Uses ERC-721 tokens to represent domain ownership and enable transferability of domain names.

Integrated OpenSea offers and listings into Vision Marketplace, displaying current listings (no historical prices) from February 25, 2026 onward.

Launched ENS Explorer Alpha on Sepolia testnet, providing complete onchain records of ENS names including ownership changes, roles, resolver updates, subnames, and full history.

Grails market expanded ENS name categorization with 14 new categories including Space, Poker, Home, Fine Arts, Performing Arts, Sports, Logistics, Luxury, Military, Tech Industry, Philosophy, Holy Bible, Medicine, and Chess.

Grails market added creation date display and sorting functionality for ENS names across all name lists and search results.

integrated into Starkbot Version 0.5.60 as one of the newly added skills alongside Aave, Polymarket, and Linear

Issued 25,000 subnames for ETHDenver attendee ticketing, with each subname functioning as an onchain account and resolving as a website.

Remains on Layer 1 Ethereum rather than moving to a Layer 2 solution.

Registers the first ever 2-character .ETH name "on.eth" through the ENS DAO to serve as a canonical chain registry.

ENS domain ohmycrypto.eth sold for 47.20 ETH, marking the top NFT sale on February 10, 2026.

Received funding from ENS DAO for Ethereum Follow Protocol development

Integrated with Ethereum Follow Protocol across 76 applications including POAP, Snapshot, Superfluid, and Tally.

A domain name (buy.eth) was registered for 15.51 ETH on the Ethereum Name Service.

Fixed a registration-expiration mismatch affecting 1,700 wrapped names by extending each affected name for one day, resolving errors that prevented users from buying or selling these names.

Content uploaded to ENS is now mirrored by WNS and accessible via *.eth.wei.limo domains.

Integrated with Paragraph to power writer profiles and Farcaster casts support.

Grails market deployed ENS records editing tool with image upload for avatars and headers, including delete functionality, on February 1, 2026.

Nick Johnson participated in a live AMA session on January 21, 2026 at approximately 15:16 UTC discussing DNS, ENS, outages, and infrastructure risk hosted by RektHQ.

Integrated with Uniswap's upgraded portfolio view, enabling users to paste ENS names (like uni.eth or any .eth) to track onchain activity without wallet connections.

Supports ERC-8004 for trustless AI agent interactions on Ethereum, enabling decentralized discovery and identity features.

ENS data is now available on Google Cloud BigQuery as a community dataset for researchers, developers, and data teams to query with SQL.

Proposed a system that integrates IBAN resolvers with ENS domains to enable seamless transfers between traditional IBAN bank accounts and Ethereum wallets through verifiable virtual IBANs (vIBANs) and a hierarchical resolver architecture.

Introduced AI Search for natural language queries; Grails market added AI-powered name recommendation (GrailsAI).

Collaborated with Nouns DAO in a partnership or integration.

Mentioned by Vitalik Buterin as one of the projects he has been closely following for DAO evolution on Ethereum.

Delisted from whatexchange on December 24, 2025 at 08:00 UTC.

Launching mainnet in late 2025.

Launches Public Profiles, providing comprehensive profile pages that aggregate ENS user presence information, adding profile activity tracking showing last seen time on platform and last transaction on Ethereum for ENS names.

DAO votes down governance restructuring proposal that would have replaced working groups with a smaller admin panel, maintaining current organizational structure.

Deploys ENSv2 contracts with two new apps, begins readiness phase with Universal Resolver requirement for CCIP-Read and L2 name resolution compatibility.

Analysis reveals ENS proxies, upgrade admins, and registrars are owned by one wallet address.

ENS DAO passes proposal launching ENS Contract Naming Season, a new community initiative to bring names, identity, and trust to smart contracts across Ethereum.

New claim management feature launches for bulk ENS operations, currently requiring multiple transactions with single-transaction capability in development.

ENS DAO streams $5.4M in payments to 9 development teams using continuous payment mechanism instead of traditional lump sum grants.

ENS presents at EFDevcon Buenos Aires, showcasing expansion into L2 identities, agents, and decentralized websites as core infrastructure for Ethereum's next phase.

Released new platform features including auto-generated shareable images, bulk listing/cancellation tools, profile card hover with ENS domains integration, and integrated native ENS record and role editing functionality. Launched Google search metrics (monthly searches, yearly average, cost-per-click) for ENS names.

Blockful, which supports security and services for ENS DAO, joins PokemonENS DAO community.

A bulk renewal tool adds new filtering capability allowing users to select ENS names by character length (5, 4, or 3 characters) before renewing.

A whale buys $141K worth of ENS tokens (12,665 tokens) as part of $13.9M purchase across 10 assets during market dip.

A community member reports a phishing scam where an attacker using the ENS name "Sachi.eth" posed as a podcast interviewer and attempted to trick victims into downloading suspicious software, blocking them after they declined.

Grailsmarket runs a December 2025 promotion offering three $1,000 USDC prizes to users who extend or register ENS names through their app, with winners selected in January 2026 and entries awarded per year of registration added.

Expiry Explorer launches as a tool to track the three phases of expiring ENS domains. A new governance proposal called ENS Admin Panel is under community discussion.

A new governance proposal titled "ENS Retro: An ENS DAO Retrospective & Stakeholder Analysis" has been posted to the DAO.

NamehashLabs launches ENSawards, a referral leaderboard feature for the December referral program, with Vitalik Buterin participating.

Launched Fusaka hard fork with EIP-7951, adding biometric authentication via secp256r1 signatures and reducing verification gas costs by 96% from 100k+ to ~3,400 gas. Enabled lower costs and higher throughput on Ethereum L1 for ENS execution.

ENS launches a December referral program for domain registrations and renewals with rotkiapp as a participating partner.

WebHash announces Web3 permanent websites for Celo ENS domain holders powered by NameSpace.

Integrates Filecoin Onchain Cloud and Safe multisig for ENS content hash updates, enabling GitHub commits to trigger Safe transactions with multisig approval, securing DeFi front ends with cryptographic proof and multi-party signatures.

The Devconnect conference app integrates ENS to allow attendees to claim worldfair.eth subdomains at the event.

Investigation confirms zero downloads of the compromised NPM packages, identifies the malware source as Shai Hulud in a PostHog dependency unrelated to core code, and implements strengthened repository and deployment procedures to prevent future supply chain attacks.

The team updates all latest tags, proceeds with key rotations, and unpublishes impacted versions following the NPM supply-chain attack; current reviews show no signs of impact to ENS Labs-operated websites or domain names.

Over 400 NPM packages including key ENS and crypto libraries are hit by a worm-style attack stealing developer credentials and wallet keys.

ENS becomes Early Bird Sponsor for ETHDenver 2026 conference.

Launched ENS App Alpha on Sepolia testnet with email, Telegram, browser notification features, and a streamlined registration flow.

ENS uses Immunefi's security network services alongside other major protocols like Chainlink, Optimism, Avalanche, and others. ZK Email holds office hours at the ENS booth.

Arabic digits functionality has been restored for ENS domain names.

Filecoin Onchain Cloud officially launches with ENS as an early integration partner, offering 25 exabytes of decentralized storage capacity with mainnet deployment planned for 2026.

ENS tests Filecoin Onchain Cloud infrastructure alongside Safe, Monad, and Agent0. Namehash discusses ENS Referral Awards program and ENSNode indexing during office hours at ENS booth.

DevRel team promotes ENSv2 at conference booth, encouraging developers to check app readiness for the protocol update and offering POAPs.

Deployed ENSv2 to Ethereum mainnet, canceled Namechain L2 following a 99%+ drop in registration gas costs due to Ethereum's gas fee reduction and Fusaka upgrade increasing gas limit to 60 million.

Namechain moves to Nethermind's Surge, a based rollup framework built on the Taiko stack, for censorship resistance, fast finality, and Ethereum-native settlement.

Grails ENS marketplace launches on mainnet with 0% trading fees, OpenSea market aggregation, bulk renewal tools, and open source code release.

Snowball emerges as ENS competitor offering LayerZero-powered cross-chain identity resolution and AI-based reputation engine, with goal of 1M+ live identities by 2026 across EVM, Solana, and NEAR chains.

ENS hosts booth at EFDevcon this week with office hours featuring live presentations, Q&A sessions, and discussions led by teams building and integrating with the protocol.

The Devconnect App goes live with ENS integrated as one of the infrastructure providers powering the event application for venue navigation, ticket storage, payment functionality, and quest completion.

MetaMask adds multichain ENS resolution support for Solana addresses.

ENS token experiences oracle lag exploitation during 10/10 crash, with one user profiting over 17 WETH from price discrepancy between Chainlink oracle and Uniswap pools.

Celonames launches on Celo blockchain powered by ENS in partnership with Namespace and Self, offering human-readable names for less than a penny with proof-of-personhood verification.

ENS announces preparation for ICANN's April 2026 gTLD expansion program, focusing on brand protection and registry partnerships to extend ENS functionality to traditional Internet domains.

ENS joins 170+ early access members of Immunefi Magnus Security OS platform, which protects more than $81B in assets across protocols including Chainlink, Optimism, Avalanche, Lido, Polygon, and Aave.

Contract Naming Season initiative launches with Enscribe team leadership and official ENS_DAO support to enable smart contract naming for developers and projects.

ENS naming integration for SUP reserves goes live, enabling reserve contracts to use human-readable addresses instead of contract hashes. (ID: 1986796104395133086)

ENS will have a booth at Devconnect in Buenos Aires in 10 days at the Ethereum World's Fair Social District, featuring exclusive merch, subnames, and user testing opportunities.

Doma Protocol integration enables tokenized DNS domains (.com, .ai, .xyz, etc.) to function as ENS names on testnet.

Shilling activity for Polygon .pol domains occurs in chat groups. (ID: 1985092594607796363)

ENS App adds header image customization feature with gasless updates when using the Upload Image option for both headers and avatars.

The Fluidkey app goes live with ENS integration for enhanced privacy features.

ENS integrates with D3 to enable 364M+ traditional Web2 domains to become onchain assets on Ethereum.

ENS announces two new products today: ENS App for seamless name registration and identity management targeting everyday users, and ENS Explorer for advanced ownership capabilities and controls designed for ecosystem builders.

ENS protocol participants will receive priority allocations in MegaETH's $MEGA token public sale running October 27-30.

ENS launches integration with Hey platform, enabling users to mint custom ENS names directly on Hey.

MegaETH has acquired a collection of ENS domain names.

A complete enterprise management system launches soon, featuring contract name assignment with metadata, domain portfolio management, security monitoring with fuse controls, multi-wallet management, and hierarchical subdomain creation with name wrapper enforcement.

Contract Naming Season proposal goes live from ENS DAO, targeting smart contract and protocol level adoption to make contracts human-readable. ENS day at Devconnect in Buenos Aires marks the 10-year anniversary of the original ERC proposal for a default name registrar.

SUP integrates with ENS and will give ENS subnames to everyone with a SUP reserve.

Pro users can now mint free ENS domain names.

CoW Swap remains operational using ENS/IPFS infrastructure during simultaneous outages of AWS, Vercel, and Infura, demonstrating decentralized infrastructure resilience in practice.

A contributor announces continued commitment to ENS and devotion of all energy to building Ethereum identity through @ensdomains, @efp, and @signinethereum.

Base registers 900K+ Basenames and commits fully to ENS for powering identity across apps and platforms.

$ENS ranks among the top coins with the highest percentage increases in $100K+ transfers, showing elevated whale activity.

ENS domains develops namechain, an upcoming Layer 2 rollup dedicated to on-chain naming and identity primitives as part of the new wave of Ethereum-native sequencing rollups.

While KYC requirements may be coming for domain names, ENS states it will not implement KYC, reinforcing its commitment to decentralization and privacy.

24-hour trade volume for domains on OpenSea drops to only 0.27 ETH, indicating extremely low marketplace activity.

ENS community votes to help eth_limo following co-founder subpoena in Tornado case, showing active governance engagement in regulatory matters affecting open internet infrastructure.

NFTotem platform partners with ENS domains, offering new block functionality for ENS address holders.

Domain renewal costs reach $600, suggesting significant fee barriers for users.

Fileverse integrates ENS domains into their v0.2 collaboration platform for identity verification, allowing users to prove identity via ENS when joining collaborative sessions.

Major linear token unlocks exceeding $1 million per day are scheduled for the next 7 days.

200,000 ENS tokens worth $4.46 million transferred from timelock contract to Binance and Galaxy Digital within 2 hours.

FBI harassed ENS community members and forced testimony in Roman Storm prosecution, with the DAO covering 100% of legal expenses amid costly proceedings.