TheShake/Blocks
Explore data from recently mined blocks. The Shake now tracks the Handshake ecosystem from high-level network metrics down to individual blocks. Stay tuned this coming week as our data efforts expands off-chain.
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This Week in Handshake
Learn the Lingo: Crypto is complicated. So is DNS. To help, we’re expanding our Handshake terminology guidebook with new definitions including “A Records”, “CNAME Records”, “TTL”, “Staked”, “Locked”, “NFTLDs”, and more.
The Decentralized Future Council, a public interest initiative to educate policymakers on DWeb protocols, used their first speaker spotlight to cover Handshake domains. The chat included Handshake community members Chjango of the DWeb Foundation and Tom Barrett of Encirca.
Perma-records: Arweave-based nameserver for Handshake domains. A frontend interface to interact with the nameserver is coming soon.
Crypto Decoded is the name of a new PBS documentary exploring the technology’s origins, featuring a segment with Steven McKie of HandyOSS and Amentum Capital.
On the Record Play back the recording of the conversation around on-chain music identity, featuring the .records namespace.
HNS, By The Numbers
Handshake Names: 7.77M
HNS Burned: 28.77M
November Transactions: 482,000
Less than halfway through November, Handshake is on pace to approach one million networks transactions for consecutive months.
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