.verge: A TLD for Private, Decentralized Payments

Privacy and usability rarely coexist in digital money. Some systems optimize for openness, others for anonymity, but few manage to balance discretion with real-world use. Verge has spent over a decade proving that both can exist together, and now that work gains a naming layer designed to reflect the same principles.

Today, in collaboration with Verge, we’re introducing .verge, expanding on the partnership that already brought native Unstoppable Domains support to Verge Core Desktop Wallet. This Web3-only top-level domain is built for communities, developers, and projects that value privacy, decentralized money, and user-centric identity across the onchain world.

.verge is built for the ecosystem that surrounds one of the earliest privacy-focused, not pre-mined, community based and open source cryptocurrencies. It gives individuals, developers, merchants, and decentralized apps clear, human-readable identities that can be used across wallets, platforms, and onchain interfaces. In an environment where anonymity, ownership, and presence matter, naming becomes a foundational layer of identity infrastructure.

Verge is an open-source, decentralized cryptocurrency originally launched in 2014 (first known as DogeCoinDark) with a mission to deliver a truly private digital cash system leveraging anonymity technologies like Tor, and stealth addresses, to obfuscate sensitive user information.

Unlike many projects that focus on speculative trading, Verge is designed for everyday transactions with fast, efficient payments and low fees, powered by a Proof-of-Work blockchain that supports multiple mining algorithms — increasing accessibility and decentralization.

The network’s use of privacy-centric technologies sets it apart from other coins:

• IP addresses are obfuscated using Tor and I2P, enhancing transaction privacy
• Users can switch between public and private ledgers using features like Wraith Protocol
• With billions of XVG in circulation and a substantial market presence among privacy-focused coins, Verge continues to be actively traded on major exchanges

This combination of privacy, open-source governance, and real-world usability has made Verge unique among decentralized currencies.

Identity and privacy are deeply linked. If transactions can be anonymous, the names that represent users, projects, and services should be equally personal and uncoupled from centralized platforms.

.verge extends Verge’s principles into naming:

• Human-readable names that respect privacy while enabling presence across interfaces
• A consistent identity layer for developers, merchants, and ecosystems that interact with XVG or privacy-centric tooling
• Signal alignment with a long-standing community focused on user control, decentralization, and anonymity

Just as Verge empowers people to transact with discretion and autonomy, .verge empowers them to present themselves onchain with a name that reflects ownership and trust without compromising privacy.

Verge already supports domain-based payments at the wallet level. Users can send and receive crypto in Verge Core Desktop Wallet using human-readable domain names instead of long wallet addresses, making private payments easier to verify, share, and use in real-world contexts.

.verge builds directly on this live functionality. It extends wallet-native naming into a dedicated namespace for the Verge ecosystem, aligning payments, identity, and privacy under a single, community-owned naming layer.

As with any new namespace, the most high-potential names are claimed first. Early access to .verge gives individuals, developers, and merchants the opportunity to secure meaningful, category-defining names before they’re taken.

Examples include:
💸 pay.verge
🛒 shop.verge
👛 wallet.verge
🔒 privacy.verge
🏪 merchant.verge

These are the kinds of names that become harder to secure as ecosystems grow.

Every .verge domain comes with built-in connectivity for today’s onchain needs:
🌐 Onchain websites to publish project pages, documentation, or merchant fronts
💸 Human-readable crypto payments that replace long wallet addresses
🆔 UD.me profiles for verifiable identity across onchain activity
💬 Messaging & Group Chat to coordinate with collaborators, builders, and community members

No renewals. Fully owned.

Verge has spent over a decade championing privacy, community governance, and real-world usability in digital currency. .verge brings that same philosophy to naming — a space anyone can use to express identity, build presence, and participate with confidence across the onchain ecosystem.

👉 Get your .verge domain today and own your name onchain.