The Shake: Jan. 10, 2021
The Shake is a weekly recap of the Handshake ecosystem and protocol.
Community / Tech / StatsEmoji Domains: Emojis on HNS are taking off: part one 🚀, two 🚀🚀 and three 🚀🚀🚀. The top auction this week was http://🎮/ for 25,000 HNS. Emojis are part of the zeitgeist, crypto protocols co-opt emojis as their own symbols online, and now you can use them as permissionless, censorship-resistant domain names 🤯.
Covenant Growth: A video visualization from HNS community member and developer Fernando Falci of all the on-chain covenant usage on Handshake throughout its first year.
Twitter Order Books: As DeFi pushes deeper into social media, it’s now possible to monetize and sell tweets via Valuables by Cent. Take that tool into unintended territory and bids on that tweet can become a sort of pseudo order book, which happened this week when 5000 HNS were sold for ETH. The symbiosis of crypto markets and social media is evolving in new and interesting ways.
Owning Your DNS Stack: Community member blog post on Handshake usage and instructions for syncing the HNS network with a docker container as well as resolving names on your own computer.
Name Hodling: Andrew Rosener, one of the top domainers in the world, is collecting Handshake names. “I’m a buyer not a seller. I’ve seen this movie before.”
Community / Tech / Stats Browser Integrations: Brendan Eich, CEO of Brave, reiterates HNS integration plans are underway. Brave is a privacy-first browser with 24M monthly active users.
Huobi Mining Pool: Huobi, the second largest crypto exchange by volume, is launching a mining pool for Handshake.
DWord: Namebase ran an internal hackathon amongst their team. Of the results is a WYSIWYG website editor to spin up sites for your Handshake names quickly.
Atomic swaps: The first Handshake mainnet atomic name swap took place this week. Using a coinjoin-based protocol, the transfer required no trust or third-party custody. Learn how it works here.
Name transfers: User-facing name transferring for Namebase users is launching soon. This lets you use Namebase to bid on names and then send those names to your own Bob Wallet for self custody.
Community / Tech / StatsName Stats
Total Names Registered: 431k TLDs, 1 week change: +5.64%
Top Name Auction This Week: http://🎮/ for 25,000 HNS ($3,031)
Top Name Auction in Reveal: http://z/ for 130,000 ($16,250)
Top Name Resale This Week: http://bad/ for 35,000 HNS ($4,375)
$HNS Stats
Total $HNS Burned: 15.2M HNS, 1 week change: +4.11%
Total $HNS Locked: 44.1M HNS, 1 week change: +3.76%
Circulating $HNS Supply: 17.00%, 1 week change: +0.29%
Namebase
Secondary market volume on Namebase is growing 60%+ month over month
