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If you have spent any time at all on Crypto Twitter, you’ve surely come across a few profiles with .eth in their names. In case you don’t already know, that .eth name is an ENS domain.
ENS, or Ethereum Naming Service, is a naming service on Ethereum (duh) that links a name you choose to your crypto wallet address. And since an ENS name uses the ERC-721 token standard, it can be bought and sold just like any other NFT. Which is why many users are hoarding names they think will be very valuable one day so that they can sell them in the future for a decent profit. ENS is currently on of the more popular collections on OpenSea right now.
More than 17,000 ENS names have been sold in the last week, garnering around $6.9+ million in total volume. The ENS name 8888.eth sold for $45.5k a while ago and amazon.eth (not owned by Amazon) received a bid of $1 million, which was unaccepted by the seller.
It might not seem like it, but there are more use cases for ENS than just putting it on Twitter or collecting them to sell later. Here are all the cool ways in which you can put your .eth name to some actual use:
The primary use case of ENS is to replace those long, unmemorable crypto addresses with human-readable names. The benefits of this are readily apparent -- people no longer have to enter unwieldy alpha-numeric strings while sending crypto (which they then have to triple-check to avoid sending money to the wrong address).
Instead, they can simply enter a user’s .eth name, and the crypto will be sent to the wallet address linked to it. And it’s not only ETH than can be sent in this way. ENS also supports BTC, LTC and DOGE, so users can link wallet addresses that support any of these cryptocurrencies to their .eth name
For a long while, the only way to identify a web3 user was through their address on whichever wallet they use to connect to a dApp. But that is terrible for a variety of reasons. Just imagine what your life would be like if you couldn’t store contacts on your phone, or if you had to type out IP addresses in your browser instead of convenient website names like google.com. That’s kind of what the Ethereum web3 space was like until the arrival of ENS.
ENS not only provides a way to easily identify web3 users, but it also creates a single online identity for people which is accessible across a vast ecosystem of supporting dApps and services. This identity can contain a ENS user’s social media handles, NFT collections, and even links to their website.
In web2 social media, users have to create separate profiles for each platform, and their data is not only not accessible across these services. What you post on Twitter is not accessible on Facebook, and vice versa. And the worst part? You don’t even own your data. It all belongs to these platforms, which shamelessly earn profits from selling your data and showing you ads.
In web3, since all the data is decentralized and public, you don't need you don't need to build a different identity on every platform. And you own your data. Your .eth name acts as your web3 identity, which can be used and accessed across myriad dApps, wallets, browsers, and services. This makes it much easier for the average user to interact with the web3 space.
ENS allows you to create as many subdomains as you want for your .eth name and configure them individually. For example: if you own johndoe.eth, you can set up pay.johndoe.eth to receive payments and site.johndoe.eth to resolve to a website.
The control of these subdomains can be handed over to others while still retaining the domain name. This comes in handy if say a web3 company wants to issue all its employees their own .mycompany.eth subdomains.
ENS also enables you to open the registration and purchase of your subdomains to the public. Doing this will require you to hand over control of your .eth name to the ENS Subdomain Registrar contract, but it’s a useful tool if you don’t want to deal with the hassle of issuing subdomains to individuals all by yourself.
The internet of today, aka web2, works thanks to a combination of DNS (Domain Name System) and web servers. These web servers store website data linked to IP addresses. DNS makes it possible for internet users to access this data through the use of easily memorable domain names like google.com instead of long IP addresses.
So what separates a centralized website from a decentralized web site? Answer: Where and how the data is stored. The key premise of all this decentralization business is that no one entity can regulate access to publicly available data. In web2, a national government can easily prevent access to any website by instructing the ISP to disable it. But with web3, this can never be the case.
While today’s internet runs on centralized web servers (which are controlled by entities), web3 is built on decentralized file storage and sharing networks like IPFS and Swarm (which are p2p-based and hence not under anyone’s control). People can now create decentralized websites by linking ENS names to content on IPFS, which will be available regardless of the user’s geographical location.
web2 = DNS + (centralized) web servers
web3 = ENS + (decentralized) IPFS/Swarm
If you have a website and a ENS name right now, there’s another cool thing you can do: Make your .eth name resolve to a web2 site!
This process is fairly straightforward but not exactly simple. For a step-by-step guide, check out this Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/gweiclub/status/1547921469924990976
We at GweiClub are building a platform for people to build their web3 profiles, find other ENSers, and network with them. Follow us on twitter @gweiclub or join our Discord to stay up to date with our journey and contribute to our BUIDLing!
If you have spent any time at all on Crypto Twitter, you’ve surely come across a few profiles with .eth in their names. In case you don’t already know, that .eth name is an ENS domain.
ENS, or Ethereum Naming Service, is a naming service on Ethereum (duh) that links a name you choose to your crypto wallet address. And since an ENS name uses the ERC-721 token standard, it can be bought and sold just like any other NFT. Which is why many users are hoarding names they think will be very valuable one day so that they can sell them in the future for a decent profit. ENS is currently on of the more popular collections on OpenSea right now.
More than 17,000 ENS names have been sold in the last week, garnering around $6.9+ million in total volume. The ENS name 8888.eth sold for $45.5k a while ago and amazon.eth (not owned by Amazon) received a bid of $1 million, which was unaccepted by the seller.
It might not seem like it, but there are more use cases for ENS than just putting it on Twitter or collecting them to sell later. Here are all the cool ways in which you can put your .eth name to some actual use:
The primary use case of ENS is to replace those long, unmemorable crypto addresses with human-readable names. The benefits of this are readily apparent -- people no longer have to enter unwieldy alpha-numeric strings while sending crypto (which they then have to triple-check to avoid sending money to the wrong address).
Instead, they can simply enter a user’s .eth name, and the crypto will be sent to the wallet address linked to it. And it’s not only ETH than can be sent in this way. ENS also supports BTC, LTC and DOGE, so users can link wallet addresses that support any of these cryptocurrencies to their .eth name
For a long while, the only way to identify a web3 user was through their address on whichever wallet they use to connect to a dApp. But that is terrible for a variety of reasons. Just imagine what your life would be like if you couldn’t store contacts on your phone, or if you had to type out IP addresses in your browser instead of convenient website names like google.com. That’s kind of what the Ethereum web3 space was like until the arrival of ENS.
ENS not only provides a way to easily identify web3 users, but it also creates a single online identity for people which is accessible across a vast ecosystem of supporting dApps and services. This identity can contain a ENS user’s social media handles, NFT collections, and even links to their website.
In web2 social media, users have to create separate profiles for each platform, and their data is not only not accessible across these services. What you post on Twitter is not accessible on Facebook, and vice versa. And the worst part? You don’t even own your data. It all belongs to these platforms, which shamelessly earn profits from selling your data and showing you ads.
In web3, since all the data is decentralized and public, you don't need you don't need to build a different identity on every platform. And you own your data. Your .eth name acts as your web3 identity, which can be used and accessed across myriad dApps, wallets, browsers, and services. This makes it much easier for the average user to interact with the web3 space.
ENS allows you to create as many subdomains as you want for your .eth name and configure them individually. For example: if you own johndoe.eth, you can set up pay.johndoe.eth to receive payments and site.johndoe.eth to resolve to a website.
The control of these subdomains can be handed over to others while still retaining the domain name. This comes in handy if say a web3 company wants to issue all its employees their own .mycompany.eth subdomains.
ENS also enables you to open the registration and purchase of your subdomains to the public. Doing this will require you to hand over control of your .eth name to the ENS Subdomain Registrar contract, but it’s a useful tool if you don’t want to deal with the hassle of issuing subdomains to individuals all by yourself.
The internet of today, aka web2, works thanks to a combination of DNS (Domain Name System) and web servers. These web servers store website data linked to IP addresses. DNS makes it possible for internet users to access this data through the use of easily memorable domain names like google.com instead of long IP addresses.
So what separates a centralized website from a decentralized web site? Answer: Where and how the data is stored. The key premise of all this decentralization business is that no one entity can regulate access to publicly available data. In web2, a national government can easily prevent access to any website by instructing the ISP to disable it. But with web3, this can never be the case.
While today’s internet runs on centralized web servers (which are controlled by entities), web3 is built on decentralized file storage and sharing networks like IPFS and Swarm (which are p2p-based and hence not under anyone’s control). People can now create decentralized websites by linking ENS names to content on IPFS, which will be available regardless of the user’s geographical location.
web2 = DNS + (centralized) web servers
web3 = ENS + (decentralized) IPFS/Swarm
If you have a website and a ENS name right now, there’s another cool thing you can do: Make your .eth name resolve to a web2 site!
This process is fairly straightforward but not exactly simple. For a step-by-step guide, check out this Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/gweiclub/status/1547921469924990976
We at GweiClub are building a platform for people to build their web3 profiles, find other ENSers, and network with them. Follow us on twitter @gweiclub or join our Discord to stay up to date with our journey and contribute to our BUIDLing!
RoverXUI Design process for custom price alerts on RoverX apps
As RoverX gets ready to roll out the custom price alerts feature, we break down how our design and product teams developed and finalized its UI design from scratch. At RoverX, the development of UI design is a collaborative effort between our designers, product managers, and sometimes our front-end devs. Once our designers receive a brief from the PM, they come up with an initial UI and source feedback, then improve it over several iterations until the final design is agreed upon. With the re...
RoverXEthereum Civil War II: The PoW Fork is splitting the community (again)
Miners want to fork Ethereum post-merge and continue running the PoW chain. Everyone else thinks it’s a bad idea. At the turn of the 19th century, textile workers across England were pissed off. They had spent years learning the craft of weaving and had invested heavily in their workshops only for their livelihoods to be threatened by a new invention — machines. The advent of textile machinery meant that large factories could produce a far higher volume of textile goods with a fraction of the...
Multi-wallet portfolio tracking. Ultra-fast notifications. Custom price alerts. All on your phone! Twitter: twitter.com/roverx_io
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