ENS (Ethereum Name Service)
The Ethereum Name Service maps human-readable names like alice.eth to wallet addresses and records, managed entirely by on-chain smart contracts.
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ENS (Ethereum Name Service) is a decentralized naming system that maps human-readable names (like vitalik.eth) to Ethereum addresses, content hashes, and other resources. ENS names live entirely on-chain and are managed by smart contracts on Ethereum. They are not part of the traditional DNS and do not resolve in standard browsers without a resolver gateway or browser extension. Official site: ens.domains.
Related keywords
- ENS
- Ethereum Name Service
- .eth
- web3 name
- on-chain naming
- wallet alias
- crypto identity
Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.
His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.
For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.