ENS Labs and GLEIF explore linking ENS names to verifiable legal entity identifiers

ENS Labs, the developer of the Ethereum Name Service, is exploring with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) how institutions can associate their ENS names with verifiable Legal Entity Identifiers (vLEI), thereby creating a continuous and verifiable identity on the blockchain.

ENS is the domain and identity system of the Ethereum ecosystem, allowing users to replace long addresses with human-readable names. GLEIF is responsible for managing the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system, and vLEI is its verifiable version used to confirm the legal entity identity of organizations. The direction of this collaboration is to connect on-chain names with regulated legal identity credentials, but the specific product form and launch time have not been disclosed in public posts.