Ariadne resolver

The thread that leads out of the DNS maze. Ariadne reads names straight from the Bitcoin Cash chain and answers on the device: no gateway to trust, no operator who can rewrite the answer. It ships three ways: a mobile browser for Android, a standalone system-wide resolver for Windows, and built into every Theseus install.

Android browser Windows resolver How a lookup resolves

Ariadne.X is the mobile browser's sovereign site, served from its own on-chain name. Mirror: silentmode.st/ariadne-x/ · gateway: navigate.st/bns/ariadne.x/ · native with a resolver: https://ariadne.x/

Ariadne for Android showing silentmode.bch resolved on the phone, with the BCN badge in the address bar
silentmode.bch opened in Ariadne for Android. The badge says the name came from the chain.

Ariadne for Android

A phone-sized browser that resolves Bitcoin Cash names on the device. Every lookup asks the on-device snapshot and a live Electrum server in parallel and takes whichever answers first; if they disagree, the chain wins. Sia-hosted pages are fetched from the bucket directly, with no gateway in between. Tap the badge on any page to see the block and transaction behind the name.

alpha

Ariadne for Android 0.52

Ariadne's Thread is one tap away inside the app: a local VPN service that resolves names for every app on the phone, not just this browser. No root, no profile, nothing installed at OS level. The app updates itself once installed.

Android 5.0+ (API 21) · self-signed release key · 2026-10-24
SHA-256 da3655262114cd0505b69c9833ea129c2808dc3fbb8c0137abd60bad15959615
Signing key 46ebbbe5dc73148d66410fd0337b1e6683472128c983e8e2578200b9e3ca548c
Download APK ariadne.x

Ariadne Resolver for Windows

For anyone who wants names working in every browser on the machine without installing Theseus. It runs as a small background service that answers name lookups and mints TLS certificates on the fly for names registered on chain. The Theseus installer offers the same component as "Ariadne's Thread".

alpha

Ariadne Resolver 0.1.13

Asks for administrator rights because it changes how the machine resolves names: a background service, routing rules that send only the chain's TLDs to the local daemon, and one root certificate name-constrained to those TLDs, so it cannot vouch for .com. Everything reverses with the bundled uninstaller.

Windows 64-bit · bundled Node runtime · unsigned · 2026-10-01
SHA-256 a16d10759efede4412f4fdb52d59424bf56bbb258bb002ab930f4a5a5aef8a41
Installer
Inside Theseus. The desktop browser carries the same resolver in-process, so it needs none of this. The installer's optional "Ariadne's Thread" step installs this standalone resolver alongside, for Chrome, Edge and everything else on the machine.

How a lookup resolves

  1. Type a name.Anything with a dot goes to the resolver; a bare word is a search. The name is normalised to its registered form first.
  2. Two sources, first answer wins.The bundled on-device snapshot and a live Electrum server are asked in parallel. If they disagree, the chain's answer is used. Nothing blocks the navigation.
  3. Read the record, serve the page.An h record is a page inside a transaction; s3 fetches the Sia bucket directly; ip connects to a host with its TLS fingerprint pinned on chain; u redirects.
  4. Show the proof.The badge in the address bar names the registry and the storage that served the bytes. Tap it for the block height and transaction.

Verify what you downloaded

Android

Hash the .apk on a computer before moving it to the phone, or use any file-hashing app, and compare to the value above. The signing-key fingerprint matters most: Android refuses any update signed by a different key.

Windows

certutil -hashfile <file> SHA256. The build carries no code-signing certificate, so Windows warns about an unrecognized app. That warning is expected; the hash is the check.

Every build, every hash

The releases page lists current builds with checksums, and the machine-readable manifest is what the apps themselves update from.