Conor Svensson

What's Next After Naming Smart Contracts?​

Over the past few months, we've been working hard to make it as easy as possible for developers to name their smart contracts using ENS. With support now live on Ethereum, Base, and Linea, we're starting to see steady adoption through the Enscribe app. But naming is just the first step in improving Ethereum's user experience.

Trust Through Transparency: Contract Verification​

Once developers start giving their smart contracts ENS names, the next logical move is to help users assess how trustworthy a contract is. Our first focus here is verification.

We're surfacing contract verification data directly in the Enscribe app by pulling it from trusted sources like:

• Etherscan
• Blockscout
• Sourcify

These verifications don't guarantee a contract is safe — after all, anyone can verify code—but they do indicate a baseline level of developer diligence. They also enable wallets and explorers to decode method signatures and provide users with more context about their transactions.

We've launched our initial support for verifications already. Here's a quick overview of the release, and you can see it live in the Enscribe App's "My Contracts" view.

On the Horizon: Audit Support​

We're also turning our attention to audits. Smart contract audits are a key signal of trust, but surfacing audit data in a decentralised and verifiable way is still an open problem.

We're exploring how Enscribe can support this through:

• Structured attestations for on-chain audit claims (e.g. EIP-7512)
• Aggregation of verification and audit signals into a public API
• Visual indicators in the Enscribe UI to make trust cues clearer

Imagine something like a TLS padlock for Web3 — a visual cue that gives users confidence they’re interacting with a verified, trustworthy contract, performed in a way that doesn’t require trusting any single service provider, including ourselves.

A Trust Score for Contracts?​

We're thinking through what a decentralized trust framework might look like. Some early metrics we're exploring include:

1. ENS name assigned (via Enscribe or manually)
2. Contract verified (Sourcify, Etherscan, Blockscout)
3. Audits available (verifiable, on-chain attestations)

What else should be on that list? We're keen to hear your suggestions.

Beyond Devtool Integrations​

You may have seen our recent updates on ecosystem calls with ENS DAO—we're making great progress toward integrating Enscribe directly into dev workflows (like Foundry). This will let developers name contracts automatically at deploy time, with zero extra steps.

But we're not stopping there.

We know many developers will continue using the Enscribe app directly to name existing contracts. So we're investing heavily in improving that experience too. Our aim is to reduce friction even further and make it delightful to manage your named contracts with Enscribe.

We'll be sharing more UX improvements and feature ideas very soon. In the meantime, if you're using Enscribe and have thoughts on what would make your experience better, drop into our Discord or tag us @enscribe_ on X.

We're just getting started.

In the meantime, keep naming those contracts!

Hot of the back of our Linea Sepolia announcement, we're also supporting the Base Sepolia testnet!

Base, developed by Coinbase, is an Ethereum Layer-2 solution built on Optimism’s OP Stack, designed to deliver faster, cheaper, and more scalable transactions while preserving Ethereum’s security guarantees. Our integration with Base Sepolia provides a powerful new way for developers to effortlessly deploy smart contracts and immediately assign them Ethereum Name Service (ENS) names.

It also can be used to easily name existing smart contracts too.

With Enscribe’s new support for Base Sepolia, your smart contracts gain human-readable ENS identities instantly upon deployment, greatly enhancing their discoverability, verifiability, and usability.

How to Get Started​

Getting started with Base Sepolia on Enscribe is simple:

Visit the Enscribe App at app.enscribe.xyz

Connect your Ethereum wallet (Coinbase Wallet recommended for Base).

Select "Base Sepolia" from the available network options.

Deploy your smart contract and assign it a user-friendly ENS subname in just a few clicks.

Benefits of Using Base​

Base offers several key benefits over the Ethereum Mainnet:

Lower Transaction Fees: Benefit from reduced gas costs compared to Ethereum mainnet.

Fast & Efficient Transactions: Deploy and interact with contracts quickly and seamlessly.

Ethereum Compatibility: Deploy your existing Ethereum contracts with minimal changes required.

What's Next for Enscribe?​

With Sepolia, Linea Sepolia and Base Sepolia all supported, we're getting ready for our mainnet deployments for developers to really start battle testing the Enscrbie services.

On top of this we're going to be announcing our first partner integrations which you'll definitely want to watch out for. This will be a bit step forward in establishing greater trust in smart contracts for users.

In the meantime, make sure you have a go with our Base service and let us know what you think!

Learn More & Get Involved​

For more details, visit our documentation, and don't hesitate to join our Discord community to share your feedback and experiences.

Happy deploying! 🚀

We're excited to announce our latest milestone —  Enscribe has officially added support for the Linea Sepolia testnet!

Linea is an innovative Ethereum-equivalent zk-rollup solution developed by ConsenSys, designed to dramatically enhance Ethereum’s scalability. It also happens to be the layer 2 technology that the upcoming ENS Namechain will be built on. This integration brings quicker, cheaper, and more efficient transactions while retaining the strong security guarantees and decentralization of Ethereum.

With Enscribe's support for Linea Sepolia, developers can now easily deploy smart contracts directly to the Linea network and assign human-readable Ethereum Name Service (ENS) names at the point of deployment. This makes smart contracts easier to use, manage, and verify, significantly improving the overall user experience for both developers and end-users.

How to Get Started​

Getting started with Linea Sepolia on Enscribe is simple:

Visit the Enscribe App at app.enscribe.xyz

Connect your Ethereum wallet (MetaMask recommended for Linea).

Select "Linea Sepolia" from the available network options.

Deploy your smart contract and assign it a user-friendly ENS subname in just a few clicks.

Benefits of Using Linea​

Linea Sepolia offers several key advantages over the Ethereum mainnet:

Faster Transactions: Experience significantly quicker smart contract deployments and interactions compared to traditional Ethereum networks.

Reduced Costs: Enjoy dramatically lower gas fees, enabling more affordable smart contract development and testing.

Ethereum Compatibility: Effortlessly deploy existing Ethereum-compatible smart contracts without needing code modifications, providing a seamless transition to improved scalability.

Enhanced User Experience: Instantly readable ENS names eliminate confusion associated with cryptic hexadecimal contract addresses, improving clarity, trust, and overall usability.

What's Next for Enscribe?​

This integration with Linea Sepolia is just one step toward our broader vision of enhancing smart contract usability and trust across Ethereum and its vibrant ecosystem of Layer-2 solutions. We remain committed to supporting additional layer 2 network and continually improving our service based on community feedback and innovation.

We warmly invite you to explore Enscribe's Linea Sepolia integration and experience firsthand the future of scalable Ethereum deployments.

Learn More & Get Involved​

For detailed information, comprehensive guides, and further resources, visit our documentation. To join the conversation, share your feedback, or ask questions, connect with our team and community on Discord.

Happy naming! 🚀

This week marks the emergence of Enscribe from stealth. We've been working hard on it this past few months and are pleased to put it out into the wild.

At Enscribe, we're addressing a fundamental problem faced by nearly every Ethereum user: confusing and unreadable smart contract addresses. When initiating transactions, users are typically confronted with cryptic hexadecimal addresses, like this:

If users want to verify the contract they are interacting with (which anyone should), they have to copy the contract address and look at it another service such as Etherscan.

In Etherscan if it's a well known contract, such as the ENS ETH Registry Controller as in our example, it will have a label.

This is far from optimal. Users are relying on a centralised service, to verify the authenticity of a contract.

We believe smart contracts on Ethereum should be not be exposing their hexadecimal addresses to users and instead should be labelled with human readable names via ENS.

With ENS names, smart contracts gain identities similar to domain names, clearly indicating their creators. Imagine knowing at a glance that the contract you're interacting with was created by ens.eth. This simple clarity dramatically boosts trust and confidence during transactions:

Whilst ENS names and subdomains can be used to address smart contracts, this functionality is underutilised due to cumbersome tooling and the additional steps required to setup a primary name for a smart contract.

These hurdles are exactly what inspired the creation of Enscribe.

The Enscribe App​

We have deployed the beta version of our Enscribe App at app.enscribe.xyz which allows developers to deploy smart contracts to the Ethereum Sepolia testnet.

With the app, a user performs a single transaction which performs the following steps:

With Enscribe, naming contracts at deployment via ENS becomes seamless. When they deploy a contract using the app it:

• Creates a new subname such as v1.deployments.myname.eth
• Deploys the contract to Ethereum
• Registers the primary name

All these steps happen in a single transaction, ensuring that from the moment your contract is deployed, it’s immediately discoverable through its ENS name.

You can see it in action in the below video.

In addition to new contract deployment, you can also easily name your existing contracts using Enscribe.

To learn more about using Enscribe, visit our documentation.

Our team is currently hard at work expanding support to Ethereum’s Layer-2 networks and preparing for our upcoming mainnet launch.

We'd love to hear your feedback and collaborate — join our Discord community and let’s build a clearer, safer Ethereum together.