IMPORTANT
Yesterday you should have created an ENS domain. Please fill out this form and send me your ENS domain name. This step is necessary for Day 5.
Picking up where we left off
Open your browser with MetaMask and go back to the ens.domains. Click Go to app, click the Connect button, and select MetaMask as your wallet of choice.
You’ve just logged in with Ethereum again 😎
Now click My Account and you should see a console that looks similar to the screenshot below.
Select your ENS name from the dropdown menu and then click Save.
After you click Save, the MetaMask extension should pop-up requesting you to sign the transaction and charging a hefty gas fee for the service. Click Confirm.
You should now see the transaction pending on your ENS console. In a few minutes the pending sign will go away and the transaction will be complete.
What just happened???
You just created a web3 username for yourself. Now, instead of being known as “0x…”, you mapped your ENS name to your public wallet address.
People tend to keep most of their assets / valuables on another wallet address, but the ENS-linked wallet represents your unique identity in the crypto-verse for social purposes.
Still confused?
Go to etherscan.io - the Ethereum Block Explorer - and type your ENS name in the search bar.
You should see something that looks a bit like the console on the ENS domain name page. This is the public record of the transaction you just performed.
Now click on the wallet address link next to the word Resolved Address. (This is your public wallet address.) Doing so will pull up all recent transaction associated with your wallet.
You should see four transactions, starting with the initial transfer of 0.1 ETH to the last three transactions you performed on ENS domains. Now, however, all of them are linked to your ENS domain name - “14days.eth” in my case.
Send me your ENS name
That’s all for today.
Now, if you didn’t already, please fill out this form and send me your ENS domain name. This step is necessary for Day 5.
Further reading:
In addition to being a popular service for users of the Ethereum network, ENS is also famous for its “airdrop” in November 2021. An airdrop is a way of rewarding early users with free tokens that can be exchanged on the open market. We’ll talk more about tokens other than Ethereum a few days from now.