What is ETH.LIMO?
eth.limo is a privacy-preserving ENS gateway, enabling users to access Ethereum-native dApps and content. Limo represents a shift in dWeb adoption by providing an alternative means of accessing ENS resolvable domains.
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 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.
Project Updates
.art name resolution support
We’re excited to announce that we have added resolution support for .art names. This new feature allows .art domain holders to directly resolve contenthash records on chain, using their .art DNS names. Documentation can be found here: https://github.com/ethlimo/documentation/blob/master/art/config.md
1w3.eth IPFS pinning
We love working with other ecosystem projects and as a result we have partnered with Hidayath @1w3 to provide IPFS pinning on our gateway nodes for 1w3 user generated content. This adds an additional layer of redundancy on the IPFS network and provides an accelerated user experience for eth.limo resolution and content delivery.
Reduced caching TTLs and synchronous cache expiry
As a result of backend optimizations and our WAGBI grant (thank you Alchemy) we have been able to reduce our contenthash cache TTL from 15m to 10m. This means that we now fetch the latest ENS record updates 30% faster. We expect to be able to eventually lower this to 5m by the end of the year, for a 66% improvement. Additionally we now synchronously invalidate and expire caches across all of our nodes, resulting in eventual consistency within 10s.
Traffic updates
ENS dWebsite traffic continues to grow unabated. At the time of writing we are now serving up to 1.5M requests per hour which is ~1300% higher than a year ago! These dWebsites can be blogs, resumes, dApps and more.
Future endeavours
We’re busy working on the following updates & new features:
- Multi-region CDN deployment (better performance and reliability)
- Multi-region IPFS clustering
- ENS resolution manager app
- ENS native DNS resolver in anticipation of the .eth TLD being welcomed into the ICANN gTLD namespace
Previous Updates
General Documentation
Gateway Basics
DoH Resolver
Using eth.limo with IPFS (Kubo)
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Steward Commentary
ENS Ecosystem stewards are awarding ETH.LIMO with 25 ETH & 50,000 USDC in grant funding.
ETH.LIMO continues to be foundational infrastructure for ENS ecosystem. Previous comments have discussed the demand, cost, and challenges associated with running their service.
This year web traffic to dwebsites increased by 1,300% alongside increased attention on scalability and performance. Recent developments aim to expand functionality and their service is targeting a diverse user base through collaborations and partnerships with other ENS Ecosystem builders.
We have confidence in ETH.LIMO’s forward looking stance, which is marked by dedication and their having a deep understanding of the space.
ETH.LIMO establish themselves as a pivotal player within the ENS and Ethereum ecosystems. The grant acknowledges the project’s and team’s contribution.