ArchID

ArchID is the naming service on Archway, replacing 46-character addresses with readable names and binding social accounts, project sites and contract addresses into one identity record. Addresses are hard to memorise and hard to verify, and phishing often exploits lookalike strings. ArchID lets developers register their contract address as a subname under a name, so a lookup confirms contract ownership and turns the question of legitimacy into a resolvable record.

It builds on CosmWasm contract standards and represents ownership with NFTs whose metadata can be updated, so renewals and edits need no burn-and-remint and gas costs drop noticeably. Subnames share the expiry of their parent and can be transferred on their own, while avatars, descriptions and multiple social profiles can be written into records that wallets resolve during transfers. In its first month after the July 2023 mainnet launch more than 47,000 names were minted, and Archway's value capture mechanism returned about 7,312 ARCH to the developers, making it one of the most used applications in the network's early period.