Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Lead developer of ENS & Ethereum Foundation alum. Certified rat tickler. he/him.

I'm on Mastodon: https://cryptodon.lol/@weka

I'm on bluesky: nick.eth.limo

First ENS-native social network!

Congrats to @dwr.eth @v and @nick.eth for ENS itself. Thoughts:

1) Adding ENS registration & profile editing may be a good next step.

2) If Farcaster becomes default ENS — if one can *assume* everyone on the network has an ENS name — much functionality gets unlocked.

An ENS name has the potential to combine email, encrypted messaging, payments, digital signatures, personal website, secure file hosting, onchain resume, and more besides — subsuming everything from PayPal to WhatsApp to Docusign to LinkedIn in a single package.

That hasn’t yet been exposed in one app, but…

From three years ago. Starting to get there with all the NFTs in individual wallets.

A network built around ENS names could enable some amazing things, maybe even some tricks around secure multiparty computation.

Domain names > real names.

A network built around ENS names could enable some amazing things, maybe even some tricks around secure multiparty computation.

Domain names > real names.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1338561434037338112?s=20

In other words, is W the new X?!? 🤪🙂

In other words, is W the new X?!? 🤪🙂
https://warpcast.com/balajis.eth/0x3360e9

There is so much infrastructure that had to be built to get here.

Bitcoin
Ethereum
Coinbase (to get ETH)
ENS
Coinbase Wallet (to hold ENS)
Farcaster

And now, finally, we are on the cusp of a fully programmable social network where every user owns their account, can get paid directly, and can encrypt their messages.

From three years ago. Starting to get there with all the NFTs in individual wallets.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1294469665171714050?s=20

For several decades, people have predicted the death of email. Chats, Slack, and son. Of course no centralized app would win against a decentralized protocol.

But now for the first time SMTP has a real threat.

YourName.eth is more powerful 
than CompanyName.com