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Infrastructure

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Infrastructure, Social & Communications

Ecosystems:

Other

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Project Description

Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root DNS naming zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities and naming systems.

Project Phase

Mainnet

Assets used

OTHER

Native token

HNS

Project launch day

02/03/2020

Funding

a16z crypto

Founders Fund

Draper Associates

Sequoia Capital

Greylock Partners

Polychain Capital

IDEO Colab

DHVC

Kilowatt Capital

FBG

Strong VC

Hashed

DCG

Pantera Capital

Collaborative Fund

Boost VC

SV Angel

Nima Capital

DCM Ventures

Craft Ventures

Ausum Ventures

InBlockchain

Michael Yang Capital

Amentum

Queschain

Scalar Capital

Dekrypt Capital

Kenetic Capital

Turing Capital

v1.vc

Primitive Ventures

Roger Ver

TECHNOLOGY

Opensource

YES

Asset custody

NON-CUSTODY

Upgradability

YES

Technology type

N/A

Peer to Peer (P2P)

YES

Decentralized storage

N/A
PRIVACY

Default privacy

YES

Know Your Customer (KYC)

NO

Privacy Policy

YES

Compliance with

NO

Sign-in requirements

[ "wallet" ]

Collected data

None

Data usage

None
SECURITY

Technical dependency

As a proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain, Handshake could be vulnerable to a 51% attack

Social dependency

There is no governance structure in place for this project. It operates in a fully decentralized and permissionless manner.

Third-party dependency

YES
HISTORY