ENS names are going through an interesting phase. 

Original vision was one name everywhere, but L1 got too expensive so people have offchain ENS (farcaster) and L2 ENS (base names, world names). 

The natural progression seems to be towards multiple ENS namespaces - is this a net good thing?

https://discuss.ens.domains/t/temp-check-ensv2-development-funding-request/19762

Here's a funding proposal from last week to build an ENS L2 over the next year. Has wide support

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

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