SIWE, Avatars, Record Highs, Workshop, and More
Sign-In with Ethereum (SIWE)
The effort to standardize Sign-in with Ethereum is well underway! You can see the latest progress at login.xyz: there’s a draft EIP spec, you can watch videos of the last three community calls, and there’s a form to fill out if you’d like to join future ones. The goal is to have the spec finalized, an oauth implementation, and a javascript library all complete by the end of the year.
We're particularly interested in finding a few significant web2 services who can provide feedback on the spec and implementations to make sure it all works for them and then commit to be one of the first to implement in production. If that’s you, please email me at brantly@ens.domains.
You can read more on the latest here.
Avatars
You can now set an NFT you own as the avatar of your ENS profile. You can also set your avatar to an HTTPS or IPFS pointer.
Your avatar will then show up next to your name on Uniswap, 1inch, Cryptex Finance, Nouns Dao, and other places. And if you refresh the metadata for your ENS name on OpenSea, your avatar will show up as the background.
Read more here, and guide to setting it up here. Warning: Support in the ENS Manager right now is very manual! An upcoming redesign of the ENS Manager (sneak peek here) will make this much easier to do.
New NFT Metadata for ENS names
We launched a new ENS metadata service and total refresh of the NFT metadata for ENS names.
You can read the whole context here, but practically this means that the default NFT image for ENS names is new, and if you set an avatar in your ENS profile then it will become the background of the NFT image for that name (see above).
This allows a much wider range of data to be displayed, with more improvements planned for the future. This also allows the community to have input on the NFT metadata for ENS names for the first time, and we want to hear from you.
Workshop
Our online ENS Workshop earlier this week was a big success! They are a time for community members to discuss the current state and future development of the protocol. At this one, we had four sessions, each about an hour long: “ENS as NFT v2 (aka Name Wrapper)”, “ENS name as web3 profile”, “Layer 2 progress update”, and “Community show & tell”.
Watch the videos and read a recap here.