Term 6 Grants - Summary

🌱 ENS Ecosystem
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Summary

yodl turns ENS into the identity, routing, and trust layer for onchain payments.

  • Old world: permissioned, tradfi payment networks.
  • New world: crypto-native, permissionless, non-custodial

yodl is a payment protocol where ENS becomes the “DNS” for payments, turning ENS into a single source of truth for payments.

Technical analogy:

  • TCP/IP => HTTP / DNS
  • ERC20 / hex address => yodl / ENS

All yodl components are configured with ENS

Yodl introduces ENS as a decentralized registry of user and onchain components. Instead of storing information in separate silos, yodl keeps user preferences inside their ENS text records.

  • Users payment preferences configure what tokens, chains the user accepts.
  • Webhook callbacks enable Web2 after payment automations.
  • Opengraph/preview cards configurable through ENS
  • Yapps (Yodl mini apps) with a decentralized dapp store
  • Communities curated yapps and member directory powered by ENS subnames

This is how we see the payment of the future

  • I pay my Cappuccino
  • I scan a QR Code or tap NFC Beacon.
    • Yodl UI gets an invoice amount and ENS name with payment preferences.
  • The coffee shop gives me a 10% discount because I’m a cryptopunk holder.
    • The ENS has configured reward/loyalty yodl mini apps/webhooks.
  • I see that 3 friends are mutual followers and has 4.5 stars (from actual buyers only).
    • Yodl UI pulls data from EFP, etc .
  • I pay with 1 click with my PEPE, ETH, USDC
    • yodl swap&pays in the token the merchant expects, e.g. USDT.
  • The payment fills up the stamp card and i’m being airdropped a voucher for the next coffee.
    • indexer triggers stamp card webhook configured by receiver
  • A webhook automatically triggers and updates my quickbooks.
    • Same setting as above but stored on sender ENS.
  • The payment receipt is a nice inspiring image which I share on my socials.
    • ENS name configures payment receipt preferences .
  • I’m happy with cappuccino and give the coffee shop 5 stars.

All on-chain. Powered by ENS.

Traction

TradFi integrations:

We are live with our payment focused dapp. You can get started and paying in 60s: https://lite.yodl.me

Pilot Europe and Asia:

Super Dapp / Mini App

We have built a framework around our super dapp, so communities can build their own white labelled version of it.

Permissionless checkout system

All you need is an ENS name to get a hosted yodl checkout page with automations, shareable receipts, dynamic amounts.

Case Study: https://www.paddlebattle.auction/

  • Every auction gets its own ENS name that configures the auction. Example: https://app.justaname.id/imkeypaddlebattle.yodl.eth

      ```json
  {
  	"tokenSymbols":["USDT"],
  	"chainIds":[1,10,100,42161],
  	"currency":"USD",
  	"og":{"baseUrl":"https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/RamRamez/assets/PaddleBattle/imkey"},
  	"webhooks":["https://pb-backend.generalmagic.io/api/update"]
  }
  ```

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Zuitzerbike: an ecommerce checkout for bike rentals at Zuitzerland '25

Standardizing with ENSIP

We are in the process of extracting the general parts out into ENSIP standards. @Premm.eth is helping and guiding us in the right direction.

  • Payment preferences. Define ENS record standard for configuring what a recipient expects to receive. Example use cases:
    • alice.eth sets prefs manually
    • bob.cex.eth cex can dynamically configure what tokens/chains user can deposit.
    • bob.polymarket.eth will be locked to USDC on polygon

yodl is looking forward to build a payment system tightly integrated with ENS.

Steward Commentary

Ecosystem stewards are awarding Yodl 25,000 USDC and 500 ENS in grant funding. Yodl is brining ENS to payments and has demonstrated great traction. Thank you for doing this important work.

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