Perhaps a token name with the VR, astral theme such as
ETRNL,DRMZ,MANA,MOJO?I like
MANA. I immediately think of “manna from heaven”. Also, it looks and sounds good, and as far as I can tell has no negative connotations, in the English language at least.
Someone also pointed out “coin of the realm” (which I’m familiar with but didn’t think of myself) but how to abbreviate that which works as the project name? Doubt if many people still remember that. Perhaps he’s intending to suggest as the token name such as cotr. In that case, COR or CORS seems more pronounceable.
I liked MANA best so far until I had the thought below. Seems to match to the astral theme of Realms. And the unicode moyai (
ₒᵣ 
)would be a cool currency symbol.
An additional definition of ‘mana’:
in some indigenous beliefs, as in Polynesia, a dynamic supernatural power or influence dwelling in and flowing from certain individuals, spirits, or things and capable of producing great good or evil.
‘Mana’ is some supernatural source of power or nourishment.
Downside of MANA as a token name is that it’s not technical and may induce me to think of bananas, crazy, maniac or primitive low-tech (as in tribal). It’s anti-technical in that it promotes going back to tribal witchcraft.
Maybe AURA is similar enough in meaning (a cross between mana and ether conceptually?) yet more scientific. AFAIK, it’s not current used by another altcoin. AURA seems even more astral than MANA by moving away from the association to earthy tribalism. But both are detached from technology perhaps too much. Our naming must serve two demographics: the non-technical masses and the cryptogeeks. The latter are the thought leaders in our sector.
I also contemplated ALMS, which coincidentally is the last 4 letters of ‘realms’. The definition is:
(in historical contexts) money or food given to poor people.
For some unknown reason before I looked up the definition, I was thinking ‘alms’ is a tribute given at the temple. Or some precious items kept in a small sachet always carried on a journey. That’s apparently my discombobulated mental state which seems to come and go with my gut dysfunction (discussed below).
Maybe I’m relating old Western movies where they carry their bits of gold in a sachet and associating that to alms being historically paid in shekels such as this Life of Brain skit.
But whether we should use Dvrse (or other name for the blockchain) or just use one name Realms is still open to discussion and consideration.
I suppose one name would be the silver bullet if it can avoid significant compromise.
My concern with Realms as the blockchain name is (as I expressed in edits to my prior comment post) the lack of technological, geek-cool connotation in the name. Imagine Realms listed on coinmarketcap.com. Does it fit there? (Note whereas for the main user facing dApps website name for the decentralized Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc clones, I’m more committed about using Realms because it conveys decentralization in an indirect association that is amenable to the masses)
Well maybe it does fit there on that list as well as Dvrse would? See image capture below. But Realms will cause some people to think the applicability is only for gaming.
My favorite names from the Top 1000 are: Iota (a name I secretly contemplated in 2014 and still wonder if someone leaked it), Ethereum, Elastos, Augur, Factom, Loopring, Nano, Bancor, Nxt, Iconomi, Universa, Burst, Stratis, Expanse, Cosmos, BitTube, Cryptonite and LBRY.
Looking at that TRON logo there with the diamond shape (actually an overused theme note also used by Ethereum, EOS, Lisk and others), the token name GEMS seems to fit Realms in my mind (because of the association to kingdom and treasures in virtual reality gaming). You may remember there was an altcoin named Gems in the past (it’s not entirely defunct now). Another idea MIST (or haar) popped into my mind. Also sounds like ‘midst’. Two more verbose ideas are haloes and whirlds. Actually Whirlds is also an interesting name perhaps for a game. There’s also still E as another option for the token name. Although I am not that open to returning to Etonomy as a project name given the (mis-)association to e-efficiency and green energy, I don’t think E by itself (as the token name) without the associated Etonomy project name is as problematic.
However, Dvrse (or Dverse) isn’t really that technological either, especially if the association of the ‘D’ to ‘Dapps’ isn’t immediate (which it frankly isn’t when I revisit the name now after some days).
Please revisit some sample logos (c.f. also) for the Realms and Dverse names. See that conceptually the names are really speaking to end users of decentralized dApps. Actually I could envision using both of those names for Dapps websites in the future because Realms is more austral and fantasy oriented; whereas, Dverse (or Digiverse or Cryptoverse) is more direct to the point (if people will connect D to decentralized, which many may not). But those names aren’t speaking to blockchain technology.
So I think for the blockchain name (as distinguished from the separate Realms user facing website name) we really want a more technological name that speaks perhaps to the unique facets of the consensus algorithm I have designed. Some ideas are:
| Name | Major Token | Epsilon Token | Domains |
|---|---|---|---|
| Affinity Effinity | c.f. Inertia | - | .app/.io/.org/.net/.us/effinity.co/.com/.io/.net ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .cc $3105, .in $1034, .ec/effinity.ai/.app/.cash/.cloud/.cc/.ec/.foundation/.id/.im/.is/.me/.media/.mu/.network/.nu/.one/.ph/.sh/.space/.tech/.to/.wiki/.ws/.zone ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
| Bypass | ? | ? | (.io/.me/.org/side-step.com ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .com/.net/.org ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵃˡᵉ, .app $249, .cc $9155, .co $2149 ₒᵣ $7000, .io $16125, .us $995, .xyz $2145, .cash/.ec/.foundation/.gl/.global/.group/.is/.media/.one/.onl/.pm/.sh/.technology/.wiki/bypas.se ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
| Continuum | ? | ? | (.cc/.co/.com./.io/.org/.us ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .xyz $3220, .foundation/.sh/.to/.ws/ continuu.ms ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
| Continuus | ? | ? | (.io/.org ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .com ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵃˡᵉ, .cc/.co/.foundation/.me/.network/.to/ |
| Crowdsensus | ? | ? | (.co/.com/.net/.org ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .app/.cc/.foundation/.io/.me/.network/.tech/.to/ crowdsens |
| Cryptinuus | ? | ? | (.app/.cc/.co/cryptinu |
| Cryptinuum | ? | ? | (.com ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵃˡᵉ, .app/.cc/.co/.foundation/.io/.me/ |
| Hordered | ? | ? | (.app/horde.red ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
| Inertia | E ₒᵣ ∃ ₒᵣ MASS (E ₒᵣ ∃ ₒᵣMSS code∃ ₒᵣ ᴲ ₒᵣ ᘓ ₒᵣ ⧉ symbol?) | ₘᵢₗₗᵢE ₒᵣ ₘ∃ ₒᵣ ₘᘓ ₒᵣ ₙₐₙₒE ₒᵣ ₙ∃ ₒᵣ ₙᘓ ₒᵣ quanta ₒᵣ quarks | (.org ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .com ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵃˡᵉ ᵃⁿᵈ ʳᵉᵈᶦʳᵉᶜᵗˢ ᵗᵒ agileanimal.com, .co/.net for sale, .tech $5051, .ai/.cash/inerti.ac/.ae/.ag/.af/.ai/.am/.app/.as/.at/ inert.ai ₙₒₜ ₜₐₖₑₙ) |
| Inertial | - | - | (.co/.io ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .org ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵃˡᵉ, .com ʳᵉᵈᶦʳᵉᶜᵗˢ ᵗᵒ heico.com, |
| Ledgur | ? | ? | (.com ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ ᵢₙ ᵣₑₐₗ ₑₛₜₐₜₑ, .app/.cc/.co/.foundation/.io/.me/ |
| Manifold | ? | ? | (.com/.us ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .me $4300, .cash/.ec/ |
| Sharded | ? | ? | (.com ʳᵉᵈᶦʳᵉᶜᵗˢ ᵗᵒ linuxdrake.com, .app/.cc/.co/.io/.me/ |
| Sidestep | ? | ? | (.io/.me/.org/side-step.com ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .co ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵃˡᵉ, .com ʳᵉᵈᶦʳᵉᶜᵗˢ ᵗᵒ kayak.co.uk, .app $9500, .xyz $1719, .ai/side-step.app/.cc/.foundation/.io/.me/ |
| Tensor | ? | ? | (.co/.io/.org/.net ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .cash/.ec/ |
| Uphodl | ? | ? | (.com/.net ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, .app/.cc/.co/.foundation/.io/.me/.network/.org/.tech/.to/ |
| WoT WoOT w00t | wot ₒᵣ woot ₒᵣ w00t (WoT codeᵂ ̊ ₒᵣ 𝕨 ̊ₒᵣ Ꮤ ̊ₒᵣ Ⓦ ̊ₒᵣ ᗵ ̊ₒᵣ ᗖ ̊ₒᵣ 🝃 ̊ ᵂ ͚ₒᵣ 𝕨 ͚ₒᵣ Ꮤ ͚ₒᵣ Ⓦ ͚ₒᵣ ᗵ ͚ₒᵣ ᗖ ͚ₒᵣ 🝃 ͚ ⏀ ̊ₒᵣ ∞ ₒᵣ ꝏ ₒᵣ ⛀⛀ ₒᵣ 𝛁𝛁 • ⃝ ⃠ ₒᵣ • ⃝ ̅ ⃠ symbol?) | ₘwot ₒᵣ ₘᵢₗₗᵢwoot ₒᵣ ₘw00t (ₘᗵ ̊ₒᵣ ₘᗖ ̊ₒᵣ ₘᗵ ͚ₒᵣ ₘᗖ ͚ₒᵣ ₘ𝛁𝛁 symbol?)ₙwot ₒᵣ ₙₐₙₒwoot ₒᵣ ₙw00t (ₙᗵ ̊ₒᵣ ₙᗖ ̊ₒᵣ ₙᗵ ͚ₒᵣ ₙᗖ ͚ₒᵣ ₙ𝛁𝛁 symbol?) | .app/.cc/.com/woot.io/.net/.org/.us/w00t.app/.co/.io/.us ₙₒₜ ᵢₙ ᵤₛₑ, w0t.com/woot.co/.me/.xyz ᶠᵒʳ ˢᵃˡᵉ, woot.app/.com/w00t.com ᶦⁿ ᵘˢᵉ ᶦⁿ ˢᵃᵐᵉ ᵈᵃᶦˡʸ ᵈᵉᵃˡˢ ˢᶦᵗᵉ, .co $16125, .me $17232, .network $376, .org $25000, .to $455, .xyz $650,w00t.org ฿0.1, .net $499, w0t.ai/.app/woot.ai/w00t.ai/.cash/.ec/.foundation/.global/.im/.is/.land/.lol/.media/.name/ |
Inertia seems on initial thought to be abstractly fit to my consensus technology innovation and emphasizing also the snowballing of onboarding, thus hopefully appealing to engineers and speculators, but maybe it won’t impress many people. I’m not sure if I mentioned that name in past brainstorms (going back to 2014). Obviously the target of a name influences which sort of name is fit. Whereas, Dvrse and Realms were attempts to associate to the decentralization concept in a context appreciated by the non-technical, mainstream audience
Actually I thought of the naming idea Masscoin back in perhaps 2014, which I remember was grabbed as a name by some who liked the idea when I mentioned it on bitcointalk.org.
Normal spelling is ‘continuous’, but I am removing the ‘o’ to emphasis in my design it is “us” who provide the continuity of the blockchain consensus.
EDIT: I added the name idea WoT. Web-of-Trust is a decentralized database of relative trust where each participant keeps their own record of for example: whose reliability, which websites, or which public keys to trust.
The decentralized ledger consensus algorithm I designed relies on a WoT.
WoT seems apropos, technological, modern, highly succinct, one syllable, very unique (achieves newness) compared to other coinmarketcap.com altcoin names and even sounds (/wät/) like ‘watt’ which is a metric of (typically electrical) power.
I contemplated that an alternative name which can be adopted for the same concept is Woot, WooT or WoOT (Web-of-observer-Trust). That’s an improvement on my idea from 2016: PoTM ( Proof-of-the-Transacting-Majority). The definition of ‘woot’ is: “used to express elation, enthusiasm, or triumph.” The deeper meaning of ‘woot’ and its etymology origin is recent from the 1990s:
Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term,
w00t.
w00twas originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for “Wow, loot!” Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.
Added Sharded, which refers to the horizontal partitioning scaling technology of database sharding. Doesn’t entirely describe the USP of my technological innovation, but it’s a more recognizable term than WoT. Note there’s already a Shard altcoin.
Added Affinity (or Effinity), Bypass, Crowdsensus, Hordered, Manifold, Sidestep and Tensor, as an attempt to describe the multivariate, stochastic, degrees-of-freedom technological innovation of my design in that hordes of users comprising a WoT trust circle (grouping) can objectively (and independently!) route around malfeasance of adversaries. Bypass and Sidestep also apply to a plurality of consensus shards for routing around the transaction volume scaling bottleneck of other blockchains. @johnnyflynn suggested Efinity, but it’s similar to extant DFINITY altcoin and I didn’t think the association to ‘infinity’ was particularly novel or apropos. The definition of ‘affinity’ is more apropos.
My first thoughts; I like GEMS for the token name to REALMS… With regard to INERTIA, I immediately associated it with it’s meaning of doing nothing, stagnancy etc (actually didn’t know it had that alternative meaning)… AURA I associated with hippie types (“I can see your aura”)
EDIT: For the record, my knowledge of physics and science in general (& tech) is very poor so I see my feedback as representing those like me (so to be taken accordingly). In any case, I now know a lot more about inertia - interesting cheers - and I like Inertial.net as a result. It’s not an attention grabber for me, but in its explained context it’s a good name for a serious project, and I like the phonetics which means it’ll be sure to grow on me… I like E for the token for Inertial net. I didn’t comment on MASS or QUANTA initially because I didn’t have a strong instinctual response. I still don’t to be honest - without disliking either… I’m interested to understand why you’d have two denominations of coin?