Thank you for your support! Our team looks up to you and your contributions to ENS and everything you’ve done!
With that, it’s important for me to clarify:
I’m not sure who ‘many’ others are – there’s Namestone and JustaName, and the overlap is in ‘subname infra / tooling’.
As far as differentiators go:
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I believe Namespace is the only team with an SDK that offers unified support for L1, L2, and Offchain subnames. + Front-end apps for name+subname registration, minting, management, record updates (on different chains - almost ready in v2), and listing with the biggest set of features for customizing subname registrations, and other cool features like registration widget, subname frames, etc.
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Secondly, I’m not sure if other teams have specifically mentioned in their applications a dedicated BD+DevRel team to actively drive adoption through partnerships and developer integrations, and other GTM and distribution strategies, as we do, because we believe that resolution and integration across the Web3 ecosystem is what make ENS powerful and superior to competitors. With respect to other teams doing good in this area, I believe we have already done very well and probably have the best pending integrations and partnerships, especially considering the resources and leverage discrepancy. Shoutout to JustaName for doing good work on this and shooting for enterprise adoption. And shoutout to Brantly, who I believe will do exceptionally well here in the upcoming years with EIK.
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Also, I don’t think anyone explicitly said they’ll be building in the AI agent space, more specifically, building an ENS-based AI agent registry as an identity layer for agents. Which is a new, untapped market with a lot of potential, currently being overlooked… which also makes us different.
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I also don’t think anyone truly embraced the spirit of public knowledge-sharing as much as we did. We shared everything from kickstarting quarterly reports (that are now mandatory), market research, case studies, shared industry insights, use cases, value prop for different products, distribution strategies, potential partnerships, wrote and published >100 pages of articles, and so on, which also makes us little different.
We’ve consistently delivered more with less than almost anyone – products, apps, features, partnerships, integrations, BD efforts, appearances, events, publishing, and so on.
The reason I’m saying all of this is because we’re confident in the uniqueness and value of our work, and after putting our hearts and souls into ENS for 2+ years, we just wanted to make sure we’re accurately represented and not be viewed and remembered as someone who “didn’t stand out”, as you said, because we extremely value your opinion and analysis, and I’m sure others do too.
I apologize for the lack of clarity in our application, and if I wasn’t able to convey what I had hopefully answered in here. I’ll work on improving that.
Fully respect your voting choices, happy to answer any questions or clarify any points. Once again, thank you for your vote, Alex. It truly means a lot! 