cellular.id is live.
So, what are .cell names?
Today, getting paid online usually means handing someone a string of letters and numbers you cannot remember. And you cannot easily check a bank account number, or on a blockchain address, something like ckb1qzda0cr08m85hc8jln... is just too much, one typo and the money is gone...
cellula.id takes those details and turn them into a name you chose: maria.cell, joao.cell, whatever you pick. Set it up once and it keeps working, because you hold the only key that moves it, not us. It is yours in a way an account with a company or a bank never is, and it keeps working even if we disappear.
People can pay your name in the money they already use: euros, reais or rupees, or, for anyone who does use crypto currencies, your name also accepts CKB, bitcoin, ether, solana, and instant payments over Lightning or Fiber.
Before any payment goes through, the payer's browser checks it against the blockchain, so a tampered link warns them rather than quietly taking their money.
Your name can even be protected today by a key built to survive computers with quantum technology, dispite the tech still being far into the future.
This is all great, we know, and the best part, you do not have to take our word for any of this: the code behind it is public, anyone can run their own copy of the lookup, and even the app itself lives on a blockchain, where its own page checks it against what is actually running.
A name like yours, 5 characters long, about $6 a year.
The whole story, on Scryve:
scryvehq.com/article/a-name-…
For people who know the technical details, on Nervos Talk:
talk.nervos.org/t/cellula-id…
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