Weekly Roundup

Solana Name Service Statistics

This week was one for the 5 letter dictionary words. We’re not allowed to have favorites but this category is definitely in our top 5!

Limited Edition Valentine’s Day Cards

We celebrated the day of love with limited edition domain name cards. This is the 3rd limited-edition card along with Christmas and Halloween.

Keep your eyes peeled for the next edition.

Educational Mini-Series: Part 2

Part 2 of the mini-series arrived and this week we discussed the basics of “Why have an on-chain identity?”. It’s a simple question that often comes with an overcomplicated answer. We don’t do that here. By using a simple example we explained the crux of it, you can read it now.

We’d advise starting with part one to have a good understanding: https://bonfida.org/blog/did-decentralized-identifiers

Feedback Campaign Updates

Last week we officially launched a feedback campaign. The team is happily surprised by the feedback we have received so far and has already added some of these to the roadmap.

The current roadmap (to be updated next week)

In progress:

• Build a peer-to-peer trading function for domain names

• Enable domain name loaning (partnered with Sharkify)

• Add business categories for domain names. Here we’ll reserve and buy back domains to distribute to the respective companies

  Planned:

• Referral program

• Domain name raffle system You can track the roadmap changes here: https://bonfida.upvoty.com/

Feeling inspired to share your feedback and get some rewards? Check out our welcoming message and post your suggestion here: https://bonfida.upvoty.com/b/feedback-board/

Bridging the BNB Smart chain

The cat is out of the bag, the first chain we will be bridging is BNB Smart Chain!

Our xChain domains are still in the experimental phase. However, with our new beta testing feature users can toggle the button to test new features at the same time we do before its official launch.

We wanted to get you familiarised with the logistics of the process first. You can read our documentation here to understand exactly how it works.

SNS x hashmail

We are stoked to announce our partnership with hashmail. It’s important to expand the utilities of .sol domain names, especially those with “real-life” use cases. Thanks to our partners at hashmail your .sol domain name can now serve as your email address.

A blog serving as a quick how-to guide is available.

Native SOL Support

Wrapped SOL (wSOL) was originally used for unsolicited offers and fixed-price listings since native SOL is not a token.

This caused confusion amongst community members since they anticipated receiving SOL instead of wSOL. This issue has been solved by by unwrapping wSOL under the hood to allow the seller to receive native SOL. Currently available for unsolicited offers and fixed-price listings.

A small but useful update!