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If you read content online you’ve probably at least heard of publishing services like Medium and Substack. These are centralized, web2 companies that make money with views; subscriptions, ads, etc. Thankfully, as we transition into the web3 space we are already seeing some promising alternatives. The largest of these web3 publishers is Mirror. The beauty of protocols like Mirror is that they don’t own any of the data. They still have a login, a clean text editor, and shareable links just like...
The Indexing CompanyDevcon VI and the State of EVM Data
By all measures, Devcon VI was a huge success. Over 6000 participants from around the world met in Bogota, Colombia to build, network, and celebrate together in the official Ethereum conference. This is coming about a month after The Merge in which Ethereum switched from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS). That transition worked far better than any could have hoped and has lead to ETH even being deflationary at times 🔥https://ultrasound.money/So what’s next for Ethereum and its ecos...
The Indexing CompanyAccessing Data 3.0: Indexing 101
This is an entry in our long running series, “Accessing Data 3.0”, where we talk about the “whats” and the “hows” of working with data in web3. Enjoy! Remember libraries? The walls of books and the fearless librarians somehow always knowing exactly where everything is. Well, two things: 1) libraries still exist, 2) those libraries are each indexed. Librarians around the world categorize all of the books under their purview into what are known as a “library catalogs”. These catalogs serve as a...
Paving the road to Data 3.0 one index at a time
The Indexing CompanyIndexing Mirror.xyz
If you read content online you’ve probably at least heard of publishing services like Medium and Substack. These are centralized, web2 companies that make money with views; subscriptions, ads, etc. Thankfully, as we transition into the web3 space we are already seeing some promising alternatives. The largest of these web3 publishers is Mirror. The beauty of protocols like Mirror is that they don’t own any of the data. They still have a login, a clean text editor, and shareable links just like...
The Indexing CompanyDevcon VI and the State of EVM Data
By all measures, Devcon VI was a huge success. Over 6000 participants from around the world met in Bogota, Colombia to build, network, and celebrate together in the official Ethereum conference. This is coming about a month after The Merge in which Ethereum switched from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS). That transition worked far better than any could have hoped and has lead to ETH even being deflationary at times 🔥https://ultrasound.money/So what’s next for Ethereum and its ecos...
The Indexing CompanyAccessing Data 3.0: Indexing 101
This is an entry in our long running series, “Accessing Data 3.0”, where we talk about the “whats” and the “hows” of working with data in web3. Enjoy! Remember libraries? The walls of books and the fearless librarians somehow always knowing exactly where everything is. Well, two things: 1) libraries still exist, 2) those libraries are each indexed. Librarians around the world categorize all of the books under their purview into what are known as a “library catalogs”. These catalogs serve as a...
Paving the road to Data 3.0 one index at a time
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We’ve talked previously about Ethereum Name Service and how to get started with your own ENS name (original post here). In that post we touched very briefly on the concept of text records and being able to tie information beyond a wallet address to your ENS name. By adding data points like email addresses, avatars, Twitter addresses, etc to an ENS name, we can effectively start crafting what we’ll call an “ENS Profile”.
Because these profiles are stored on-chain, they’re publicly accessible yet fully controlled by you, the owner. We could compare this to Facebook or Twitter profiles, but without the ads, centralized control, and authentication requirements that these platforms require in service of their bottom line. In short, the potential power of ENS Profiles is enormous.
One thing that’s been missing though is the ability to search these profiles. Sure, tools like ens.domains and ens.vision exist, but these are focused on managing and purchasing ENS names, respectively. Neither service is intended to help ENS users communicate with one another or use the power of a “profile”.
Meanwhile, we’ve been working hard at The Indexing Company to build out our Indexing as a Service infrastructure. Recognizing the recent adoption of ENS and being long-time supporters ourselves, we decided to tune our indexing service towards ENS. As a result, we’re happy to introduce What’s My Name Again? 🎉
This is a freely available service to search both ENS names and entire ENS Profiles. Some examples:
(hint: searches not starting with a wildcard, *, are much faster!)
Give it a whirl and let us know what you think!
We’ve talked previously about Ethereum Name Service and how to get started with your own ENS name (original post here). In that post we touched very briefly on the concept of text records and being able to tie information beyond a wallet address to your ENS name. By adding data points like email addresses, avatars, Twitter addresses, etc to an ENS name, we can effectively start crafting what we’ll call an “ENS Profile”.
Because these profiles are stored on-chain, they’re publicly accessible yet fully controlled by you, the owner. We could compare this to Facebook or Twitter profiles, but without the ads, centralized control, and authentication requirements that these platforms require in service of their bottom line. In short, the potential power of ENS Profiles is enormous.
One thing that’s been missing though is the ability to search these profiles. Sure, tools like ens.domains and ens.vision exist, but these are focused on managing and purchasing ENS names, respectively. Neither service is intended to help ENS users communicate with one another or use the power of a “profile”.
Meanwhile, we’ve been working hard at The Indexing Company to build out our Indexing as a Service infrastructure. Recognizing the recent adoption of ENS and being long-time supporters ourselves, we decided to tune our indexing service towards ENS. As a result, we’re happy to introduce What’s My Name Again? 🎉
This is a freely available service to search both ENS names and entire ENS Profiles. Some examples:
(hint: searches not starting with a wildcard, *, are much faster!)
Give it a whirl and let us know what you think!
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