Ecosystem Meeting, May 11th, 2023
Attendance
yungsb, accessor, alex slobo, megan fabry, sydmead (eth.limo), light walker, limes.eth, sem bee, julie shi, thomas clowes, 5pence, nick johnson, josh brandley, prem makeig, cap, 184, danielle, bennett, coltron, gregskril, paul mr, alisha, samway waysam, arcadian, mike lee, bishara, liu okery, dylan, miklus, justin chung, maintainer, peepskies (bishara),
1. Gitcoin Summary @Limes
Gitcoin Grants have come to a close. Key feedback are high gas fees - Gitcoin will be prioristing deploying on Layers 2s before our next round. In spite of high fees, the closing figures are:
- $8793.79 donations, $50k matching funds, 155 unique contributors, 696 contributions
Matching values are not yet calculated (though capped at 5% of $50k). These will be figured out within a week and reported on at the next meeting (or sooner).
Additionally, ecosystem team was issuing gas refunds to applicants to avoid anyone being excluded. This is in line with Ecosystem WG wanting to support projects to have the resources you need to get funding you need.
- Gas refunds (totallying ~1.2 eth) have been issued to applicants (tweeted)
Here are the top 10 projects in terms of “Number of Donations Received”
| Projects |
No. of Contributions |
| eth.limo |
39 |
| ENS DAO Newsletter |
30 |
| Optinames |
30 |
| GasHawk |
29 |
| beaconcha.in |
26 |
| Heavens Tools |
23 |
| 1W3 |
22 |
| ENSRedirect |
20 |
| Web3Domains.com |
20 |
| ENS Doc |
19 |
Many of the projects in this round have attended & shared in WG meetings. Going forward, these results aid as another helpful metric for what we support.
Since May 4th, 7528 anniversary POAPS have been minted (tweeted)
- Claming will be open until end of May. With ~2500 POAPS available to be claimed.
- Eligability requirements are that your wallet own an ENS name with Avatar & Priamry Name set.
- Users who met eligability requirements may claim for free.
- Users without Avatar or Primary Name may first set these directly via the claim site - the action of setting Avatar & Primary Name does cost gas.
This initiative has broken records for ENS Avatar Records Set in a day. See Dune Analytics Query, where we twice broke the record set back in May 2022. The inititiave was a success.
Website: anniversary.ens.domains
POAP artist: áxek @theaxents
Website built by @gregskril
Acknowledgements: Props to Greg for the site being built and the artist áxek. ENS are lucky to have been working with the POAP team to have this sort of flow & success.
3. Bug Bounty Program & Immunefi @nick.eth
- An increased amount of bug reports has lead to an increase in time needed to be spent evaluating them. Thus, there is a need for clearer criteria & inclusion criteria for reports.
A solution to this is professionlising bounty program & being clear on scope.
- Several have suggested immunifi - based on good reputation, and having run programs for high profile organsisaitons.
- Nick seeking a feedback from ecosystem team & others team if this is worth investigating further
- Their website states: no maintenance, onboarding or advisory fees. They take a cut of bounties.
This was generally supported.
Action item: Nick will schedule meetings, and get back on details of costs next week
Generally speaking a referral system is strongly supported with multiple ways to approach it. This discussion continued with the ideas in the active forum thread.
Action item: Wait 1 week to allow others to input to the forum, then schedule specific ENS14 call to discuss.
- We have a new Rust library for ENS: Ethers RS
- New features in V3 (from community feedback)
- New ability to unwrap ENS names
- ‘Wrap name’ banner prompt removed to avoid confusion/impression that nameowner needs to wrap a name
- ENS Labs is moving to a new feedback form
- Replace google form with DeForm - better & web3 native alternative.
- Will be embedded in app soon
- Deform feedback form
+ Gasless DNSSEC update @nick.eth
- Forum thread: Update on gasless DNSSEC implementation
- Codearena audit has come to conclusion.
- Currently in post audit triage with codearena steward
- No major findings
- There a few minor (unexploitable) bugs. Following fix, will look at deployment & integration testing for gateway
6. Review any upcoming events with ENS involvement
Upcoming events:
Further out:
- ETHGlobal Waterloo
- ETH Barcelona,
- ETH CC / ETH Global Paris - incl slobo.eth
Reach out to ENS on twitter if you’d like to connect with ENS folks at these events prior to attending
7. Project Highlights
Julie shared updates including:
- Updated Website - live on goerli, testing on mainnet
- Updated features: leaderboard, membership page
“What would you like from our community?”
- Check out ORG3 on goerli & mainnet, and provide feedback including features you want. Also love to hear from anyone with technical background on different L2 solutions.
Hid shared updates including:
- implementation with eth.limo & speed improvements,
- working on improving website redering, redundancy,
- total revamp of UI & UX,
- shared two websites created by testers from the community
Note: Next week the platform will go live to users who have signed up for 1W3.
“What would you like from our community?”
- We would like the community to test the tool, try to crash the site and find what’s not working. Also planning to implement subdomains, and would like to partner & coordinate with community member developers.
SemBee & WaybackMachine - (Round 5) recipient of ens small grants.
Sem Bee, a developer from wayback-machine.eth, stopped in to share about their progress with a live walkthrough of features. Mentioned funds contributed to hiring a designer who also helped improve style & response for mobile.
“What would you like from our community?”
- Mainly awareness, just use it, try it, and if there are use cases we are not covering enough (e.g. ipns might need more work). Tell us what you are interested in knowing about the past of ENS names. This is really appeciated.
Notes by @184.eth & @Limes
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