Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin played a pivotal role in making the development of the Ethereum Naming Service possible.
Nick Johnson wasn’t sure how much capital he would need to build Ethereum Name Service (ENS), but when he submitted figures to the Ethereum Foundation for a grant, Vitalik Buterin gave him double the amount he had asked for.
ENS’s founder spoke exclusively to Cointelegraph at ETHGlobal in London, reflecting on the development of the project that allows users to create human-readable Web3 addresses that can double up as a Web3 wallet for cryptocurrencies and NFTs as well as a domain for decentralized websites.
The New Zealand-born software engineer worked for Google before being introduced to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Johnson said he was drawn to Ethereum due to its programmability:
