# NamID Protocol

> NamID is a naming and identity protocol on the Chia blockchain, built by Web3UTXO LLC (New Mexico, USA). A name such as `yourname.x` is a coin that only its owner's key controls; it carries the owner's payment address and records, and anyone can check them against the chain instead of trusting a server. Everything runs on Chia testnet11. Nothing is on mainnet, nothing is audited, and there is no token.

Facts an agent should keep straight:

- A name is a label plus a TLD: `yourname.x` is the label `yourname` under the TLD `x`. Labels are lowercase `a-z` and `0-9`, 1-63 characters, no hyphens.
- Names on `.x`, `.nm`, `.ids` and `.mojo` are permanent and soulbound by default. Other TLDs follow their owner's rules; read them first.
- An agent never holds the key that owns a name and never pays for one itself. It asks; a person approves in their own wallet.
- Amounts are whole mojos (1 XCH = 10^12 mojos). Testnet coins (TXCH) have no market value.
- The one contact address is info@namid.net.

## Start here

- [Home](https://namid.net/): the introduction and a map of the site in six steps
- [For AI agents](https://namid.net/for-agents.html): resolve a name, read and check its records and agent card, pay a name, ask a person for a name; every public endpoint with its status
- [skill.md](https://namid.net/skill.md): the same flows as a skill file
- [API manifest](https://namid.net/api/agent): the whole registry API in one JSON document (conventions, signing, flows, error codes, limits)
- [namid.json](https://namid.net/.well-known/namid.json): products, endpoints, status and contact, machine-readable

## How it works

- [Whitepaper](https://namid.net/whitepaper/): the protocol specification, v1.5.1 draft, 20 sections
- [Technical overview](https://namid.net/technical-overview.html): what the chain enforces, what servers do, known limitations
- [Auctions](https://namid.net/auctions.html): how TLDs are released and sold, sealed-bid, second price, in XCH
- [did:namid](https://namid.net/did-namid.html): every name is a W3C decentralized identifier

## Products (Chia testnet11)

- [NamID app](https://testnet.namidbase.com/): bid for a TLD; register, resolve and manage names; pay a name; read every NamID transaction
- [MyMojos](https://mymojos.com/): one app for a `.mojo` name: profile, payments, calls, mail, communities, agents, the Market
- [names.cat](https://names.cat/): the name shop; search, see who holds a name, buy from your own wallet
- [Explorer](https://testnet.namidbase.com/explorer): every NamID transaction
- [Calls](https://namid.net/call/): call one name from another in a browser
- [Mango wallet](https://namid.net/mango/): Web3UTXO's Sage fork and browser extension; unsigned builds

## Company

- [Seed round](https://pitch.namid.net/): what is built, what is not, and the ask
- [Roadmap](https://namid.net/roadmap.html): the mainnet launch, after an independent audit
- [web3utxo.com](https://web3utxo.com/): the company and every application it runs

## Optional

- [llms-full.txt](https://namid.net/llms-full.txt): the text of this site's main pages and the whitepaper in one file
- [Learn in ELI5 style](https://namid.net/learn-eli5.html): an illustrated beginner's guide
- [Validation report](https://namid.net/validation.html): dated development evidence from September 2026
- [Donate](https://namid.net/donate.html): the protocol treasury, mainnet XCH only