NEWS ALERT: Sci-Hub has created a censorship-resistant Handshake gateway available at sci-hub.hns!
Connect directly via
@NextDNS
:
Connect via a
@HNS
gateway (uptime not guaranteed!):
.s/ just sold for 4.7 MILLION $HNS (750,000 USD) at
#handycon2022
!
That's more than QUADRUPLE the last highest sale of all time — .x/ at 1m HNS!
That's 1% of the circulating supply of HNS!
What a way to start the final day of HandyCon.
🚀/
ANNOUNCEMENT: We're launching a DNS resolver for Handshake this week — this means you'll be able to use Handshake on Brave, Firefox, Chrome, etc by changing a single setting on your computer! Stay tuned
HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT:
@NamebaseHQ
has been acquired by
@Namecheap
!
While Namebase will continue operating as an independent lean startup, it will also benefit from Namecheap's invaluable resources. (A thread)
We just launched dLinks! It lets you create a fully decentralized profile to all your content online. Built using Handshake / Skynet:
-
@HNS
names are domains that can't be blocked
-
@SiaTechHQ
provides hosting that can't be taken down
Build yours now at:
Today we identified an issue with payments for subdomain sales originating at
@Namecheap
. All
@NBRegistry
payments are going out now, and should be completed in the next few hours. The problem started May 28th, and no other registrars are affected.
✨ BREAKING: All US citizens can now freely withdraw their $HNS from
@NamebaseHQ
!
Finally.... freedom to send your $HNS to any external wallet, fast and easy, just like it should be. 🇺🇸
Available to US citizens who have completed KYC verification (*except NY, duh). 1/4
Trying to build decentralized Reddit? We want to talk to you — we know how to build a decentralized version of Reddit that has the usability of centralized Reddit and we want to help. 2021 is the year decentralized social networks will break out. RT for visibility!
✨ LIVE: All New Marketplace
We have completely rebuilt the market with new filters and faster performance to make finding domains as easy as possible.
You can now do full text searching across all active listings, past sales, and all active names. 1/3
Have you tried $HNS Chat yet?
@eskimo_dev
built a chat application for Handshake names, so now you can send and receive messages with your Handshake name!
- Handshake: hnschat/
- ICANN:
Game changer.
@SkynetLabs
Kernel will make it possible to run a full $HNS node... in. your. browser.
That means fully decentralized and fully trustless resolution!
Check it out here:
🤯/
✨ NEW: Introducing the Registry Manager
We've launched the all new Registry Manager for TLDs staked on the Namebase Registry. This enables Handshake TLD owners to better manage and monetize their domain communities with complete pricing control. 1/3
We built a crypto first social media site that has:
1. no password
2. no traditional “usernames”
You login and build your profile around a digital artifact you own - your Handshake name. Here’s how this simple mechanic could change our relationship to social media (thread 👇)
Small update: We've onboarded
@NamesakeMark
to serve as Namebase's first business development rep!
MarkSmith/ will be growing $HNS by onboarding reputable brands to use Handshake domains and pushing DNS services to support Handshake.
Who should MarkSmith/ onboard first?
🚀 Exciting Namebase Updates!
🎉 The Pro Exchange (BTC/HNS) is now accessible to all KYC-verified users, including in the USA! 🇺🇸 Experience enhanced liquidity, real-time order book trading, and extra low fees (0% maker, 2% taker). Check it out: []
ANNOUNCEMENT: NB Registry has gone live!
We'll first be onboarding Namer Community Directors 1-by-1 to help test our registry and provide feedback.
As soon as we've implemented the feedback, NB Registry will be open for anyone to root their $HNS TLDs!
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.
🔍 We’re looking for a fourth TLD to add to the
@HNS_ID
launch menu next week. Something 3-5 letters that is fun and will inspire creative names. Reminder: you get 95% of registration fees. DM your names or post em here👇🏼.
We're hosting a joint meetup with
@SiaTechHQ
next Wednesday, Oct 30 at 5pm in SF! Come to the meetup to hear Sia's CEO
@DavidVorick
and Namebase's CEO
@TieshunR
talk about decentralized storage and decentralized naming! Food and drinks will be provided🙌
✨ NEW: Minimum Offer Settings
Tired of lowball offers filling up your inbox? Configure your minimum offer settings to ignore the noise.
You can set a minimum offer amount in HNS, or use a percentage of your domain's price – or both. Full details here:
We have refunded all users who were affected by unrevealed bids with 2X the amount of $HNS that was lost. The total amount that was burned from unrevealed bids was 1.4M $HNS across ~100K bids. Today we completed refunds totaling 2.8M $HNS to affected Namebase users. 1/3
Namebase will no longer support ACH bank transfers
Effective Dec. 1st, we have been required to discontinue support for USD/ACH transfers due to upstream banking issues from our financial services provider, SynapseFi. We apologize for the short notice and any inconvenience this
This is our vision for 2022.
In this blog post, we break down how we think we can best support the $HNS ecosystem — it's our commitment for the year.
It might seem ambitious, but we really think we can accomplish this all before the end of 2022!
ANNOUNCEMENT: Wrapped Handshake (WHNS) is now live!
Contract address: 0xa771b49064da011df051052848477f18dba1d2ac
Expect more smart contracts for Handshake, and more exchanges listing WHNS.
ANNOUNCEMENT: The Namebase x $ARGO partnership is live!
Argo makes it simple to interact with the Arweave blockchain, and deploy fully censorship resistant applications. Now you can deploy Argo apps with an $HNS domain with a single click.
Learn more 👉:
New blog on Namebase issues, TLDR:
- New auctions and bids are working
- All HNS withdrawals processed
- Name withdrawals still being processed
- Fixes for stuck bids and HNS refunds coming soon
Update: our two hot wallets with sync issues are now back online and working through the backlog of transactions. Thank you
@nod3ch
(!!!). We will begin a full audit on all affected auctions and transactions and automatically issue refunds once complete.
ANNOUNCEMENT: You can now buy $HNS domains on . More and more domain registrars are getting into Handshake. We can't be more excited for
@EpikDotCom
to join the community!
ANNOUNCEMENT: You can now gift subdomains! Gift infinite domains under any Handshake name you own.
For now, subdomains can be used to create dLinks pages or with Handshake login with many more features on the way.
PS: Leave your email below and we'll gift you a .💀💀💀 domain!
It costs $2k to buy a domain name today. Thousands to deploy contracts. Simple send of tokens costs $50. This is dystopian and should be treated as such--instead it is celebrated bc of the fee burn. This is a rentier mentality and I think it's dangerous.
Yesterday 361 $HNS names traded hands representing a record 250k $HNS ($84k USD) in secondary volume. This puts Handshake as a top 5
#NFT
by trading volume. Incredible!
The 1st infomemecial for $HNS!
Here's how DNS works:
Traditionally it was only possible to rent subdomains because ICANN's monopoly of DNS's root made it prohibitively expensive to own a TLD.
Handshake changes that by making it possible for anyone to own any top-level domain!
MINDBLOWING — When we launched the Namebase Marketplace for $HNS names, our marketplace facilitated $5000 worth of sales per week. Now we facilitate $5000 worth of sales every 3 hours
ANNOUNCEMENT: HDNS, our DNS resolver for Handshake is now live! With it, users are able to access any Handshake domain on any browser (even mobile).
Visit for more info, or continue reading!
@DShepherd45
Sci-Hub domains in the traditional system have historically been taken down, making it difficult for researchers to safely access the site. They’ve now set up the site on a
@HNS
domain which is censorship-resistant
You can build a decentralized reddit using
@HNS
and
@SiaTechHQ
. If anyone is serious about this reply and we'll help spec out the architecture. 2021 is the year that decentralized social networks will finally take hold. The tech is mature and the need has never been stronger.
ANNOUNCEMENT: We revamped the dashboard to make navigation cleaner, faster, and fully customizable.
Make the dashboard yours by adding, removing, and positioning new elements like the “Quick Navigation” module (or remove the “BTC price” module until Bitcoin is back above $50k).
The Shake Registry will be going live soon!
Thank you to all the $HNS TLD owners who have been waiting so patiently to stake your names so you can start selling SLDs, we're finally at the home stretch now.
@Namecheap
Note that this full transition may take a few months to settle down, which is plenty of time to be very excited for Handshake’s very near-future.
Til then, happy naming!
🤝/
DNS, aka the internet's phonebook, has been the foundation of the worldwide web since the 1970s -- but that foundation is starting to crumble and crack.
Many people have been asking for resources to learn what
@HNS
is. Our learning center and Discord is a great place to start — come say hi👋
Learning center:
Discord:
In case you didn't realize, the founding team and the original sponsors of Handshake are STACKED.
Combined, they only kept 10% of the total $HNS supply for themselves with the remaining 90% going to the community.
This is a thread to introduce our OG creators and sponsors 🧵
Developers want to build decentralized apps but need to rely on centralized domain names. $HNS provides decentralized domain names so that creators can launch fully decentralized applications. Buidlers, don't sleep on this👀
We noticed “How to Access Handshake” has been our most viewed Learning Center page, blog post, and how-to video.
Here are the 3 easiest ways to access $HNS names right now 👇
Another one!
Opera will integrate HandShake
#HNS
in 2022! 🚀 Thanks to an even easier access to decentralized domain naming, our users will enjoy more choice and reasons to explore
#web3
Amazon's decision to de-platform Parler should fly a huge red flag to every devops dependent on them.
How do you know you aren't next? Especially if you compete with one of Amazon's other products or services, how do you know you aren't next?
ANNOUNCEMENT: We just launched a HUGE referral program!
We’re giving away a +30% bonus on every HNS purchase made by friends you refer to Namebase:
+20% HNS to you
+10% bonus to them
Copy your referral link, gift a domain, and read the official terms at .
Domain names are centralized gateways that threaten the global reach of decentralized apps.
@HNS
names provide decentralized gateways to dapps. You can combine your Handshake name with
@SiaTechHQ
and
@IPFS
websites to have end-to-end decentralized apps with truly global reach
@SiaTechHQ
and Namebase has teamed up to host the 'Own the Internet' Hackathon! The hackathon kickoffs on July 29th (next week!) with up to 600,000 SC and 20,000 HNS (~$4000) in total prizes, as well as an exclusive 'Own the Internet' T-shirt for all participants. (1/2)
Whoa.
@Porkbun
only got involved with $HNS in November, more than a year after other registrars.
In just 4 months, Porkbun is now responsible for more Handshake SLD registrations than any other registrar!
The takeaway: it's still early to get into Handshake 🤝/
#HandyCon2022
ANNOUNCEMENT: We launched the Stats page! We want to make sure the entire Handshake community has the most up to date metrics on the ecosystem as a whole, and has insights into Namebase as well.
The numbers are exciting, check them out at:
We're working to update our Power search tool and the Namebase marketplace.
This may include filters for names with numbers and dashes, search suggestions (people who viewed this name also viewed...), paid default sorting, etc.
What else would you want to see?
Imagine a world with open unrestricted internet. is working on making it easy for anyone around the world to use HandshakeDNS. Be the first to claim your piece of the open internet, join the waitlist
#proofofkeys
#handshakeDNS
1/3. We have been experiencing ongoing sync issues with one of our hot wallets for the last few weeks. All existing names are perfectly safe, but unfortunately some auction bids and reveals have not gone out as intended for a portion of our users.
Did you know
@KeneticCapital
is sponsoring a Handshake Hacker House for
@MiamiHackWeek
?
Hacking begins on January 23rd, and application deadlines are THIS FRIDAY.
Come build on $HNS in summery weather, we have Handshake devs providing live support 24/7!