Name and website of Provider
Name: dappling.eth
Website: dappling.network
Name of main point of contact
What do you want to build on ENS?
dAppling is a tool that makes it easy for developers to deploy secure decentralized frontends to IPFS & ENS. Developers connect their GitHub account, and with a few clicks get a decentralized site with CI/CD, preview builds, and best practices for a fast decentralized site out of the box.
We believe that it’s instrumental for the front end layer of applications to become decentralized. As ENS continues to grow, new use cases are popping up. We envision a future where ENS is used to provide a decentralized access point for all applications. For this to happen, developers need a way to host their sites in a decentralized way with a great developer experience, good performance for their users, and web3 grade security.
Some problems we are working on solving
Frontends need to be reliable.
Smart contracts have 100% availability, but 100% availability doesn’t mean much if the way users access the smart contract (the frontend) is unavailable. We are working to provide decentralized access points to make sure users are always able to interact with the smart contracts through a user friendly frontend.
This is especially important for DeFi protocols, where their frontend being down may result in significant issues, like users getting liquidated because they can’t add collateral.
Frontends need to be secure.
DeFi frontends are plagued with hacks. These need to stop for mass adoption of DeFi. Here’s a few from just the last month…
Since we are helping sites with their deployments, we are in a core position to help prevent these types of frontend attacks.
Frontends need to be fast for users.
We scraped all of the DeFi protocols that are on https://defillama.com/ and found that over 50% of them are using centralized frontends with tools like Vercel or Netlify.
We talked with many of these teams and learned the main reasons they aren’t using decentralized frontends with ENS:
- They want their site to be really fast for users, and currently decentralized sites are plagued with speed issues.
- The developer experience for deploying to IPFS + ENS sucks (no automatic cicd/ no preview builds, no instant rollbacks, users have to pay gas to update their .eth website).
Future of Frontends
Some things we want to accomplish in addition to making it really easy to build fast secure decentralized frontends.
- Build a standard way for protocols to
provetheir canonical contract addresses using ENS. We built an MVP of this with uniswap, where they use v3deployments.uniswap.eth to show their canonical addresses on each chain. - Build a standard way for users to define their different access points for their frontend, and a way to verify that the access points are not malicious.
- Create a directory of decentralized sites and their access points, to make the discovery of secure frontends easy.
Past experience working on ENS
We have been working on dAppling for the past year and our team has been building in the Ethereum ecosystem since 2021.
Our team previously built arbor.finance, which helped DAOs raise ~3m in debt based financing and had ~15m max TVL
We’ve also built several tools: v3deployments, ggp dashboard, blockchain event explorer
Size of team and commitment
We are currently a team of 3 working on this full time. We may bring on a few more people if we are selected as a service provider.
Links to documents with further information
- Site: dappling.network
- Docs: docs.dappling.network
- Blog: blog.dappling.network
Conflict of interest statement
None!
10k Endorsement link
Budget Requested
400k
Other notes
90 sec platform demo
An public project on the dAppling platform
Thanks for considering our application!