There have been questions regarding our early launch of Hashgraph Name.

We felt the need to clear the air and give some more context to the situation.

Follow the 🧵 below:

It was determined that it would be in the best interest of the ecosystem to establish an .hbar standard which would allow any number of naming services to co-exist on the network and ensure that names are not duplicated.

In early-mid August, we came to an agreement with Web23 and other parties that:

a. We would create a Collaborative Topic on the Hedera Consensus Service – this included an SDK for wallet integration
b. Each naming service would check the registry before minting a name
c. Each provider would have the ability to add names to the registry upon mint

At that time in Early-August, we provided Web23 with a document consisting of our reserve list of names (consisting of core developers/contributors, and council members). 

We asked them to please provide us with their list as well, so we could avoid any duplication issues, and to coordinate efforts on the unified registry.

Despite not providing their list, we continued to build the collaborative topic registry, and about two weeks ago began asking for their public key so they could be added.

While asking, and waiting, for both the reserve list and Web23’s public key, we became aware of their promises of early access to minting, something that we do not believe to be fair to the community

We made our announcement that we were going to move forward with our launch.

Web23 then announced an earlier launch, indicating that early-access individuals would have 12 hours of near unlimited access to minting – allowing them to front-run the rest of the community.

The threat of front-running, and their unwillingness to coordinate on the collaborative topic ID and reserve lists, became the final catalyst which compelled us to launch as soon as possible. We wanted to allow the entire ecosystem open access for EVERYONE to begin minting.

In the spirit of transparency, here is the link to the Topic ID https://app.dragonglass.me/hedera/topics/0.0.1234203

We know that many community members had been promised .hbar names from Web23 – please connect with us on Discord discord.gg/3JqjVT8r5m and let us know. We will provide a free available .hbar name to Web23 token holders.

TLDR; We agreed on a way to work together and collaborate, Web23 continued to delay or ignore our requests. We learned that they were going to provide unfair early minting access, so we accelerated launch in order to be open to EVERYONE. 

We also note that Web23 did finally provide a public key yesterday and within hours we added them to the topic prior to our launch.

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/Hashgraph_Name/BJexjTV

Hashgraph Name Message to Community

🚨Product Launch in 48 Hours 🚨

We are launching on Tuesday, September 13th at 10AM MST.

Here’s a thread🧵 with everything you need to know:

We are launching with a special pricing of $10 USD/year paid in $HBAR. When registering your name, you can choose to register it for multiple years if you’d like. There is no premium for shorter character names.

Each hashgraph name is represented by an NFT in your wallet. Through our app, you can add metadata, like wallet addresses from other chains or social media links. These NFTs are also able to be traded or sold on secondary marketplaces like Zuse or HashAxis. 

We created a standard for multiple domain providers to mint .HBAR names without any duplication. This same standard allows wallet providers like @HashPackApp and @BladeWallet a simple integration to resolve domain ownership.

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/Hashgraph_Name/cdxoFWF

Product Launch Announcement

Big Announcements Incoming 📬

Follow the 🧵 

#hedera #hederaheatwave #hellofuture

We have reached a potential solution with @web23io and other integral members of Hedera that would create a more flexible and powerful namespace standard than any other chain.

This upcoming Friday, August 5th, we will be dropping a demo of our platform. 🛠

As a result, we are pushing back our launch day roughly a week. We apologize for the delay and want to be transparent and frequently communicate with our community. ❤️

48 hours notice will be provided by the team prior to launch.

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/Hashgraph_Name/2qNNPwt