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Zach Brown
Nov 6, 2022
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New roots for a New Internet.

What’s Shaking

This Week in Handshake

NFTLDs A new component of the Impervious Registry, Handshake top-level domains can now mint an NFT on Ethereum that represents control of their subdomain namespace, its rules, and registration fees — an NFTLD.

This token can be transferred to update ownership of the namespace, making governance migration to new addresses or organizations simple. Sale of the namespace also becomes as easy as selling this token.

Tokenization also makes registration fees into a financial asset composable with the DeFi ecosystem. The NFTLD can be escrowed as collateral in lending protocols or perhaps bundled into an index of related names.

HNSDNS A new Handshake resolver and nameserver was released by Lumito, complete with extensive documentation. The resolver aims to make Handshake resolution on Android more accessible while the nameserver aims to extend Handshake name hosting to support IPv6 addresses.

.RECORDS Tomorrow, there will be a live conversation on Twitter Spaces about music-related naming and identity tools featuring the .RECORDS registrar.


HNS, By The Numbers


Web2 Middlemen

It’s a been a full week of the web’s middlemen wielding their power — from tech publications taken offline, crypto validators getting banned, to a funeral for unfairly censored accounts.

Hackernoon, the technology publication, had their domain temporarily taken offline by GoDaddy with little warning after an article published on the site reportedly violated the domain registrar’s terms of service. The takedown caused disruptions across their site, their team’s email access, and ad revenue they rely on to operate.

Hetzner banned crypto validators, resulting in 1,000 Solana nodes going offline this week, forcing them to other providers. Akash is a cloud compute cryptonetwork that already supports Cosmos validators and announced this week that it is working to offer the same support for Solana.

Allie Eve Knox had her 30th internet account taken down over the last 8 years. She decided to have a funeral for her accounts that have been closed due to unfair censorship on the internet.


Tweet Check

From cartoon avatars to the future of online identity?

Twitter avatar for @zxocw
olaf @zxocw
just like we went from copy-paste altcoins to sophisticated general use code execution platforms we will go from 10k pfp bubbles to sophisticated cross-platform portable internet identities
12:43 AM ∙ Nov 3, 2022
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Lens adopts XMTP

The decentralized social media protocol supports XMTP for open messaging across its ecosystem.

Twitter avatar for @xmtp_
XMTP @ ETHSanFrancisco @xmtp_
gm 💌 dm We’re excited to announce that @LensProtocol has adopted @xmtp_ to provide a secure and private profile-to-profile DM layer for the entire Lens ecosystem 🌿 Read all about it: blog.xmtp.com/lens-dms-with-…
blog.xmtp.comXMTP is delivering secure DMs with Lens ProtocolLens Protocol has adopted XMTP to provide a secure and private direct messaging layer for the entire Lens ecosystem.
4:02 PM ∙ Nov 3, 2022
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The Death of Decentralized Email

A historical review of the multi-decade centralization and capture of the email protocol.

Twitter avatar for @lopp
Jameson Lopp @lopp
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. It is of utmost importance that proponents of decentralized protocols learn from the failures of those that have come before.
blog.lopp.netThe Death of Decentralized EmailA historical review of the multi-decade centralization and capture of the email protocol.
1:36 PM ∙ Nov 4, 2022
928Likes240Retweets

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