The Everscale blockchain community celebrates a notable advancement as Chums Chat, a decentralized social platform dedicated to building a secure messaging app running on the blockchain with cross-chain interoperability, successfully delivered on its commitment to extend the capabilities of .ever domains. This significant development promises enhanced utility, decentralized identity management, and broader integration across Web3 ecosystems.
Commitment Overview
Initiating the project in January 2025, the Chums team aimed to transform .ever domains from basic blockchain address identifiers into comprehensive decentralized identity and content hosting tools. Following the general requirement for commitments in Everscale, Chums locked collateral of 150,000 EVER coins as assurance of project completion. Now, in the beginning of June 2025, Chums announced the successful completion of the project, and prepared a detailed report for the Governance Board and broader community.
Delivered Components and Their Impact
Chums successfully fulfilled all project goals, significantly enriching the .ever domains’ functionality. Below is the detailed description of main deliverables with the explanation of their significance and possible use cases.
Domain Name Resolving Library
Chums developed a cross-platform library, written in Rust language, capable of resolving .ever domains into multiple resource types, including DNS (Web2), IPFS hashes, TOR (.onion) addresses, on-chain smart contract addresses, and embedded HTML content. The library is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license and publicly available on GitHub to facilitate broad community adoption and collaborative improvement.
Another developed component is Chums Proxy, a local proxy service, also written in Rust, that enables browsers to seamlessly open .ever domains without complex configurations.
Plugins for Mobile Development
In addition, the team delivered a set of Flutter plugins: flutter-chums-proxy and flutter-inappwebview-proxy-plugin for integration into Android and iOS platforms, and published a sample Flutter application, chums-proxy-sample. All repositories are available under Apache 2.0 and AGPLv3 licenses.
On-chain Hosting Standard
One more achievement is adding the support for an on-chain hosting standard leveraging the existing DeNS framework. The implemented smart contract enables direct storage of small-scale HTML content within domain records, providing a practical example of decentralized content hosting.
Chums created a complete, open-source reference implementation and detailed deployment instructions for use by the developer community, illustrating feasible scenarios and highlighting the limitations due to replication costs and size constraints.
Documentation and Post-Release Support
As part of the commitment, Chums published extensive documentation covering essential operations such as domain acquisition, record management, and content publishing.
Following successful project delivery, Chums has now entered a two-month support phase. During this period, they will address any user feedback, resolve bugs, and provide active developer assistance.
Practical Use and Examples
Users can purchase .ever domains via Evername and configure DNS, TOR, and on-chain records through its interface. Chums Proxy users can quickly deploy HTML-based profiles and decentralized content, using the new decentralized web publishing feature.
Examples of active domain uses include:
- TOR integration: tor-proxy.chums.ever
- DNS records: dns-proxy.chums.ever
- IPFS content hosting: ipfs-proxy.chums.ever
- On-chain hosted sites: onchain-proxy.chums.ever and onchain-site-proxy.chums.ever
Conclusion
The successful completion of Chums’ commitment signifies a critical step towards a more versatile Web3 environment in Everscale. With new features developed by Chums, .ever domains now provide a firm foundation for building solutions in the fields of decentralized identity and cross-chain connectivity, setting a stage for new commitments in the Everscale ecosystem.