Clusters: A Guide to Claiming Your Multi-Chain Identity

What is Clusters?

Clusters, the first app launched on LayerZero, is a universal naming service that secured over $9 million in funding from prominent investors including Coinbase, Polygon, Arrington Capital, Electric Capital, Collab+Currency, and more.

It addresses a prevalent challenge in the crypto space – the fragmentation of identity across numerous chains, wallets, and applications. Clusters offers a solution by enabling users to 'cluster' various addresses into a single name.

Similar to Ethereum Name Service (ENS), Clusters simplifies transactions by allowing users to send funds to a name rather than a complex string of alphanumeric characters.

Going beyond ENS, Clusters aggregates different names across multiple, sometimes incompatible, chains into one, further reducing complexity. This unified identity across various chains and wallets streamlines user experiences, especially in wallet management.

The visionary behind the project, Clusters, is @foobar - known for his technical expertise.

How does it work?

The Tech

Clusters currently supports EVM chains and Solana, with Bitcoin and Cosmos support in the pipeline.

To achieve this multi-chain identity vision, the team leverages backend bridges and collaborates with the interoperability protocol LayerZero. This collaboration facilitates the movement of actions and state changes across chains, ensuring accuracy across millions of names and billions of wallet addresses.

As a result, users can engage with different dApps and services while ensuring that their associated name identity remains consistently reflected across all blockchains integrated with Clusters.

Claiming Process

To combat 'Domain Squatting,' Clusters introduces 'Demand-based recurring pricing.' This mechanism, integrated into their auction-based bidding system at launch, more fairly allocates domain ownership based on market demand. This concept is inspired by Vitalik's blogpost.

Essentially, the pricing process depends on bidders, ensuring that domains go to those who can make the best use of them. This contrasts with scenarios where speculators acquire high-value domains for speculative purposes, such as the case with .eth domains in 2021.

Steps To Claim

Below are the following steps to claim your multi-chain identity:

1. Bid a certain amount (minimum starts at 0.01 ETH). Note: you can claim from any chain.

2. Sign the transaction for the bid amount.

3. Import your Twitter PFP (optional).

4. Add new wallets under your unified domain name (EVM + Solana pictured below). Any delegated wallets will auto-populate with the domain name.

As a fun bonus, each cluster comes with its personalized animated video, generated automatically after the domains have been created.

With over 4,000 distinct names already bid and further chain integrations in the pipeline, Clusters stands out as an interesting interoperability project worth following.