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Not all ENS names carry the same guarantees. There’s an important difference between a name that points to a contract and a contract that declares its identity. That line is a security boundary. Find out why primary names matter especially as wallets begin surfacing contract identity more prominently. Worth understanding if you care about onchain trust and naming standards.

Ethereum’s scaling roadmap succeeded. But success introduced complexity. With so many L2s competing for attention, it’s worth asking what we gain and what we lose from that fragmentation. Some thoughts below on why a renewed focus on Ethereum L1 feels directionally healthy. Worth a read if you’re thinking about where to build long term.

Hex addresses were never meant to be a permanent UX. As Ethereum scales, unnamed smart contracts quietly become a security and trust liability, not just a usability issue. Find out why discoverable contract identity matters, and what needs to change for human-readable names to become the default.

Cork Protocol has adopted ENS-based contract naming across its smart contract infrastructure using Enscribe. As tokenized risk infrastructure for onchain assets like RWAs, vault tokens, and yield-bearing stablecoins, trust and clarity are critical. By assigning human-readable, verifiable identities to core contracts, Cork improves auditability, reduces integration risk, and enables wallets and explorers to surface trusted contract names automatically, all without changing protocol behaviour. This is a practical example of how mature DeFi protocols are setting new standards for safety and usability. 👉 Read the full article to see how Cork implemented ENS-based contract naming 👉 If you’re building on Ethereum, Enscribe makes it easy to do the same

Privacy protects users. Identity protects protocols. Ethereum doesn’t need to compromise on privacy to become safer and more usable but it does need better protocol-level identity. This piece explores why ENS can be the organisational backbone of web3, and how clearer protocol identity unlocks better UX, security, and trust. Worth your time 👇

Liquity has introduced ENS-based naming across its core smart contract infrastructure, providing clear, human-readable, and verifiable identities for the contracts that underpin the protocol. Liquity is an immutable borrowing protocol on Ethereum Mainnet that allows users to mint the decentralized stablecoin $BOLD against ETH and LSTs. This update improves auditability and integration safety by making contract roles explicit, while leaving protocol mechanics unchanged. Structured ENS naming reduces reliance on raw hexadecimal addresses and enables wallets, explorers, and developer tooling to display trusted contract identities via reverse resolution. As a protocol designed around simplicity and robustness, Liquity continues to prioritise long-term maintainability and transparency in how its onchain infrastructure is presented and verified. This rollout is supported by Enscribe, which provides the infrastructure for managing structured, verifiable ENS names for smart contracts, ensuring consistency across the wider Ethereum ecosystem. Read more in the announcement post...

Nouns DAO is adopting Enscribe-powered ENS names for its contract infrastructure, making the DAO’s onchain architecture significantly clearer and easier to work with. This upgrade brings human-readable, verifiable names to the contracts that power auctions, governance, the treasury, Builder deployments, and Nouns extensions. Developers benefit from safer integrations, delegates gain better visibility during proposal review, and ecosystem tools can present the DAO’s contract interactions with far greater clarity. As one of the most influential and widely studied DAOs in the Ethereum ecosystem, Nouns is taking an important step toward long-term transparency and maintainability of its protocol. Enscribe provides the naming infrastructure that ensures these identities are consistent and trusted across every interface that interacts with Nouns.

Nouns DAO’s adoption of Enscribe-powered ENS names is a great example of how contract naming can simplify complex onchain systems. By replacing raw hex addresses with clear, structured identities, Nouns is making its infrastructure easier for delegates to audit, safer for users to interact with, and far more intuitive for builders integrating with their contracts. This is exactly the type of upgrade Enscribe was created to support, helping teams bring clarity, trust and human-readable structure to their smart contract ecosystems. If you’re exploring how naming could strengthen your own project, this article is well worth a read. 🚀

👀 If you’ve ever questioned why Ethereum still relies on unreadable hex addresses, this explains the shift that’s now underway. Reposting this because ENS Contract Naming Season is more than an announcement, it’s a major step toward improving trust and usability across Ethereum. At the centre is Enscribe, which makes it simple for teams to give their smart contracts clear, human-readable identities using ENS. Instead of interacting with a random 0x… string, users can finally rely on names they recognise and trust. This initiative, backed by the ENS DAO and many ecosystem contributors, is about moving the entire industry toward safer, more transparent onchain interactions. 💡 If your project hasn’t named its contracts yet, now is the time to get involved. Read the full article for the details, the incentives, and how to start naming your contracts on Enscribe.

🚀 The new Enscribe Docs are live! We're excited to share a major update to the Enscribe documentation — now restructured, reimagined, and ready to help you go from smart contract to ENS-named contract in minutes. Whether you're deploying new contracts or retroactively naming existing ones, the refreshed docs guide you every step of the way with: 🔹 Clear technical explanations 🔹 Step-by-step walkthroughs 🔹 UI screenshots and video tutorials The docs are now organized into three main sections: - Introduction – Learn what Enscribe is, how it enhances smart contract UX, and how ENS naming works under the hood. - Getting Started – Deploy contracts with names in one transaction, name existing contracts, track deployments, and more. - Advanced (Coming Soon) – Deep dive into ENS internals, L1 vs L2 differences, and Enscribe’s architecture. ✨ Whether you're a dev looking to polish your dApp’s UX or just want your contracts to have meaningful, memorable names — the new Enscribe docs are your go-to. 👉 Dive in now: https://lnkd.in/eDNfpFh2 And join us on Discord to share feedback and ideas! #web3 #ENS #smartcontracts #developerexperience #Enscribe #Ethereum #L2 #UX #blockchain