Personalization brings a suite of new functionality to Handles not only at launch but also into the future as we continue to iterate, however, in order to enable Personalization it will require an upgrade to CIP-68.

Here's all the info you'll need.../ 🧵 CIP-68 was introduced as an answer to the shortcomings of CIP-25 whereby extending the functionality of the CIP-25 NFT Metadata Standard to something more programmable, updatable, and more flexible.

"So why do Handles need it?"

1/ On Domain Name Systems

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical blanket over Web 2.0 (the current iteration of the internet).

It is an essential naming system for computers, services and private networks alike. 2/ It is a very useful tool in bridging computer-compatible language to human-readable form.

DNS was one of the main features that bolstered the adoption of the internet.

Blockchains and crypto have opened our eyes to the possibilities of the next evolution of the internet.

1/ Thank you to @IOHKMedia for writing a detailed and encouraging posts on optimizing Cardano performance, and what we can currently do as developers to improve it.

A thread on some things we're doing that fall in line with what is laid out in this post:

iohk.io/en/blog/posts/… 2/ "The reason for this oversaturation lies in the fact that...several users trying to purchase the same NFT and thus attempting to process transactions at the same time."

We enforce a limit of around a max of ~960 simultaneous Handle purchases within 30 minutes.