Service Provider Stream Nomination Thread

💬 General Discussion
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Name and website
wayback-machine.eth

Name of main point of contact
sem-the-bee.eth

What do you want to build on ENS?

We are poised to develop an ENS Archive, a comprehensive historical repository of ENS-linked content, marking a significant stride in preserving the decentralized web’s legacy.

Our objectives include:

  1. Enhancing the ENS Wayback Machine: This will involve expanding support to include various decentralized storage providers such as IPNS, Swarm, and Arweave. These enhancements aim to deepen our understanding of an ENS domain’s history, offering richer insights and broader data accessibility.
  2. Maintaining a Robust IPFS Node: This endeavor will ensure the preservation of pivotal content from the decentralized web, safeguarding the most influential and notable digital artifacts for future generations.
  3. Developing Open-Source Management Tools: Recognizing the community’s reliance on services like https://pinata.cloud for content management, we will create free, open-source alternatives. These tools will facilitate the easy setup and management of IPFS servers with integrated ENS support, democratizing access and control over decentralized web content.

Our service stands to be a cornerstone for researchers, historians, and the broader Web3 community, offering an insightful perspective into the evolution of decentralized web content. More than just an archival tool, the ENS Archive aims to become a dynamic platform that evolves with the community’s needs. By integrating features such as a leaderboard to highlight and prioritize key websites for archival governed by ENS tokenholders, we want to give power to the ENS DAO to signal what

Past experience working on ENS

We are the team behind the ENS Wayback Machine dApp, an innovative tool designed to archive and provide access to historical versions of content linked to ENS domains. Functioning similarly to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, it allows users to explore and retrieve past iterations of websites and digital content associated with ENS domains.

To illustrate, if one wishes to track the transformation of Ethereum founder, Vitalik Buterin’s personal webpage, it’s as simple as accessing vitalik.eth on our dApp. Utilize the header to toggle between different site versions, allowing a chronological visualization of its evolution.

Thanks to the ENS funding we received, we’ve also launched our very own IPFS node. This addition improves how our service works, making it faster and more reliable, and enhancing the overall experience for our users.

You can access our IPFS node through the ens.site domain. This IPFS gateway follows a modern specification designed to work seamlessly with the security models of web browsers. You can easily access IPFS data by simply adding the IPFS hash right before the domain name, like so: https://ba…ky .ipfs.ens.site.

Additionally, we’ve created software to resolve ENS content hashes in a way similar to eth.limo. You can see this in action at:

However, for daily use, we still suggest using eth.limo as it’s more optimized. Use ens.site mainly for accessing older IPFS content or if eth.limo is unavailable.

Size of the team and commitment

Our team has three members: a software engineer, a frontend developer, and a system administrator, each of them will work on the project part-time. We will also use the funding to pay for our servers to keep our services running. Additionally, we plan to use some of the funds to hire a designer on an as-needed basis to fill gaps in our team.

Links to documents with further information

Here there is more information about projects we built in the past:

https://blossom.software/

Conflict of interest statement

The ENS Wayback Machine has previously received funds from three Ecosystem Small Grants:

And it is currently participating in the Ecosystem Small Grants Round 11.

Our team also received Public Goods ENS grants for another project (EVMcrispr):

10k Endorsement link

@Griff will endorse us in this thread.

Budget Requested

$200,000/y

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