$ENS This Ethereum naming system got a new foundation today: At 10/27 22:05 Beijing time, ENS announced that ENSv2 had launched on Ethereum mainnet, rolling out the new protocol, ENS App, and ENS Explorer together.
ENS turns long wallet addresses into easy-to-remember names like alice.eth. The ENS token is used by the ENS DAO for governance voting.
This update changes the underlying architecture. Each name can now have its own registry, allowing fine-grained control over how subnames are issued and who manages them—without having to hand over control of the entire name.
If you already have a .eth name, you don’t need to register it again; your existing name will continue to work as usual. To use the new features, just upgrade it in the ENS App.
The significance of this is that more than 36 million names are now registered on ENS. Alongside personal .eth names, names issued to users by projects such as Base, Uniswap, and World also run on ENS. The old version relied on layers of Name Wrapper features, which became increasingly difficult to manage as they piled up. V2 puts lessons learned over the past few years directly into the foundation.
The announcement says that wallets, apps, and infrastructure providers have also prepared to support v2, with Binance Wallet, MetaMask, and Safe among the partners.
ENS turns long wallet addresses into easy-to-remember names like alice.eth. The ENS token is used by the ENS DAO for governance voting.
This update changes the underlying architecture. Each name can now have its own registry, allowing fine-grained control over how subnames are issued and who manages them—without having to hand over control of the entire name.
If you already have a .eth name, you don’t need to register it again; your existing name will continue to work as usual. To use the new features, just upgrade it in the ENS App.
The significance of this is that more than 36 million names are now registered on ENS. Alongside personal .eth names, names issued to users by projects such as Base, Uniswap, and World also run on ENS. The old version relied on layers of Name Wrapper features, which became increasingly difficult to manage as they piled up. V2 puts lessons learned over the past few years directly into the foundation.
The announcement says that wallets, apps, and infrastructure providers have also prepared to support v2, with Binance Wallet, MetaMask, and Safe among the partners.
