Citing a 99% reduction in gas fees and the upcoming scaling of Ethereum, the project will now deploy its ENSv2 upgrade on to Ethereum.
Ethereum domain name service provider ENS has canceled its plans to launch a Layer 2 protocol as a part of its ENSv2 upgrade, opting as an alternative to launch a revised protocol directly on Ethereum.
In a blog post on Friday, ENS lead developer nick.eth explained that the choice was partly resulting from a “99% reduction in ENS registration gas costs over the past 12 months” resulting from various major upgrades to the Ethereum network.
“Simply put: Ethereum L1 is scaling, and it’s scaling faster than almost anyone predicted two years ago. The recent Fusaka upgrade raised the gas limit to 60 million, a double from early 2025,” nick.eth said, adding:
“Now Ethereum core developers are targeting 200 million gas caps by 2026, a threefold increase from today, and that’s before any ZK upgrades land.”
The Fusaka upgrade, one of the recent Ethereum upgrades that went live in early December, has helped Ethereum reduce gas fees resulting from its significant scaling capabilities for each the L1 and L2 ecosystems.
Blog post announcing changes to ENS upgrade plans. Source: ENS
ENS first announced its L2 namechain in November 2024, stating that it might make it easier and cheaper for users to register domains through rollups.
Nick.eth highlighted that the context has modified dramatically and that it’s now possible to construct directly on top of L1 as an alternative of choosing a full-fledged L2 to scale back costs.
“Huge L1 scalability was not a part of the Ethereum roadmap, and the message was clear that L2s were the way in which forward. We needed to accommodate our users to where the ecosystem was heading, and that meant constructing Namechain,” he said.
With plans for Namechain now finalized, ENS lead developer noted that the project continues to be working on significant performance and utility improvements over ENSv2, while the protocol stays highly interoperable with L2s.
“The overwhelming majority of our development effort has gone into ENSv2 itself: the brand new registry architecture, the improved ownership model, higher handling of name expiration, and the flexibleness that comes from giving each name its own registry,” he said, adding:
“The decision to remain on L1 doesn’t mean we’re closing the door to L2s completely. The flexibility of the ENSv2 architecture makes L2 names more interoperable. Our latest registration flow abstracts the complexity of cross-chain transactions.” Cointelegraph is committed to independent, transparent journalism. This news article is produced in accordance with Cointelegraph's editorial guidelines and goals to supply accurate and up-to-date information. Readers are advised to independently confirm the knowledge. Read our editorial policies https://cointelegraph.com/editorial-policy
