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To Watch This Week
AIRDROPS + ALPHAMay 5, 2023
Long Reads
‘Role Is Mostly Symbolic’, Says ENS Director Candidate Ahead of Elections
With less than 24 hours until the polls closed, the ENS Foundation’s directorship is quite literally a neck-and-neck race. The only two candidates up for the role are Alex Van De Sande (also known as avsa.eth) and Seán Murray (also known as 3531.eth). Alex Van de Sande helped launch Ethereum, co-founded ENS, and was previously an advisor for the Ethereum Foundation. Currently, he is the Public Goods Steward for ENS. "I believe the role is mostly symbolic, as the goal of the foundation is to give...
Aug 27, 2022
Business
Balaji Srinivasan’s ‘Network State’ Could See Citizens Swap Passports for Ethereum Names
Swap blockchain technology with legacy census tools, and you start seeing the foundation for what Coinbase’s former CTO Balaji Srinivasan calls The Network State. During an event hosted by CoinDCX in Bengaluru on Friday, Srinivasan explained how an online community of individuals worldwide could eventually reach formal statehood. This Network State is a group from various countries acting as a single entity. The entity would also be built using blockchain technology with common objectives funde...
Aug 17, 2022
Technology
Ethereum Name Creation Doubles In Four Months to 2 Million
As the crypto world gears up for the Ethereum Merge next month, the number of Ethereum Name Service (ENS) addresses created has surged, surpassing 2 million yesterday, after crossing the 1.8 million mark two weeks ago. "2m ENS names created!" tweeted the ENS Domains account. "It took 5 years to get to 1m names, then 3.5 months to get to 2m names, and we're just getting started." 2m ENS names created!! 🎉 it took 5 years to get to 1m namesthen 3.5 months to get to 2m names and we're just getting...
Aug 11, 2022
Business
Curve ‘Strongly Suggests’ Domain Migration to Ethereum Name Service After $570K Frontend Hack
Curve Finance has more answers to this week’s $570,000 frontend attack. A recent report conducted with domain registrar company iwantmyname, the domain host for the decentralized exchange, indicated that Tuesday’s hack was a result of “DNS cache poisoning, not nameserver compromise.” On August 9, Curve notified users that it had suffered a frontend attack where the nameserver, curve.fi, was compromised, leading to $570,000 of Ethereum (ETH) being stolen from users. It reported that the platfor...