Ecosystem Meeting, October 12, 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
- Fellowship
- Project Highlights
- Small grants
- Weekly Review of Canny
- Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement
- ENS Ecosystem Working Group Grants
- Open space for additional topics
Attendance
slobo.eth, limes.eth, 184.eth, 5pence, Antonio Seveso, caldonia.eth, Cap, 3du.eth, Evan Moyer, Federico Castelli, Greg Skriloff, lightwalker.eth, estmcmxci.eth, Prem, Hid, Syd Mead-Limo, Thomas Clowes
1. Core Updates
Gasless DNSSEC
Gasless DNSSEC has been deployed on Sepolia!
Gasless DNSSEC allows DNS name owners to use their existing domains in the web3 ecosystem for free. For instructions on how to turn DNS names into ENS on the Sepolia testnet, follow the instructions here.
Ownership Tab
A new tab called the Ownership tab has been added to the ENS App in efforts to make the relationship between owners and managers more intuitive.
ENS Blog
The ENS Blog has launched! Check out the blog here.
2. ENS Fellowship
It was announced that @Premm.eth is the winner of the ENS Fellowship Grant, he’s excited to continue heads down building on ENS and is looking forward to meeting others at Devconnect.
3. Project Highlights
Fluidkey | Antonio Seveso
Fluidkey was the winner of the overall ENS prize at ETH Rome and came to the call to present their hackathon project.
Fluidkey allows a user to generate an infinite amount of stealth addresses when resolving ENS names. Using ENS offchain resolution, a subscriber of FluidKey can share their ENS name with multiple parties and a new address will be generated between each resolution. No one will be able to see the previously generated addresses by other parties.
All the addresses are controlled by the same key pair and appear together in FluidKeys UI. The project is in Alpha, sign up for updates on fluidkey.com.
Namehash Labs | @lightwalker.eth
Namehash Labs is an innovation network working to design and develop open source ENS focused infrastructure and public goods. On the call, lightwalker announced two such projects that their team has been developing.
Nameguard
Nameguard is a solution to identify impersonation attempts using ENS names. This product is targeted at other web3 devs to add to their apps.
A few of the features are as follows:
- ENS health checks: This feature allows interprets your name records to help you understand the implications of your records (ex Owner, Manager, Resolver, etc)
- Smart Auto-Renewal: This will allow you to autorenew your ENS name using a credit card
- ENS Profile Completion Score: To spread awareness about all the capabilities of your ENS name, the gamification of a completion score will hopefully incentivise people to use ENS to its full capability
Additionally, Nameguard is participating in ENS’s Small Grants round. Consider voting for them when voting is live here.
NameKit
Inspired by RainbowKit, NameKit is hoping to reduce the cost and complexity of implementing ENS on wallets and dapps.
NameKit has four distinct ENS journeys
- Find your ENS idenity
- Design your ENS identity
- Interact with others
- Manage your ENS identity
These user journeys bring all functionality to one place that can be implemented on any site.
NameKit will be an open source public good for anybody to use. The plan is to release NameKit by the end of 2023, look for more public announcements at frENS Day!
1W3 | @hidayath.eth
Announcing the 1w3 decentralized website buildathon! Send your submissions here.
Deform is also now supported in 1W3! Check out the announcement post here.
4. Small grants
Voting on small grants is expected to commence next week
5. 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. Read more on the 
Forum here.
6. Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement
| DATE | Event/Location | Who is Attending |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 13 | frENS Day | limes.eth, slobo.eth, gregskril.eth, coltron.eth, esk3nder.eth, sadaf.eth, 184.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 |
frENS day is around the corner and tickets are availible here
- Early Bird, Student, and Local discounts are avalible
- Speaker and Sponsorship applications are available here
- @vbuterin will be speaking!
Happy Two-Year Anniversary of ENS DAO!
