Ecosystem Meeting, October 5th, 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
- Onchain votes results
- Core Updates @gregskril (7 mins)
- Project Highlights (10 mins)
- Small grants (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, cap, corbin page, gregskril.eth, light walker, senad, mailchain (verycozy.eth), maintainer, marcus (estmcmxci.eth), marcus am, paul, premm.eth, sydmeand.eth, tyler caldonia, vincent (zadok7.eth), yungsb, drea, Eduardo, Nodar, Eldari
1. Onchain Voting Results
Two Onchain proposals have passed
- Review the Refund of invalid ETH names and funding of the endowment below
2. Core Updates
@gregskril (X)
- The ENS Labs team is in Rome for the ETH Rome hackathon
- The Public Goods Working Group has put up a $5,000 bounty at the Hackathon
- Frens day is around the corner and tickets are availible here
- Early Bird, Student, and Local discounts are avalible
- Speaker and Sponsorship applications are availible here
- Vitalik Buterin will be speaking!
- ENS Blog has been launched https://blog.ens.domains/
- Planned to be used for all things ENS
- Eskender clarified that over time, the vision is for the blog to not just be owned by ENS Labs, but also be a design space for all types of things in the ENS ecosystem
- Development of an EVM CCIP-Read Gateway is in development and can be viewed here
3. Project Highlights
OnThis builds shortcuts to contract interactions via simply sending ETH.
- Examples of this are NFT mints, staking on LIDO, etc.
- OnThis built a shortcut at the ETHGlobal NY Hackathon and demonstrated their shortcut for 10xbull.eth, where simply sending eth to the address opens a trade on GMX (An options project on Arbitrum) from mainnet.
- OnThis won a prize for best use case from ENS for their ability to simplify intent to action
Domainer Expo | Ishmilly (X)
Domainer Expo is a conference about all different types of domains in Web2 and Web3 focused around education and innovation
- Ishmilly is involved in the event and encouarged people interested in ENS domains to attend
- The event will be occuring December 6-7
- 1W3 recently crossed 1000 signed up users! (Announcement)
- New features have been coming to 1W3, including a pay with paypal option
4. Small Grants
The ENS Small Grants process is still in progress, every project who made a submission is still valid and the site is expected to be up next week
Small Grants Details
ENS Grants Site
5. Weekly Review of ens.canny.io
Engagement and upvoting on Canny are vital, 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.
- A discussion occured around the architecture of ENS name on layer 2s. To learn more, check out [ENSIP 11]
6. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 6-8 | ETH Rome | gregskril.eth |
| Nov 13-19 | Devconnect | limes.eth, slobo.eth, gregskril.eth, coltron.eth, esk3nder.eth, sadaf.eth, 184.eth |
| Nov 17-19 | ETH Instanbul | gregskril.eth |
7. 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
8. Open Space for Additional Topics
- Thomas’ project ethtools.com has had some updates to it. If anyone has ideas for tools for their ETH development journey, Thomas wants to hear from you