Nick Johnson: Back in about 2016, I was working at Google as a software engineer, and a well-known financial services company reached out to me and said: ‘hey, do you want to come work for us on Ethereum?’ And I went ‘no, not really, but this Ethereum thing seems interesting.’ And I started playing around, firstly in writing some code, and then a couple of libraries. So, Nick, before we get into all of ENS’s story and goals, I'd love to hear about you - what brought you to founding ENS in the first place? Basically, all the doteth names that you see on crypto Twitter are all thanks to ENS. And that's just the start of ENS’s roadmap and goals going forward. What ENS allows is for Ethereum users to link human-readable names to their Ethereum addresses, which makes sending and receiving crypto a lot easier. But Nick will clarify that and get into all the specifics later on in the talk. Transcript was edited by Samuel Haig.Ĭamila Russo: Nick is the founder and lead developer of Ethereum Name Service or ENS, which is Ethereum’s version of domain names. The podcast was led by Camila Russo, and edited by Alp Gasimov. Nick says this future is not too far away. In the future, your blockchain wallet will become your login, not just for DeFi and Ethereum dapps, but for web2 websites as well. The big vision is to become a decentralized identity system, which will work across multiple platforms. ENS is not just about naming Ethereum addresses as it already works with other blockchains and it’s not just about resolving content, like with IPFS sites, which you can also do. Nick talks about the big vision of ENS, which is to become the naming service for every digital resource in the world.
Nick discusses ENS tokenomics, and the initial lessons after distributing the token about a month ago. He goes into why a DAO was in the plans from the start of the project and what the transition was like to get to a point where it became safer for token holders to control the protocol, instead of a more centralized group of managers. Nick talks about the journey of ENS, from an internal project within the Ethereum Foundation, to spinning off to become a public good for Ethereum and other blockchains, and recently decentralizing and becoming a DAO controlled by token holders. In this week’s episode, I speak with Nick Johnson, founder and lead developer of Ethereum Name Service, or ENS.
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