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Catching Up on ENS Namechain: What to Know

ENSv2 and Namechain are set to revolutionize the UX around onchain identity.
Catching Up on ENS Namechain: What to Know
William M. Peaster William M. Peaster
Jul 2, 2025 • 4 min read
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The Ethereum Name Service is among the most successful onchain apps of all time.

There are currently ~800k ENS owners across more than 161,000 domains. As it turns out, decentralized identity that's portable across other apps like Fileverse, Fluidkey, and beyond is quite popular.

Now, to take the next leg up for growth, the ENS team is working on ENSv2—a new optimized protocol architecture being developed in tandem with Namechain, a dedicated L2 for ENS that's being built on Linea's zkEVM tech.

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William M. Peaster

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William M. Peaster, Senior Writer, has been with Bankless since January 2021. Immersed in Ethereum since 2017, he writes the Metaversal newsletter on the onchain frontier, covering everything from AI projects to crypto games, as the team’s lead NFT analyst. With a background in creative writing, he writes fiction and publishes art on Ethereum in his free time.

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