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Congrats to selected providers for SPP Season II—thanks goes to all who made it happen. From shaping the program to building the UI, submitting props, casting votes, and engaging deeply in the process. ENS is stronger because of your work. ⭐️. 🔗
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We're aware that is down. Unfortunately, the name is owned by Virgil Griffith, who is currently unavailable, and despite help from his lawyer, we've been unable to obtain access to his registrar account to renew the name so far.
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EP 3.5 passed with 2.6m votes in favour! 🎉. The proposal will be executed in just over 24 hours, upgrading the following contracts:.- NameWrapper.- ReverseRegistrar.- ETHRegistrarController.- PublicResolver.
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Should the ENS DAO sell 10,000 ETH into USDC?. Hear from @blockchainjames about his draft proposal for the ENS DAO to sell 10,000 ETH into USDC to secure 18-24 months of runway for the DAO. Set a reminder for our upcoming Space!.
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Congratulations to the recipients of the ENS Fellowship for this term:. @julieshi_eth / julieshi.eth.@hodl_pcc / hodl.pcc.eth.@lcfr_eth / lcfr.eth. Each fellow will receive a 20,000 USDC grant for their contributions to the ENS ecosystem. Learn more:
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The ENS DAO is looking for an NFT Artist! . We’re commissioning a generative art series that we can use for an alternate set of ENS avatar images. We’re looking for creativity and we’ve got a good bounty on the table for whoever delivers!. Check it out:
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the first recipient of the ENS Ecosystem Fellowship is. @gregskril / gregskril.eth. congrats greg! and thank you for your contributions to the ENS ecosystem 🫡.
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Vitalik.eth recently highlighted ENS as an alternative to traditional domain systems, advocating for the adoption of secure, private web technologies. Join the movement and make Ethereum Cypherpunk again by building your first dWeb site with our normie-friendly tutorial.
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The second @Galaxisxyz ENS NFT drop is nearly here!. To enter:. 1. Make sure your ENS name is in your Twitter handle. 2. Retweet this tweet with what you would offer the fey in return for one of their NFTs. The best 144 answers will win the Summer Knight NFT!.
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Our first ENS DAO Town Hall is today! . Hear from Stewards of the ENS DAO for updates on Meta-Governance, Ecosystem, Community and Public Goods. If you’re interested in @ensdomains, set a reminder for the Space!
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🔰 ENS 101: Import your Web2 domain into ENS. This often-overlooked feature allows users to import existing DNS names into ENS. Let's walk through this process together.
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Should the DAO release 1 and 2 character .eth names?. Join the conversation on the governance forum
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EP 3.3 has now been executed!. The ENS DAO successfully swapped 10k ETH for 16,226,542 USDC a few minutes ago. Funds are visible in wallet.ensdao.eth. Etherscan link:
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ENS DAO is celebrating its official one-year anniversary since genesis!. 📆 - Tues, Nov 8th @ 2:00 PM CST / 8:00 PM UTC.🎦 - Join the live stream via @ethStaker YouTube channel: There will be special guests, a painting party, and @poapxyz distribution!.
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Join us as we learn about the ENS DAO Working Groups and how you can get involved in 2023! . Set a reminder for our upcoming Space!
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If you operate a service that uses please direct users elsewhere immediately; we recommend which is a community driven alternative that has proven to be robust and reliable.
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wen Name Wrapper?. EP 3.5 proposes upgrades to ENS to add a new .eth controller that allows registering wrapped names directly. Voting is open until April 4th. If passed, the Name Wrapper will be live in 9 days! (7 days voting + 2 day timelock). Vote now.
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Nominations to appoint a new director of the ENS Foundation have now closed. Two nominees will be included on the ballot for election:.Sean Murray (@financeguy74).Alex Van de Sande (@avsa). The election opens at 9am UTC tomorrow, Monday, May 1 and closes at 9am UTC Friday, May.
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Election results are in! 🎉 .Working Groups Stewards for Q3/Q4 2023 are:. 🌱 ENS Ecosystem WG.slobo.eth.limes.eth.184.eth. 🏛️ Meta-Governance WG.nick.eth.5pence.eth.katherineykwu.eth. 🌳 Public Goods WG.coltron.eth.simona.eth.vegayp.eth. Congrats to the incoming Stewards!.
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Another month has arrived and it's time for another ENS DAO + @Galaxisxyz NFT drop for ecosystem participants!. The fae don't care much for friendship, but we do - retweet and explain why one of your followers deserves the NFT. If we pick you, both of you get one!.
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The Public Goods Working Group awarded @RevokeCash, a tool that helps users manage token approvals, 40k USDC for its utility, making it a key part of any crypto-native's toolkit. This article details the importance of managing token approvals. ✨. 🔗
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Remember to take advantage of these low gas fees! . Now is a great time to delegate votes, update your ENS records or extend your registrations.
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Attention, Delegates! 👥. There are currently two proposals onchain; here���s what you need to know about each:. • 5.28: Reimbursement Request to operate • 5.29: Funding Request to enable EVM-chain reverse resolution. 🔗 Vote now:
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ENS Identity Round concluded, distributing $125k USDC to projects. Congrats to the top 5:. • @onthisxyz.• @fluidkey.• @eth_limo.• @brianknowsai.• @webhash_eth. Thanks to @Gitcoin, @SpruceID, @ThankArbitrum for the support. 🙏. Full details here:
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brantly.eth (@BrantlyMillegan) has communicated that he would like to resign as a director of the ENS Foundation. A new director will be appointed by the ENS DAO following a nomination process and election. More info here 👇.
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Steward nominations are now open for ENS DAO working groups — metagov, ecosystem, public goods, & community. - each working group has 3 elected stewards.- nominations close on June 9, at 9am UTC.- the steward election starts June 10.
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Exciting News! The ENS DAO Public Goods Working Group is launching its third Large Grants round for Q3 2024! 🎉. With a prize pool of 300k USDC, this is a great opportunity for teams building onchain, open-source software and for those aiming to educate the community! 1/x 🧵
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📢 Announcing a $3.6M USDC funding stream for developers: The DAO has voted to earmark funds to a service provider pool dedicated to enhancing the ENS Ecosystem. Details on how to submit a proposal are soon to follow.
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At present the name will be released September 5. If the name expires and is acquired by someone with ill intent, the damage they could do via phishing is substantial - so please update your links and alert your users of the issue immediately.
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Happy Friday everyone!. It's been a busy week for ENS! Let's recap highlights and updates 🥳. We'll cover proposals, forum posts, and Spaces, so you can catch up on everything you need to know.
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ENS Small Grants is live! If you received an ENS Voter Card, go vote for your favorite projects over on
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set a reminder to join us for ENS Community Office Hours . @ensdomains .@ensecosystem .@ensdesigner .@ENS_DAO .
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The 10k Club minted out all the permutations of 000-9999.eth! 🔥. Shoutout to the @10kclub_ for building such a massive community in just 3 days! . Nice POAP. 👀 Thanks for coordinating with the @ENS_DAO on some of the finer details!.
devs did something. here are the new ENS poaps for all 999 and 10k genesis holders 👇👇. 999 POAP: 10k POAP: we like the numbers.
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Congratulations to the Public Goods scholarship recipients!!! . @dmihal .@_carletex_ .@hellenstans .@cookbook_dev .@albertocevalls .@lcfr_eth . Each Public Goods builder will receive $1k/month for the next 12 months, funded by the Public Goods Working Group 💸
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Steward elections for Q1/Q2 2022 are open!. Three stewards will be elected for each of the four working groups (Meta-Governance, ENS Ecosystem, Community, and Public Goods). Read more on the governance forum and vote on Snapshot (which is gasless).
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ENS Small Grants are back once again! Submit a proposal to have your project funded. 📤. Top-voted projects share a pool of 7.5 ETH. • Submission deadline: June 12.
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ENS DAO Newsletter — #47 (tl;dr) ❋.╰ ENS Stats, Repository Updates.╰ Small grants results, @frENSNFT_ stories.╰ Proposal to transfer the root key.╰ Ecosystem and Public Goods grantees.╰ EVMgateway, ENS DAO Archive.
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The ENS Ecosystem Working Group is happy to announce support of 50,000 USDC to open source software that is critical to @ensdomains through @dripsnetwork. Check out Drips’ guest post on the ENS blog below and come to our space later today to hear from the team!
Join us this Wednesday for ENS Radio!. Special guests: @BrianknowsAI and @dripsnetwork. This week’s space will be highlighting two projects in the ENS ecosystem focused on AI and software funding respectively
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📢 Introducing an open-source grants manager for any ecosystem!. Co-created with @BuidlGuidl to support the next wave of public goods and their builders. Join us in funding and empowering the future of open-source projects!.
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Small Grants are back! The Public Goods Working Group is distributing 7.5 ETH to eligible projects that benefit the Ethereum ecosystem. • Submissions: March 29th - April 4th.• Voting Period: April 5th - April 11th
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🔰 ENS 101: Setting a Primary Name for New Contracts. Let's review the prerequisites and process for setting a name for new contracts.
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🔔 Reminder: Only one day remains before the ballot for the ENS Small Grants round closes; cast your vote now!
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Vote now in the election to appoint a new director of the ENS Foundation! . The candidates are:.1. Sean Murray (@financeguy74); and.2. Alex Van de Sande (@avsa). Vote here Voting closes at 9am UTC on May 6
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The ENS DAO Small Grants are now LIVE for voting!. Visit the Small Grants page to cast your vote ➡ .
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The Public Goods small grants round is live!. This round distributes 1E to five different Public Goods projects. Applicable projects benefit the entire Ethereum or Web3 ecosystem. Submissions close in 4 days! ⏰.
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It's time for the ENS Ecosystem small grants round! 💸. 1 ETH will be distributed to 5 projects/builders 🦾. Submissions close in 2 days ⏱️. If you're building something ENS-centric to help grow the ecosystem, this is for you!.
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ENS DAO held our first Town Hall this week on Twitter Spaces, featuring Stewards from each of our four Working Groups - Ecosystem, Community, Public Goods, and Meta-Governance. Here is a summary of what was discussed. 🧵👇.
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Exciting news from ENS Labs—In the near future, users will be able to register their .eth names on a Layer 2 (L2) network. This update will significantly enhance accessibility by reducing transaction fees and increasing the throughput associated with the registration process.
Introducing ENSv2: The Next Generation of ENS 🎉🎉🎉. ENS Labs is excited to announce our proposal to extend the ENS protocol to a Layer 2 network. This move isn't just about migrating parts of the protocol; we're re-envisioning the architecture from the ground up!
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Applications are open for the ENS Ecosystem Small Grants round for June!. Proposal submissions are open for 4 more days ⏳. The top 7 proposals receive 0.7 ETH 💸. Apply now at
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Small Grants are back! Now accepting submissions for projects building ENS and the greater Ethereum ecosystem. 27 ETH will be awarded to top community-voted projects.
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Thrilling news! 27 ETH (~$50,000 USD) will be awarded to 20 projects advancing ENS and Web3 Public Goods. Congratulations to our Small Grants recipients! 🏅
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There is a draft executable proposal up in the governance forum to convert 10,000 ETH to USDC, put forward by @blockchainjames . Current balances of the ENS DAO are:.40,746 ETH.$2.46m USDC. Read the proposal here 👇.
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Ways to stay up-to-date and participate in DAO governance:. ╰ start with the ╰ learn how to ╰ read the ╰ join the ╰ turn on notifs
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📢 Nominations are now open to appoint a new director of the ENS Foundation!. Nomination window closes at 9am UTC April 30. If you would like to nominate yourself to be a director of the ENS Foundation, follow the steps here 👇.
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Final results are in for EP2.2.5 Selection of an ENS endowment fund manager. Karpatkey is the winner
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Nominations for Service Providers are now OPEN! ✨. ⤷ Dev teams building ENS are welcome. ⤷ Up to $1,000,000 per annum available. ⤷ 10k $ENS threshold required to participate. ⤷ Nomination window closes December 1st. ⤷ Good luck, have fun!
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Working Group election results are in! Congratulations to the Stewards for Q1/Q2 2023!. MetaGovernance.@nicksdjohnson.@Sim_Pop.@katherineykwu. ENS Ecosystem.@AlexSlobodnik.@EnlightenedLime.@yambo_eth. Public Goods.@avsa.@Coltron_eth.@vegaypatino. Thanks to the candidates & voters.
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The ENS DAO is sponsoring another 69k for the ENS Ecosystem Round during GR15!. Come chat with us about GR15 timeframes, submission tips, and have your questions answered on this Twitter space.
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The first ENS DAO Small Grants round went live yesterday! Proposal submissions are now open on The current round, Public Goods Round 1, will award 1E to the top five voted projects.
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New feature for Delegates! 🎉 Get email notifications for onchain ENS proposals:. • When a new proposal needs your vote. • When a vote is ending soon, and you haven't voted. Opt-in now at
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A monthly ENS Endowment dashboard is now available! . The @karpatkey team continue to improve transparency around the management of the Endowment. Check out the dashboard 👇.
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Want to stay up-to-date on active ENS DAO proposals?. Subscribe to our Telegram channel for notifications 🔔
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Submit your ENS Small Grant!. These small grants allow $ENS holders to vote on projects to easily receive 1Ξ of funding. Submissions close 9/23 at 6pm GMT. 👉
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ENS is a public good built on open standards. Mint a free subname at to signal your support for open innovation! ✨
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Congratulations to the ten winners of the September ENS Small Grants rounds!. We received over 60 project submissions this month. The winners will each receive 1E based on the community's vote. See the full results on our forum:.
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🔰 ENS 101: Name Architecture. Let's review the structure and significance of ENS Names, using `wallet.ensdao.eth` as our example.
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When it previously expired, some quick action by @stuntpope resulted in GoDaddy renewing it for a year - but suddenly and without notice they seem to have changed their mind and are now claiming it's expired in a statement they published today:
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🟩 Calling $ENS Delegates 🟩. Voting is now open to elect Working Group Stewards for the Q3/Q4 2023 Term!. Working Group Steward elections are open for 5 days, from June 10 - June 15 (closing at 9am UTC). 🗳️ Vote on Snapshot now 👇.
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Press. • @futurealisha featured in @Forbes article talking about ENS — Ethereum's 8th anniversary: Ecosystem Leaders Share Insights. • @KhoriWhittaker advocates for decentralized identities with human-readable names (ENS) to ensure a human-friendly Web3 and prevent a "bot zoo."
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ENS DAO onchain voters just got ETH back!. If you've voted on an Executable Prop. for the ENS DAO since Nov 2021, your gas costs just got reimbursed thanks to an initiative funded by the MetaGov Working Group using + by @gregskril.
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Introducing: Public Goods Builder Grants 🛠️. • What is it?.• Who is it for?.• How do you get started?. Here’s everything you need to know 👇
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🗽 NYC event announcement!. Join us June 24th from 8-11pm in NYC for an evening with frENS. Open to $ENS holders now! General RSVP opens on June 20th for anyone with an ENS Name. Details are below! ⤵️.Official RSVP link:
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Onchain voting for EP9 is now live onchain!. This proposal replaces the price oracle with one that uses an exponential decay for expired names - meaning their premium will start at $100M and halve daily for 21 days until it reaches zero.
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Excellent overview of how protocol fees generated from .eth registrations support ongoing ENS core development and public good projects like @ProtocolGuild.
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We're giving away two ENS constitution books at our DAO meet-up tonight from 8-11pm. If you missed out on acquiring a piece of ENS history during the auction, this is your chance! Winners must be present. RSVP: 👀@ensdomains @ValidatorEth @nicksdjohnson
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Join us for another Community Office hours!. We’ll discuss @ENS_DAO news, highlight community member accomplishments, recent ecosystem projects, and any DAO-related topics. Hosted by Community Stewards, @EnlightenedLime and @Coltron_eth.
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We've teamed up with @ETHGlobal to empower nearly 100k hackers, who can now claim their ENS names for free. ✨. Starting today, any hacker from this year can mint their web3 username and go onchain. Details below. 👇
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