domains Handshake Exchange Sees $10M in Token Trades as Race for Censorship-Resistant Websites Heats Up

Tieshun Roquerre, CEO of the Handshake-centric Namebase exchange, said users traded $10 million worth of HNS tokens so far, while claiming web domains through 80,000 auctions in four months. Community members estimate only a few million dollars worth of HNS was spent on domains – with most of that activity coming from people trading airdropped HNS for other assets like bitcoin.

Roquerre estimated 4,373 people claimed their tokens out of roughly 150,000 eligible recipients, and “some of our users have reached out about coronavirus-related names.”

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