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The marketplace lets you buy or sell a whole namespace when enabled on a deployment. It is disabled on the current testnet setup. Sales use hosted payment escrow and Registry’s proposal-and-acceptance transfer process.

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Custody

The operator’s escrow account holds the buyer’s payment and seller’s bond. The seller owns the namespace until the buyer accepts the Registry transfer. This hosted escrow is separate from the Allocator contract’s namespace claim-fee escrow. A sale badge reflects the hosted settlement record. Check Registry for current ownership.

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Seller flow

  1. List your namespace and review the operator-set marketplace fee and required bond.
  2. Fund the performance bond with the supplied payment instructions and exact memo.
  3. Propose the namespace Registry transfer to your buyer’s address.
  4. After the buyer funds and accepts the transfer, settlement verifies delivery and attempts your payout and eligible bond return.
Listing requires namespace-owner authority. Console admin or issuer access is insufficient. Use the namespace transfer process; an individual name transfer does not deliver the sale. Funded listings and transfers in progress have restricted withdrawal rules.

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Buyer flow

  1. Create a purchase intent through the market API.
  2. Check that Registry has a live transfer proposal to your wallet.
  3. Send the exact price and hash memo from your self-custody account.
  4. Accept the namespace transfer from that wallet and check settlement status.
Use the escrow intent’s payment instructions. Refunds return to the payment’s source account, so paying from an exchange can send a refund to its pooled account without your customer memo.

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Refund and bond policy

The hosted operator implements these settlement rules. Payouts may be delayed or held for review, including small amounts or uncertain chain state. There is no fixed refund time. Check deposit and settlement status, plus watcher health. A namespace remains transferable through its contract process without this optional marketplace. If hosted billing is enabled, a buyer may need to re-attest ownership for those services.