The Shake: Feb. 21, 2021
Towards decentralized, always on services.
The Shake is a weekly recap of the Handshake ecosystem and protocol.
Community / Tech / StatsConnext penned a blog post on acquiring the .connext TLD as their “first step towards decentralized, always on services”.
Decentralized TLDs give us a chain-agnostic, censorship-resistant naming system for actors in our network and, over time, we can expand to provide routers their own SLDs (second-level domains).
Doing this lets us turn Vector router identifiers which look like
vector892GMZ3CuUl...intorouter.arjun.connext.Namebase released their own stats page with insights into auction, secondary marketplace, and name usage metrics.
HNS community member was offered 5 BTC (>$250k) for their TLD portfolio.
Bot.js is a new aggregation site for daily Handshake metrics.
Buy larger quantities of $HNS over-the-counter directly through Namebase.
An intro to hosting your Handshake domain on Sia Skynet.
The Audius/ subdomain map is growing stronger by the day. Find Mark Cuban newly on Audius at mcuban.audius.hns.to
Nic Carter of Castle Island Ventures set up a dLinks page at niccarter/
Community / Tech / Stats ShakeDex: A frontend for the name swap protocol is now live. Meanwhile, Bob Wallet is working on native integrations. A full update can be found here.
Hmail: Sebastian Rasor is building a Handshake email service, hmail.
HNSsearch: A search engine for indexing Handshake sites is in the works.
Community / Tech / StatsName Stats
Total Names Registered: 600k TLDs, 1 week change: +5.4%
Top Name Auction This Week: http://dapp/ for 65,000 HNS ($15,602)
Top Name Resale This Week: http://😞/ for 50,000 HNS ($14,750)
$HNS Stats
Total $HNS Burned: 18.8M HNS, 1 week change: +3.86%
Total $HNS Locked: 51.1M HNS, 1 week change: -1.37%
Circulating $HNS Supply: 17.45%, 1 week change: +0.57%
Namebase Marketplace Volume, by month
Resources: HandyBrowser | NextDNS | HNS↗TO | Puma Browser | HNS on Sia Skynet