Web3 Foundation will shut down the W3F Registrar (Registrar #0) on both Polkadot and Kusama, efficient 1 April 2024. Customers wishing to confirm their account identification could use certainly one of the different Registrars on Polkadot and Kusama.
Polkadot and Kusama present an on-chain identification service which permits folks to register their identification and contact data, reminiscent of e mail, Twitter/X, or Matrix handles. Registrars are accounts, specified by governance, that are trusted to confirm this data. For extra particulars, you possibly can see the Polkadot Wiki web page on Account Identity.
Web3 Foundation has run a registrar since the early days of the Polkadot and Kusama networks, offering a constant mechanism for folks to confirm their identification. Nevertheless, in gentle of the indisputable fact that there are already three different Registrars on Polkadot and 5 others on Kusama, we have now decided that there’s now a sufficiently giant market of registrars to select from for customers of those networks. You could find a list of all Polkadot Registrars on the Polkadot Wiki and a list of all Kusama Registrars on the Kusama Information.
As a part of Web3 Foundation’s ongoing dedication to the decentralization of Polkadot, subsequently, we’re stepping again from our function as a registrar. As a decentralized community, Polkadot and Kusama permit anybody to start out up their very own Registrars. If you’re fascinated with beginning a Registrar service your self, you could find the instructions to be accredited as a Registrar by Polkadot’s on-chain governance here.
On April 1st, the W3F Registrar will end verifying any excellent identification verification requests and then cease accepting new verification requests. The Registrar Assist Matrix channel will live on quickly for any remaining help questions, however will embrace a pinned matter redirecting folks to different registrars.
With the intention to stop anybody from making an attempt to request a judgement after the shutdown, the charges for identification verification will be set to be prohibitively costly. For those who do by accident request a judgement after the shutdown of the W3F registrar, you might cancel the request by issuing an “identity.cancel_request” extrinsic.
You probably have any issues with this course of, please contact Polkadot Assist at https://support.polkadot.network/.
