Fast ENS API for web3 apps
I’ve integrated ENS resolving into several projects now (both my own and as a contributor/collaborator), but found the standard approach of querying ENS contracts directly to be quite slow for most use cases, and can quickly eat up Alchemy/Infura node resources if you’re not careful.
To help with this, I built an incredibly fast API (thanks to Cloudflare’s edge caching) for resolving and reverse-resolving ENS names and addresses and avatars (30-50ms with a warm cache).
API docs are here: About ENS Ideas
And open source code here: GitHub - holic/ens-ideas
Examples:
- https://api.ensideas.com/ens/resolve/0xc9c022fcfebe730710ae93ca9247c5ec9d9236d0
- https://api.ensideas.com/ens/resolve/frolic.eth
This is already in use in the following projects and processing millions of ENS queries per month:
- https://juicebox.money/
- https://reservoir.tools/
- https://www.utopialabs.com/
- https://terraformexplorer.xyz/
- https://gallery.so/
- https://tombseri.es/
- https://okpc.app/
- https://shields.build/
Steward Commentary
ENS Ecosystem stewards are awarding ENS Ideas with 10,000 USDC in grant funding.
Their API aids in providing quick response times to resolve and reverse-resolve ENS names and addresses, while also saving users unnecessary resource drain. Their open source API is already integrated into multiple platforms and has undeniable use cases across various applications. The grant recognises this and supports ongoing development.