Our intrepid grantees have been holding busy as all the time – learn on for some latest accomplishments 🏆
ENS
ENS (Ethereum Title Service) runs on the Ethereum blockchain, nevertheless it’s not only for ETH addresses! ENS maps human-readable domains to areas all throughout the distributed internet, together with ethereum and different blockchain addresses, Tor .onion addresses, decentralized web sites and information hashes saved on IPFS, and extra. ENS continues to broaden its attain, with latest integrations together with:
That is removed from the whole lot – learn the ENS 2020 Retrospective for a recap of a fairly packed yr, comply with ENS on Twitter @ensdomains and take a look at the 2021 roadmap to see what’s subsequent.
Textile and 3box for IPLD Object signing and encryption
IPLD is a knowledge structuring framework utilized in IPFS. Textile and 3Box obtained a mixed grant, joint funded with Protocol Labs, to create a signing and encryption customary to allow better composability and interoperability between web3 functions whereas holding consumer information sovereign. All work funded by this grant has now been accomplished, together with:
Ethereum builders can already combine JOSE requirements akin to JWE and JWS into their IPLD-based dApps, and there is extra to return! This work is a part of a long term effort to extend information interoperability throughout IPFS/IPLD-based apps and instruments.
For extra, you possibly can comply with principal investigators carsonfarmer and oed, who proceed to have interaction with the group round this mission; comply with Textile on Twitter @textileio, blog.textile.io or Slack; and 3box on Twitter @3boxdb, medium.com/3box or Discord!
bitfly for beaconcha.in eth2 block explorer
Because the launch of the beacon chain approached, the bitfly group needed to ensure there was an open source eth2 block explorer from day 1. beaconcha.in has turn into that and far more, with a treasure trove of assets for Ethereum stakers and fanatics together with:
- Rising eth2 knowledge base
- Broad number of trackers and visualizations together with charts with information on liveness, participation, whole stake and extra
- Mobile app for monitoring eth2 validators
Sustain with bitfly on Twitter @etherchain_org or Reddit u/etherchain.
However wait, there’s extra!
- Unirep non-public and non-repudiable popularity system: accomplished sensible contracts, CLI and zk circuits
- MPC Phase 2 UI: accomplished design and specification; developed parts together with server, CLI and browser consumer
Extra to return subsequent month!
