The Shake: Feb. 14, 2021
The Shake is a weekly recap of the Handshake ecosystem and protocol.
Community / Tech / StatsYear in Review: Handshake community members celebrated the first year of HNS with a Year in Review site.
HNS Site Tutorial: Start-to-finish guide on how to host a Handshake website.
Namebase: Daily signups have more than doubled this month along with continued growth across name usage and marketplace activity.
Notion.so: Workspace management system Notion was down on Thursday as a result of a DNS issue on their notion.so domain. There was a complaint against a Notion subpage that had to be sorted out with their registrar.
Namer Stories: A new podcast highlighting stories from early Handshake adopters and builders. This week, Matthew Zipkin shares his thoughts on HNS development.
Community / Tech / Stats ShakeDex: A new decentralized exchange for Handshake names was released. The protocol creates a fully decentralized system that allows names to be bought and sold without intermediaries.
Decentralized Email: The first Handshake email exchange has been completed in a proof of concept. Sebastian documented some learnings from the exercise.
Urkel Labs: Major U.S. mining pool Urkel announces strategic investment from Polychain Capital and has expanded to include forty eight new assets in its mining pool.
Community / Tech / StatsName Stats
Total Names Registered: 569k TLDs, 1 week change: +5.9%
Top Name Auction This Week: http://e/ for 90,000 HNS ($17,042)
Top Name Resale This Week: http://journal/ for 49,998 HNS ($9,467)
$HNS Stats
Total $HNS Burned: 18.1M HNS, 1 week change: +4.02%
Total $HNS Locked: 51.8M HNS, 1 week change: +2.37%
Circulating $HNS Supply: 17.35%, 1 week change: +0.29%
Resources: HandyBrowser | NextDNS | HNS↗TO | Puma Browser