Ethereum infrastructure project Delegate is launching today a blockchain-based naming protocol called Clusters in collaboration with interoperability platform LayerZero.

Domain name services map complex blockchain addresses to human-readable names. The Ethereum Name Service is the most well known example. While ENS does allow for the registry of addresses from other blockchains — using an integration with oracle provider Chainlink — the data remains stored on Ethereum as a single point of truth.

Delegate's alternative wants to bring this kind of registry natively to multiple blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, other EVM-based chains and later Bitcoin, according to a post on X.

"Clusters is a cross-chain, multi-wallet naming protocol addressing issues like address fragmentation, …