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Handshake Timeline

Handshake since launch. Last updated on December 31st, 2021.

December 31st, 2021

Opera announces intent to support Handshake

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December 14th, 2021

Beacon, a Handshake-native iOS browser, goes live

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December 3rd, 2021

Bitrue exchange lists HNS

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December 2nd, 2021

Handshake sets up in Africa

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November 24th, 2021

ICANN acknowledges Handshake in their blog post

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November 15th, 2021

dWeb Foundation co-hosts Priv8 summit with Orchid Protocol

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November 4th, 2021

Porkbun begins selling Handshake domains

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October 28th, 2021

IPFS announces support for Handshake domains

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October 26th, 2021

Handshake joins the BPSAA

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October 9th, 2021

Clearpool sets up on Handshake

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September 22nd, 2021

Handshake's three-day NamesCon track goes live

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August 18th, 2021

Bittrex exchange lists HNS

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August 14th, 2021

@HNS Twitter account freezes its activity

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August 11th, 2021

Namecheap announces support for Handshake

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August 3rd, 2021

.forever domains goes live

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July 30th, 2021

Fingertip resolver goes live

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July 21st, 2021

Handshake domains are supported on ArGo

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July 21st, 2021

Hey tx goes live

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June 23rd, 2021

Epik supports Handshake

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June 23rd, 2021

Alexa100k.com goes live

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June 15th, 2021

Wrapped HNS goes live

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May 28th, 2021

HNS Name Claim goes live

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May 20th, 2021

Bob Extension is released

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May 18th, 2021

dWeb Foundation annouces #ProjectDWeb incubator

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May 14th, 2021

BlockExplorer.com becomes a Handshake explorer

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May 6th, 2021

Bob Wallet integrates Ledger hardware wallet

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April 22nd, 2021

Youg Motiv8 drops The Crypto EP ($HNS)

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April 20th, 2021

Namecheap purchases p/ for 375,000 HNS ($~230k)

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April 16th, 2021

Namebase hosts its first AMA

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April 15th, 2021

ViaWallet adds support for HNS

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April 12th, 2021

Namebase's Registry goes live

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April 10th, 2021

Sentinel dVPN begins resolving Handshake by default

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April 2nd, 2021

Handshake's re-claim inflation bug was patched

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March 29th, 2021

Shakestats releases search function

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March 28th, 2021

Handshake domains are supported on Fleek

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March 25th, 2021

The public DNS resolver, HDNS.io, goes live

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March 24th, 2021

c/ surpasses 1,000 subdomain registrations

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March 24th, 2021

Handshake Wiki goes live

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March 21st, 2021

Hmail, email service for Handshake, is released

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March 11th, 2021

Handy Con fundraising auction raised 33072 HNS (~$11k) for the HNS Fund

Twitter announcement >

March 10th, 2021

Handshake’s first Handshake conference, Handy Con, goes live!

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March 10th, 2021

The Namer News forum makes its public release.

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March 5th, 2021

flip.flops/ email service is released

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March 5th, 2021

Library Genesis has a home on Handshake

Twitter announcement >

February 28th, 2021

Impervious introduces decentralized .badass subdomains

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February 28th, 2021

HNSsearch/, a web crawler for Handshake, launched

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February 17th, 2021

Namebase launches its Stats page

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February 14th, 2021

Yhnsoo.com, Yahoo for HNS, begins resolving natively on Handshake

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February 12th, 2021

1 year anniversary of when the 1st batch of Handshake names were released

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February 3rd, 2021

The final 52nd batch of Handshake names were released

Block #53424 >

February 2nd, 2021

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

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February 1st, 2021

Namer Community landing page launched

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February 1st, 2021

Namer Stories podcast launched

Twitter announcement >

January 22nd, 2021

Handshake use case showcase released

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January 15th, 2021

handshake.mercenary/ launched

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December 19th, 2020

Sinpapeles profile builder released

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December 18th, 2020

Impervious Inc was created to focus on Handshake development

Twitter announcement >

December 16th, 2020

Puma Browser began natively supporting Handshake

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December 16th, 2020

dLinks launched

Twitter announcement >

December 14th, 2020

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

Twitter announcment >

December 8th, 2020

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

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November 23rd, 2020

Skyinclude announced their legacy domains porting service

Twitter announcement >

November 15th, 2020

app.sinpapeles/ launched

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November 13th, 2020

Uniswap is mirrored on Handshake

Twitter announcement >

November 12th, 2020

HNSfans, a Chinese Handshake community, launched

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November 3rd, 2020

Niami Handshake Domains rating website launched

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October 31st, 2020

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

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October 30th, 2020

Make an Offer was launched in the Namebase Marketplace

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October 21st, 2020

LearnHNS goes live

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October 10th, 2020

Handshake Development Fund was launched

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September 25th, 2020

HNSD v1 was released

Twitter announcement >

September 22nd, 2020

Namebase redirects went live

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September 18th, 2020

Namer Merch Store goes live

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September 6th, 2020

The Shake released their first weekly recap

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August 28th, 2020

Resolvr was a runner up for the Own the Internet hackathon

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August 26th, 2020

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

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August 3rd, 2020

Sia adopts Handshake

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July 19th, 2020

First domain added to parking.sinpapeles/

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July 15th, 2020

101domain supports Handshake

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July 14th, 2020

Namesake Domains launched

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July 10th, 2020

Audius sets up Handshake subdomain redirects

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June 15th, 2020

Vercel supports Handshake

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May 29th, 2020

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

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May 27th, 2020

HNS.to was first created

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May 6th, 2020

The Namebase Marketplace launched

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April 29th, 2020

Namebase's Learning Center goes live

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April 12th, 2020

Encirca supports Handshake

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March 20th, 2020

NextDNS announces it resolves Handshake names

Twitter announcement >

February 12th, 2020

The first batch of Handshake names were released

Block #2016 >

Handshake Genesis block