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regna.ai | ENS Discovery

Extension to bring practicality and certainty to Twitter ENS Space

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94 weeks ago

Problem

After seeing multiple accounts with the same Twitter and .eth name, I thought there had to be a better way to verify if the Twitter handle actually owned the .eth it represented. I thought this could be beneficial for public safety.

This is where the regna.ai browser extension was born.

Solution

Built on top of Twitter, this Chrome browser extension will recognize any Twitter account with a valid .eth name and inject a button that will allow a 1-click ENS wallet look-over. Screenshot-from-2022-07-25-23-30-29.png

Benefits

  • Security regarding accounts claiming false ownership.
  • Ease of ens wallet discovery based on ens.vision open-source categories.
  • Ability to search for a Twitter account holding a certain ens domain.

Roadmap

  • Warning for Twitter accounts that claim ownership of the same wallet. For instance, inside the current database of 80k+, there are about 900 Twitter accounts claiming ownership of a 999club triple-digit ens. This is problematic because only 310 are unique wallets, meaning 590 accounts are secondary, impersonation, and mostly spam/fake profiles.
  • Translation and pronunciation of non-English domains.
  • Wallet portfolio activity and statistics.

Use of Funds

  • Currently using AWS Activate for Startups credits to cover server costs under AWS services.
  • The ens grant will be used to cover private node costs. Hosted on a Hetzner VPS, an Ethereum node ensures all new registrations and transactions are synced in real-time.

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