About:
What is ETH.LIMO (LIMO)?
LIMO is an ENS enabled IPFS gateway with a strong focus on user privacy and security. LIMO represents a shift in dweb adoption by providing an alternative means of accessing ENS resolvable domains. Prior to LIMO, Cloudflare’s eth.link service was the only public service for bridging web2 and web3. LIMO takes public gateway services a step further by enforcing strong privacy guarantees such as never logging IP addresses or engaging in TCP fingerprinting. Limo now actively blocks FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts). This is a Google developed algorithm that tracks and correlates users based on their browsing history. FLoC enables advanced fingerprinting capabilities and greatly undermines online privacy and anonymity.
On average at any given moment there are 300+ concurrent connections to the gateway with traffic occasionally spiking to over 2000+ connections if Vitalik or another popular personality tweets an eth.limo URL.
Rationale:
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As it stands, there was a single ENS/IPFS gateway operator: Cloudflare. Uptime and availability were plaguing dweb adoption. The spirit and ethos of decentralization had ironically been compromised by relying upon a single corporate entity to provide critical transitional infrastructure from web2 to web3. In addition to the threats posed by centralization, there was no accountability or public influence when it came to governing the eth.link service.
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Web3 provides new challenges and opportunities for safely and reliably testing dweb deployments in a cost effective manner. Existing web2 tooling is inadequate and fails to provide the same experience and functionality for the web3 ecosystem.
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Modern browser integrations still rely on Infura RPC calls by default which leaves a lot to be desired in regards to user privacy.
The LIMO project is organized around the following founding principles:
1. Operate ETH.LIMO as a public good.
2. Establish community governance and oversight.
a. Provide support and technical guidance for builders and users.
3. Work towards building a truly decentralized ENS/IPFS gateway service and global CDN.
4. Build a world-class developer platform for dweb sites, including integrated analytics reporting and traffic management deployment tooling for commonly used web2 patterns such as A/B testing, canary and blue/green deployments.
5. A commitment to open source software and the advancement of web3 through education, best practices, evangelism, and public accessibility.
Contenthash growth is moving at a rapid pace!
Recent Updates:
We have been working hard to improve the performance and reliability of our service while adding new features based on community feedback. We are happy to announce that we now support the following enhancements.
- Cross Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) and ENSIP-10 wildcards. CCIP is an important advancement for ENS resolution across chains. The eth.limo service is now able to resolve names on any L2 or chain that properly implements the CCIP gateway resolver service. Test it out with https://offchainexample.eth.limo.
- Automated, on-demand certificates for ENS subdomains. Once you submit an HTTPS request for your name (i.e. https://foo.bar.eth.limo), we’ll attempt to issue the certificate in the background. Usually this process takes 1-2m and during that time you might need to keep refreshing the page in your browser. This is a one-time process and once the certificate has been issued you’ll be able to visit your subdomain on eth.limo.
- Skynet storage support - In addition to IPFS and IPNS, Skynet accessible content can now be resolved. More information can be found here.
- IPv6 support - All eth.limo loadbalancers now support both IPv4 and IPv6. This greatly reduces latency for mobile devices.
- IPFS peering with all major content providers (Fleek, Web3 Storage, Cloudflare, etc…).
- Accelerated DHT (Distributed Hash Table) support for IPFS. This results in faster retrieval times and a better user experience.
- Nimi profiles - anyone with an ENS domain can simply append .limo in their browser to resolve a personalized Nimi profile. This pulls in your ENS avatar, text records and even displays POAPS. Learn more about the Nimi implementation here.
- DNS over HTTPS (DoH) resolver. We now offer an easy to use DNS resolver for ENS domains. The DoH resolver can be integrated with applications for native ENS resolution, or even your browser! We feature both JSON and DNS wire format responses with DNSLink support.
Consult our documentation for implementation details.
Privacy:
The eth.limo team respects our end users’ privacy. We never log your IP address (IPv4 or IPv6) or X-Forwarded-For HTTP headers (this header is used when your request is forwarded from an upstream proxy), which means all request data is completely anonymized. Additionally we terminate all HTTPS connections at the application layer, which prevents cloud providers from inspecting the contents of each request/response.
Website: https://eth.limo/
Discord: https://discord.gg/zf8NxW94rB
Twitter: https://twitter.com/eth_limo
Steward Commentary: A grant of 60,000 USDC, 10 ETH, and 3,000 ENS has been approved for the eth.limo team. This is the largest retroactive grant approved by the Ecosystem Working Group to date.
LIMO is foundational infrastructure for the decentralized web, built on top of ENS. Infrastructure like air is ever present, but rarely noticed, that is until it’s gone.
ENS notices, respects, and funds critical infrastructure. Next time you type vitalik.eth.limo and it “just works” remember that happens because of limo’s builders, who make that happen. Every time. Thousand times a day.
Thank you @ethlimo.eth. Keep building.