Blockchain
A shared, append-only ledger maintained across many computers, the foundation of tokenized ownership.
- glossary
A blockchain is a distributed, append-only ledger replicated across a peer-to-peer network of nodes — no single server owns it, and past records cannot be altered without redoing all subsequent work. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous one, chaining them into a tamper-evident history. Transactions are validated by consensus rather than a central authority, which means settlement is transparent and globally verifiable.
Related keywords
- blockchain
- distributed ledger
- decentralized
- immutable
- consensus
Contributors
Namefi is a collective of engineers, designers, and operators who obsess over building tools that make managing your onchain domain names effortless.
Victor Zhou is a technology founder and standards editor focused on digital identity and trust. He founded Namefi, edits Ethereum Improvement Proposals, and previously led smart-contract architecture work at Google Labs.
His work sits at the intersection of naming, ownership, and the systems people use to establish identity online. That perspective makes him especially interested in the way names move between personal meaning, public recognition, and digital infrastructure.
For Namefi, Victor edits and writes about domains as durable digital identity: how names become ownable onchain assets, how tokenization changes custody and trust, and what naming can learn from the systems people use to establish identity online.