Ethereum Name Service: ENS is a naming system that lets people use easy-to-read names instead of long wallet addresses, across many blockchains, apps, and wallets. Of the 5 things it promised, it delivered 1, 4 are still open (4 with no date); nothing dated is coming up. It trades at $5.62, #152 of all coins by size, 93% below its highest ever price.
This week Nothing changed on its record.
A real job, real backing. Delivered 1 of 5, none late. Nothing dated ahead. #2 of 4 name services. 1 reason to be careful.
Is it real?
Reasons to be careful:Half the supply still to come
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3 of 4
- ✓A real-world jobReal-world purpose: name service
- ✓Real backingBacking: trades on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken
- ✓Something aheadAhead: 1 of 5 promises delivered
- –Room to growWorth at least four times less than the biggest coin doing the same job, so the gap is real, not a guess.
Listed on 10 big exchanges
- Origin10 November 2021about about 4 yearsens.domains, Whitepaper
- DevelopersNot namedNeither Wikidata nor its listing names the foundersNo public code repository listed
- BackingNo named investorListed on Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance
- Standing on the record1 of 51 confirmed by outside news5 headlines last month53,659 people keep it on a CoinGecko watchlistNo corrections needed so far
It is already worth more than the typical coin in Name Service ($18.82M). To match the leader, Beldex ($595.09M), its price would need to rise 151%, to about $14.11.
Still to check
- No named investor among its tags
- Only 5 headlines named it last month
What to do It has delivered 1 of 5 dated promises and nothing dated is ahead. Add it to My coins and come back when it posts a new date; until then the record has nothing new to say.
A gap is not a forecast. Most small coins never close it. The site never picks.
Four tests, printed. Passing all four means a real job, real backing, something ahead, and a price far below the leader of its group. A filter on facts, never a verdict.
Every line has a source: the coin's own listing, CoinGecko's tags, the record, or the news feed. Reputation here is a count, never an opinion.
Does it deliver?
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Every line is quoted from the project's own pages, with the copy we stored and, where one exists, the article that reported it
1 of 5
promises delivered, by the project's own pages
1 of those confirmed by an outside news report
Promises by the year they were due
delivered open past due
delivered open past due, not yet checked today. Click a point to open that promise.
- Openno dateThe project says a new version of the protocol, called ENSv2, is coming soon, with new apps and a different ownership model.
- Openno dateThe project says the ability to update how names are normalized will be ready by the time ENSv2 reaches mainnet, though it is not included in the current Beta.
- Openno dateThe project says it is also developing expanded support for older ENS names, DNS-related improvements, broader tools for resolving names, and more payment options ahead of the full release.
- Openno dateThe project says new pricing models will be introduced when ENSv2 fully launches.
- Delivered18 August 2026The project committed to running a security audit competition with Immunefi from August 18, 2026 through September 14, 2026, with a reward pool of up to $70,000.delivered 18 August 2026Confirmed by TradingView, 2 September 2026Proof Ethereum Name Service to Conclude Audit Competition on September 14th TradingView, 2 September 2026
Details
“An audit competition will start on August 18 in collaboration with Immunefi to bring more security researchers into the testing process ahead of mainnet. The competition is scheduled to run through September 14, with a conditional reward pool of up to $70,000 based on the highest-severity valid finding.”
source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13
Blog lists "The ENS Audit Competition with Immunefi Is Now Live", dated Aug 18, 2026. source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13
What is next, and when?
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Nothing dated
The project has not put a date on anything still open. That is a fact worth knowing.
How big is it next to its rivals?
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Only coins within a hundred times its worth; a coin a thousand times bigger is another world
Name service
6 coins tagged Name Service, worth $856.94M together. #2 of 6 by worth.
Name Service: this coin against its direct competitors
- CoinWorth, as a barWorthAgainst this coinToday, and the gapSupplyPromises
Ethereum Name Service$237.06Mthis coin−1.6%42% out1 of 5 delivered
Beldex$595.09M2.5× bigger, +$358.04M−0.9%, gap +0.7no max10 of 48 delivered
Bonfida$18.82M12.6× smaller, −$218.23M−2.0%, gap −0.399% outno record
SuiNS Token$2.92M81.2× smaller, −$234.14M−4.2%, gap −2.655% outno record
Name Service: this coin next to Beldex, the biggest rival within reach. People go to the bigger coin unless the smaller one does something it does not.
- Ethereum Name Service says
- ENS is a naming system that lets people use easy-to-read names instead of long wallet addresses, across many blockchains, apps, and wallets.
- Beldex says
- Beldex is a decentralized network that lets people send private transactions and messages.
Two claims, side by side, in their own words. Whether the difference is real is for the record to show over time, and for you to judge.
ENS is a naming system that lets people use easy-to-read names instead of long wallet addresses, across many blockchains, apps, and wallets.
Its listing puts it this way: The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on the Ethereum blockchain. ENS’s job is to map human-readable names like ‘alice.eth’ to machine-readable identifiers such as Ethereum addresses, other cryptocurrency addresses, content hashes, and metadata.
Problem it says it solves: name service. 6 coins are working on it and together they are worth $856,941,322. This coin is 28% of that.
Where it trades: Coinbase, Crypto.com, Kraken, Binance, Gemini
Each bar is a coin's worth today (price × coins out), longest first. The lit bar is this coin; grey bars are the others doing the same job.
Bars are market cap. Order is size, nothing else. Differences are measured from the coin you are looking at.
What should make me careful?
1 reason to be careful
- Half the supply still to come58% of the maximum supply is still to come
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Printed the same way as the reasons for: facts from the record, the tags and the market feed. Never a verdict, never the word sell.
The homework: the coin itself, the news, the record
The coin itself
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The last 7 days
Where today sits against its highest ever price
Highest ever: $83.40 on 10 November 2021. Today is 7% of that.
42%
of all ENS that will ever exist is already out in public hands: 42.18M coins.
58% (57.82M coins) is already created but not in public hands, held by the project or locked in escrow. That is a majority. Those coins can be sold later, which can push the price down.
out held back. Each dot is 1%.
A vote, nothing more by itself
Holders vote on how the project runs. The coin does not pay for anything on its own.
- A vote on how the project is run
That is all a market cap is: today's price times the coins in public hands. It moves every time the price does. It says what buyers are paying, not what the coin is worth.
- of the maximum supply is in circulation: 42.18M of 100M.
- 57.82Mcoins still to be released, 58% of the maximum. Releases can add selling pressure.
- 2.4×fully diluted value versus today's market cap. The gap is coins not yet released.
- of its all-time high of $83.40 on 10 November 2021. That is −93.3% from the top.
- #152by market cap, $237,057,372.
- Not checkedwho holds the most coins, and how much has been burned. Those need on-chain data this site does not read yet.
Supply and value figures from CoinGecko, refreshed hourly. Not part of the record.
What the news says
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Headlines per day, last 30 days
5 headlines named this coin in the last month.
What they were about
- Price3
- Partnership1
- Ethereum Name Service price outlook: Support test signals pressure remains
- Ethereum Name Service Price (ENS/USD) Today | Live Price, Market Cap & Chart
- Google Integrates Ethereum Name Service: Wallet Balances Now Visible in Search Results
- Ethereum Name Service to Conclude Audit Competition on September 14th
- Ethereum Name Service tests $5.44 support amid ongoing pullback
Headlines are the publishers' own. News is never placed next to price.
The record itself
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Six facts, the project's own replies, its peers, contract facts, references and every stored copy
ENS is a naming system that lets people use easy-to-read names instead of long wallet addresses, across many blockchains, apps, and wallets.
“ENS is the open naming layer with over 35 million registered names, made for every chain, app, and wallet.”source · snapshot · captured 2026-09-13
Live. The record does not yet cite when this stage began.
1 of 5 promises delivered. 4 open.
No public code repository is listed in this record.
None of the project's captured pages has changed since capture began on 13 September 2026.
Nothing further to flag from the record as it stands.
This record was drafted by a machine from captured pages and has not yet been checked by a person. Treat every line as unverified until that note changes.