From ec98c591e324d4958881fd351d6cb3a7a4a48638 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathan Woodburn Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 05:23:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: create handshake_institute --- handshake_institute.md | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+) create mode 100644 handshake_institute.md diff --git a/handshake_institute.md b/handshake_institute.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cc833e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/handshake_institute.md @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +--- +title: Handshake Institute +description: +published: 1 +date: 2024-02-09T05:23:05.333Z +tags: +editor: markdown +dateCreated: 2024-02-09T05:23:05.333Z +--- + +# Handshake Institute + +The Handshake Institute is an independent advocacy and educational non-profit organization. The Handshake Institute works to promote decentralization through Handshake, but does so independently and it has no control over the Handshake protocol. + +## Recent Grants +### HNSFund Grant +**March 17, 2021** +The Handshake Institute gave a grant to [HNSFund](https://hnsfund.titansofdata.org/) in order to catalyze developer participation in the Handshake open source community. + +The grant funds were transferred on March 16, 2021 through [Gitcoin](https://gitcoin.co/grants/1428/handshake-development-fund): + +- \+ [150,000 PAN (~$13698)](https://etherscan.io/tx/0x1fdcea6acea9060106efc1dec750468194aaa36cbc4cb47b7755fe02aac56123) +- \+ [20.727 ETH (~$37045)](https://etherscan.io/tx/0xf42a9aabb87bc8bad184cf3983fd45b7ec2509f670d8535a92266b8528598e80) +- **Total** ~$50.7k USD + +HNSFund received additional donations from other sources: + +- ~$5,200 from Gitcoin Grants Round 9 donation matching +- ~75,000 PAN ($7,096.50) from [Panvala League](https://panvala.com/) donation matching all Gitcoin donations made in PAN +- 36,272 HNS ($14,474) from HandyCon auction donations + +HNSFund used the grant to fund projects, organizations, teams and individuals to get involved in Handshake development + +**Recipients** +- [Kyokan](https://kyokan.io/) - The builders of Bob Wallet and Footnote received 3 ETH to build out a domain claiming feature for reserved TLDs and top 100,000 Alexa domains. They received another 2 ETH for continuing their work for the Handshake community. +- skydroid/ - 3 ETH to improve their DoH infrastructure, start targeting other OSes besides Android, and hire a designer before Handshake community does a marketing push for them +- skyinclude/ - 3 ETH to create tutorials for Bob Wallet (claiming reserved TLDs) and Shakedex (starting auctions and fulfilling auctions) +- sulu/ - 500 DAI to create memes and marketing materials +- hmail/ - 3 ETH for open sourcing their email service, writing documentation to make it easier for others to install, researching connecting email clients to mail servers over DANE, and creating a video tutorial of setting up DANE on their OpenBSD system. +- falci/ - 3 ETH for open source development in Handshake +- dees/ - 3 ETH for open source development in Handshake + +Learn more about this round at [HNSFund](https://hnsfund.titansofdata.org/grants-and-bounties/grant-rounds/proposed-round-1) + + +### HandyCon Grant and HNSFund Auction +**March 10-11, 2021** + +**Event Sponsorship** +The **Handshake Institute** sponsored the first ever Handshake Conference, [HandyCon](http://handycon.promote/) [(non-dweb)](https://2021.handycon.xyz/). The Institute made a $2500 USD contribution to help with the organizing of the event. + +Handshake Institute Director [Handshake Jesus](https://twitter.com/handshakejesus), was invited to join a [panel discussion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv_2wkKMPWg) around support for the Handshake ecosystem. He was joined on the panel by [Kiba Gateaux](https://twitter.com/kibagateaux) of the [HNSFund](https://hnsfund.titansofdata.org/), members of the [dWeb Foundation](https://decentralizedinter.net/) and [Matthew Zipkin](https://twitter.com/MatthewZipkin) from [impervious](https://impervious.com/). + + +**HNSFund Auction** +The Handshake Institute collaborated with HNSFund, [Mark Smith](https://twitter.com/namesakemark) of [Namesake Domains](https://namesake.domains/), and HandyCon organizer [Michael Michelini](https://twitter.com/michelini) to organize a fundraising auction for HNSFund. + +The auction was conducted by [Mark Smith](https://twitter.com/namesakemark) in which 17 domains were successfully sold for 85677 HNS with 34094 HNS of the proceeds being donated to the HNSFund. + +Organizing Participants: + +- [Michael Michelini](https://twitter.com/michelini) of [skyinclude](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYmhmyF5TnsovrFSBD3t5-A) and [Handshake Mercenary](http://handshake.mercenary/) organized this event and made videos of HandyCon available on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLABGm4mKXzKWnfbN2fGjsV4DD_qhXGwGq) +- Mark Smith of Namesake Domains conducting the auction +- [Johnny Wu (johnnywu/)](http://johnnywu/) & [Namebase](https://www.namebase.io) handled the auction transfers, logistics and coordinating to donate the funds to HNSFund. +- [Kiba Gateaux](https://twitter.com/kibagateaux) provided auction preparation to raise funds on behalf of the HNS open source community + +**Handshake Institue gifts jj/** + +During a Q&A event with Handshake Creators [JJ](https://twitter.com/_chjj) and [Andrew Lee](https://twitter.com/2drewlee), the Handshake Institute gifted the Handshake name `jj/` to JJ, who accepted the gift. The Handshake Institute [gifted the name](https://hnsnetwork.com/txs/271f8045676cb263e545f881260d45fa2fc01475bd2f249fb77b4e161a898b5c) as an expression of gratitude for his work on Handshake. + + +### ShakeDex Grant +**February 20, 2021** +[ShakeDex](http://shakedex.com/) is a decentralized exchange for Handshake names, and its creation brings a fully decentralized reverse-Dutch auction system that allows names to be bought and sold without intermediaries. + +The Institute gave a [grant of 10000HNS](https://e.hnsfans.com/tx/8f33129fb1a8e45602b0fd5b36f435bf48fa6586b8a6a719c179c035eb40ac97) to the pseudonymous creator of ShakeDex, kurumiimari. + + +ShakeDex Resources +- [ShakeDex Web](http://shakedex.com/) +- [ShakeDex on GitHub](https://github.com/kurumiimari/shakedex)