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If you owned your web3 domain name as of October 30th, you would’ve made a cool $15k just for owning it.

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) - a protocol that issues non-fungible tokens (NFT) that can represent Ethereum addresses as well as web domains (the web3 equivalent of GoDaddy), launched an airdrop portal for its newly issued ENS token this week.

Airdrops are a token distribution method that awards a portion of circulating tokens to Ethereum addresses that fulfill certain parameters, such as having purchased an NFT.

In what may be a first and in an effort to distribute voting rights - ENS became a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) overnight and launched a governance token. In order to claim allocated tokens, users had to vote on four articles of a foundational ENS governance constitution.

For those asking, livingonaprayer.eth is still available. I’d reckon it won’t last long #wagmi

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