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GENIUS Act passage and ongoing OCC banking rulemaking are prompting institutions to register paired .com/.eth domain identities as a dual-rail namespace: DNS for legally referenceable filings and regulated communications, ENS for native smart-contract composability. The pairing addresses a structural incompatibility, as .com domains carry established legal standing but cannot be called directly by on-chain contracts, while .eth names resolve natively in EVM environments but lack acceptance in regulatory filings. This framing creates direct tension with Ethereum's decentralization ethos, and critics argue that compliance-driven ENS adoption at scale could reduce the protocol to identity infrastructure controlled by regulated counterparties.
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