Handshake

Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol that enables the registration and management of top-level domain names on a blockchain. It provides a secure, censorship-resistant alternative to traditional DNS, allowing users to own and control their internet identities without reliance on centralized authorities. The project is backed by notable investors such as Greylock, Pantera Capital, and Sequoia Capital, and aims to foster an open, user-owned internet ecosystem.

Handshake is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Decentralized, Naming, Blockchain, and DNS.

Handshake’s developer surface includes documentation, FAQ, and 6 more developer resources.

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6.3/100 minimal Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company DecentralizedNamingBlockchain DNS

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 6.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.4 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 14.3 — up to +17.1 composite points

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Handshake Org Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Community

Community

FAQ

FAQ

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Download

Download

Source (apis.yml)

aid: handshake-org
name: Handshake
image: https://www.handshake.org/images/landing/logo-dark.svg
description: Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol that enables the registration and management of
  top-level domain names on a blockchain. It provides a secure, censorship-resistant alternative to traditional DNS, allowing
  users to own and control their internet identities without reliance on centralized authorities. The project is backed by
  notable investors such as Greylock, Pantera Capital, and Sequoia Capital, and aims to foster an open, user-owned internet
  ecosystem.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/handshake-org/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:vc-portfolio
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-26 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-25'
modified: '2026-10-25'
tags:
- Company
- Decentralized
- Naming
- Blockchain
- DNS
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/handshake-org-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/handshake-org-vendors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/handshake-org-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://handshake.org/
  image: https://www.handshake.org/images/landing/logo-dark.svg
- type: Documentation
  url: https://handshake-org.github.io/
- type: Community
  url: https://handshake.org/community
- type: FAQ
  url: https://handshake.org/faq
- type: Download
  url: https://handshake.org/download
apis: []
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: js-rendered-docs
  detail: Documentation redirects to a non‑existent spec URL, providing no machine‑readable contract.
  evidence:
  - url: https://handshake-org.github.io/openapi.json
    status: 301
  checked: '2026-10-26'
x-backed-by:
- greylock
- pantera-capital
- sequoia-capital
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-26'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 7
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

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