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. Names on the internet (top level domains, social networking handles, etc.) ultimately rely upon centralized actors with full control over a system which are relied upon to be honest, as they are vulnerable to hacking, censorship, and corruption. Handshake aims to experiment with new ways the internet can be more secure, resilient, and socially useful with a peer-to-peer system validated by the network's participants. Handshake is an experiment which seeks to explore those new ways in which the necessary tools to build a more decentralized internet. Services on the internet have become more centralized beginning in the 1990s, but do not fulfill the original decentralized vision of the internet. Email became Gmail, usenet became reddit, blog replies became facebook and Medium, pingbacks became twitter, squid became Cloudflare, even gnutella became The Pirate Bay. Centralization exists because there is a need to manage spam, griefing, and sockpuppet/sybil attacks. Previous decentralized systems largely stopped working due to spam. If it were more costly to grief on the internet using decentralized systems, the need for trusted centralized corporations to manage these risks decrease. Internet services and platforms may benefit from building on top of a decentralized system which is specifically designed for resilience against sybil attacks. As we may redecentralize.
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Traditional finance and programmable code just locked in a multi-billion dollar handshake. 🤝🌐 Global payments giant Visa has officially launched the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP)—a massive enterprise tech stack enabling commercial banks and fintechs to securely mint, custody, and transfer fiat-b
Cristian Romero’s Trump handshake snub at World Cup final sends $ARG fan token trading into overdrive
Argentina’s Cristian Romero snubbing a handshake with Trump during the World Cup trophy ceremony 👀
EXCELLent perspective… just wondering if we can have some kind of unique secret ‘bitcoin alliance’ handshake, fist-bump or something🤔 Regardless, it’s time to put ego aside & focus on helping bitcoin improve the world. Thanks for this recalibration & reframe @Excellion!🫡
🚨🇮🇪 WOW... McGregor throws Holloway's sunglasses off at the staredown, then rejects the handshake with another slap. Saturday can't come fast enough. Source: Paramount Plus, @TheNotoriousMMA / Writer: Daniel https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2075406689352708206
🚨 Senator Celeste Amarilla continues her criticism of Kylian Mbappé for snubbing Paraguayan player Orlando Gill’s handshake: "Greeting people is our culture... What made us angry was seeing him ignore a young player and shout at him. A Frenchman would never do that." https://t.co/gc40Nb4PuF
🇵🇾🇫🇷 Mbappé may have ignored the handshake, so the goalkeeper did not let that go quietly. The intensity of this match summarized in one post-game moment. Writer: Monica
🚨 WARNING: SOMETHING EXTREMELY BAD IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN... Trump confirmed the meeting with IRAN. Retail is pricing in the handshake. But 99% of people are missing one important thing. Iran's foreign ministry denied meeting with the U.S. this week. And they have violated ceasefires three times in
MCP just published the release candidate for its largest revision ever. The final spec ships July 28, 2026. Three things that change. First, sessions are gone. No initialize handshake. No Mcp-Session-Id. Any request can land on any server instance and a plain round-robin load balancer handles routi
🇮🇷🇺🇸🇨🇭 Iranian delegation refused to participate in a joint photo with the American delegation at the Geneva negotiations. Iran rejected the handshake and photo opportunity. The ceremony proceeded without them. Source: DDGeopolitics (telegram) / Writer: Samuel https://x.com/MarioNawfal/stat