IntroductionIdentitism is a distributed, open, and extensible naming system based on Optimism. Our job is to map human-readable names like ‘elon.op’ to machine-readable identifiers such as cryptocurrency addresses, content hashes, and metadata. Identitism also supports ‘reverse resolution’, making it possible to associate metadata such as canonical names or interface descriptions with Optimism addresses. Identitism has similar goals to DNS, the Internet’s Domain Name Service, but has signific...