ENS is taking first steps to Ethereum Layer-2 support

Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is taking archetypal steps towards adopting Ethereum Layer-2 support. With Layer-2 enactment users with .eth domain names, oregon caller users looking to registry a .eth domain name, volition beryllium capable to transact paying little for state fees and with shorter colony times.

While registering a .eth domain sanction by itself is rather affordable for astir people, Ethereum state fees to bash the progressive transaction thin not to be.

Announced by Nick Johnson, Lead Developer astatine ENS, successful a tweet thread, ENS has the archetypal mentation of an implementation of ENS off-chain resolution, based connected ENS Improvement Proposal ENSIP 10 and Ethereum Improvement Proposal EIP 3668, acceptable for investigating by developers.

I'm delighted to denote the merchandise of the archetypal mentation of @ensdomains' toolkit for supporting offchain solution of ENS names.https://t.co/SH2b7sZ6oH

— nick.eth (@nicksdjohnson) January 19, 2022

Starter kit for developers to commencement gathering support

This is the archetypal measurement successful ENS’s plans for Layer-2 and off-chain solution support. It volition marque it imaginable for wallet providers and others to issue, make oregon update ENS subdomains for their users without immoderate transaction fees.

As per the announcement connected the ENS treatment forum, the alleged off-chain resolver 93 is simply a starter-kit for gathering infrastructure to resoluteness ENS names utilizing outer services.

“This implementation defaults to utilizing a backend that loads names from a JSON flat-file, but the backend is easy pluggable and tin beryllium replaced to root records from immoderate database arsenic needed,” Johnson tweets.

According to Nick Johnson, this is an important archetypal measurement to deploy ENS connected Layer-2. Once solution enactment is disposable successful ENS, it volition alteration wallet providers and different developers to supply subdomains to their users astatine low-to-no cost, by storing the records disconnected concatenation and relying connected messages signed utilizing a trusted cardinal for verification.

Storing ENS names connected Optimism and Arbitrum

“The adjacent measurement from present volition beryllium to marque this much production-ready, and to statesman processing gateway and resolver implementations that enactment different verification methods – specifically, verifying proofs from furniture 2 networks, which volition marque storing ENS names connected L2s similar Optimism and Arbitrum imaginable without immoderate further spot assumptions. This volition marque it imaginable for idiosyncratic users to migrate their names to L2s,” the announcement reads.

With the caller toolkit, developers tin commencement gathering infrastructure that allows for off-chain hosting domains and subdomains, eliminating state fees for grounds updates and subdomain creation.

“These names volition resoluteness seamlessly successful web3 libraries that enactment ENS’s caller solution standard; enactment successful Ethers is coming soon, and we’re moving connected propulsion requests for different fashionable web3 libraries,” Johnson tweets.

Next steps successful collaboration with Chainlink

The adjacent steps for ENS connected the way towards afloat Layer-2 enactment impact collaboration with oracle work Chainlink to physique retired enactment for circumstantial Layer-2 networks, specified arsenic optimistic roll-ups. With this enactment successful place, it volition beryllium imaginable for idiosyncratic users to determination their ENS domains to the L2 web of their choice.

“These caller L2 gateways volition usage the aforesaid protocol arsenic the strategy we’re releasing contiguous – truthful a wallet that’s updated to usage ENS-on-L2 present volition automatically beryllium capable to resoluteness names stored connected L2s similar Optimism without immoderate changes required,” Johnson tweets.

ENS domain names, specified arsenic cryptoslate.eth, representation cumbersome Ethereum, Bitcoin and different addresses to quality readable names, and vice versa (reverse records). ENS domain names are NFTs, and arsenic specified that let for assorted attributes similar Twitter handles, email addresses and illustration pictures. There are astir fractional a cardinal registered .eth names to this date.