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Year in review


Handshake Genesis block

February 12th, 2020


The first batch of Handshake names were released

March 20th, 2020


NextDNS announces it resolves Handshake names

May 6th, 2020


The Namebase Marketplace launched

May 27th, 2020


HNS.to was first created

May 29th, 2020


The first 2 Handshake TLD registries (.JS and .TXT) were launched

June 15th, 2020


Vercel supports Handshake

July 14th, 2020


Namesake Domains launched

July 15th, 2020


101domain supports Handshake

July 19th, 2020


First domain added to parking.sinpapeles/

August 3rd, 2020


Sia adopts Handshake

August 26th, 2020


LinkFrame was the Grand Prize winner at the Own the Internet hackathon

August 28th, 2020


Resolvr was a runner up for the Own the Internet hackathon

September 6th, 2020


The Shake released their first weekly recap

September 22nd, 2020


Namebase redirects went live

September 25th, 2020


HNSD v1 was released

October 10th, 2020


Handshake Development Fund was launched

October 30th, 2020


Make an Offer was launched in the Namebase Marketplace

October 31st, 2020


Handshake was the #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt

November 3rd, 2020


Niami Handshake Domains rating website launched

November 12th, 2020


HNSfans, a Chinese Handshake community, launched

November 13th, 2020


Uniswap is mirrored on Handshake

November 15th, 2020


app.sinpapeles/ launched

November 23rd, 2020


Skyinclude announced their legacy domains porting service

December 8th, 2020


Handshake was added as a section to the “Alternative DNS root” Wikipedia page

December 14th, 2020


Nomad, a social network using Handshake names as usernames, was launched

December 16th, 2020


dLinks launched

December 16th, 2020


Puma Browser began natively supporting Handshake

December 18th, 2020


Impervious Inc was created to focus on Handshake development

December 19th, 2020


Sinpapeles profile builder released

January 15th, 2021


handshake.mercenary/ launched

January 22nd, 2021


Handshake use case showcase released

February 1st, 2021


Namer Stories podcast launched

February 1st, 2021


Namer Community landing page launched

February 2nd, 2021


nft/ sold for $84k (~680k HNS)

February 3rd, 2021


The final 52nd batch of Handshake names were released