We are pleased to announce the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) has received a BinanceX grant to add multi-coin address support.

This means you will soon be able to use one ENS name to receive any arbitrary cryptocurrency — such as bitcoin, litecoin, and zcash — rather than only ether and Ethereum-based tokens.

This will work not only with ENS-native .ETH names, but with all DNS domains that are integrated into ENS. Right now, that’s .XYZ (how to claim your .XYZ name on ENS), .LUXE, and a few other closed TLDs. But later this year we plan on rolling this out for most TLDs, including all widely used ones like .COM, .ORG, .IO, and +1200 others.

In other words, soon the Ethereum Foundation will be able to receive not only ether but also bitcoin and any other cryptocurrency with the name “ethereum.org” — with ENS’s Ethereum smart-contracts making it all happen in the background.

We are also pleased to announce D’Cent Wallet has agreed to work with us to the be the first wallet to integrate this new functionality. (If you are a wallet interested in integrating as well, email us at brantly@ens.domains.)

Though ENS is built on Ethereum, it can provide naming for anything, whether it’s for other blockchains or things unrelated to blockchain technology. ENS is not a naming service only for Ethereum, it’s a naming service that happens to be built on Ethereum. ENS already supports non-Ethereum things like IPFS hashes and Tor .onion addresses; we’re working on using ENS to host traditional DNS records; and now we’re standardizing multi-coin address support.

Stay tuned over the next few weeks and months for updates!

UPDATE: We are soliciting feedback on the standard here.