Ecosystem Meeting, November 2, 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
- On-Chain proposals coming Friday
- Small Grants
- Project Highlights
- Proposal for Service Provider Streams
- Weekly Review of Canny
- Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement
- ENS Ecosystem Working Group Grants
- Open space for additional topics
1. Core Updates
Multi Delegate Contract
Work on a multi delgate token contract for assigning delegation via governance tokens to more than one person is under way. This would allow users who hold ENS to delegate to more than person from the same wallet.
EVM Gateway
Work has been progressing on EVM Gateway.
EVM Gateway is infrastructure to ENS working on layer 2s as it allows layer 1 smart contracts to read data from layer 2 contracts (Specifically OP Stack Layer 2s)
If you’d like to check out the github repo, it can be found here.
Gasless DNSSEC
Work around fixing bugs related to gasless DNSSEC is in process.
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.
2. On-Chain proposals coming Friday
Two executable onchain votes are going up tomorrow, November 3, 2023
- Karpatkey is updating the treasury contracts to whitelist new treasury positions via executable proposal
- The proposal to fund the working groups is going to onchain vote
3. Small Grants
ENS Small Grants Round 10 voting came to an end. Congrats to the top 10 teams who won prizes.
ENS Small Grants Insights
@slobo.eth pulled the data to show some insights on how people voted on small grants and available for anyone to look at.
Most people voted just for one project to enhance their voting strength per project.
Discussion occured around the distribution of voter cards. A new mechinism is under discussion for future small grants rounds. Opening up applications for everybody may expose small grants to sybil attacks which will be avoided
Pay outs to small grants winners will occur next week.
Note: ENS’s Small Grants implementation on snapshot is open-source and availible for anyone to copy, fork, or look through.
4. Project Highlights
ENS DAO Archive | @estmcmxci
Marcus is bringing the ENS DAO Newsletter to gitbook and making it easy to search and navigate! A video demonstration was shown to showcase the power of bringing all the data together.
Namespace | @Cap
Namespace, the ENS subname management tool is introducing the Namespace widget, an easy to add widget to personal websites that expands the space in which names can be registered.
Stay tuned for the public release.
5. Proposal for Service Provider Streams
@Avsa made a post on the forum introducing a potential new stream to ENS builders.
The call discussion was positive. @lightwalker.eth and @clowes.eth voiced that view that this is an exciting and big change that they’ll be weighing in on. @Premm.eth loved the idea of having a competition of execution inside the ecosystem, competition breeds innovation and catering to needs of different groups of people. @slobo.eth compared this to the fact that their are multiple Ethereum execution and consensus clients and that even though the clients perform the same duties, diversity adds to the health of the ecosystem.
6. 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.
7. Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement
| DATE | Event/Location | Who is Attending |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 17-19 | ETH Instanbul | @mdt, ENS Labs Developers, Premm, Thomas, Alex Netto, Lightwalker |
@alextnetto.eth is putting together an impromptu ENS Happy Hour. Reach out if you have plans to be at Devconnect and wish to attend.
8. 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
9. Open Space for Additional Topics
There is an exclusive telegram group for ENS developers, If you are a builder and want access, reach out to @limes.