Ethereum Name Service (ENS)

ENS and .eth is one of most lindy things in crypto

@ensdomains launched in May 2017, more than 9 years ago (an eternity in crypto). crazes in ICOs, NFTs, & memecoins have and gone, ENS has remained

in that time it has gone from being an early Ethereum dapp to being integrated by GoDaddy, Google, Venmo, Brave, all the top crypto wallets; used by Congressmen, governments, celebrities, companies, etc

it has survived and grew through multiple cycles and is still going strong

onwards and upwards 🫡

With the second batch of awards going out earlier this week for @ens_dao's Contract Naming Season, it has finally come to a close.

6 months and 7,095 of ENS awards later, it's time to wrap it up. 🧵 https://t.co/GrJ7GiBxao

Tornado Cash was sanctioned in 2022.

Four years later, the compliant privacy alternative is still missing.

What moved in: readability tools that publish your entire financial history (ENS), and privacy tools that put users on regulators' radar.

Neither works for someone who needs both privacy and a clean compliance record.

The gap is still open.