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Common questions

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The basics

X1ID is a naming system on X1 that gives you a single, human-readable handle — @you — in place of long wallet addresses. That one name can point to your addresses on several chains, carry a profile, and act as your identity across apps. You own it permanently.
A handle is your @name — flat and simple, like @jack. It’s the thing people send to, the name apps show for your wallet, and the identity your profile hangs off of.
A wallet address is a long string like 7Np1jK…pQ4mZ — unreadable, hard to remember, and unforgiving if a single character is wrong. @you is a name a person can actually read and share. Behind the scenes it resolves to your real addresses, so senders get the right destination without ever handling the raw string.
A single handle can point to your addresses on X1, Solana, Ethereum, and Bitcoin. Someone paying you is routed to the correct address for the chain they’re on. You choose which chains to add.
X1ID is live now on X1 testnet. The move to X1 mainnet is a separate, deliberate step we’re preparing for, and we’ll make it clear when it happens. See Trust & transparency.

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Ownership & permanence

Yes. You pay once when you register, and the handle is yours to keep — no renewals, no subscription, no expiry date. This is a deliberate design choice: a name people send money to must never quietly change owners because a payment was missed.
No. There’s a single one-time registration fee and nothing after that. Holding your handle is free forever.
No. Because handles don’t expire, there’s no lapse for anyone to swoop in on. Your handle changes hands only if you choose to transfer or sell it.
No. Your handle is owned by your wallet, on-chain. We don’t hold it and can’t move it. It’s genuinely yours.
Yes. You can transfer it to another wallet, or sell it on the built-in marketplace. See the marketplace questions below.

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Getting one

Go to app.x1id.io, connect your wallet, search for a name, and register it. The full walkthrough is on Claim your handle.
A single, one-time fee in XNT, priced by how short the name is — shorter names cost more. There’s no charge to keep holding it. The app shows the exact price before you confirm, and the live pricing curve is at x1id.io/pricing. Full details on Fees.
Yes — registration is paid in XNT, X1’s native token, so you’ll need a little in your wallet to cover the one-time fee.
Most everyday names are open to register directly. Short names, brands, tickers, and well-known words were set aside at launch and reach new owners through the marketplace — a listing or an auction — rather than by direct registration.
Short names are the rarest and most premium. They’re generally released through the marketplace rather than direct registration, and they cost the most. If you want one, look for it on app.x1id.io/marketplace.

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Using your handle

They enter @you where they’d normally paste an address. Their wallet looks up the right address for the chain they’re sending on and routes the payment there. You just share your handle.
Your handle can resolve on X1, Solana, Ethereum, and Bitcoin, and any wallet or app that supports X1ID can use it. Support is growing across the ecosystem.
Setting a handle as your primary creates the reverse link from your wallet back to your handle. After that, apps that support X1ID show your wallet as @you instead of a long address wherever you appear.
A subname is a purpose-built name under the handle you already own — pay.you, docs.you, shop.you. There’s no extra registration; they live under your handle and are yours to create or remove anytime. See What you can do.
Yes. Behind your handle is a profile you control: an avatar, your website, your social links, and a link to your decentralized site. It’s what turns @you from a routing label into an identity people recognize.
Yes — you can attach a link to your decentralized website to your handle, so @you carries your site along with everything else.
Use the search on app.x1id.io. Type a name to see if it’s free to register, or look up an existing handle to see whose it is, what addresses it points to, and whether it’s listed for sale — worth doing before you trust or buy one.
Yes. You can pre-pay a handle for someone — you cover the registration up front and they claim the name with zero funds of their own, which is ideal for onboarding a friend who has no XNT yet. A gift is set aside for the name you chose and has an expiry; if it’s never claimed, your payment comes back to you. See What you can do.
Referrals are attribution, not a payout. When someone registers through your link from app.x1id.io/refer, you’re credited on-chain as their referrer and your referrals are tracked — but there’s no monetary reward attached today. Invite people because you want them on X1 with you. See Invite friends.

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Safety & trust

X1ID allows only plain letters, numbers, and simple characters — no emoji and no lookalike letters from other alphabets. That blocks the common trick of registering a name that looks identical to yours (for example, a Cyrillic “а” swapped into @alice). See Trust & transparency.
Set up recovery ahead of time and you can get your handle back even if you lose access to the wallet that owns it. Set it up while everything is working — it’s your safety net for later. See What you can do.
Lock it. A lock instantly freezes your handle so it can’t be moved or have its addresses redirected while you sort things out. Unlocking has a built-in waiting period, so an attacker can’t lock it and immediately steal it.
Addresses can be verified. When someone proves they control an address, it shows as verified; an unproven one is shown as unverified. Nothing unproven is dressed up as trusted, so you know what you’re relying on before you send.
Yes. X1ID runs as a public on-chain program you can inspect on the X1 explorer at 8JgnNWi24bq9uzfnT9XmkWxvaWMVgoEs9bu8QsHhLe1P (currently on X1 testnet). See Trust & transparency.
No — it’s optional and most people never do. Tokenizing lets you trade a handle on standard NFT marketplaces, but it carries a separate one-time fee and is a one-way step: once tokenized, the NFT holder is the owner and some tools like recovery no longer apply. Only do it if you specifically want that.
Yes — this is an optional, advanced feature. You can let a trusted person or service update your handle’s records (for example, keep your addresses current) without handing over ownership. You stay the owner, and you can remove their access at any time.

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Marketplace

Use the built-in marketplace at app.x1id.io/marketplace. You can list a handle you own at a fixed price, accept offers, or run an auction — and buy handles others are selling.
A 2% fee applies when a handle sells. If you’re just registering and holding your own handle, this never touches you — it only applies to sales.

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X1ID and X1NS

X1ID and X1NS are complementary, not competitors. X1ID gives you @-style handles; X1NS gives you .x1 domains. Many people own both.
They’re different shapes of name for different jobs. X1ID is the handle-shaped namespace — @jack, flat and human, built as a payment and identity handle. X1NS is the domain-shaped namespace — jack.x1 (and .xnt, .xen), hierarchical and able to have subdomains. Think of it like a social handle versus a domain name: @jack is to jack.x1 what your @handle on a social app is to a website domain.
Not necessarily — but they complement each other, and many people will want both. X1ID covers the flat, memorable, cross-chain “pay me at @you” use case; X1NS covers domain-style, hierarchical naming. Owning one doesn’t stop you owning the other.
Not automatically — they’re separate names and can have different owners. That’s why well-behaved wallets never silently pick between them: they always show you which namespace matched — the @ handle or the .x1 domain — before you send. Treat it as a feature: you always know exactly which name you’re paying.
No. X1ID supplements X1NS by owning the flat, cross-chain-receive handle use case; X1NS keeps owning domain-style hierarchical naming. They work side by side.