It’s been a while since we posted anything. We’ve been busy building, rebuilding, designing, redesigning, participating in the ENS Service Stream provider grants program, and thinking about Digital Identity and its future in the context of the Web3 world and the new internet that is being created.

Here to share some quick updates and stay tuned for the upcoming announcements. They’ll be coming in one after the other.

Updates

#1 Officially full-time!

Thanks to ENS DAO and Service provides grants our entire team will start building Namespace full time starting today! Namespace was selected as one of the 9 projects to be funded to continue its development and we cannot be more thankful and excited!

We have AvsA to thank the most for pioneering this Service Provider initiative, revitalizing and breathing life into the ENS ecosystem with a $3.8M strong capital injection. A true visionary and Web3 steward who understands the importance of ENS Ecosystem projects and the importance they carry to maintaining ENS protocol’s dominant position in the evergrowing market.

In case you missed the article published by Cap about why ENS ecosystem projects are important, you can read it here: “Does ENS need Ecosystem projects?”

#2 Launched Digital Identity channel on Warpcast (Farcaster)

It is of utmost importance to stay up to date with the latest trends and developments if you want to be competitive and one of the best in the market! That said, we launched a Digital Identity channel on Farcaster.

We encourage everyone interested in DIDs, Attestations, onchain reputation, verifiable claims, and Decentralized and Digital identity. The channel already has amazing people who are thought leaders and digital identity builders and a lot more will join!

#3 New Website created

Design revamp with a new website with a .tech extension that incorporates a broader scope of our services, cleaner design, and the latest features, services, and products we’re working on! You can check out our new website at namespace.tech. The new website currently opens our Dapp on Sepolia, and it’s not live on the mainnet yet! We are getting ready to launch on the mainnet pretty soon and we’ll publish an announcement about it as well.

#4 Official Namespace Dev Docs

Considering Namespace is expanding its product and service offer to API+SDK services we launched our official Namespace GitBook. Documentation includes the Namespace’s mission, entire modus operandi of Registrar, Manager, products and features, Usecases, API dev docs, and guides.

#5 ENS Widget is LIVE for testing on Sepolia

It’s finally here!

You can test it on https://staging-app.namespace.ninja/ and see if it works. You can test it and let us know in Discord if you find any bugs.

When it comes to the widget, you can now customize how you want to use the Widget, import it, and start issuing Subnames from your own websites, platforms, etc.

See more about how to implement the Widget in your website, how it works, and what kind of customization it offers, in our documentation.

Allowed ENS Name registration through the ENS widget.
Integrated Widget with new listing and minting contracts.

#6 Token-gated Subname Minting (for communities)

We officially added support for token-gated subnames minting. What does that mean? It means that we allow communities to token-gate who gets to mint their subnames from the ENS name they own. Meaning, only people holding certain NFTs will be allowed to mint a subname.

#7 Team growing - hired new front-end dev/ninja

A lot of our work focuses on providing the best user experience for our end users, therefore, we hired a new front-end dev to join the Namespace team.

See more information on this Twitter post.

#8 Other Tech updates

Migrated to Sepolia because Goerli for our test environment because Goerli support has been stopped.
Remove commitment from the Subname registration and widget too!
Digital Ocean gave us 5k USD free credits so we migrated our servers there.
Significantly reduced gas fees for users because we rebuilt our Listing configuration and optimized it to offload unnecessary onchain storage.
Implemented the latest ENSjs-V3 library.
Implemented a monitoring and logging system to track errors to ensure the app runs smoothly all the time.
Added security layer: encrypting the verifier wallet with Hashicorp vault for enhanced security.
Added support for token-gated minting subnames.
Developed and deployed a new contract for offchain listing and minting.
Added the ability to mint and customize the minting price for any letter of Subnames underneath ENS names being listed.
Developed a custom resolver contract on L2 with a sponsored wallet to cover gas fees on behalf of users.
Improved ENS Name and Subname search and registration.
Front-end polishing up.
Fixed a bunch of bugs…
And much more

Stay tuned

A lot of new things are on the way. Namespace is working on becoming a go-to place for easy ENS Name and Subname management + easy ENS integration. We’ll be launching new announcements soon.

Next on the menu is allowing people to test our product on Sepolia before we launch on the mainnet.

Namespace Links:

Website: https://namespace.tech/
Discord: https://discord.gg/3TC6a8uACt
Twitter: https://twitter.com/namespace_eth
LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/namespace.eth

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