Ecosystem Meeting, August 17th, 2023
Details
Time/Day – 12pm ET (4pm UTC)
Google Meet Link – meet.google.com/ecv-oizn-psi
Stewards: @slobo.eth (ENS | Twitter), @limes (ENS | Twitter), @184.eth (ENS | Twitter)
Please reach out to @slobo.eth (Twitter) if you would like to present on a future call.
Attendance
slobo.eth, limes.eth, 184.eth, 5pence.eth, accessor, alex plutta, alexandro netto, arcadian.eth, cap, david chu, dr3a.eth, moyer, gregskril, katherine wu, mailchain (verycozy.eth), marcus estmcmxci, maintainer, mayra alejandra castillo hernandez, premm.eth, russell bookland, shaik hidayath, sydmead.eth, thomas clowes, tyler caldonia, vegayp, vincent (zadok7.eth), yungsb.
1. Core Updates
@gregskril (ENS | Twitter)
Collaboration with IRC - International Rescue Committee
- Announcement: The IRC, ENS Labs, and Nansen: Partnership for World Humanitarian Day
- IRC is a major nonprofit and the partnership includes assisting with crypto donations – See the Tweet
Google Cloud Blog
- Mohammed from the ENS team gave an interview for a Google Cloud blog post, detailing some of ENS’s functions and plans – See the tweet & article.
Monthly Web Update
- ENS Web Update July 2023 is out - It provides both high-level and specific details, as well as previews some upcoming features.
Improved Testnet Support
- Contracts are verified and app.ens.domains now supports Sepolia on the frontend and subgraph to get all the data you want.
- New faucet feature for claiming ETH on Sepolia has also been added.
ENSIP 15 Standardisation:
- ensip15 spec adapted into more code languages.
- Aiming for consistent display of valid ENS names, this new classification system can counter deceptive naming tactics.
CCIP Read Workshop:
- During the Encode University hackathon, Greg gave an hour-long session - available on YouTube – addressing ‘Scaling ENS: Offchain and L2 Names with CCIP Read’.
Open for Feedback - Two ENSIP drafts
- ENSIP-16 - CCIP metadata
- Which aims to help applications identify existing names that exist offchain.
- ENSIP-XX: Profile Text Records
- Aims for setting standards around text records.
2. Project Highlights
Russell Bookland (ENS | Twitter) from dappling.network (Twitter | Web | Github)
- “dAppling offers a simple solution for hosting censorship resistant Web3 frontends. We help prevent Web3 specific frontend attacks.”
- Russell demo’d Dappling; a tool for Web 3 developers.
- Including the feature: Linking ENS names to site deployments.
- And additional features: out-of-the-box Analytics, providing data on page views, unique visitors, and referral sources.
- Q. What do you want from community?
- Test Dappling by deploying a front-end site to help them identify and rectify edge cases – Tweet
3. Small grants update
Forum thread: Rethinking ENS Small Grants discussion space.
- Ecosystem small grants program is evolving to Quarterly.
- Trial launch planned for early September, with ~15 ETH split among 10-15 projects.
- A voting mechanism suggested by MetaGov will be implemented.
- Aiming to ensure all votes matter (and reducing influence from large delegates)
- Active/previous voters, previous winners, and community persons, are among those eligible to vote – more details will follow.
- Feedback is welcomed in the Forum discussion thread.
- Following the rounds completion, this trial method will be reviewed for impact.
4. Weekly Review of ens.canny.io
ens.canny.io is a feedback platform used for purposes including: feature requests, integrations, bug reports, and community upvoting.
Forum thread: Share Feedback and Feature Requests related to ENS
5. Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement
If you’d like to connect with ENS folks at these events, reach out in advance on Twitter or Telegram
| DATE | Event/Location | Who’s Attending |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 22-24 | ETHGlobal New York | gregskril.eth, sadaf.eth, slobo.eth, limes.eth, makoto.eth, katherine.eth, alexandro netto, |
| Nov 13-19 | Devconnect | … |
| Nov 17-19 | ETHIstanbul | … |
- An irl event is on the cards during the EthNewYork Hackathon event – stay tuned for an announcement.
6. ENS Ecosystem Working Group Grants
The Ecosystem Working Group grants are designed to support projects and builders contributing to the ENS ecosystem – See Forum thread: Term 4 Grants
You can apply anytime through the DeForm platform here. Evaluation process takes ~4 weeks, and unsuccessful applications can reapply in future.
7. [Draft] [Executable] Refund .eth names affected by normalization updates
Forum thread: [Draft] [Executable] Refund .eth names affected by normalization updates
- Refer to the forum thread, and its embeded infographic.
- DAO members are encouraged to voice their concerns, misconceptions, or ask any clarifying questions on this topic.
- There is currently no scheduled date for this vote. However it is intended for a monthly DAO Voting window
- DAO Voting windows, which are recently introduced practices, are designed to offer efficiency, predictability, and to treat delegate attention as precious. – (See July example).
8. Open space for additional topics
- @clowes.eth & @Premm.eth shared a demo & progress on unruggable subname rentals - now running on Optimism.
- Give the demo a try at optimism-demo.unruggablenames.com.
- View the public repo for their L2 content.
- @estmcmxci shared that the ENS newsletter is being published on Paragraph.xyz.
- Using Arweave ensures permanent accessibility – read the latest: paragraph.xyz/@ensdao
- @hidayath.eth shared about 1w3 enabling permanent websites hosted within the decentralised technology of Arweave.
- @Cap shared that namespace.ninja will go live on mainnet in the coming week.
- @Zadok7 announced his decision to step back from Labs to pursue personal projects and dreams, emphasizing his positive experiences and learnings from ENS meetings and that he’ll be around and reachable.