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Year in review

Handshake Genesis block

February 12th, 2020

The first batch of Handshake names were released

Block #2016 >

March 20th, 2020

NextDNS announces it resolves Handshake names

Twitter announcement >

May 6th, 2020

The Namebase Marketplace launched

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May 27th, 2020

HNS.to was first created

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May 29th, 2020

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

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June 15th, 2020

Vercel supports Handshake

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July 14th, 2020

Namesake Domains launched

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July 15th, 2020

101domain supports Handshake

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July 19th, 2020

First domain added to parking.sinpapeles/

TX >

August 3rd, 2020

Sia adopts Handshake

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August 26th, 2020

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

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August 28th, 2020

Resolvr was a runner up for the Own the Internet hackathon

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September 6th, 2020

The Shake released their first weekly recap

Read The Shake >

September 22nd, 2020

Namebase redirects went live

Use redirects >

September 25th, 2020

HNSD v1 was released

Twitter announcement >

October 10th, 2020

Handshake Development Fund was launched

Visit Titans of Data >

October 30th, 2020

Make an Offer was launched in the Namebase Marketplace

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October 31st, 2020

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

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November 3rd, 2020

Niami Handshake Domains rating website launched

Visit Niami >

November 12th, 2020

HNSfans, a Chinese Handshake community, launched

Visit HNSfans >

November 13th, 2020

Uniswap is mirrored on Handshake

Twitter announcement >

November 15th, 2020

app.sinpapeles/ launched

Visit app.sinpapeles/ >

November 23rd, 2020

Skyinclude announced their legacy domains porting service

Twitter announcement >

December 8th, 2020

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

Read it on Wikipedia >

December 14th, 2020

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

Twitter announcement >

December 16th, 2020

dLinks launched

Twitter announcement >

December 16th, 2020

Puma Browser began natively supporting Handshake

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December 18th, 2020

Impervious Inc was created to focus on Handshake development

Twitter announcement >

December 19th, 2020

Sinpapeles profile builder released

Use sinpapales/ >

January 15th, 2021

handshake.mercenary/ launched

Visit handshake.mercenary/ >

January 22nd, 2021

Handshake use case showcase released

Use Handshake >

February 1st, 2021

Namer Stories podcast launched

Twitter announcement >

February 1st, 2021

Namer Community landing page launched

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February 2nd, 2021

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

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February 3rd, 2021

The final 52nd batch of Handshake names were released

Block #53424 >