ENS Public Goods Working Group: Funding Remix Labs & Fabric

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Summary

For the next allocation of the ENS Public Goods (PG) Working Group Strategic Grants programme, we are disbursing $50,000 USDC each to support two critical public goods efforts in 2025: Remix Labs and Fabric.

Following our first strategic grant allocation for the DRC in March, we continue to strategically support key public goods projects that have also secured external matching funds from organisations such as the EF to enable the advancement of core values such as decentralization, accessibility, and infrastructure reliability that ENS and the Ethereum ecosystem stand for.

Why This Funding Matters

Public goods form the backbone of Ethereum’s resilience, open innovation, and global accessibility. Yet too often, key infrastructure projects face sustainability challenges due to their non-commercial nature. We see it as essential to support projects that reflect and reinforce our shared commitment to openness, sovereignty, and decentralization.

These grants are not simply one-off contributions—they are strategic investments in tools and coordination layers that are already powering builders across the Ethereum stack. By supporting Remix Labs and Fabric, ENS Public Goods funding is contributing to a more robust and permissionless future for developers, users, and ecosystem collaborators.

Why ENS PG is Supporting Remix Labs

Remix has long served as a foundational Web2 → Web3 bridge, especially for developers beginning their journey into smart contract development. As the team transitions out of the Ethereum Foundation and becomes Remix Labs, an independent public goods organization, this support comes at a pivotal time.

“We’re extremely grateful for this support from the ENS Public Goods Working Group. It’s vital to Remix’s continued existence as an ecosystem public good with our spin-out from EF, and we’re most excited by the potential to collaborate with ENS on more impactful ways to support public goods in general.” — Remix Labs

What Remix Offers:

  • A powerful, web-based smart contract development IDE used globally

  • A plugin-rich architecture that supports experimentation and extensibility

  • Zero setup friction—accessible via web or as a desktop app

  • A vital learning platform for new Ethereum developers, educators, and researchers

As Ethereum matures, Remix is evolving from a teaching tool into a full ecosystem scaffold, enabling experimentation not just in code, but in user education, new standards, and L2 composability. ENS’s support ensures this transition is grounded in sustainability and aligned with the ecosystem’s broader mission.

Why ENS PG is Supporting Fabric

Fabric is a community-driven, open-source initiative focused on defining standards and delivering non-commercial infrastructure for the emerging based rollup ecosystem. With over 20 participating teams—including ENS, Linea, Namechain, and others—Fabric is tackling one of Ethereum’s most exciting frontiers: synchronous L1-L2 composability without sequencers.

ENS has publicly committed to becoming a based rollup, and its support of Fabric is both strategic and values-aligned. ENS’s Public Goods grant will support ongoing coordination, research, and infrastructure development that benefits the entire rollup landscape.

“We’re especially grateful to the ENS community for their grant support, joining a growing group of teams across the Ethereum ecosystem backing this effort.” - Fabric

Key Fabric Initiatives:

  • Delivering minimal viable reference implementations for based rollups

  • Defining universal standards, including proposer commitments and pre-confirmation APIs

  • Introducing a shared registry contract to support rollup-wide pre-confirmation tooling

  • Facilitating educational resources and ecosystem alignment

Fabric represents not just a technical roadmap, but a cultural and governance experiment in how decentralized teams can co-develop shared infrastructure. ENS’s support ensures this effort remains public, open, and non-extractive.

Next Steps

The ENS PG Working Group’s grants to Remix Labs and Fabric are part of our ongoing commitment to empowering the Ethereum ecosystem’s most valuable public goods. Both projects will provide regular updates to the community on progress, milestones, and adoption impact.

By funding these initiatives, the ENS PG Working Group is investing in the conditions that make decentralized protocols possible, resilient, and regenerative. We’re proud to support efforts that align with our mission—and to help shape the future of Ethereum as a public commons.

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Love to see it. Met with the Fabric team a few weeks back and excited to contribute GasHawks research into based rollups and blob submissions

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Update from the Remix & Fabric teams 2nd October 2025 delivered on PG weekly call:

Remix updates

  • Remix received a $50k grant from ENS Public Goods WG.
  • This represents 25% of the total match they’ll be getting from EF over 2 years.
  • Remix has completed its first quarter as a dual entity.
  • Launched the first iteration of their new platform.
    • Initially, just a public presence for Remix
    • Eventually, there will be login access to various instances of Remix.
  • ENS is represented on the platform as a public good partner.
  • An impact page is being developed to characterize the impact of the grant.
    • It will evolve into an open-source observer and Dune analytics.
  • Discussions with Open Source Observer are ongoing
    • The aim is to improve how impact is characterized.
  • Discussions about integrating ENS as a login into Remix.
    • The idea involves ENS login and creating a dedicated subdomain.
    • This would allow users to have dedicated storage and test contracts without linking to public information.
  • Regular updates will be posted, including progress on ENS integration.

Fabric updates

  • Full presentation.
  • Commit-boost repo.
  • Fabric knowledgebase.
  • Fabric is a nonprofit focusing on out-of-protocol infrastructure for Ethereum, with a shift towards in-protocol aspects.
  • Two main efforts: Fabric (based rollups and pre-confirmations, focus of the ENS grant) and Commit Boost.
  • Commit-boost is entirely grant-funded, aiming to avoid venture capital.
  • ~30% or more of validators on Mainnet are running Commit Boost.
  • Teams are launching pre-confirmation protocols in production.
  • Commi-boost has significant adoption on the mainnet.
    • The main registry contract has undergone 2 audits.
    • Integrations are in progress across multiple teams.
  • The Fabric website compiles research on based rollups and pre-confirmations.
  • The focus was always on based rollups to heal fragmentation because of synchronous composability.
  • Realization: synchronous composability can be achieved without running a based rollup, as long as coordination with validators making pre-comp commitments is possible.
  • Goal: put together a testnet working with different teams for end-to-end pre-confirmations integrated with the based rollup.
  • Target date: DevConnect (cross fingers).
  • Continue pushing on synchronous composability research in and out of protocol.
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