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Community-run acct. Periodically RTs news & dev updates. Not an official acct. Search $HNS for uncurated news.
Joined March 2009
Handshake resources:. Reddit with FAQ: Guides & Docs: Telegram: Developer's Telegram: Repo: 🤝🤝🤝.
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Handshake has successfully completed its first halving at block 170,000.
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Welcome to the Handshake ecosystem, @trycarbonio!.
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
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.eth on Handshake was successfully renewed on Feb 1, with @ensdomains rightfully maintaining stewardship. Well done, @nicksdjohnson🤝.
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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:
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.@trycarbonio continues to innovate, now with @CarbonID_. Built on Handshake🔥. $HNS.
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 👇.
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hsd v2.4.0 has been released with new features and an important protocol upgrade, see notes here:
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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.
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A thread about a Ukrainian paper . ДОЦІЛЬНІСТЬ ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ДОМЕНІВ ТИПУ HANDSHAKEУ ПОРІВНЯННІ З КЛАСИЧНИМ DNS. The feasibility of using handshake domains compared to traditional dns.
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9,000 blocks (~62 days) until Handshake's fork and 4th anniversary. Countdown: Details on fork:
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A Deeper Grasp of Handshake: A Thorough Analysis of Blockchain-based DNS Records.
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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
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HANDSHAKE’S SOFT FORK IS LIVE. Over 78,000 reserved names are now accessible for public auction. Learn more👇.
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@Namecheap continues to ship for the Handshake community
It's friday so why not give you guys a preview of what we've been working on. Coming soon
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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:
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8,000 blocks (~55 days) until Handshake's fork and 4th anniversary . Countdown: Details on fork:
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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. 🤯. right tap web ask tenor mirror goal who kayak last windy stats.
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. 1/6 Handshake raised ~$10M from @sequoia @a16zcrypto @foundersfund @GreylockVC @PanteraCapital @polychain @eladgil @AlokVasudev @craft_ventures and others with the ambition to build a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol for the internet.
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Tired of online censorship? Join us in the Handshake Community and support a decentralized, open internet. #Handshake #Decentralization #FreeSpeech.
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Try your Handshake Domain on
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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.
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7,000 blocks (~48 days) until Handshake's fork and 4th anniversary . Countdown: Details on fork:
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[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):
You can now resolve all Handshake domains when using NextDNS (without the need to install anything on your device) @HNS
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. 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:
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. Handshake mainnet launched in February 2020. @nlw covered the launch for @CoinDesk in a podcast with @PacmanBlur/@TieshunR, founder of @NamebaseHQ:.
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New Release: HSD V5.0.0. Major node and wallet changes for the Handshake full node daemon.
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Handshake as the source of truth for permissionless top level domain names and a new Certificate Authority system.
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.
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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.
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New to Handshake? Claim your developer airdrop and start learning. Claim developer airdrop: Learning👇. Start here: Dir.ectory (Handshake-native): https://dir.ectory/.TheShake: $HNS #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:
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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.
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. Oct 2020:. Handshake won Product of the Day on @ProductHunt. Hunted by @chrismessina .
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. Dec 2023: @trycarbonio integrates Handshake. $HNS.
Welcome to the Handshake ecosystem, @trycarbonio!.
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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:.
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HSD v2.2.0 has been released!.Please read the changelog and then update your nodes as soon as is convenient! 🚀 🤝 .
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. Mar 2022. @NamecheapCEO acquired the Handshake TLD .s/ for $750,000 during @handshakecon. Andrew Allemann covered the story for @DomainNameWire.
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. May 2022. The nation of Palau🇵🇼claims its top-level domain .pw on Handshake. Has another country ever claimed/used a blockchain-based TLD?.
WELCOME TO HANDSHAKE, PALAU! 🇵🇼🤝.
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[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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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. June 2020:. Handshake processed its 1 millionth transaction and HandyBrowser launched. @DanielGKuhn wrote a piece on this for @CoinDesk:.
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. Nov 2023. @Namecheap previews its new product, Thunderbolt: next-generation voice, video, and chat messaging using your domain name. Supports Handshake. $HNS.
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. Dec 2020:. @PumaBrowser integrates Handshake. A Handshake section was added to the “Alternative DNS root” Wikipedia page:.
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. 1/2 Founded on a philosophy of gifting, Handshake donated the full ~$10M raised from @sequoia @a16zcrypto @foundersfund et al. to the FOSS community; among others @TheASF @Wikimedia @EFF @babeljs @GiveDirectly @internetarchive @fsf @OpenSourceOrg.
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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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Now ~49M $HNS locked in Handshake auctions. Getting close to 10% of circulating supply.
Now, 44M $HNS locked in Handshake auctions.
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The Handshake reference implementation can now be installed via Homebrew for macOS users. $ brew install hsd.
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. 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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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. Feb 2023. Handshake reaches 10 million names: @superlink, powered by Handshake, announces its personal domain name registrar: @FxWallet launches Dename:
HNS Fans! We are pleased to announce our new product——Dename, the web version of Domain Auction&Market is NOW ONLINE! .Come and get your loved domain. @handshake #HNS #handshake #domainauction #domain
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. 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.
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. 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:
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[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!.
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New release of Bob Wallet from @kyokan_io . Tons of new features and performance improvements!.
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New Handshake registrar, focuses on firstname.lastname domains and launches with over one million supported last names.
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Handshake has been added to the wikipedia page for "Alternative DNS Root".
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. Sep 2023. Handshake’s first fork is locked in (taking effect ~Feb 3, 2024): $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:
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12/ 📷 The Future of HNS:.HNS is a young technology, but its strengths far outweigh its challenges. With no fatal flaws in its blockchain and growing community support, its future looks bright. The more we adopt it, the better it gets.
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If you are looking for Handshake related Twitter bots, here are a few you'll enjoy following as the network expands:. @shakeshoutout .@shakesites .@nbshoutout .@shakesplit . #HNS.
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[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☺️
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. May 2022. @alohabrowser, with 28 million monthly active users, integrates Handshake.
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[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.
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. July 2021:. @impervious launched the Fingertip resolver: @bob_wallet_hns added @Ledger hardware wallet support:
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 :).
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hsd v2.0.2 has been released: please upgrade!. Releases are signed by chjj:.GPG key ID: 8962AB9DE6666BBD.
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A new version of hsd has been released, please update to v2.1.5 for various improvements.
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. Feb 2022. @eskimo_dev launches @hnschat, a messaging application using Handshake names as login and usernames.
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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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. May 2023. Simon launches an awesome Handshake explorer: Arweave x HNS by @decentlandlabs and @angrymouse_hns:. @eskimo_dev launches @Shake_Station:
We have liftoff. Everyone can access ShakeStation now. Enjoy.
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13/ 📷 What do you think?.Are you ready to support HNS and help shape the future of a decentralized DNS? Let’s discuss! 📷. #Blockchain #Handshake #DNS #Decentralization.
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@lukebelmar @VitalikButerin @lukebelmar have you checked out @HNS? Handshake is permissionless and decentralized, offering a self-sovereign naming layer for the internet
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. Aug 2023. @NamebaseHQ launches @HNS_ID:.
🚨 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
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. June 2022. Handshake reaches 5 million names. Track stats at or
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[Handshake retro: fork edition]. 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:.
Handshake has successfully completed its first halving at block 170,000.
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