What exactly are *SHIB Name Tokens?

Think of them as your passport to the decentralized world. These tokens, bearing a ‘*’ instead of a traditional dot that you associate with internet domains, are currently limited to Web3 functionality. They act as expressions of interest for future .SHIB domains, which are expected to be available within the next 2-3 years. Once these domains launch, you’ll be able to claim your equivalent, granting you a true piece of the Web3 landscape.

How much does it cost to own a Shib Name?

Prices start at a budget-friendly $10 per name per year for standard names. There are also premium tiers offering additional features, ranging from $50 to $9,000 per year. But wait, there’s more! Use the exclusive code “SHIBMAG” at checkout and get a whopping 69% discount on your first cart of up to 20 *SHIB Names, bringing the starting price down to just $3.10 each!

Registering your Shib Name is easy.

The D3 platform accepts both fiat and crypto, including Shiba Inu’s very own $SHIB token. Whether you’re a seasoned crypto enthusiast or just starting out, D3 offers a smooth and accessible registration process. Remember that existing .shib names from the Shib Name Service (SNS) have been seamlessly transitioned to the new platform, offering users their upgraded Shib Names from D3 directly in their wallets.

Star Power: The * vs. the .

Eagle-eyed readers might notice that Shib Names use a “*” instead of the familiar “.”. This is because they currently function within the Web3 realm and serve as a placeholder for the upcoming .SHIB Top-Level Domain (TLD). Once available, users will be able to claim their corresponding .SHIB domain for a truly unified digital presence.

Beyond the Name: A Spectrum of Functionality

Shib Names are more than just cool monikers. They offer a plethora of exciting features, including:

• Multichain Wallet: Your Shib Name acts as a single address across hundreds of EVM-compatible blockchains, streamlining your crypto management.
• Cross-Platform Web3 Username: Seamlessly move between various DeFi, GameFi, social media, and other platforms using your unique Shib Name.
• Decentralized Identity: Identify smart contracts, validators, nodes, and dApps with ease, fostering trust and transparency in the decentralized ecosystem.

Picking Your Perfect Shib Name

The best part is you have complete creative freedom. Whether you prefer a classic name or surname, a witty meme reference, your favorite gamertag, or even a random number sequence, the choice is yours. Consider your intended use – anonymity, branding, project building, or simply collecting a unique piece of the Web3 frontier.

Join the Shib Name revolution and shape your digital future! Head to the D3 platform and claim your unique piece of the Web3 landscape. Remember, the SHIBMAG discount code awaits you for a limited time, so don’t miss out!

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Shiba Inu, headed by its pseudonymous lead developer Shytoshi Kusama, is harnessing innovative technology to revolutionize its burgeoning ecosystem to be at the forefront of technological innovation. With this latest move, Shiba Inu is poised not only to redefine its expanding ecosystem and surpass conventional boundaries of privacy and security solutions in the cryptocurrency and blockchain realm but also to lay the groundwork for its forthcoming privacy enhancements with unparalleled precision and foresight.

In an unprecedented, ground-breaking move, Shib has entered into a strategic partnership with Zama, a pioneering open-source cryptography firm that develops advanced Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) solutions for blockchain and artificial intelligence. This collaboration represents a pivotal point in the evolution of Web3, as it brings together two of the crypto world’s leading innovators to set new benchmarks in data privacy and security.

It’s about future-proofing the Shiba Inu ecosystem against emerging threats, fostering innovation through access to top-tier privacy tools, and empowering developers to create the next generation of secure, privacy-centric applications.

What Is Zama?

Zama is a Paris-based company founded by Pascal Paillier and Rand Hindi and operates with more than 70 researchers and engineers from a broad range of backgrounds.

The company specializes in cryptography, the science of encrypting and decrypting information to protect it from unauthorized access, with the main focus on creating tools for homomorphic encryption.

FHE is a type of encryption that allows data to be processed in its encrypted form, meaning the data can be analyzed, modified, or worked on without ever needing to decrypt it. This is revolutionary because, traditionally, to work with encrypted data, you would first need to decrypt it, process it, and then encrypt it again, during which the data could be vulnerable to privacy breaches. (Read our accompanying article on how FHE works in Detective Shib.)

The significance of Zama’s work is substantial for both organizations and individual users. Businesses and organizations can utilize these tools to offer services that process users’ data — for calculating statistics, customizing content, or anything else — without actually seeing the data in its readable form. This approach ensures the privacy and security of user data to an unprecedented degree.

In a broader context, when FHE becomes widely adopted, virtually all online activities could be encrypted end-to-end. This means from the moment data is sent from a device, while it is being processed in the cloud, and until it is received back, it remains encrypted, significantly enhancing the privacy and security of online interactions.

FHE is a formidable technique that renders data inaccessible to not only the service provider, hackers, or governmental entities but also ensures that computations can be performed publicly without compromising user privacy, as the data remains encrypted throughout the process.

Zama’s groundbreaking advancements in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) have earned it a prestigious position as one of the 10 finalists in the RSA Conference 2023 Innovation Sandbox contest.

What’s in It for Shib?

As the Shib ecosystem flourishes and widens, integrating Zama’s solutions offers a groundbreaking opportunity. Utilizing Zama’s encryption tools, the Shib ecosystem can bolster privacy across the board and up and down the chain, ensuring transactional confidentiality, user interactions, and data privacy.

This alliance not only strengthens security within the ecosystem but also underscores Shib’s dedication to creating a secure and reliable platform for its community. The major impact of this partnership on the Shib ecosystem includes:

• Enhanced privacy and confidentiality: Zama’s homomorphic encryption tools provide robust protection for sensitive data, safeguarding user privacy within the Shib ecosystem.
• Secure data processing: By enabling computations on encrypted data, Zama’s technology ensures that user information remains confidential throughout the processing pipeline.
• Empowering developers: With access to Zama’s open-source tools, developers within the Shib ecosystem can build privacy-centric applications with ease, fostering innovation and user trust.
• Future-proofing against evolving threats: By adopting Zama’s encryption solutions, the Shib ecosystem stays ahead of emerging privacy challenges, ensuring long-term resilience and security.

SHIB’s Solution Powered by Zama

Initially, Shib’s solution powered by Zama will run on $TREAT, one of the Shiba ecosystem’s tokens developed to serve multiple purposes, including providing liquidity to the $SHI stablecoin, eventually replacing the $BONE token as the reward token for ShibaSwap and providing rewards for SHIB: The Metaverse and the blockchain version of the Shiba Inu-themed collectible card game Shiba Eternity. 

Looking Beyond

As we look ahead, the implications of this partnership extend far beyond the immediate benefits. It’s about future-proofing the Shiba Inu ecosystem against emerging threats, fostering innovation through access to top-tier privacy tools, and empowering developers to create the next generation of secure, privacy-centric applications. In essence, Shib and Zama are not just adapting to the future; they’re actively shaping it, crafting a secure, private blockchain landscape that’s ready for whatever comes next.

More importantly, this partnership with Zama is the last piece or element in a collection of Shiba Inu technologies as it forges ahead to reach its vision of becoming “a perpetual genuinely decentralized community, flourishing with branded governance, blockchain technology, economy, territory, and entertainment landscape; bolstered with cyber resilience, IRL prowess, and infused with an ebullient meme-inspired ethos designed for a billion people.”

So, as we stand on the brink of this new era, the Shib-Zama collaboration is more than just a milestone for these two players. It’s a beacon for the entire crypto community, signaling a shift toward a more secure, private, and innovative blockchain future. Here’s to the next chapter in the Shib saga — one that promises not just growth and expansion, but a steadfast commitment to privacy and security at the cutting edge of technology. 

P.S. If you want to dive into a world of exclusive updates, behind-the-scenes peeks, and a community of fans just like you, get on the $TREAT train! Follow our official X account (@treatsforShib). Don’t miss out on the fun!

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It’s Valentine’s Day, and we’ve cooked up something special just for you. And no, it’s not this unexpected special edition of The Shib — though if you’ve been following along, you know it wasn’t exactly on our original menu.

Let’s set the record straight up front: SHEboshis aren’t just another pretty face in the world of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), nor are they simply female counterparts to the Shiboshis. These fierce ladies pack a punch with their distinctive abilities, making them the perfect partners your Shiboshis have been yearning for. 

As you may recall, the Shiboshis made their debut back in October 2021. This collection of 10,000 male characters swiftly flew off the shelves. (Talk about the power of the Shib Army!)

Now it is time for the SHEboshis to go under the arclights. We’ve stepped on the gas to launch a daring experiment aimed at exploring the untapped potential of the 404 Ethereum standard. So let’s talk about that standard in detail.

A Word About ERC-404

ERC-404 is the latest buzz causing a stir in the blockchain universe. Imagine a world where ERC-20 and ERC-721 had a brainchild that inherited the best traits of both. This new experimental standard aims to bring a fresh twist to the token scene by marrying the concept of fungible tokens with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The result is an experimental hybrid token standard that allows fractional ownership of NFTs, opening the floodgates to new possibilities. 

Though still in its infancy, this token standard addresses one of the major issues the NFT space is facing: liquidity. 

Minting Magic: Claim Your SHEboshi

Timing has proven to be everything for our holders, and the SHEboshis are the genesis of the next phase of Shib’s NFTs. The only way to properly start this phase is with our first claimable set. That’s right, we are making the set available to SHIboshi holders as a free claimable token/NFT. To do so, the team will do a snapshot highlighting the holders of Shiboshis over the past years, placing them into tiers based on factors like the number of Shiboshis held and length of time held to determine how many SHEboshis can be claimed per wallet. We think this is a fair way to do this drop and hope our community can hear us loud and clear. Woof! We expect this process to take a few days, resulting in the claim starting approximately this weekend and lasting 72 hours. So Shiboshi holders need to find your wallets! 

But wait, there’s more. We haven’t forgotten about Leash holders, and after the claim period has ended, we will allow $LEASH holders to get “1st dibs” on the remaining SHEboshis for 24 hours. After that, whatever is left (if any) will be released for public consumption until it gets sold out. 

After this entire process, and minting is complete, the NFT set will become available for trade on Uniswap and Shibaswap (1.0). (Note: As Shy points out in his accompanying article, both sets will be ported onto Shibarium shortly thereafter.) 

If you would like to get your hands on these lovely SHEboshis, strap in because minting is happening on the grand stage of the Ethereum network. Here’s the lowdown: we’re talking about minting some fresh, hot-off-the-press, exclusive NFTs using $ETH. 

SHEboshis: Shaping the future of NFTs

The decision to adopt the ERC-404 standard demonstrates our commitment to staying at the forefront of technology and ambition to rekindle the NFT market, which has experienced a downturn in trading volumes after its surge in popularity during the pandemic. 

What’s Next? 

There is more super-exciting stuff awaiting after the mint of the SHEboshis. Sometime down the line, you could let those Shiboshis and SHEboshis mate. We are talking of a heck of a lot of possibilities here. For now, let’s just say: “Watch this space!”

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