Stargaze has decided to part ways with former co-founder Jake Hartnell. Jake has returned his original 30M STARS genesis allocation to Stargaze Foundation. The remaining co-founders Shane and Jorge are 100% dedicated to Stargaze and will never stop building.
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Jake Hartnell was one of the original co-founders of Stargaze. He received a 30M STARS founder allocation at genesis that was locked up for 1 year and vested for 1 year. He also received ~25M STARS from an on-chain developer rewards fund.
Shane and Jorge started working with Jake in 2019, initially on a validator business. Shane and Jorge subsequently introduced Jake to Cosmos SDK and CosmWasm development. For two years, the trio iterated on various product ideas, and planned to launch Stargaze in October 2021.
Your Stargaze Name comes with Handshake integration.
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What is Handshake?
Handshake is a blockchain-powered decentralized registry of top-level domains (TLDs) for DNS. Handshake allows free and fair domain registry market, which means that projects like Stargaze can issue second-level domains on Handshake. handshake.org
Second-level domains are website addresses like stargaze.zone, twitter.com, etc.
So if you own a Stargaze Name, it also means you own such website address (.stars), and can use it to host any type of site.