In this episode, we chat with Mark Tyneway who is a contributor on the Handshake project - an experimental peer-to-peer root naming system. We learn about this decentralised, foundation-free project, the issues of DNS, how Handshake plans on fixing this, how it differs from ENS, their unique airdrop process, what an Urkel Trie is, and more.

Here are a few useful links:

Handshake Whitepaper
An airdrop that preserves recipient privacy - https://fc20.ifca.ai/preproceedings/54.pdf
ReadyLayerOne Presentation & Slides
Developer Protocol Summary
Messari Profile

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Handshake Protocol with Mark Tyneway