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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
In retrospect, why didn't Handshake (HNS) work out?
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Balazs 🎩
@balazsbezi.eth
Auction is one of the reasons. Early adopters took advantage by stacking names. Also when I registered an ENS, two days later I noticed that a vulture were trying to grab that same HNS name (can’t be a coincidence for that name)
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Shawki Sukkar
@shawki
they didn't build a product-driven protocol 😬
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Integrated Kyle e/acc
@kylesamani
namespace without community and utility isn't useful
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carlosdp.eth
@carlosdp
Namespace collision with ICANN, mainly, the strongest network effect on the planet. Makes no sense to anyone why some random guy who is first should get .google, TLDs bear no legitimacy. This is why ENS integrates instead of competing!
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Defiprime
@defiprime
Too much focus on token before the product.
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elle
@riotgoools
i think it will stay in experimental mode unless it gets more integrated into mainstream browsers. currently need to install fingertip or a bespoke browser which i don't think many people are interested in doing to replace dns. still a bunch of people tinkering and making stuff within the hns eco tho 🤷🏻‍♀️
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moreReese
@morereese
A bunch of (I beleive) China-based miners got a majority of the HNS tokens and a handful of parties bought up top level domains. Also Handshake wasnt easy for the average user to interact with
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Lawson.fm
@lwsnbaker
Handshake is slow burn. Namecheap bought namebase early 2022. Browsers slowly supporting. Metamask can now resolve, too. Community still seems active but not sure how many builders present. https://www.namebase.io/blog/namebase-has-been-acquired/
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Dinesh Raju
@dinesh.eth
I think they had ambitious goals but it wasn't clear what their near term value proposition was. ENS has a similar grand vision but also crystal clear immediate value. Verifying the recipient address before sending assets is a widespread UX stress point. Replacing that with a short name solves a clear pain point.
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I wouldnt say its dead yet but: (1) the coin value is divorced from the value of the names. (2) the founders did a ~66% airdrop to existing industry (icann, browsers, etc) which they can dump at any given moment. Cont>
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Devil
@devil
Too complicated for the average individual. Plus there’s the fact of the auctions. This is why ENS did away with the vickery auctions years ago!
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Ankur
@ankur
Handshake was trying to replace the entire namespace which would have created all sorts of conflicts while ENS and unstoppable domains focused on creating new TLDs
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