Our testnet is live with Launchpad of the Cosmos-SDK!

Dear Community,

We have some big news to share with you: our testnet is live with Launchpad, v0.39 of the Cosmos-SDK! The Cosmos-SDK brings with it decentralised governance and proof-of-stake validation. If you want to join the testnet as a validator, you can click here to know more about it.

The Cosmos-SDK gives us familiar tooling like The Big Dipper block explorer, and we expose a REST API for easy integration of the IOV Name Service into wallets/exchanges/payment services/etc. Cosmostation, one of IOV’s partners, has already integrated the testnet into their mobile wallet!

Thinking about designing the best name service, here are some great features that come along with starname:

• Universal Lookup 🔎 : resolve any kind of starname into a list of addresses and digital assets;
• Universal and Fast Reverse Lookup 🔍 ⏪ : do you have an Ethereum address or Cosmos address, for example, and want to get all the info related to a starname? You can!
• One starname, two roles 🖇 : with starname the fee payer can be different from the owner of the name. That means that there are two roles (the owner of the name and the person that makes a transaction) that can be performed by one user, or by two different users.
• Short and personalised format 🖋 : starname is a decentralised username more than a domain. We want to give our end users something personal!
• Open and Closed permissions 🔓 🔒 : A business, for example, can have many subcategories of starname using closed permission as in finance*theflowershop, orders*theflowershop, etc. Closed permission means that the owner can manage all the names together. For the open permission, we want to make sure that the starname is really owned by the person : no one can suppress it, or change it.
• Metadata 📸 📑 : you can add additional info to a starname. The information will be off-chain and can be used to make a user profile just like the ones we know: a picture, full name and description in a beautiful design.
• Proof of stake ⚖️ : the reward is proportional to your stake, which also contributes for more space to decentralisation at some point.

🛅 Some news about ledger integration: it is all set to secure the tokens using the cold wallet like Ledger!

If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know via Telegram, Twitter or writing to contact@iov.one 📩

Kind regards,

The IOV Team.