Ethereum Name ServiceENS launches Immunefi audit competition
ENS has opened an audit competition with Immunefi, inviting security researchers to review the new ENS App, ENS Explorer, and supporting infrastructure through September 14, with a maximum reward pool of $70,000. The competition was first announced for August 18 as security testing expands ahead of mainnet.
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- The ENS Audit Competition with @immunefi is now live. Security researchers have until September 14 to review the new ENS App, ENS Explorer, and supporting infrastructure, with a maximum reward pool of $70,000. More details: https://t.co/fKNcDpLpIO https://t.co/4fDix3NGBMx.com ↗
- Security testing is expanding too. An ENS audit competition with @immunefi is scheduled to open August 18, bringing more security researchers into the testing process ahead of mainnet. More details will follow when the competition opens. https://t.co/kJ6a4PJde5 Replying to their earlier post: The ENS App has come a long way. Beta brings upgrades, renewals, profile themes, flexible expiry dates, primary-name shortcuts, notifications, faster search, and simpler record management into a much…x.com ↗
Ethereum Name Service
The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on the Ethereum blockchain.
ENS’s job is to map human-readable names like ‘alice.eth’ to machine-readable identifiers such as Ethereum addresses, other cryptocurrency addresses, content hashes, and metadata. ENS also supports ‘reverse resolution’, making it possible to associate metadata such as canonical names or interface descriptions with Ethereum addresses.
ENS has similar goals to DNS, the Internet’s Domain Name Service, but has significantly different architecture due to the capabilities and constraints provided by the Ethereum blockchain. Like DNS, ENS operates on a system of dot-separated hierarchical names called domains, with the owner of a domain having full control over subdomains.
Top-level domains, like ‘.eth’ and ‘.test’, are owned by smart contracts called registrars, which specify rules governing the allocation of their subdomains. Anyone may, by following the rules imposed by these registrar contracts, obtain ownership of a domain for their own use. ENS also supports importing in DNS names already owned by the user for use on ENS.
