ENSv2: An Update on our Progress | ENS Blog

ENS Labs Head of Product Esk3nder.eth updates the community on ENSv2, the plan to extend ENS to Layer 2 while reimagining the protocol, and says the team has narrowed its options to three paths. The options are deploying directly on public ZK chains such as Scroll and Taiko, running its own instance of a ZK chain stack as Status is doing with Linea, or building a custom zkVM with Axiom. The article rules out purely optimistic chains because of the finality criterion, since ZK finality is given as 2 to 24 hours versus a typical 7-day challenge window. Next steps include benchmarking, a funding proposal to the ENS DAO, and a final L2 recommendation expected in the coming months.