Gitcoin Blog

Register your Github Handle (<you>.gitcoin.eth) as an ENS Name for free

ENS offers a secure and decentralized way to address resources both on and off the blockchain using simple, human-readable names.” Think DNS but for Ethereum.

Many wallets implement ENS as an easy way to look up an address. The most famous is MyEtherWallet. Here is an example of MEW auto-translating a Gitcoin ENS name to an address.

TLDR — Oops. We’re sorry and fixing it.

On Saturday morning between 8:29am UTC and 8:40am UTC, the Gitcoin network was hit by a morass of Github Notification Spam. Here’s what it looked like.

When we launched Gitcoin in September 2017, we knew that there were a few design considerations that were very important to realize our mission to Push Open Source Forward.

1. We wanted to launch Gitcoin with some of the best repos in web3. So we launched funded work for Metamask, Truffle, EtherDelta, and MyEtherWallet. ✅