entry
- And more!
@gregskril | ENS Profile | Twitter
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Demo of offchaindemo.eth | ENS Profile
- offchaindemo.eth is an example of an ENS domain that requires only an offchain signature to acquire
- This uses [CCIP Read](ERC-3668: CCIP Read: Secure offchain data retrieval](ERC-3668: CCIP Read: Secure offchain data retrieval), allows for offchain resolver, and uses a custom resolver.
- See original notes in [3. ENS Core Updates] above; including tweet
- docs & repo linked on the website
- For searching offchain names check out {Draft} ENSIP-##: Off-chain Name Meta-Resolution
@slobo.eth | ENS Profile | twitter
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Demo of namestone.xyz
- Namestone is an example of offchain solution of CCIP Read including subname creation, records management and more
- This live demo included multiple records and brought about discussion around naming standards, ideas, and gasless avatars
Reach out to slobo.eth if you are a brand and would like to issue subdomains
@lucemans ENS Profile | Twitter
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Demo of enstate | github
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“We believe software should be simple and containerized. Enstate provides you with a lightweight docker container that you can run anywhere.”
- This solution avoids organisations needing to index themselves by having to setup proprietary microservers
- Accessible with 1 click deploy; check out the roadmap and more on github
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“We believe software should be simple and containerized. Enstate provides you with a lightweight docker container that you can run anywhere.”
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Demo of ENS-tools | github
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This project aims to extend the functionality of wagmi, in addition to providing utility to the ENS ecosystem.
- returns records, reverse resolution from address,
- if you have a website, gov site, block explorer, 1k addresss, etc, you can have your api point to resolve information
- Explores different formatting & records standards including normalising records, preffered name, and other preffered formats (like character capitalisation)
- Already a couple organisations testing (over building their own).
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This project aims to extend the functionality of wagmi, in addition to providing utility to the ENS ecosystem.
5. Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement
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On Now:
- SpaghettETH (May 24-26) | website - @lucemans , @matoken.eth attending
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Upcoming events:
- Prague Blockchain Week (June 2-11) | website - @vegayp, @lucemans attending
- Buidl.asia (June 6-7) | website 1
- ETHGlobal Waterloo (June 23-25) | website - @premm.eth attending
- ETH Barcelona (July 5-9) | website @limes, @coltron.eth, @gregskril attending
- ETH CC (July 17-20) | website 1 - @limes, @slobo.eth, @coltron.eth, @gregskril, @lucemans attending
- ETH Global Paris (July 21–23) | website - @slobo.eth @gregskril, @lucemans attending
If you’d like to connect with ENS folks at these events, reach out in advance on Twitter.
6. Open space for additional topics
@alisha.eth | ENS Profile | twitter
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Steward Election Process
- Steward elections open next Tuesday 30th May on the Forum.
- Open thread is being published early to provide individuals with ample time to register their names, enhance their visibility, and engage in campaign activities by reaching out to delegates in order to secure the votes they require.
- To successfully get onto the ballot for a working group steward election, nominees need to receive 10k votes in support of their nomination.
- Nomination period is between June 6 - 9.
- Election period is between June 10 -15.
Note: there are three steward roles in each Working Group (MetaGov, Ecosystem, & Public Goods). Elected stewards will select a lead steward within their respective working group. DAO secretary is an appointed role by stewards.
- Steward elections open next Tuesday 30th May on the Forum.
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ENS Dao twitter spaces with Tally
- Tally held their Delegation Week™️ DAO Spotlight of ENS DAO - @alisha.eth, @slobo.eth, @coltron.eth, @katherine.eth will all be on the spaces.
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Delegation Week
- Read more about delegation week here
- Metagov has sponsored 5k towards gasless delegation.
- Try gasless free delegation (if you have 10 or more ENS governance tokens)
7. ENS Ecosystem Working Group Grants
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ENS Small Grants
- Small grants are still open for submission (1 day left) – please retweet and share
- Ecosystem is giving .7 ETH to 7 projects (Apply for Ecosystem - Round 8)
- Public Goods is giving 1 ETH to 10 projects (Apply for Public Goods - Round 9)