Beneficiary Recruitment: January 2021 | Ethereum Foundation Blog

Our brave beneficiaries are staying busy as always. Read our latest achievements 🏆

Ens

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) runs on the Ethereum blockchain, but it’s not just for ETH addresses! ENS maps human-readable domain names to locations across the decentralized web, including Ethereum and other blockchain addresses, Tor .onion addresses, decentralized websites, and data hashes stored in IPFS. ENS continues to expand its scope with recent integrations including:

That’s far from everything. ENS 2020 Retrospective Follow ENS on Twitter for a recap of a pretty busy year. @ensdomains And check it out 2021 Roadmap To see what’s next:

textile and 3 boxes for IPLD object signing and encryption

IPLD It is a data structuring framework used for . IPFS. Textile and 3Box received a combined grant funded jointly by: Protocol Lab, creating signature and encryption standards that improve composability and interoperability between web3 applications while maintaining user data sovereignty. All work supported by this grant has now been completed, including:

Ethereum developers can already integrate JOSE standards such as JWE and JWS into their IPLD-based dApps, with more features coming in the future! This work is part of a long-term effort to increase data interoperability across IPFS/IPLD-based apps and tools. Follow the Principal Investigator for more information. carson farmer and oedwho continues to engage with the community around this project. Follow Textiles on Twitter @textileio, blog.textile.io or loosely; And 3box on Twitter @3boxdb, Medium.com/3box or Dissension!

bit fly for beaconcha.in eth2 block explorer

As we get closer to the launch of the beacon chain, the Bitfly team wanted to make sure that there is a beacon chain. open source eth2 block explorer from day 1. beaconcha.in It has gone above and beyond with a treasure trove for Ethereum stakers and enthusiasts, including:

• eth2 growth knowledge base
• A variety of trackers and visualizations, including: chart Includes data on activity, engagement, total stake, etc.
• mobile app For monitoring eth2 validators

Follow Bitfly news on Twitter @etherchain_org or reddit u/EtherChain.

But there’s more!

• Unirep Private and undeniable reputation system: complete smart contract, CLI and zk circuit
• MPC Level 2 UI: Completed design and specifications; Developed components such as server, CLI, browser client, etc.

More to come next month!