zkSync Name Service

ZNS is the domain project for zkSync developed by zkApe. The zkSync Name Service (ZNS) is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on the zkSync Era. ZNS’s job is to map human-readable names like ‘zkSync.zk’ to machine-readable identifiers such as Ethereum addresses, other cryptocurrency addresses, content hashes, and metadata. ZNS also supports ‘reverse resolution’, making it possible to associate metadata such as canonical names or interface descriptions with Ethereum addresses. ZNS has similar goals to DNS, the Internet’s Domain Name Service, but has significantly different architecture due to the capabilities and constraints provided by the zkSync Era. Like DNS, ZNS operates on a system of dot-separated hierarchical names called domains, with the owner of a domain having full control over subdomains.