Ethereum Name Service to Hold AMA on X on April 10th
Ethereum Name Service will host an AMA on X on April 10th. The special guest for the session will be Fluidkey. The discussion will revolve around Fluidkey, stealth addresses, and how Fluidkey enables on-chain privacy while utilizing ENS names and public blockchains.
Refer to the official tweet by ENS:
ens.eth@ensdomainsApr 08, 2024Join us this Wednesday for ENS Radio!
Special guest: @fluidkey
We’ll be discussing Fluidkey, stealth addresses, and how Fluidkey enables onchain privacy while utilizing ENS names and public blockchains 🦾 https://t.co/eyplWs5pue
ENS Info
The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on the Ethereum blockchain.
ENS’s job is to map human-readable names like ‘alice.eth’ to machine-readable identifiers such as Ethereum addresses, other cryptocurrency addresses, content hashes, and metadata. ENS also supports ‘reverse resolution’, making it possible to associate metadata such as canonical names or interface descriptions with Ethereum addresses.
ENS has similar goals to DNS, the Internet’s Domain Name Service, but has significantly different architecture due to the capabilities and constraints provided by the Ethereum blockchain. Like DNS, ENS operates on a system of dot-separated hierarchical names called domains, with the owner of a domain having full control over subdomains.
Top-level domains, like ‘.eth’ and ‘.test’, are owned by smart contracts called registrars, which specify rules governing the allocation of their subdomains. Anyone may, by following the rules imposed by these registrar contracts, obtain ownership of a domain for their own use. ENS also supports importing in DNS names already owned by the user for use on ENS.
Because of the hierarchal nature of ENS, anyone who owns a domain at any level may configure subdomains - for themselves or others - as desired. For instance, if Alice owns 'alice.eth', she can create 'pay.alice.eth' and configure it as she wishes.