Conor Svensson (csvensson.eth) (csvensson)

Thought of the day on web3 vs web2. Web services and the infra they run on are ephemeral, whereas web3 apps once deployed are immutable (the smart contracts part that is). Does this mean naming services should prioritise the address over the name? As it will always be there?🤔

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Painkillers 💉versus vitamins💊. Which are category do naming services fall under? They should be viewed as painkillers, as they fix usability and security issues for users. But I fear too many consider them vitamins — i.e. nice to have, but not essential. Depending on your viewpoint you could argue the same for DNS. The web still works without DNS, you just have to use IP addresses everywhere, but this completely kills the usability of it. Where we are right now w.r.t widespread adoption of web3 is that it's still too heavily driven by technologists, people trying to make money, or those with no other choice as they have dysfunctional local monetary systems. Devs don't mind hex addresses as it's their wheelhouse. The latter two categories are happy to put up with it as they have no other choice. ctd 👇

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Web3 is not ready for mainstream when you expect people to interact with hex addresses. You can kid yourself with adoption narratives all you want, but the technology comes across as half baked if we don't have human-readable names. We can fix this now.

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Other than replacing hex contract addresses with ENS names, we're working to identify what is the strongest visual cue that can be used to identify if a smart contract is safe for a user. Contract audits are useful indicators of safety, but in speaking to a number of auditing firms, consensus seems to be that audits alone are not enough. Not all contract authors are as diligent as they could be apparently, so audits can risk being a false signal of safety. Other areas include social signals such as what OpenLabels initiative by @growthepie are doing (which @enscribe integrates with), which are other useful indicators. Additionally projects like SCI Domains are promising for providing trust between websites app domains and the contract infra deployed on them. ctd 👇

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Seeing the success of the @ethos this past few days has been a reminder of how much a small 3 person team can achieve. They didn't just create a phone, they created a new category of device — an EDC hardware wallet. Creating a category is hard, but when you succeed you own that category. You're the first thing that comes to mind when anyone thinks of that category. This is why @enscribe is focussed on the category of contract naming — we want to ensure when people think of naming smart contracts they think of Enscribe. ctd...

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So much good stuff happening in ENS right now: - @Celo announcing Celo names w/support from Namespace - @jamesbeck.eth discussing upcoming gTLD auctions and potential for .ens - Doma Protocol DNS integration - Contract naming season with our very own @enscribe

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