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Handshake is a UTXO-based blockchain protocol which manages the registration, renewal and transfer of DNS top-level domains (TLDs). Our naming protocol differs from its predecessors in that it has no concept of namespacing or subdomains at the consensus layer. Its purpose is not to replace DNS, but to replace the root zone file and the root servers.
The full node daemon, hsd, is written in Javascript and is a fork of bcoin. By running a full node, you can participate in securing the network and serving the root zone file embedded in the blockchain.
We also have a light client, hnsd, which is written in C. It can verify blockchain data and serve provable resource records without having the resource requirements of a full node. It also acts as an authoritative name server over the Handshake root zone, and a recursive name server pointed at the authoritative name server.
By installing and/or contributing to Handshake, you are participating in a decentralized open platform owned by the commons.
The latest source code is available on GitHub under the MIT license.
Handshake utilizes a utility coin system for name registration. Handshake depends on the free and open source community to take ownership and decentralize the system https://handshake.org.