The Shake: Sep. 13, 2020

The Shake is a weekly recap on the Handshake ecosystem and protocol.

🤝 Community

• Week in Handshake has merged with The Shake 🤝. Welcome to our new subscribers, we hope you’ll stick with us for your Handshake news. Thank you to Graham for his work on Week in Handshake.

• Tieshun Roquerre discussed Handshake alongside Steve Webb and Mike Carson at Names Con Online. 

• ‘Own the Internet’ Hackathon Handshake bounty winners:

  Handshake only bounty:

  • Grand Prize: Link Frame, Browser extension for Chome that resolves Handshake domains

  • Runner Up: Discord Bot, GPT-3 based chatbot for Namebase Discord server capable of answering frequently asked questions),

  • Runner Up: Stagger, WebApp to randomly surf pages with Handshake domains

  Skynet + Handshake combined bounty:

  • Grand Prize: Wakio, Decentralized & censorship resistant blogging

  • Runner Up: Jellyfin uploader, “Script to upload media files from a jellyfin or emby server to skynet with support for handshake name service via namebase.”

  • Runner Up: Resolvr, “Firefox browser extension to resolve Handshake domains + DNS TXT metadata records. Metadata records support Skynet, redirects, QR codes, and more.”

  • Runner Up: Skyblog Builder, “A user-friendly interface for designing and deploying blog posts on Skynet with instructions for using Namebase to publish under a personal Handshake domain. This application can also be found in the Skynet Appstore!”

  • Runner Up: Wayback, “A basic implementation of the wayback machine with Skynet and HNS”

  • Runner Up: Skydroid, “Decentralized domain-based Android App Store”

  Recording of Demo Day 1 (Handshake and Skynet individual bounties)

  Recording of Demo Day 2 (Combined bounty)

• Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicized Apple’s App Store censorship of DeFi frontends in the Coinbase app, furthering the case for decentralized domains.

• A breakdown of why Handshake fits all the markings of money for the namespace economy in BlockChannel.

🛠️ Tech

• HS1 Plus (Handyminer compatible mining rig) on sale soon

• Handshake core developer Javed Khan co-authored a paper revealing a major bug in the Bitcoin Core software. Read the story on CoinDesk.

📈 Stats

• As of September 10th, over 10 million HNS have been burned

• Current circulating $HNS supply: 15.05%, 1 week change: +0.66%

• THL (total Handshake locked): 27.989 MM, 1 week change: -1.1%

• Top domain sold this week: https://pot/ for 29,000 HNS ($4,350)

This newsletter is made possible by HandyBrowser, an open source browser for resolving Handshake domains. Download the browser on GitHub and follow the Handy OSS team on Twitter.