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The ENS.Tools September Leaderboard is live
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Product updates, deep-dives on the ENS protocol, and guides for finding, trading, and managing .eth domain names. Written by the ENS.Tools team.
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Product29 Aug 20266 min
Announcing the ENS.Tools September Leaderboard: trade, list and win ENS
A worldwide September competition with two receipt-verified leaderboards, ten ENS prize names, and a private wash-trading challenge process.
Product27 Aug 20266 min
List your ENS names everywhere from one screen
Audit your portfolio across ENS.Tools, Name Whisper, OpenSea, and Grails, close every coverage gap, and distribute marketplace-specific Seaport orders with one bulk listing signature.
Research17 Aug 20266 min
The biggest apparent losses in ENS — and why the numbers can mislead
One landmark name is listed 200 ETH below its previous sale. Several others appear to have fallen more than 99%. A closer look at what last-sale data can — and cannot — tell us.
Product16 Aug 20265 min
Your ENS.Tools action inbox, now delivered by email
Confirm one email once, then receive wallet-scoped action-inbox digests for expiry, watchlist, marketplace, agent, swap, and message events.
Product14 Aug 20266 min
Why Expiry Explorer is our most-used feature — and how easy it makes ENS sniping
The busiest page on ENS.Tools turns the .eth expiry lifecycle into a live, filterable shortlist. Here is why collectors keep coming back and how the two-transaction catch works.
Product29 Jul 20268 min
Recurring Base USDC subscriptions for ENS agent infrastructure
How bounded Base Account permissions, verified USDC receipts, cancellation, and fail-closed entitlement make agent subscriptions safer.
Guide28 Jul 202611 min
Build an ENS market intelligence and trading agent
Turn crypto narratives, ENS lifecycle data, marketplace liquidity, signed evidence, and narrowly scoped wallet permissions into a paper trader first—and a safer execution agent later.
Guide27 Jul 202612 min
How to use the ENS.Tools agent control plane
A practical walkthrough of capability checks, explainable routing, scoped policies, signed jobs, and safe fleet operations—with a working ENS agent example.
Product26 Jul 202616 min
Introducing the ENS.Tools agent control plane
Wallet-backed identity, live evidence, deterministic routing, scoped execution, crypto commerce, fleet SRE, developer capacity, and an external signed canary—now live as one ENS agent platform.
Marketplace19 Jul 20265 min
As Grails winds down, ENS.Tools becomes the home for ENS trading
Grails is shutting down. Rather than build a new marketplace contract, we indexed ENS activity natively on Seaport and plugged into the OpenSea Stream API, so the full ENS order book now lives in one place — with no gap in coverage.
Engineering15 Jul 20264 min
Every ENS sale, indexed straight from the chain
Market-wide sale history on ENS.Tools is now reconstructed from chain data rather than a marketplace API. We scan ENS transfers against Seaport fulfilments directly on-chain — wrapped names included — and dedupe every sale by transaction and token.
Marketplace9 Jul 20266 min
What's new: a look for every name, one‑signature listing, and a marketplace that stands on its own
A big batch of marketplace updates just shipped — generative art for every ENS name, listing your whole portfolio in a single signature, one‑transaction cart sweeps, collection offers, and a native order book that keeps working on its own.
Marketplace8 Jul 20265 min
Offers, both ways: accept every bid on your names — and cancel your own
A wallet-wide view of every acceptable bid across the names you own, one-click accept for single-name and collection offers, and a true on-chain cancel for bids you have made yourself.
Product8 Jul 20264 min
Watch any name across every device — and get emailed before it drops
Your ENS.Tools watchlist now syncs to your wallet, so it follows you across browsers and devices instead of living in one browser. Plus opt-in email alerts for expiries and grace periods.
Marketplace8 Jul 20265 min
Three new ways to read the ENS market: bulk search, a trader leaderboard, and live analytics
Check hundreds of names for listings at once, see who is moving the most volume, and watch listings, sales and volume trend over time — all native to the ENS.Tools order book.
Guide1 Jul 20267 min
ENS Collections Explained: 999 Club, 10k Club and Dictionary Names
Understand ENS Collections: the 999 Club, 10k Club, three-letter names, palindromes and dictionary words. What each category is and how to browse them.
Guide30 Jun 20269 min
ENSv2: what changes for name holders (and what doesn't)
ENSv2 Public Beta is live on Sepolia with a hierarchical registry, role-based permissions, a 28-day grace period, multi-year discounts, stablecoin payments, and the first public ENSv1 upgrade flow.
Research29 Jun 20266 min
The ENS market in June 2026: 20,000 names for sale and what the numbers actually say
A snapshot of the ENS market heading into July: ~20,700 names listed across every venue, more than 360,000 lifetime sales, and a renewal rate that says more about ENS than any single big sale. Here is what we read into the data.
Guide29 Jun 20266 min
Why your ENS name doesn't show up in apps (and how to fix your primary name)
You bought the name, pointed it at your wallet, and apps still show 0x1234… Setting an address is only half of it. Here is what a primary name actually is, why yours might not be working, and how to set it correctly.
Guide28 Jun 20266 min
How to Read the ENS Market with the Activity Feed
Understand ENS market activity using the live Activity feed on ens.tools: read listings, sales and offers to see what's happening across the namespace.
Guide25 Jun 20267 min
Managing an ENS Portfolio: Bulk Renewals, Records and Primary Names
Manage a portfolio of ENS names efficiently: bulk renew registrations, batch-edit records, set your primary name, and track upcoming expiries on ens.tools.
Guide22 Jun 20267 min
ENS Names Explained: What They Are and Why They Matter
A clear guide to ENS names: what .eth names are, how they work on Ethereum, and why they matter for wallets, on-chain identity and the decentralised web.
Guide20 Jun 20266 min
How to Find a Great .eth Name with AI Search
Learn how to find the perfect .eth name using AI Search on ens.tools. Describe what you want in plain English and search a 200,000+ name curated catalogue.
Research27 May 20267 min
Are 3-letter ENS names worth it? A data-backed look at recent sales
Three-letter .eth names occupy the most-discussed niche in the ENS market. Floor prices, sale distribution, holding patterns, and the math on whether a 3-letter is actually a good buy at today's prices.
Research27 May 20266 min
Why 70%+ of premium ENS names go unrenewed (and what happens to them)
Most premium ENS names that hit grace period in any given month never get renewed. The reasons are structural, the patterns are predictable, and the secondary market depends on this exact failure mode.
Engineering27 May 20266 min
5 things you can build with the ENS.Tools MCP server in 30 minutes
Our MCP server exposes a generated catalogue of ENS and agent tools over the Model Context Protocol — public, non-custodial, and ready for agent workflows. Five concrete things any AI agent can do with it now.
Guide27 May 20266 min
How to set up your ENS profile so people actually take you seriously
An ENS name resolving to a wallet is the minimum. A fully filled profile — avatar, bio, verified socials, multi-chain addresses, content hash — is what turns a name into a credible identity. Here is the checklist that gets you to 100%.
Guide24 May 20265 min
ENS marketplace fees compared: ENS.Tools, OpenSea, Blur, Grails
Four marketplaces, four fee structures, four very different all-in costs for the same trade. A side-by-side breakdown of what each platform charges, where the fees go, and what protocol the trade settles on.
Research24 May 20267 min
We analyzed every ENS sale in May: 10 patterns that surprised us
A month of ENS marketplace data across all venues. What sold and what didn't, where the volume went, and what the data says about which categories are heating up vs cooling off.
Guide21 May 20265 min
How to renew 10+ ENS names in one transaction (and save 80% on gas)
Per-name renewal is the default flow most ENS owners use — and it costs more in gas than it should. Here is the math, the contract, and the tool that bundles 10, 50, or 200 renewals into a single signing event.
Guide21 May 20266 min
How to find ENS names by pattern: palindromes, emoji, years, repeating digits, and 6 more
Beyond "exact name" search, ENS has whole sub-cultures of pattern-based collecting. Here are 10 patterns worth filtering for, with the queries to find them and what makes each collectible.
Guide18 May 20268 min
How to buy an ENS name in 2026 — the complete guide
Three paths to owning a .eth name: register a fresh one, catch one in the expiry auction, or buy on the marketplace. What each costs, when each makes sense, and how to avoid overpaying.
Guide14 May 20268 min
How to find ENS names with AI: a practical field guide
Worked examples and query patterns for the natural-language ENS search. Describe what you want — the index returns the closest matches across millions of names, including ones you would never have guessed.
Engineering14 May 20265 min
How ENS.Tools uses ENSNode
A look inside the indexer, label-healer, and name-security services we lean on — and why a consumer-facing ENS surface is meaningfully better when the infra underneath is open.
Guide13 May 20267 min
How to find expiring ENS names (and what to do when you spot one)
A walkthrough of the three-phase ENS expiry lifecycle — grace period, temp premium, and reopening — plus the cheapest ways to catch a name before someone else does.
Product17 Mar 20266 min
ENS.Tools 2026: AI agents, ENSIP-25, and ENS v2 readiness
A full MCP server for AI agents, ENSIP-25 agent verification, profile completeness scoring, multi-chain addresses, and the groundwork we have laid for ENS v2.
Product17 Dec 20254 min
Discovering ENS domains with natural language: introducing AI Search
Find a name by describing what you want, not by guessing strings. AI Search runs semantic similarity across millions of registered .eth names so the right ones surface from a plain English prompt.
Product15 Dec 20254 min
Your ENS name deserves more than a resolver record
Shareable public profile pages at /profile/<name> that consolidate everything an ENS name represents — avatar, social links, portfolio, achievements, and on-chain footprint.
Product13 Dec 20255 min
Free bulk editing for ENS domains (and why you should wrap yours)
Edit records across dozens of ENS names in a single multicall transaction — no per-domain fee. Plus a BulkWrap contract that wraps multiple names at once.
Product11 Dec 20254 min
Your ENS identity, now fully manageable in one place
In-app profile editing, avatar integration, manager rights recovery, and portfolio exploration — no more bouncing between the ENS app, OpenSea, and Etherscan.
Product5 Dec 20254 min
Expiry Explorer: every ENS name in its lifecycle, in one place
A unified view of the three-phase ENS expiry lifecycle — grace period, temporary premium, and reopening — with live pricing, decay progress, and registration in two clicks.
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