Ethereum Name Service

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.

The ENS Foundation's Board has formally appointed Aurbelis as its Executive Director, after nearly three years as General Counsel of ENS Labs. The appointment was announced via ENS's official X account.

At ETHOnline by @ETHGlobal, ENS awarded five prizes to projects built on ENSv2 across AI agents, inheritance, tokenized assets and more.

• Herit took 1st for Best Use of ENSv2, using ENSv2 subnames as heir slots for onchain inheritance, with Enhanced Access Controls and liveness checks deciding when assets can be unlocked and claimed.
• Batas took 2nd, turning an ENSv2 subname into a binding kill switch for autonomous trading agents — expiring, revocable and soulbound, so owners can stop agent authority onchain.
• Verdict.eth took 3rd, using ENSv2 to build machine-readable profiles for tokenized real-world assets with scoped permissions for auditor and monitor agents.
• Capsule took 4th, a no-code launchpad for AI agents with an ENSv2 identity, onchain configuration and an owner-controlled off switch.
• SoulVault won Best Continuity Integration, adding ENSv2 org registries, agent and swarm subnames, and scoped permissions to enable delegated access, name retirement and successor registration.

ENS highlighted an integration with Aragon where every Aragon profile comes with a custom .eth name, letting users attach a readable name to the addresses of signers, operators, voters and other roles in a DAO. The announcement frames ENS as the naming layer that makes onchain identities more legible within Aragon's governance products.

ENS published an explainer on how ENSv2 makes the hierarchy of names explicit onchain. Instead of every name living in one flat registry, each name can define its own registry, resolver, and rules for the namespace below it. The post points to more detail on the ENSv2 architecture as the revamped naming layer moves toward mainnet.

ENS's X account shared Aave's announcement that AI tools and agents can now interact with Aave through its official MCP server, which can be connected to Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP-compatible assistant. The retweet signals support for standards that let AI agents act onchain.

The ENS team shared a walkthrough by @gregskril of the new proactive notifications in the ENS App, letting users track expiry dates, catch renewal reminders, and renew a name before it lapses. The feature addresses a long-requested pain point for name holders and is part of the revamped ENS App being built around the ENSv2 registry.