## ईथीरियम नेम सर्विस (ENS) क्या है?

[ईथीरियम नेम सर्विस (ENS)](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/ethereum-name-service/) ईथीरियम ब्लॉकचैन पर आधारित एक वितरित, खुली और एक्स्टेंसिबल नामकरण प्रणाली है। ENS मानव-पठनीय ईथीरियम एड्रेस जैसे जॉन.ईथ को मशीन-पठनीय अल्फ़ान्यूमेरिक कोड में परिवर्तित करता है जिसे आप [मेटामास्क](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/metamask) जैसे वॉलेट से जानते हैं। रिवर्स कन्वर्शन - मेटाडेटा और मशीन-पठनीय एड्रेस को मानव-पठनीय [ईथीरियम](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/ethereum/) एड्रेस के साथ जोड़ना - भी संभव है।

इथेरियम नेम सर्विस का लक्ष्य इथेरियम-आधारित वेब को मनुष्यों के लिए एक्सेस करना और समझना आसान बनाना है - ठीक उसी तरह जैसे इंटरनेट की डोमेन नाम सेवा इंटरनेट को अधिक सुलभ बनाती है। डीएनएस की तरह, ईएनएस भी डॉट-सेपरेटेड श्रेणीबद्ध नामों की एक प्रणाली का उपयोग करता है जिसे डोमेन कहा जाता है, जिसमें डोमेन मालिक अपने उप डोमेन को पूरी तरह से नियंत्रित करते हैं।

ENS ने नवंबर 2021 में एक अत्यधिक सफल रेट्रोएक्टिव [एयरड्रॉप](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/airdrop) के साथ लॉन्च किया, जिसने उन यूजर को पुरस्कृत किया, जिन्होंने प्रोजेक्ट के टोकन लॉन्च करने से पहले एड्रेस दर्ज किए थे। हालाँकि, फरवरी 2022 में, इसके संचालन निदेशक द्वारा स्पष्ट रूप से [होमोफोबिक ट्वीट्स](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/ens-in-crisis-as-leader-s-unacceptable-tweet-emerges) पर इसे आलोचना का सामना करना पड़ा।

### इथेरियम नेम सर्विस के संस्थापक कौन हैं?

ईएनएस शुरू में इथेरियम फाउंडेशन का एक हिस्सा था, लेकिन 2018 में एक अलग संगठन के रूप में बंद हो गया। इसके लीड डेवलपर निक जॉनसन हैं, जो न्यूजीलैंड के एक सॉफ्टवेयर इंजीनियर हैं, जो पहले गूगल और इथेरियम फाउंडेशन में काम करते थे। ईएनएस टीम नौ लोगों की मजबूत है और इसका ट्रेज़री निम्नलिखित सदस्यों के साथ 4-7 [बहु-हस्ताक्षर](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/multisignature) रूट द्वारा शासित है:

* निक जॉनसन - ENS
* सर्गेई नाज़रोव - चेनलिंक
* डैन फिनले - मेटामास्क
* टेलर मोनाहन - माई क्रिप्टो
* एरोन फिशर - कॉलोनी
* जेसन कार्वर - इथेरियम फाउंडेशन
* मार्टिन स्वेंडे - इथेरियम फाउंडेशन

हालांकि ENS में कोई निवेशक नहीं है, लेकिन इसे इथेरियम फाउंडेशन, बायनेन्स_एक्स, चेनलिंक, इथेरियम क्लासिक लैब्स, और प्रोटोकॉल लैब्स द्वारा समर्थित किया जाता है।

### इथेरियम नेम सर्विस को क्या विशिष्ट बनाता है?

इथेरियम नेम सर्विस में डोमेन नेम सर्विस को डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड वेब3 में स्थानांतरित करने वाली पहली सेवा होने के कारण एक तरह का मूल्य प्रस्ताव है।

ENS एक कंपनी नहीं है, बल्कि एक ओपन-सोर्स प्रोजेक्ट है जो खुद को "एक ओपन पब्लिक यूटिलिटी जो कंपनी से संबंधित है" कहता है। अनिवार्य रूप से, इसका उद्देश्य वेब3 के लिए उतना ही महत्वपूर्ण बुनियादी ढांचा बनना है जितना कि इंटरनेट के लिए डीएनएस है। इसके अलावा, ब्लॉकचैन टेक्नोलॉजी के कारण ईएनएस में विफलता का एक भी बिंदु नहीं है और डिजाइन द्वारा, अधिक सेंसरशिप-प्रतिरोधी और सुरक्षित है।

ब्लॉकचेन टेक्नोलॉजी को बड़े पैमाने पर अपनाने में मुख्य बाधाओं में से एक उनकी पहुंच और उपयोग में आसानी है, जिसे ईएनएस का उद्देश्य दूर करना है। असुविधाजनक अल्फ़ान्यूमेरिक कोड के बावजूद मशीन-पठनीय का उपयोग करने के बजाय, यूजर किसी भी क्रिप्टो या [एनएफटी](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/non-fungible-token) को एक छोटे और आसानी से याद रखने वाले लिंक के लिए प्राप्त कर सकते हैं। यह यूजर के अनुभव को सरल करता है और ब्लॉकचेन तकनीक को कम तकनीकी बनाता है।

हुड के तहत, ईएनएस दो [स्मार्ट कॉन्ट्रैक्ट्स](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/smart-contract) पर बनाया गया है। पहला एक ENS रजिस्ट्री रिकॉर्डिंग डोमेन है जो ENS पर पंजीकृत है और उनमें से प्रत्येक के बारे में निम्नलिखित जानकारी संग्रहीत करता है:

* डोमेन ओनर
* डोमेन रिज़ॉल्वर
* डोमेन के अंतर्गत सभी रिकॉर्ड के लिए कैशिंग समय

दूसरा स्मार्ट कॉन्ट्रैक्ट रिज़ॉल्वर है। इसका उद्देश्य मशीन द्वारा पढ़े जा सकने वाले एड्रेस को डोमेन नाम और इसके विपरीत अनुवाद करना है और प्रत्येक डोमेन को उसके संबंधित यूजर, वेबसाइट या एड्रेस से मिलाना है।

#### संबन्धित पेज:

[चेनलिंक (लिंक) देखें](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/chainlink/) - कई प्रोटोकॉल द्वारा उपयोग किया जाने वाला एक ओरेकल समाधान।

[टेरा (LUNA) देखें](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/terra-luna/) - एक लोकप्रिय लेयर-1 ब्लॉकचेन।

[ईएनएस-](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/what-is-ens)इथेरियम नेम सर्विस के बारे में और जानें।

[CoinMarketCap ब्लॉग के](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/categories/blog) साथ नवीनतम क्रिप्टो समाचार और नवीनतम ट्रेडिंग अंतर्दृष्टि प्राप्त करें।

### कितने इथेरियम नेम सर्विस (ENS) कॉइन सर्कुलेशन में हैं?

ENS इथेरियम नेम सर्विस का [शासन टोकन](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/governance-token) है और इसका उपयोग प्रोटोकॉल को नियंत्रित करने और इसके .इथ के मूल्य निर्धारण पर निर्णयों को प्रभावित करने के लिए किया जाता है एड्रेस और ओरेकल मूल्य। टोकन धारक मतदान के लिए अपने टोकन [डीएओ](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/decentralized-autonomous-organizations-dao) को सौंप सकते हैं। ईएनएस की [कुल आपूर्ति](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/total-supply) 100 मिलियन है, और लेखन के समय [सर्क्युलेटिंग आपूर्ति](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/circulating-supply) केवल 20 मिलियन से अधिक है। ईएनएस निम्नानुसार वितरित किया जाता है:

* डीएओ कम्युनिटी ट्रेजरी (50%): लॉन्च के समय 10%, चार वर्षों में रैखिक निहित।
* .इथ धारकों को एयरड्रॉप (25%)
* योगदानकर्ता (25%), चार साल के रैखिक निहित सहित: 
* मुख्य योगदानकर्ता: 18.96%
* एकीकरण का चयन: 2.5%
* भावी योगदानकर्ता: 1.25%
* बाहरी योगदानकर्ता: 1.29%
* लॉन्च सलाहकार: 0.58%
* कीहोल्डर्स: 0.25%
* एक्टिव डिस्कॉर्ड यूजर: 0.125%
* ट्रांसलेटर्स: 0.05%

### इथेरियम नेम सर्विस नेटवर्क कैसे सुरक्षित है?

ईएनएस को [ईथीरियम](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/currencies/ethereum/) पर बनाया गया है, जो एक [प्रूफ-ऑफ-वर्क सर्वसम्मति तंत्र](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/proof-of-work-pow) द्वारा सुरक्षित है जिसके लिए माइनर्स को नए ईथर की आवश्यकता होती है। डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड नोड्स का एक सेट ट्रांज़ैक्शन को मान्य करता है और ईथीरियम ब्लॉकचेन को सुरक्षित करता है। ईथीरियम की डीसेंट्रलाइज़्ड प्रकृति और नेटवर्क को सुरक्षित करने वाले 10,000 से अधिक [नोड्स](https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/glossary/node) के लिए धन्यवाद, ईएनएस में विफलता का एक भी बिंदु नहीं है और इसे हैक नहीं किया जा सकता है।

इथेरियम नाम सेवा ने कॉइनबेस वॉलेट, ट्रस्ट वॉलेट, माई क्रिप्टो और अन्य जैसे विभिन्न वॉलेट के साथ भी भागीदारी की है।

### आप इथेरियम नाम सेवा (ईएनएस) कहां से खरीद सकते हैं?

ENS [बायनेन्स](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/binance/), [ओकेएक्स](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/okx/), [बिटगेट](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/bitget/), [मंडला एक्सचेंज](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/mandala/) और [एफटीएक्स](https://coinmarketcap.com/hi/exchanges/ftx/) पर उपलब्ध है।

यदि आप जानना चाहते हैं कि कैसे आप क्रिप्टोकरेंसी खरीदना शुरू कर सकते हैं, तो आप [यहाँ](https://coinmarketcap.com/how-to-buy-bitcoin/) दी गयी हमारी मार्गदर्शिका में अधिक जानकारी पाएंगे।

We recently announced frENSday, a full day event taking place the day before DevCon in Bangkok! 🎉 

An ENS Web Update for the months of May through July was recently published ⬇️ 

 usernames are now onchain powered by ENS via clv.eth subnames 🔥 

 Weekly Roundup recently went out featuring updates from each Working Group 🦾 

That concludes another exciting week in the ENS ecosystem!

Your support means a lot to us and we're eager to bring you more updates soon 🤝

Welcome to Ethereum Name Service's Community channel aggregated by CoinMarketCap.

This week in the ENS ecosystem 🧵 
We recently announced frENSday, a full day event taking place the day before DevCon in Bangkok! 🎉 
An ENS Web Update for the months of May through July was recently published ⬇️ 
This week on ENS Radio we spoke with @henri_stern the cofounder and CEO of @privy_io discussing onboarding users to Web3! 
.@getclave usernames are now onchain powered by ENS via clv.eth subnames 🔥 
Another @ENS_DAO Weekly Roundup recently went out featuring updates from each Working Group 🦾 
That concludes another exciting week in the ENS ecosystem!

Your support means a lot to us and we're eager to bring you more updates soon 🤝

We recently collaborated with @ linea in which they have become the first zkEVM Layer 2 to offer official ENS subnames!

There has already been over 150,000 ENS subnames registered to date 👀 

Users can now save ENS names as contacts in 

 Weekly Roundup was recently published featuring updates from each Working Group 💫 

 Newsletter #66 is out now along with a TL;DR 

We recently added another team member to ENS Labs 💪

 shared the latest release of ENS Record Management 🎉 

That wraps up another great week in the ENS ecosystem!

This week in the ENS ecosystem 🧵 
We recently collaborated with @ linea in which they have become the first zkEVM Layer 2 to offer official ENS subnames!

There has already been over 150,000 ENS subnames registered to date 👀 
This week on ENS Radio we spoke with @interfacedapp initial contributor @wijuwiju0x as well as @ENS_DAO MetaGov Working Group Steward @estmcmxci 
Users can now save ENS names as contacts in @fluidkey’s privacy-preserving tool! 
An @ENS_DAO Weekly Roundup was recently published featuring updates from each Working Group 💫 
The @ENS_DAO Newsletter #66 is out now along with a TL;DR 
We recently added another team member to ENS Labs 💪

Welcome @NFTwes_ 🎉 
.@ohmsdotbox shared the latest release of ENS Record Management 🎉 
That wraps up another great week in the ENS ecosystem!

Your support means a lot to us and we're eager to bring you more updates soon 🤝

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The Graph is an indexing protocol for querying data for networks like Ethereum and IPFS, powering many applications in both DeFi and the broader Web3 ecosystem. Anyone can build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. There is a hosted service in production that makes it easy for developers to get started building on The Graph and the decentralized network will be launching later this year. The Graph currently supports indexing data from Ethereum, IPFS and POA, with more networks coming soon.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of The Graph.

To date, over3,000 subgraphs have been deployed by thousands of developers, for DApps like Uniswap, Synthetix, Aragon, AAVE, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, DAOstack, Decentraland and many others. The Graph usage has been growing at over 50% MoM and hit over 7 billion queries during the month of September 2020.

The Graph has a global community, including over 200 Indexer Nodes in the testnet and more than 2,000 Curators in the Curator Program as of October 2020. To fund network development, The Graph raised funds from community members, strategic VCs and influential individuals in the blockchain community including Coinbase Ventures, DCG, Framework, ParaFi Capital, CoinFund, DTC, Multicoin, Reciprocal Ventures, SPC, Tally Capital and others. The Graph Foundation also successfully completed a public GRT Sale with participation from 99 countries (not including the U.S.). To date as of November 2020, The Graph has raised ~$25M.

The Graph

Curve is a decentralized exchange for stablecoins that uses an automated market maker (AMM) to manage liquidity.

Launched in January 2020, Curve is now synonymous with the decentralized finance (DeFi) phenomenon, and has seen significant growth in the second half of 2020.

In August, Curve launched a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), with CRV as its in-house token. The DAO uses Ethereum-based creation tool Aragon to connect multiple smart contracts used for users’ deposited liquidity. Issues such as governance, however, differ from Aragon in their weighting and other respects.

Curve DAO Token

Launched in 2017, Livepeer is the first live video streaming network protocol that is fully decentralized. The platform aims to become a viable blockchain-based, economically efficient alternative to centralized broadcasting solutions for all new and existing broadcaster companies.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Livepeer.

As stated in the official Livepeer whitepaper, the live video streaming and broadcasting industry is growing at a rapid pace, and the company is looking to ride this wave and introduce decentralization to the environment. Livepeer aims to streamline the broadcasting process by allowing producers to submit their work on the platform, taking care of reformatting and distributing the content to users and streaming platforms.

Livepeer

Synthetix is building a decentralized liquidity provisioning protocol that any protocol can tap into for various purposes. Its deep liquidity and low fees serve as a backend for many exciting protocols on both Optimism and Ethereum. Many user-facing protocols in the Synthetix ecosystem, such as Kwenta (Spot and Futures), Lyra (Options), Polynomial (Automated Options), and 1inch & Curve (Atomic Swaps), tap into Synthetix liquidity to power their protocols. Synthetix is built on Optimism and Ethereum mainnet. The Synthetix Network is collateralized by SNX, ETH, and LUSD, enabling the issuance of synthetic assets (Synths). Synths track and provide returns on the underlying asset without requiring one to directly hold the asset. This pooled collateral enables an array of on-chain, composable financial instruments backed by liquidity from Synthetix. Some of the most exciting upcoming releases from SNX are Perps V2, which hopes to enable low-fee on-chain futures trading through the usage of off-chain oracles, and Synthetix V3, which aims to rebuild the protocol to achieve its earliest goal, being a fully permissionless derivatives protocol. Learn more about Synthetix on their blog or by joining the SNX Discord.

The platform aims to broaden the cryptocurrency space by introducing non-blockchain assets, providing access to a more robust financial market.

Ethereum-based DYDX ($ethDYDX) is a governance token that allows the dYdX community to truly govern the dYdX Layer 2 Protocol built on Ethereum ("dYdX v3"). ethDYDX is currently undergoing a migration from Ethereum to the dYdX Chain. More information is available here. If you want to migrate ethDYDX to dYdX Chain DYDX, to enable staking, security and governance of the dYdX Chain you can follow the how-to-bridge guide here.

If you want to read about the new token utility for dYdX Chain DYDX you can read the blog here

ethDYDX (dYdX) is the governance token for the layer 2 protocol built on Ethereum. By enabling shared control of dYdX v3, ethDYDX allows traders, liquidity providers, and partners of dYdX to work collectively towards an enhanced dYdX v3.

Built on StarkWare’s StarkEx scalability engine, layer 2 is used for trading of cross-margined perpetuals on the platform. The scaling solution allows dYdX to increase transaction speed, eliminate gas costs, reduce trading fees and lower​​ minimum trade sizes on the protocol.

A total of 1,000,000,000 ethDYDX have been minted, and started to become accessible over five (5) years, on August 3rd, 2021, at 15:00:00 UTC.

dYdX (ethDYDX)

Stacks is a Bitcoin Layer for smart contracts; it enables smart contracts and decentralized applications to use Bitcoin as an asset and settle transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Bitcoin is the largest, most valuable, and most durable decentralized asset. The Stacks layer unlocks $500B in BTC capital using the Bitcoin L1 as settlement for decentralized applications.

Stacks has knowledge of the full Bitcoin state, thanks to its Proof of Transfer consensus and Clarity language, enabling it to read from Bitcoin at any time.

All transactions on the Stacks layer are automatically hashed and settled on the Bitcoin L1. Stacks blocks are secured by 100% Bitcoin hashpower. In order to re-order Stacks blocks/transactions, an attacker would have to reorg Bitcoin.

Stacks

Aptos is a Layer 1 Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain that employs a novel smart contract programming language called Move, a Rust-based programming language that was independently developed by Meta (formerly Facebook)’s Diem blockchain engineers.

Aptos’s vision is a blockchain that brings mainstream adoption to web3 and empowers an ecosystem of DApps to solve real-world user problems.

The PoS blockchain can achieve a theoretical transaction throughput of over 150,000 transactions per second (tps) through parallel execution.

In March 2022, Aptos raised $200 million in a seed round led by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Other crypto heavyweights like Tiger Global and Multicoin Capital took part in the funding round. Fast forward to July, the startup raised another $200 million in a Series A round with participation from Dragonfly, Apollo Global, Franklin Templeton, Animoca, Jump Crypto and others.

Two months later, Binance Labs made a strategic investment of an undisclosed amount in Aptos.

On Oct. 18, 2022, Aptos announced the mainnet launch, while the Aptos genesis occurred on Oct. 12, 2022.

Aptos

ApeCoin is an ERC-20 governance and utility token used within the APE Ecosystem to empower and incentivize a decentralized community building at the forefront of web3.

ApeCoin holders govern themselves via the decentralized governance framework controlling the ApeCoin DAO, and vote on how the ApeCoin DAO Ecosystem Fund should be used. The APE Foundation administers proposals agreed upon by ApeCoin holders.

ApeCoin

Compound is a DeFi lending protocol that allows users to earn interest on their cryptocurrencies by depositing them into one of several pools supported by the platform.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Compound.

When a user deposits tokens to a Compound pool, they receive cTokens in return. These cTokens represent the individual’s stake in the pool and can be used to redeem the underlying cryptocurrency initially deposited into the pool at any time. For example, by depositing ETH into a pool, you will receive cETH in return. Over time, the exchange rate of these cTokens to the underlying asset increases, which means you can redeem them for more of the underlying asset than you initially put in — this is how the interest is distributed.

On the flip side, borrowers can take a secured loan from any Compound pool by depositing collateral. The maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio varies based on the collateral asset, but currently ranges from 50 to 75%. The interest rate paid varies by borrowed asset and borrowers can face automatic liquidation if their collateral falls below a specific maintenance threshold.

Since the launch of the Compound mainnet in September 2018, the platform has skyrocketed in popularity, and recently passed more than $800 million in total locked value.

Compound

LRC is the Ethereum-based cryptocurrency token of Loopring, an open protocol designed for the building of decentralized crypto exchanges.

In 2020, the average daily trading volume of the entire cryptocurrency market fluctuated in the approximate range of $50-$200 million. Most of that trading is conducted on centralized cryptocurrency exchanges — online platforms operated by private companies that store users’ funds and facilitate the matching of buy and sell orders.

Such platforms have a number of downsides common to all of them, so a new type of exchange — decentralized— has emerged to try to alleviate these disadvantages. However, fully decentralized exchanges are not without their own flaws.

Loopring’s purported goal is to combine centralized order matching with decentralized on-blockchain order settlement into a hybridized product that will take the best aspects of both centralized and decentralized exchanges.

LRC tokens became available to the public during an initial coin offering (ICO) in August 2017, while the Loopring protocol was first deployed on Ethereum mainnet in December 2019.

Loopring

Mina Protocol is a minimal “succinct blockchain” built to curtail computational requirements in order to run DApps more efficiently. Mina has been described as the world’s lightest blockchain since its size is designed to remain constant despite growth in usage. Furthermore, it remains balanced in terms of security and decentralization. The project was rebranded from Coda Protocol to Mina in October 2020.

To learn more about this project, check out our deep dive of Mina Protocol.

The Mina network has a size of only 22 KB, which is miniscule when compared to Bitcoin’s 300 GB blockchain.

Mina

Aave

Arbitrum is an Ethereum layer-two (L2) scaling solution. It uses optimistic rollups to achieve its goal of improving speed, scalability and cost-efficiency on Ethereum. Arbitrum benefits from the security and compatibility of Ethereum. Another benefit is the higher throughput and lower fees compared to Ethereum. That is made possible thanks to moving most of the computation and storage load off-chain.

Arbitrum’s native token is called ARB and is used for governance. Offchain Labs, the developers behind Arbitrum, announced the shift to a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) structure — the Arbitrum DAO. ARB holders can vote on proposals that affect the features, protocol upgrades, funds allocation and election of a Security Council.

Arbitrum has an ambitious roadmap for 2023, which includes: Launching its own layer-three solution called Orbit; Enabling developers to deploy programs written in popular programming languages like Rust, C++, and more using Stylus; Expanding its validator set to include more independent institutional validators; Moving its protocol to layer two with Arbitrum One.

On March 16, 2023,  Arbitrum announced their highly anticipated airdrop of ARB. The token will be airdropped to early users and DAOs building on Arbitrum, with 12.75% of the total supply to be distributed. Recipients were rewarded on a point-based system depending on their interaction with the Arbitrum network until a cutoff date of March 1, 2023. The token generation event is on March 23, 2023.