Ethereum Name Service

The ENS DAO has opened an on-chain vote to activate ENSv2 on Ethereum mainnet, ENS announced on X. The proposal bundles 15 execution items to be carried out in a single transaction by a DAO-controlled execution contract if approved.

• If passed, new ENS v1 registrations will stop, while existing names remain usable and renewable.
• ENSv2 lets domain owners set custom subname registration systems and split permissions granularly — e.g., changing a name's address without transferring ownership authority.
• Migrating existing names is optional and irreversible once done; new registrations will pause briefly during the transition, after which ENS Labs hands remaining administrative authority to the DAO.
• The vote ends at 5:32 a.m. UTC on Oct. 25; early votes ran near 100% approval but quorum had not yet been met.

Rollup infrastructure provider Caldera migrated its 9M+ subnames to Namespace, an ENS-based subname service, with zero downtime, Namespace announced on X. The post was amplified by the official ENS account. Namespace said it now powers offchain subname issuance and resolution for Caldera users.

• Namespace is an ENS subname service provider that issues and resolves subnames offchain at scale.
• The migration reportedly completed without any service interruption across Caldera's subname infrastructure.

Mt Pelerin's Bridge Wallet now warns users before they send funds to an ENS name that recently changed owner. The alert targets drop-catching, where someone registers an ENS name its previous owner forgot to renew, hoping to intercept payments meant for them.

• The warning appears when sending to an ENS domain whose ownership changed recently, regardless of network or asset.
• Bridge Wallet is Mt Pelerin's non-custodial wallet; the announcement was posted on X by @mtpelerin and amplified by ENS's account.

ENS Labs has completed the transfer of Durin.dev and all its associated assets, announced by Slobo and amplified by ens.eth. The transfer happened because Durin was left without an active maintainer after NameStone shut down earlier this year.

Durin is an open-source, opinionated approach to issuing ENS L2 subnames — with L1 resolvers, L2 registries storing subnames as ERC-721 NFTs, and registrars controlling minting — originally built by NameStone under an ENS DAO grant. Since launching in 2024, it has been used at every major ENS hackathon.

• Handed over with help from @gregskril and @Jefflau: the Durin.dev domain, the GitHub repo (now under the ensdomains org), associated infrastructure and smart contract ownership.
• The tool remains open source, and ENS Labs will continue maintaining it for L2 subname issuance.

At ETHGlobal Tokyo, ENS handed out $10K in prizes across six projects applying ENSv2 to access control, DeFi, collectibles and private messaging.

• Best Use of ENSv2: Relay ($3K) delegates API access across teams and AI agents via ENS-named identities; ENS Drive ($2K) lets teams manage entire branches of names; Tide ($1K) uses ENS names and records for liquidity strategies that cut arbitrage losses; Kura ($1K) attaches ENS names to physical trading cards holding condition and appraisal data, with share trading.
• Best Integration into an Existing Project: Radius ($2K) uses ENS subnames as credentials for network and API access tied to each person's role; Lortnoc Tahc ($1K) uses ENSv2 subnames to control who can read encrypted conversations hidden inside ordinary public posts.

Private payments wallet zk.money is back, relaunched on Aztec Network as a self-custodial wallet for private crypto payments. Users can claim ENS-powered tags like joe.zk.money — a human-readable way to send and receive funds without exposing financial history by default.

• Send USDC, USDT or DAI from any exchange or Ethereum wallet directly to a tag.
• The original zk.money launched in 2021, reaching 75,000+ unique wallets and $100M in volume.
• ENS powers the name resolution behind the wallet's tags, extending its naming layer into privacy-focused payments.

ENS Labs and GLEIF (the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation) are exploring how organizations can link their ENS name to a verifiable Legal Entity Identifier (vLEI), creating one persistent, verifiable identity onchain. GLEIF framed the need with a simple question in a post amplified by ENS — "0x7a3f… received the funds. Which legal entity is that?" — explaining that a signed link between an organization's ENS name and its vLEI would let counterparties and applications verify the legal entity behind an onchain address.

A vLEI is a decentralized, digitally signed credential that lets counterparties verify the identity, authority, and role of people acting on behalf of a legal entity. The exploration is aimed at giving organizations a single way to prove who they are both offchain and onchain via ENS.

ENS shared a walkthrough by @gregskril of enhanced protocol visibility in the ENS Explorer. Instead of abstracting away how ENS works, the tool now surfaces raw onchain data, registry relationships, and OwnedResolvers, letting users inspect the protocol in full — a complement to the Explorer's role as a deep-dive tool for name data onchain.

HL Names has launched .hl.hn, built with ENS, so that ENS can now resolve .hl names and supported apps and wallets can use them. The move extends the universal namespace HL Names is building for the Hyperliquid ecosystem, with ENS powering the underlying naming resolution.

ENS's account shared a walkthrough by @gregskril of the historical audit trail in the ENS Explorer, which now shows the full lifecycle of any ENS name — including ownership changes, transaction details and other historical events. The feature is aimed at letting users verify the provenance of a name with confidence before interacting with it.