Ethereum Name ServiceENS
- Market cap#129$180.43M
- 24h volume#115$8.57M
- All-time high$83.40
- YTD return− 54.57%− 54.57%
- Circulating supply
- 42.31M
- Total supply
- 100M
- Max supply
- 100M
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About Ethereum Name Service (ENS)
The Ethereum Name Service is a naming system on Ethereum that turns long wallet addresses into short, readable names such as yourname.eth, and ENS is its governance token. The system was created by a team led by Nick Johnson, and ENS Labs develops the protocol today. The ENS token launched on November 8, 2021, together with the ENS DAO, the organization that now governs the protocol and its treasury.
How ENS works
Users register a .eth name for a number of years and pay a yearly fee. A name is an NFT that can point to a wallet, to a website and to other information, and it can be used in many wallets and applications in place of an address. The fees paid for names go to the DAO treasury, which funds development and grants. ENS also supports subnames and the use of names from the regular domain system, such as .com. A rebuilt version of the protocol, ENSv2, went live on Ethereum in October 2026.
ENS governance and supply
ENS holders vote in the DAO, directly or by delegating their votes, on matters such as the prices of names and the use of the treasury. There are 100 million ENS in total. At the launch, 25% of the supply was set aside for an airdrop to accounts that had registered .eth names by October 31, 2021, 25% went to contributors, and 50% went to the DAO treasury. The tokens of core contributors and most of the treasury share were released gradually over four years. Current circulating and total supply figures are shown at the top of this page.
ENS price history
ENS reached its highest prices in November 2021, in the days after the airdrop, and it has traded below that level since. You can see the all-time high and the full price history on the chart above.
ENS price on Cointelegraph
Follow the live Ethereum Name Service price on this page. Cointelegraph's ENS price index shows the ENS to USD rate, 24-hour change, market cap, trading volume, all-time high and year-to-date return, plus the circulating supply. Use the interactive ENS price chart to compare timeframes from six hours to all time, and the ENS to USD converter to check any amount in seconds. ENS runs on Ethereum, so for related updates, see our Ethereum news page.