Ecosystem Meeting, September 14th, 2023
Details
Time/Day – 12pm ET (4pm 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
Please reach out to @slobo.eth if you would like to present on a future call.
Agenda
- Core Updates @gregskril (7 mins)
- Project Highlights (10 mins)
- Small grants are live! ( 5 mins)
- Weekly Review of canny (5 mins)
- Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement
- ENS Ecosystem Working Group Grants
- Open space for additional topics
Attendance
slobo.eth, limes.eth, Mac Budkowski, Tim Daub, aexek.eth, arcadian.eth, cap, corbin page, gregskril.eth, light walker, mailchain (verycozy.eth), maintainer, marcus (estmcmxci.eth), marcus am, paul, premm.eth, sydmeand.eth, tyler caldonia, vincent (zadok7.eth), yungsb
1. Core Updates
@gregskril (ENS | X)
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ENS Labs is welcoming @184.eth as the ENS Support Lead. Message him a congrats! (Post)
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ENS is at Safecon! Message @marta if you want to say hi (Post)
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ENS will have $10k of prizes at ETHGlobal New York, there are 3 days left to apply (ETH Global)
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At ETH Global, there will be a XMTP x ENS corner store providing attendees goodies (Post)
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Gasless DNSSEC can now be run in a test environment. Check out the writeup for more details (Writeup)
2. Project Highlights
Kiwi News | Tim Daub (X | Farcaster) & Mac Budkowski (X | Farcaster)
Kiwi News is a web3 alternative to the tech focused news website Hackernews. Profiles on Kiwi News use Sign in with Ethereum for login and integrates ENS for account data. Check out the leaderboard of the profiles with the most upvoted posts on Kiwi News!
- Kiwi News is built on an open, permissionless and decentralized peer to peer protocol. To learn more about how Kiwi News works, check out the Protocol Guide
- Look for Kiwi News in the next Small Grants round and consider voting for them
- The team will be speaking at Protocol Berg on September 15, 2023. If you’re in Berlin, go to see their talk
3. ENS grants are live!
ENS Grants has been running for over a year now and this time around we are in the arena trying things. The voting system was changed from token weighted voting to instead use NFT based voting where 1 NFT = 1 vote. The mechanism to the distributon of this NFT is not public as of yet. 15 ETH is up for grabs for 10 different projects in conjunction with the grants round the Public Goods Working Group is running. Apply today!
Small Grants Details
ENS Grants Site
4. Weekly Review of ens.canny.io
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. Read more on the 
Forum here.
- The ENS Canny Board was reviewed.
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 is Attending |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 22-24 | ETH New York | gregskril.eth, sadaf.eth, slobo.eth, limes.eth, makoto.eth, katherine.eth, alexandro netto |
| Oct 6-8 | ETH Rome | gregskril.eth |
| Nov 13-19 | Devconnect | ENS Labs & DAO |
| Nov 17-19 | ETH Instanbul | ENS Labs & DAO |
ENS Happy Hour @ ETH NY Sep 23rd 2023
- The ETHGlobal New York event page is live! Register here
- Axek, the artist behind many ENS POAPs and images, gave a talk about his work and shared he is open for contracting for art work via X.
- If you’ll be in town and want to chat with ENS folks, join the ENS ETH NY Telegram chat with @lightwalker.eth, @garypalmerjr, @limes, @slobo.eth, @gregskril and more
ETH Global New York - Hackathon
- ENS will have presence and is happy to sponsor the event.
- Let @gregskril know your ideas for building here
- Check out the prizes and categories here
6. ENS Ecosystem Working Group Grants
Forum: Term 4 Grants – The Ecosystem Working Group grants are designed to support projects and builders contributing to the ENS ecosystem. Apply anytime through the DeForm platform here. Evaluation process takes ~4 weeks
6. Open Space for Additional Topics
None.