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Apr 7, 2021

MVP of ENS on L2 with Optimism: Demo Video + How to Try It Yourself

At the ENS workshop earlier this week, I demoed the first MVP of ENS’s L2 support, showing how an ENS name can be resolved on Optimism. This end-to-end demo is the first instance not just of resolving an ENS name using a layer 2 solution but also the first demonstration…

Blockchain

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MVP of ENS on L2 with Optimism: Demo Video + How to Try It Yourself
MVP of ENS on L2 with Optimism: Demo Video + How to Try It Yourself
Blockchain

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·Mar 1, 2021

Defeating the Cobo Vault Pro’s Self-Destruct Mechanism

Cobo recently offered to send me their Vault Pro, a hardware wallet focused on “see what you sign” security, which they’re presently adding Ethereum support to. They didn’t ask for anything in return, and I assume they expected I’d give it a try and maybe tweet about it. Unfortunately, they…

Ethereum

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Defeating the Cobo Vault Pro’s Self-Destruct Mechanism
Defeating the Cobo Vault Pro’s Self-Destruct Mechanism
Ethereum

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Oct 30, 2020

A general-purpose bridge for Ethereum Layer 2s

With the proliferation of layer 2 solutions for Ethereum that are starting to reach maturity, it’s important that ENS is able to provide resolution services across the entire ecosystem, as well as making it possible for ENS users to take advantage of the efficiencies made possible by Layer 2 solutions…

Blockchain Layer 2

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A general-purpose bridge for Ethereum Layer 2s
A general-purpose bridge for Ethereum Layer 2s
Blockchain Layer 2

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May 20, 2019

Warning bulletin for users migrating ENS names owned by contracts

The ENS team has been made aware of an issue relating to the migration of ENS .eth domains to the new registrar, where those names are owned by a contract such as a multisig wallet. If the multisig wallet’s fallback function consumes more than the default ‘gas stipend’ of 2300…

Blockchain

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Blockchain

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May 5, 2019

Migrating your ENSNow domains to the new registrar

ENSNow is a DApp that lets users instantly register ENS subdomains with just a single click. Owners of second-level domains can ‘commit’ their domains to the system, which allows anyone to safely create a subdomain of their own, instantly. With the migration to the new .eth registrar, anyone owning an…

Ethereum

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Ethereum

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Apr 16, 2019

ENS Is Upgrading — Here’s What You Need to Do

TL;DR: If you own a .eth domain, you will need to visit manager.ens.domains between May 4, 2019 and May 4, 2020 to migrate your domain to the new registrar. When we launched ENS two years ago, it had only one top-level domain (TLD), .eth. We launched .eth with a registrar…

Ethereum

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ENS Is Upgrading — Here’s What You Need to Do
ENS Is Upgrading — Here’s What You Need to Do
Ethereum

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Feb 25, 2019

ENS Root Change Will Allow Easy Integration of More Than 1300 DNS TLDs

Last September, we launched support for the .xyz top-level-domain (TLD) on ENS. Support for .xyz uses a trustless integration based on DNSSEC, and our intention was for it to serve as a test in advance of rolling this integration out across all TLDs that have the necessary support. With DNSSEC…

Ethereum

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ENS Root Change Will Allow Easy Integration of More Than 1300 DNS TLDs
ENS Root Change Will Allow Easy Integration of More Than 1300 DNS TLDs
Ethereum

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Oct 2, 2018

Introducing .luxe on ENS

Minds & Machines, the owner of the .luxe TLD (top-level domain) recently announced that they will be opening registrations for .luxe with built-in integration with ENS. This is the culmination of a partnership between myself and Minds & Machines that we’ve been working on behind the scenes for nearly a…

Custom Domains

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Introducing .luxe on ENS
Introducing .luxe on ENS
Custom Domains

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Sep 5, 2018

Announcing support for .xyz on ENS

We’re delighted to announce that as of today, it’s possible to claim your .xyz domain name on ENS! We’ve been working on this feature for a while, and it’s been possible to test it on Ropsten, but as of today, .xyz names are now supported by ENS on mainnet! What does this mean? This…

Ethereum

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Ethereum

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Jun 27, 2018

ENS progress update, mid 2018

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) received a $1 million Ethereum Foundation (EF) grant in May. Since then, we’ve renewed our efforts to build an organisation able to solve the challenges required to develop a robust, trustworthy distributed naming system. …

Blockchain

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ENS progress update, mid 2018
ENS progress update, mid 2018
Blockchain

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