Hacking ENS

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ENS predates the NFT boom but a 2019 upgrade makes .eth names ERC-721 minting so hundreds of thousands of names trade on OpenSea; about 400,000 names exist and short-name auctions drove surprising bids. Architecture is registry → resolver (namehash/labelhash), and registrars/controllers issue names; a recent registry bug forces migration of ~200 projects. Examples built and working: a Decentraland registrar that mints subdomains as NFTs, custom resolvers for multi‑coin/content records, and an indexer using The Graph subgraph alongside web3.js/ethers.js integrations.

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1. 0:00Introduction to ENS
2. 1:46Hackathon idea for ENS
3. 4:58ENS goals and architecture
4. 6:22ENS basics: Names and resolvers
5. 9:55Building ENS resolver
6. 12:41Custom records for ENS
7. 17:01Custom registrars and subdomains
8. 23:10Controller vs registrant in ENS
9. 27:25ENS hacking tips
10. 28:10Q&A

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