Hey, Banquist Nation. Welcome to another edition of State of the Nation. David, I'm super

excited. I'm full of energy. You know why? It's airdrop season, my friend. ENS just did

a big airdrop and we are talking to who the people behind ENS and the airdrop. David,

who are we talking to and what's this episode all about? Yeah, we were talking to

at Brantley, Milligan and Nick Johnson of the ENS team. They have been hard at work building out

the ENS protocol for years now and now the era of DAO's is upon us and is really, in my opinion,

a very nice capstone to a lot of the work that Nick and Brantley has been doing over the years,

tirelessly making Ethereum more and more usable for all of us. And now they are folding the ENS

protocol into a DAO to be community-owned, community-governed. And so we are going to unpack what

exactly that means. What does it mean to govern over ENS? Can I just say we we're not just talking

about ENS because they're doing an airdrop. I mean, that's why it's specifically this week,

okay, because they just sit in airdrop and you guys should know about it. We want to hear the details

about this DAO and everything they're they're planning with it. But we've been talking about ENS

for a long time now on the Banquist program, both in our newsletter and through various interviews

and conversations because this is kind of like, we talked about a tweet last week, David, where

somebody tweeted out, hey, the model for Ethereum is a wallet is right. But there's also the model

for an ETH address as a profile, as an identity. And so your ENS address can be part of that. It's

like a .ETH type address. You can also link this to a DNS, a domain name. And it gives kind of a

human readable destination for for your Ethereum wallet or your Ethereum profile this way. And

this unlocks so much, David, that we're going to unpack here today. Unlocks the ability to do like,

you know, kind of single sign on using using Ethereum. Unlocks the ability to do very easy, you

know, payments to and from the the legacy Web2 world. So lots of things going on here. We're big

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