What Is ENS and Why Your Wallet Address Needs a Name

An Ethereum wallet address looks like 0x71C7656EC7ab88b098defB751B7401B5f6d8976F. It works, but nobody can read it, remember it, or type it without triple-checking every character. ENS — the Ethereum Name Service — fixes that by mapping a human-readable name like alice.eth to that string, the same way a phone contact hides the actual number behind a name.