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#HNS
to find up-to-the-minute news about Handshake.
NOW LIVE - v7.1 ANDROID UPDATE 📥
The
#CarbonBrowser
v7.1 update is now live to download from the Google PlayStore which features
@HNS
integration (hns gateway) and much more!
What's New in v7.1
•
#Handshake
DNS support
• Stability improvements
• Carbon Wallet improvements
IMPORTANT NEWS IN THE HANDSHAKE ECOSYSTEM
1/5 Handshake’s first soft fork was recently locked in. This means ~79,000 previously reserved names/TLDs will become available in early February 2024
Count-down clock:
Details on fork:
NEW 4TH PRODUCT ANNOUNCED 📢
@CarbonID_
🔥
Carbon's new decentralized naming service allowing everyone to claim a web3 digital ID within Carbon Browser!
Claim your unique .CSIX username soon 👇
hnsd v1.0.0 has been tagged for release. 🚀🤝
This is the Handshake "killer app" -- a lightweight SPV node and recursive resolver written in C that verifies proof-of-work and can serve domains from both HNS and ICANN root zones.
This is the Handshake community. We are the builders of today for the decentralized web of tomorrow
#hodlhands
@kurumiimari1
demos ShakeDex, a DEX for trustlessly and permissionlessly exchanging Handshake names
With the fork fast-approaching, here is a fresh look at stats for the Handshake blockchain:
Names/TLDs: 12,267,443
Bids: 17,005,177
Coins burned (HNS): 36,061,807
Addresses: 39,987,779
Track names/TLDs becoming available as a result of the fork:
Want to own .goat, .web or .king? Get these Handshake TLDs, and many more, in ~43 days and use
@trycarbonio
to surf the new decentralized/permissionless web
👀 Here's just 1,000 of the highest ranked names from the original Alexa 100k reserved list. All of these will become available to bid in late January (The Happening), along with ~90k more. 🤯
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New Release: Bob Wallet V2.0.0
Adds support for multi-signature wallets, the ability to transfer names to HIP-0002 address aliases, and includes HSD v5 with better batching for bulk actions.
[Handshake retro: fork edition]
Mar 2020:
@NextDNS
integrated Handshake:
@brave
claimed its reserved TLD brave/ and 3,400,503.43 HNS coins (worth ~$530,000 at the time). Track the TLD .brave on Handshake (expiring in ~21 days):
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Furthering the ethos of gifting, Handshake operationalized a novel airdrop mechanism to open source developers. A few hundred thousand engineers were gifted HNS coins, mostly via GitHub-linked SSH/PGP keys
More here:
Blockchains are on course to become our shared source of truth and reality.
The effects of this over time are hard to overstate. Especially mind-boggling as stage 1 of the crypto rocket, redefining money, will itself be one of the most world-changing innovations of the century.
New Release: HNSD V2.0.0
Changes to the Handshake SPV name resolver include checkpoints for full syncing in seconds and Hesiod API to get metadata via DNS requests.
Just one day before the
#handshake
Happening, when more than 79k names become available for auction,
@freebsd
just claimed their reserved name .freebsd
Welcome aboard!
#hns
IMPORTANT NEWS IN THE HANDSHAKE ECOSYSTEM
1/5 Handshake’s first soft fork was recently locked in. This means ~79,000 previously reserved names/TLDs will become available in early February 2024
Count-down clock:
Details on fork:
Handshake was launched with a set of reserved names that can be claimed by their current legacy DNS owners using DNSSEC proofs.
HIP-14 is a proposed hard fork to extend a subset of reserved name claims.
Handshake community member
@zachbrxwn
has written a breakdown of the $HNS asset distribution for investors or traders who may wish to further understand the circulating supply:
[Handshake retro: fork edition]
Feb 2020: the reserved TLD eth/ and 136,503.51 HNS coins (worth ~$14,000 at the time) were claimed by the
@ethereum
/
@ensdomains
community. Track .eth on Handshake here:
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May 2022
The nation of Palau🇵🇼claims its top-level domain .pw on Handshake
Has another country ever claimed/used a blockchain-based TLD?
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Nov 2023
@Namecheap
previews its new product, Thunderbolt: next-generation voice, video, and chat messaging using your domain name. Supports Handshake
$HNS
Find and create your local Handshake community across the globe:
Gatherings happening - no pun intended - in Texas (tomorrow), Taiwan (Feb 2), and India (Feb 12)
Amazing initiative!👏
$HNS
#HNS
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June 2020:
Handshake processed its 1 millionth transaction and HandyBrowser launched.
@DanielGKuhn
wrote a piece on this for
@CoinDesk
:
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Dec 2020:
@PumaBrowser
integrates Handshake
A Handshake section was added to the “Alternative DNS root” Wikipedia page:
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Sep 2020:
hnsd v1.0.0, a lightweight SPV node and recursive resolver, was released by legendary Handshake contributor,
@MatthewZipkin
:
hnsd v1.0.0 has been tagged for release. 🚀🤝
This is the Handshake "killer app" -- a lightweight SPV node and recursive resolver written in C that verifies proof-of-work and can serve domains from both HNS and ICANN root zones.
[Handshake retro: fork edition]
Feb 2023
Handshake reaches 10 million names:
@superlink
, powered by Handshake, announces its personal domain name registrar:
@FxWallet
launches Dename:
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Aug 2022
@KeybaseIO
claims its reserved name .keybase/ and reward (worth ~$204,000 at the time)
@TLD
also claims its reserved name .tattoo/, adding to the list of claimed/bridged
@ICANN
TLDs on Handshake:
.wiki/
.gay/
.tattoo/
.pw/
.ink/
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As we continue to traverse the lores of
@HNS
, a frequent question has been: what’s a good podcast episode covering Handshake?
@tyneslol
’s interview on
@zeroknowledgefm
with
@AnnaRRose
is an excellent starting point:
[Handshake retro: fork edition]
Feb 2021:
The Handshake TLD nft/ sold for $84,000, covered by
@decryptmedia
:
@impervious
launched .badass domains, truly decentralized 2nd-level domains built on Handshake:
Excited to announce the first truly decentralized 2nd-level domains built on a
#Handshake
TLD. You can read more here: It's the first implementation of EIP-1185 (DNS on ENS)
@ensdomains
#ens
Huge thanks to
@KibaGateaux
and
@MatthewZipkin
for their help!
IMPORTANT NEWS IN THE HANDSHAKE ECOSYSTEM
1/5 Handshake’s first soft fork was recently locked in. This means ~79,000 previously reserved names/TLDs will become available in early February 2024
Count-down clock:
Details on fork:
[Handshake retro: fork edition]
Dec 2022
@BITMAINtech
announces Antminer HS3, a new Handshake ASIC miner, with
@AntPoolofficial
mining pool support. Inventory sells out in 27 seconds:
Wow that was SO FAST🙀
#ANTMINER
HS3 was sold out in only 2⃣️7⃣️ seconds‼️‼️
Thank you everyone for your support❤️ Stay tuned for our next batch🫡
💬Welcome to comment below on what kind of miners you expect the most☺️
[Handshake retro: fork edition]
July 2022
@Namecheap
lists community-owned Handshake TLDs on its platform. Users can now buy Handshake domains on the second largest domain registrar in the world
Bob Desktop 0.8.0 is stable!
This version has a bunch of new features like Ledger support and filtering bids by status, locked balance breakdown, and more. Please see full release note for detail :)
How to use a Handshake name to chat on HNS Chat
(1) Go to hnschat/ or
(2) Add a Handshake TLD or SLD
(3) Copy data
(4) Go to your Handshake name
(5) Create a TXT record with copied data
(6) Click verify on HNS Chat
(7) Say hi to us at theshake/
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April 2023
On-chain auction for .web3 yields a price of ~673,000 HNS. Coin supply burned represents ~2% of all HNS burned up to this point:
Handshake completes its first halving:
🚨 is LIVE and domain registrations open THIS FRIDAY 9AM PST.
We are thrilled to finally share our platform for decentralized domains built on the bedrock of
@HNS
TLDs. This protocol will unlock new use cases for websites, wallets, and web3 identity. 1/2
5/5 H/t to community member
@rithvikvibhut
for creating tools for the broader community to educate themselves about the upcoming soft fork. You can find more of his work here:
5/6 (developer documentation):
“Its purpose is not to replace DNS, but to replace the root zone file and the root servers.”
“By installing and/or contributing to Handshake, you are participating in a decentralized open platform owned by the commons.”
2/6 Handshake’s technical design, embrace of open source and grassroots participation, and culture of gifting was - and remains - a revolutionary approach to building public goods for the benefit of humanity
4/6 :
“Handshake aims to experiment with new ways the internet can be more secure, resilient, and socially useful with a peer-to-peer system validated by the network's participants.”
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1/4 With ~25 days until Handshake’s fork, the next stretch of time will feature a retro with snack-size posts highlighting the Handshake ecosystem and its milestones to date. H/t to
@Hey__tx
for research, inspiration →
HIP-14 is a proposed hard fork called Thumb Wrestle to extend a subset of reserved name claims ending February 2024 for an additional 4 years, a total of 8.
→
This thread breaks down the four classification of reserved names and the new proposed rules.
3/6 :
“Names on the internet (top level domains, social networking handles, etc.) ultimately rely upon centralized actors with full control over a system which are relied upon to be honest, as they are vulnerable to hacking, censorship, and corruption.”
Today we’re launching Rosetta (), an open-source specification and set of tools that makes integrating with blockchains simpler, faster, and more reliable.
ICANN, registries, registrars, DNS providers, web browsers - the gatekeepers to the internet no more. Introducing Beacon, a privacy and security-focused browser to replace certificate authorities with decentralized p2p naming systems, DNSSEC and DANE:
ANNOUNCEMENT: .p/ just sold for a record-breaking $230,000 USD (375k HNS) on the Namebase Marketplace.
The previous owner acquired .p/ for the equivalent of $1,000 USD back in November, and resold the domain today for a 230x return in less than 6 months.