ZK ENS domains #21
Description
IPNS is not a great solution for dynamic content on .eth domains. It is an eventually consistent model, which suffers from all the same problems as DNS - stale caches. We live in 2022, and can design a better system. It's interesting because you can see people looking for the alternative - ie. DNSLink. DNSLink is where you put the IPNS key pointing to the new content, inside the DNS system, thus defeating the whole decentralization property. had a good chat with noah from uniswap about this.
Here's an idea:
- an uncensorable domain (.eth)
- with uncensorable content attached to it (ipfs/bittorrent)
- that can be updated cheaply ($0.01c) - on an L2.
- that is more reliable than IPNS - in that the domain content is consistently, rather than eventually consistent (up to 24h on the IPFS DHT to update an IPNS domain properly)
- that is privately and anonymously owned - only data you can see is what the domain points to.
We can build this using ZK tools today. Here's a small proposal:
- deploy a fork of ENS on an L2 like Optimism/Arbitrum
- write a ZK circuit in Circom that allows people to anonymously buy domains.
- write a ZK circuit in Circom that allows people to anonymously update domain content (contenthash).
- see what happens