ENS supports resolving addresses at the smart contract level using coin types to represent different networks.
prem.eth@base
The second part of an ENS name represents the chain
To resolve an address on a specific chain, like “base” the standard uses a coin type
There are two ways to determine the chain: centralized sources (JSON on a GitHub repository) and decentralized sources (an ENS registry)
The ENS registry will be managed by ENS and contain chain data, allowing the standard to determine the network an address belongs to.
For EVM chains, the coin type is derived using the chain ID, while non-EVM chains have a different method.
Using the name and coin type, ENSIP-9 can resolve a person’s address on a specific chain.
This is important for seamless interoperability between L2 chains, allowing for human-readable addresses that represent the chain.
Demo: A resolver has been created that works with the centralized list, with ongoing work on the decentralized chain registry.
The resolver can find addresses on different chains (e.g., Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin).
This provides a UX upgrade and drives towards user-friendly interoperability
The resolver builds on prior work by the Interop working group, specifically ERC7828.
The library allows testing of the standard.
The core infrastructure is ENS, making it a public good.
7. Latina Blockchain Hackathon - 2nd edition [Road To Devconnect Argentina] presentation
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8. Urbe Napoli Campus & Hackathon report presentation
Presenting results from the Urbe campus in Napoli
Base is supporting with grants and bounties to develop the Italian ecosystem
Five-day boot camp, 20 hours of workshops, 12 attendees
Agenda: introduction to blockchain, solidity, hardhat, etc.
The team is satisfied with the bootcamp outcomes so far and plans to enhance them by offering more practical resources like funding, job, and grant sessions tailored to Web3 builders.
Future bootcamps will include beginner-friendly blockchain and smart contract development, plus AI-driven learning paths based on participant interests.
There’s a noticeable drop in organic engagement compared to 2022
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to engage people, even with good incentives
focusing on the Italian system because they believe it has great potential
9. Open floor for all questions, proposals, and other presentations, etc
Works closely with the European Commission and received an initial grant from the Ethereum Foundation.
Focuses on AI, finance, energy, and identity.
Aims to research decentralized identity and promote the message of the next level decentralization of identity in a policy brief for senior policymakers.
Wants to take identity cross-border and make it interoperable, addressing the centralized elements in the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet).
Advocates for privacy by design and citizen-centric approaches to identity.
Engage with policymakers, those working in government and writing regulations, rather than just politicians.
Thomas and Cap offer help on this matter to make ENS the central piece of digital identity.
7. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc
Strategic grants have been funding projects with matching funding from EF
Excitement expressed about the collab and evolution from working in silos.
The collaboration is the outcome of two months of work
Vinay Vasanji leads the Strategic Funding Coordination team.
Aim is to increase the flow of information and funds from funders to projects
The team also aims to help projects surface that they’re in search of funding and getting credibility from EF to help additional funders get on board.
Building dashboards to surface projects to public goods funders and exploring mechanisms for sustainable funding.
Changes to EF grant process
The grant process at EF is shifting
Previously, grants were given through an open grant round and ad hoc grants surfaced by EF teams.
The process is pausing and will become more RFP-driven.
Teams will surface areas of priority, and a structured process will be in place for project applications and selection.
This will create a pipeline of high-priority domain areas
The process will be more structured, regular, and interactive
Collaboration and Benefits for builders
Projects approaching ENS for funding can be referred to the Strategic Funding Coordination team to identify alignment with upcoming RFPs.
This saves time for projects by helping them navigate the funding landscape
Shortening the time between inquiry and review can accelerate co-funding
Sharing project proposals among teams can provide builders with 2 grant reviews in one shot.
Previous EF grantees may graduate to a broader ecosystem of funders, with the team providing coordination and non-financial resources.
The collaboration allows for magnified impact and mutual support
Analysis
The EF is trying to determine which projects are essential to the broader ecosystem
Essential does not only mean technical infrastructure
Social infrastructure can also be essential too.
Examples of social infrastructure projects funded include Cyberpunk Congress, Magma (Africa Focused Developer Residency), and Shenzhen Researcher House.
Other areas include community initiatives, education (e.g., Web3 Bridge, Rare Skills), and research.
There is a public feed of announced grantees on the ESP Twitter handle
On average, there have been about 600 grantees per year
Budget ranges are based on need and scope
Ethereum Stories
Epoch 9 starts the 2nd week of October.
Applications are open until the end of the month.
It’s a collaboration between the EF team and the Octane team.
5. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
Bybit Hack and Security Tool
David, with a security background, has been exploring options related to security incidents since the Bybit hack.
He is developing an AI-powered tool to identify addresses and determine user intent based on onchain data.
The tool uses decoded call data as input and can be modeled into a MetaMask snap.
Snaps offer additional capabilities to MetaMask that are not native.
ETHAccra update
The ETHAccra hackathon is two weeks away.
A webinar was hosted to onboard everyone to ENS.
The Hackathon requirements were given out.
Magma is also preparing for an event.
The magma event is on September 1st - 3rd;
The hackathon is on September 4th.
There will be a Builders day before the hackathon with overlap between the two events.
It might be interesting to get Joseph to speak at ETH Accra about public goods
Mission: building the critical infrastructure for Ethereum applications
Gave an overview of the key projects under Argo (Solidity, Fee, and others).
The Solidity team is developing a newer, leaner language.
Overall goals: stabilizing the front-end language and fixing backend issues.
Priorities shifted towards correctness and security.
Core Solidity: A new iteration of the language
It will make Solidity faster, easier to add features, and more maintainable
The language standard library will introduce an EIP community process for community input.
Fixing the backend problem is another goal.
The spin-outs from the EF have been finalized.
Swiss nonprofit incorporated.
A funding agreement with the EF secures 3 years of financing.
They are seeking an additional two to three years of funding and have been in talks with stakeholders in the public goods funding ecosystem.
Solidity secures around $270 billion USD in TVL, highlighting the importance of independence and neutrality.
ARGO aims to secure around $10 million in the next year.
They are exploring funding from L1 applications, Ethereum treasury companies, and L2s, drawing inspiration from Lido’s impact staking.
Donations to the ARGO could potentially be framed as tax write-offs.
Supporting public goods could be presented as a risk mitigation strategy for Ethereum treasury companies, which have to file reports to the SEC
6. Musicaw3 - LATAM artist community presentation
Sol is a musician and songwriter who met and collaborated with Marcus
Sol’s project, musica w3, is a public good and community of independent musicians and artists working at the intersection of music, web3, and blockchain technology.
Their goal is to provide musicians with tools and education to understand the possibilities of this ecosystem
Musica w3 collaborated with ENS Namespace, allowing community members to claim ENS names with the musica w3 name.
Phantom Zone is a research organization working on two things.
Pulpy: a fully homomorphic encryption library (FHE).
FHE allows computation on encrypted private information.
You encrypt your private information using a secret key and then you give it to someone else.
The other person can compute any arbitrary function on top of this encrypted private information and give you back the result.
Can be used for ChatGPT inputs, medical applications, and blockchain applications.
It’s fast and modular, blockchain agnostic.
Obfuscation
Obfuscation is another way of doing confidential compute.
It allows you to hide information off the program and hence get confidential compute.
With obfuscation, you can have encrypted smart contracts in Ethereum without having to trust anyone and without the performance bottlenecks that comes with cryptography in general.
You can have encrypted ENS registries and anonymous sybil-resistant voting
You can have encrypted mempools, encrypted block building, and encrypted databases.
Focus on how this work is related to ENS and the broader ecosystem.
Emily has been working within ICANN for a number of years and has a tremendous amount of policy development expertise.
She has been helping ENS with various endeavors, including outreach and reputation management.
Working in the ICANN space since 2009.
She has spent the vast majority of her career working in intellectual property practices at law firms.
Supported ENS and the larger community on tracking key activities during several ICANN meetings and preparing public comments on various aspects of the new gTLD program.
The web3 space is not well understood within the ICANN community.
It’s viewed as something elitist, separate, just for techie types or wealthy people.
There are a number of bad actors in the web3 space, which is not well-regulated as compared to the traditional DNS.
Educating the public is one of the best ways to counter bad behavior.
ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
It is responsible for the stability and the security of the DNS.
In 2012, they opened a window for the new GTLD program, the new generic top-level domain program.
Another window of the new gTLD program is opening up in April of 2026.
The “Gigantic Bible” for the new gTLD program is the Applicant Guidebook, which is over 400 pages long.
The application fee for a new gTLD in the first round was $187,000, but it has increased to $227,000 for the current round, and is non-refundable.
.eth is a reserved string for country codes, and protecting it is a primary strategy.
ENS aims to be seen as “good citizens of the ICANN community” by addressing issues like lack of transparency in fee assessment and conflicts of interest for program evaluators.
ENS’s constitution states that they will never create another top level domain that isn’t sanctioned by ICANN other than eth.
The goal is to maximize ENS integration within the DNS world, encouraging new gTLD applications to integrate with ENS and existing top-level domains like .locker and .box.
Emily and other members of the ENS team divide ICANN meeting activities, with Alex’s team focusing on .eth work and direct interactions with the GAC and country code top-level domain representatives.
Emily tracks the new gTLD program, general policy developments, and mentions of blockchain or web3 issues.
The Dublin meeting is the Annual General meeting, which is the largest ICANN meeting of the year.
The speaker encourages web3 companies to consider the new gTLD program for brand protection and security enhancements, as the window may not open again for a long time.
Emily will generate reports for public consumption about ICANN meetings, procedures, perceptions of Web3, and VNs.
PG will cover a portion of Emily’s fees, which are estimated to be a couple of thousand dollars per month.
5. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
Hackatsuon presentation: a two-week residency and hackathon in Kesennuma City, a rural port town of 60,000 people six hours from Tokyo, heavily hit by the 2011 earthquake
EVM Tools presentation: a collection for dev tooling for web3 developers offering a suite of 22+ tools for ease the development of web3 apps on EVM chains
Model Smart Contract Protocol (MSCP) presentation: a standard protocol that enables LLM applications to interact with EVM-compatible networks
Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
Toolkit for web3 developers when building dapps, contracts, debugging, etc.
Whitelisting, airdrops, signature playgrounds, transaction decoder, etc.
EVM Cast allows users to run foundry commands in their browser.
EVM Storage Explorer lets users to explore smart contract states and slots.
The platform has users across the globe.
Proposal: developer playground for EIP-7702
There isn’t a simple interface for developers to understand transaction signing, how it works, transaction appearance, and interactions after smart account delegation.
Project aims to build an interactive UI where users can:
Select from known smart accounts/wallets.
Create an authorization transaction.
Execute a delegation transaction.
View a decoded transaction version.
See sample transactions for integrating EIP-7702
Handle dapp integration with smart accounts.
Revoke smart account access.
The playground will have two sections:
A step-by-step explanation of how EIP-7702 works.
A demo wizard showing the flow of operations without excessive detail.
6. Model Smart Contract Protocol (MSCP) presentation:
A standard protocol that enables LLM applications to interact with EVM-compatible networks
Ame Network: Connector between onchain apps and AI
MSCP is a standard protocol enabling LLM applications to interact with the EVM network
Web3 x Good Conference (Urbe Village) presentation: The event in October will feature web3 projects like Nouns DAO, Giveth, Octant, Akasha, Ethereum Community Fund, and leading Italian nonprofits and social enterprises like Ashoka Italia, Intersos.org, HumanFoundation.it, and the gov-backed FondoRepubblicaDigitale.it. International orgs like the WFP Innovation Accelerator, Save the Children, Amnesty International, UNICEF CryptoFund will also be joining.
dev3pack presentation: For one month, dev3pack is turning a village in Buenos Aires into a home for 70 women and student developers from underrepresented regions, experiencing Devconnect and ETHGlobal for the first time
Fadhil final takeaways on Africa research presentation
Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
ENS is signing onto a letter supporting incentivizing decentralization in blockchain legislation.
The letter relates to market structure legislation.
The letter was initially drafted for the House version of the bill and has 60 signatories from VCs like A16Z, Blockchain Capital, and various other foundations, teams, and labs.
The Senate is drafting its own bill, which is not as good as the House version.
Another draft of the bill is expected soon, incorporating recommendations.
5. Web3 x Good Conference (Urbe Village) presentation
The event in October will feature web3 projects like Nouns DAO, Giveth, Octant, Akasha, Ethereum Community Fund, and leading Italian nonprofits and social enterprises like Ashoka Italia, Intersos.org, HumanFoundation.it, and the gov-backed FondoRepubblicaDigitale.it. International orgs like the WFP Innovation Accelerator, Save the Children, Amnesty International, and UNICEF CryptoFund will also be joining.
Urbe Village gave an update on Web3 and the Good conference.
Confirmed 21 speakers from both Web3, non-profit space, and angel investment ecosystems in Italy.
A Nouns meetup is planned during the conference.
ENS is seen as a valuable addition to discussions on web3 challenges and public goods funding.
The venue has 100 seats, with an expected attendance of 100-200 people during the day, possibly more.
For one month, dev3pack is turning a village in Buenos Aires into a home for 70 women and student developers from underrepresented regions, experiencing Devconnect and ETHGlobal for the first time.
Global fellowship for women and student developers coming from Web2.
Aims to provide onboarding and continued education
Hackathons, bootcamps, meetups, and long-term building.
Attracted 300+ universities, 1,000+ women, and student devs worldwide.
Superpact will host a village for 70 women and student developers at DevConnect.
