The Shake: Nov. 28, 2021
A weekly recap on Handshake and the Decentralized Web
On this Thanksgiving weekend, we at The Shake are thankful for all the open source developers and their contributions to the internet.
This is a perfect opportunity to remember the early intentions of the Handshake project. At its core, Handshake has been an experiment in gifting — airdropping 70% of the initial $HNS supply to free and open source developers. To date, 6.4k airdrops have been claimed. Eligible recipients can continue to claim $HNS airdrops by either installing HSD and following the original claim guide, or downloading Bob Wallet for the more seamless claim wizard. You can also use the HTools Airdrop Claim Check to check your claim history on chain.
This year, though, there are even more open source developers to thank — specifically, the teams and individuals coalescing to build around Handshake. We now have open source wallets, resolvers, explorers, search engines, desktop and mobile browsers, identity tooling, name exchange, and more. The contributors and maintainers of open source Handshake projects are visionaries doing the tireless, selfless work of building software for a New Internet. For an internet that’s more open, resilient, distributed, and secure. So thank you all, from The Shake <3.
Ok, now let’s get to our weekly recap.
This Week in Handshake
Impervious A mobile browser from Impervious supports a Handshake light client along with native DANE integration. The browser is a pre-release beta version so please report issues/feedback on Github or through the Testflight app.
Not All Names Are Created Equal Traditional registrars (like Namecheap) offering Handshake domains has prompted a new blog post this week by ICANN detailing the additional configuration necessary to reach the New Internet. Look beyond the post’s tone — ICANN is aware of and researching HNS more closely. Thanks ICANN!
Agaamin Community member, Sajan, is building an Indian Handshake registry, going live Jan. 1, 2022. Special thanks to Sajan’s wife for supporting another full time Handshake dev.
AdGuard Run the Adguard ad blocker with your HNS resolver
HNS Lore This coming Tuesday, on Twitter spaces, a telling of the Handshake origin story with Steven McKie
Ioni Faucet Handshake name faucet to get started with your very first top level domain
Stats
Total HNS addresses crosses 10 Million
Names Opened: 2.26M (+1.4% 7d)
Network Hashrate: 9.80 PH/s
Around the DWeb
Decentralized Storage A breakdown of different Filecoin and IPFS storage solutions: Estuary, Web3.storage, and NFT.storage
CoinDesk Crypto miners are having trouble connecting to some of the world’s biggest mining pools, likely due to DNS poisoning.
DVPN Sentinel monthly sessions have seen parabolic growth with better tools to deploy / manage bandwidth thanks to HandyHost
Tweet Check
For more resources, visit theshake.xyz or news.theshake/ on HNS.