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Human-readable names for Alephium

ANS maps a memorable name to your Alephium address, so you can send tokens to a name and show your identity across dapps. Every name is an NFT, the token supply starts at zero, and the whole protocol is 100% open source — with no central team collecting fees.

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The Alephium Name Service (ANS) maps a human‑readable name to your wallet address. Instead of sharing a long string of characters, you can send tokens to a name and display that name across dapps.

Every name is minted as an NFT, so names are freely tradable on all major Alephium NFT marketplaces.

A fee‑free, self‑balancing economy

There is no central team collecting fees. ANS is a circular economy whose token supply starts at zero:

  • Registering a name longer than 8 characters mints 1 ANS token.
  • Registering a name 8 characters or shorter costs 100+ ANS tokens.

This means the most desirable (short) names can only exist once a healthy ecosystem of longer names has minted the ANS needed to pay for them — the ANS token can be traded on all major Alephium exchanges. The whole protocol is 100% open source.

Ready to dig in? Read How it works for the resolver design, or jump to Resolving a Name if you're integrating ANS into an app.

How it worksForward and reverse resolvers, and what it means to link a name.The ANS tokenA circular economy that starts at zero supply and self-balances.FarmingGenerate ANS by locking ALPH, without minting hundreds of names.Resolve a name in codeThe exact TypeScript to resolve a name to an address on-chain.
Alephium Name Service Docs

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