Vision for Handshake V2
The vision for the Handshake V2 proposal is to cultivate humans' potential through ensuring freedom of speech, communication, and assembly online with HNS-based technology.
The vision for the Handshake V2 proposal is to cultivate humans' potential through ensuring freedom of speech, communication, and assembly online with HNS-based technology. From the perspective of many, freedom of speech online has been the focus, but this proposal expands beyond that. There will be an emphasis on building and emboldening communities through Handshake’s deliverance of freely communicating and assembling online. Current events, online and the physical world, highlight the importance of this.
Crypto represents the tokenization of human energy. Massive human energy equates to a valuable community like Bitcoin. HNS can currently be considered a small, passionate community with periodic flickers of energy. While the individuality warrior streak of HNS will remain, this new iteration will bring the coordination and impact of an army.
HNS is a secret hidden in plain sight. From a technical standpoint, HNS is DNS on blockchain. Coupling that with a few enhancements, there are opportunities for limitless communities to coalesce around HNS TLDs. This has never been possible before and has the potential to be a significant improvement on the online community experience.
There is admittedly a pivot from the “build it and they will come” camp. This has been attempted repeatedly over the years without garnering acclaimed success. The HNS L2 (revolution) and first application (rev id) will be built based on direct input from some of the largest content creators and influencers online. This ensures massive distribution on Day 1 of the application’s release. Increasing publicity and usage will have a positive impact on the overall HNS ecosystem.
On the topic of centralization, this proposal will be decided on and implemented by the community. We fully expect (and hope) that the Handshake V2 proposal has amendments based on thoughtful feedback from the community. A primary goal is to have better coordination in the short-term. POW will remain; none of this proposal can be implemented unilaterally. No one, individually or collectively, will be controlling the protocol itself. At the beginning, the implementation of HNS was complex and multi-faceted (read design notes). Making improvements and iterations demonstrate that there is life within the community and ecosystem. The February 2024 soft fork was a demonstration of this. The potential passage of this proposal does not dictate that there be a singular voice, but rather, all voices of the community will be amplified.
Providing grants through this multi-layered airdrop reallocation to diverse individuals, groups, and businesses will accelerate building and growth. This reboot effort is necessary in establishing a healthy, thriving ecosystem. Half of the overall airdrop reallocation (445M $HNS) will be dedicated to a self-governing funding mechanism to continue progress for the HNS community. This will ensure that current (and future) community projects or initiatives receive adequate funding and attention.
The contents herein are not one-dimensional; the perspectives of community members (builders, miners, entrepreneurs, TLD and coin owners, etc.) have been taken into consideration. The outlined focuses in this proposal will ensure that we as a community accomplish what's necessary to ensure massive adoption for HNS.
HNS is a revolution. We all know that it is a solution to real world problems. HNS represents and embodies rugged freedom; online and the physical world. This proposal is an evolution of Handshake in order to spread this freedom-enhancing technology across the world. We all want to change the web. Let’s make it happen.