The Handle Marketplace

Handles have become a staple of transacting with peers on Cardano in a human-friendly way. With nearly 235,000 existing Handles, the reasons to have a Handle are many. Some utilize their Handle for its intended purpose, some purchase them for the allure of trading them with others, and some purchase their Handle to have a connection to their onchain identity.

Because of this Handles have become a source of onboarding new users to Cardano, and we believe it important that there is some staying power for these new users. In order to do so we are going to in-house everything from minting, trading, customizing, and even renting out Handles and subHandles. This way new users aren’t tasked with finding third-party marketplaces that don’t necessarily prioritize the lookup of Handles.

Handles at its foundation were built to be user-friendly and easy-to-use and extending that to The Handle Marketplace will help in maintaining usership in Cardano.

The link to our Catalyst proposal is here; The Handle Marketplace.