Conor Svensson

Based Nouns has adopted ENS-based naming across its smart contract infrastructure, using Enscribe to assign clear, human-readable identities to the contracts that power the DAO.

As a Nouns Builder–based DAO deployed on Base, Based Nouns operates with a faster iteration cycle and a more experimental governance environment than mainnet Nouns. Clear contract naming helps ensure that this agility does not come at the cost of safety.

If you have spent any time using Ethereum wallets or block explorers, have you ever questioned why smart contracts are still referred to via their hexadecimal addresses?

You don’t have to enter numeric digits to visit websites. Why can’t you refer to smart contracts by name?

Giveth has adopted ENS-based naming across its core smart contract infrastructure, bringing clear, human-readable identities to the contracts that power the Giveth ecosystem.

This update makes it easier for donors, builders, researchers, and ecosystem partners to understand and verify how Giveth works onchain — without changing how the protocol itself operates.

When ENS Contract Naming Season launched, our goal was simple — to increase trust for users of smart contracts in Ethereum through contract naming with ENS. A few months in, we’re starting to see that shift take shape.

Cork has adopted ENS-based naming across its smart contract infrastructure, using Enscribe to assign clear, verifiable identities to its core protocol contracts and wallets.

Cork is tokenized risk infrastructure: a programmable risk layer for onchain assets such as RWAs, vault tokens, and yield-bearing stablecoins.

Liquity V2 has adopted ENS-based naming across its core smart contract infrastructure. Liquity V2 allows users to take out loans against their (staked) ETH at a fixed rate they set, in its fully decentralized stablecoin $BOLD. Liquity is one of the few projects with immutable contracts and no upgradable parameters — meaning no governance and no unpredictable changes to the protocol can be implemented.

Nouns DAO has rolled out Enscribe-powered ENS names across its contract ecosystem. This change makes the core Nouns infrastructure easier to understand, integrate with, and safer to interact with.

Since we launched Enscribe, we've collaborated with a number of teams on their contract naming.

Whilst we try to ensure the naming process is as simple as possible in our app. Which is supported by extensive documentation and our guides, it can be non-trivial for teams to get the naming work done. Especially when they have an existing legacy of contracts to name, as well as changes to be made to their deployment habits.

The ENS DAO has officially passed a proposal launching ENS Contract Naming Season — a new community initiative to bring names, identity, and trust to smart contracts across Ethereum.

What is Contract Naming Season?​

Contract Naming Season is a collaborative effort between the ENS DAO, Enscribe and others to help projects name their smart contracts using ENS names, turning unreadable hexadecimal addresses into human-readable, trustworthy names.