what's ethereum name service?
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a decentralized naming system built on Ethereum that replaces complex blockchain addresses with human-readable names like john.eth. The service enables users to send cryptocurrency using simple names instead of long hexadecimal strings, making transactions feel more like texting a friend.
ENS now integrates with Etherscan, displaying names/avatars on account pages via a new "Cards" tab.
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Integrated with Etherscan to display ENS names and avatars on account pages under a new "Cards" tab.
Facilitated 99.35 ETH (approximately $205,000) to the ENS DAO for registrations and extensions in Q1 2026 through Grails marketplace.
Facilitated more extension events than the ENS App on a regular basis through Grails marketplace as of Q1 2026.
Reached 83 total integrations for Ethereum Follow Protocol as of Q1 2026, adding 7 new integrations during the quarter.
Sponsors ETHGlobal Cannes on April 5, 2026, awarding $10,000 in prizes to seven projects, including categories for AI Agents and Creative Use.
Running a giveaway campaign through April 2026 where users who extend or register ENS names via the Grails app can win merchandise, with 5 winners to be selected in May 2026.
Collaborates with Filecoin and SafePal on a multi-party approval system for critical infrastructure, separating naming, governance, and storage functions to ensure verifiable and accessible frontends.
Awarded a prize at the ETHMumbai hackathon to team Cracked Devs for cBaseMarket, a prediction market project.
Adds Aave GHO and Fluid FLUID trading permissions via CoWSwap to the DAO treasury management system.
Token holders vote on DAO's 8th endowment permissions update, with 488,000 ENS tokens voted 100% in favor; concludes March 25, 2026, with 5 days remaining.
Participates as one of over 25 partners in the Synthesis ethereum ecosystem agentic hackathon, providing an AI agent judge, with submissions closing 2026-03-22. 90-100 teams out of 685 projects built with ENS.
Partnered with Status, syncing Ethereum Follow Protocol's on-chain follow network and displaying ENS names and profiles.
Integrated with PayPal to enable PYUSD wallet users to use ENS domains for cross-border transfers across 70+ markets.
Binance Futures auto-settled and delisted ENS perpetual futures on 2026-03-17 to 2026-03-18; Coinbase Advanced and International Exchange will suspend ENS perpetual futures trading on 2026-04-21.
Launched bounty program with $1,500 total in prizes across three categories for building agent and product integrations using ENS names.
Uses Tally for governance; Tally shuts down, having served over 500 DAOs.
Classified as a "Digital Tool" by SEC and CFTC, distinct from securities, on March 17, 2026.
Listed among 20+ treasuries on Octav's new Treasury page platform for public treasury tracking and transparency.
ENS domain celiz.eth sold for 66.00 ETH on March 10, 2026.
Released ENSIP-25 demo app for verifying ENS names with on-chain AI agents via ERC-8004, confirming identity.
Added support for USDC and USDT for bids and sales on ENSMarketBot marketplace feature.
Added nine new name categories to Grails marketplace, including .agent domains; Brave, Virtuals, and Rekt registered .agent domains.
Overhauled EFP Indexer database and efpv2 API on Grails marketplace in Q1 2026, improving speed and reliability.
Uses ERC-721 tokens to represent domain ownership and enable transferability of domain names.
Integrated OpenSea offers and listings, added Sign-In With Ethereum (SIWE), Vision Notifications, and Telegram integration from February 25, 2026, and released Typescript library for SIWE in Q1 2026.
Updated ENSv2 App and Explorer on Sepolia testnet with Alpha Log #5, removing deprecated SPK permissions and retiring Roles V1 for V2 in treasury management.
Grails market added creation date display and sorting functionality for ENS names across all name lists and search results.
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.
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.
Launched on.eth, a 2-character .ETH name through ENS DAO, as a canonical chain registry and interoperability feature enabling L2s to register onchain addresses.
ENS domain ohmycrypto.eth sold for 47.20 ETH, marking the top NFT sale on February 10, 2026.
Integrated Snapshot for gasless onchain voting in Governor spaces via an open sponsor account that anyone can fund, using OpenZeppelin Governor, live as of 2026-03-19.
Received funding from ENS DAO for Ethereum Follow Protocol development
A domain name (buy.eth) was registered for 15.51 ETH on the Ethereum Name Service.
Fixed 1,700 wrapped names with a registration-expiration mismatch by extending them one day, resolving errors preventing buying or selling, in Q1 2026.
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.
Launched Public Profiles with comprehensive profile pages, adding profile activity tracking showing last seen time on platform and last transaction on Ethereum. Released new profile features on Grails marketplace including Google metrics sharing, bio tagging, and activity tracking metrics (last renewed, last transfer in).
DAO votes down governance restructuring proposal that would have replaced working groups with a smaller admin panel, maintaining current organizational structure.
Deployed ENSv2 contracts for Universal Resolver, CCIP-Read, and L2 name resolution, aiming for $0.50 mainnet domain registration gas costs. Launched DNS integration on mainnet March 11, 2026, with DNS twins via Doma, and expanded to .ens TLD within ICANN March 18, 2026.
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.
Namechain moves to Nethermind's Surge, a based rollup framework built on the Taiko stack, for censorship resistance, fast finality, and Ethereum-native settlement.
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.
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.