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Spaces are nice & memorable sovereign handles anchored in Bitcoin with minimal on-chain footprint. They are easier to share compared to an npub, and can be used to sign things just like a regular public key!
Spaces are anchored in Bitcoin, the most secure Proof-of-Work blockchain, and have the following properties:
- Primary spaces are community identifiers, capped at ~3600 per year, acquired through permissionless auctions on the Bitcoin blockchain.
- Each primary Space is a community that may issue sovereign handles off-chain known as subspaces.
- Spaces AND subspaces (once allocated) are permissionless and as secure as Bitcoin itself! No bridges, slashing, or any kind of optimistic security.
- The spaces protocol is designed with zk-light clients in mind making these identities verifiable on resource constrained devices.
- Subspaces do not need to trust the community operator once allocated, and they can do 100% of their transactions on-chain if they wish.
- Minimal on-chain footprint.
For full verification, you can sync the entire spaces protocol with a pruned Bitcoin full node on an old Raspberry PI. Bitcoin is the most secure Proof-of-Work blockchain today, and it's relatively lightweight compared to running an Ethereum node. The majority of ENS integrations trust centralized third-parties defeating the whole purpose of decentralized identities.
| Getting Started | Download and install spaces | Fabric bg (1).svg | quickstart.md | |
| Deep Dive | Understand how the protocol works | Fabric bg (1).svg | spec.md | |
| Explorer | Checkout the explorer | Fabric bg (1).svg | https://explorer.spacesprotocol.org |
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