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  <h1>Ariadne <span class="g">resolver</span></h1>
  <p class="tag">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.</p>
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    <a class="btn acid" href="#android">Android browser</a>
    <a class="btn ghost" href="#resolver">Windows resolver</a>
    <a class="btn ghost" href="#how">How a lookup resolves</a>
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  <p class="sov">
    <b>Ariadne.X</b> is the mobile browser's sovereign site, served from its own on-chain name.
    Mirror: <a href="/ariadne-x/">silentmode.st/ariadne-x/</a> ·
    gateway: <a href="https://navigate.st/bns/ariadne.x/">navigate.st/bns/ariadne.x/</a> ·
    native with a resolver: <a href="https://ariadne.x/"><code class="inline">https://ariadne.x/</code></a>
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  <figcaption>silentmode.bch opened in Ariadne for Android. The badge says the name came from the chain.</figcaption>
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<!-- ============ ANDROID ============ -->
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  <h2>Ariadne for Android</h2>
  <p class="lede">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.</p>
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    <div>
      <span class="pill p-alpha">alpha</span>
      <h3>Ariadne for Android 0.52</h3>
      <p><b>Ariadne's Thread</b> 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.</p>
      <div class="meta">Android 5.0+ (API 21) · self-signed release key · 2026-10-24</div>
      <div class="h">SHA-256 <code class="inline">da3655262114cd0505b69c9833ea129c2808dc3fbb8c0137abd60bad15959615</code></div>
      <div class="h">Signing key <code class="inline">46ebbbe5dc73148d66410fd0337b1e6683472128c983e8e2578200b9e3ca548c</code></div>
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      <a class="btn acid" href="https://dl.silentmode.st/latest/ariadne.apk">Download APK</a>
      <a class="btn ghost" href="https://navigate.st/bns/ariadne.x/">ariadne.x</a>
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<!-- ============ WINDOWS RESOLVER ============ -->
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  <h2>Ariadne Resolver for Windows</h2>
  <p class="lede">For anyone who wants names working in <i>every</i> 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".</p>
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    <div>
      <span class="pill p-alpha">alpha</span>
      <h3>Ariadne Resolver 0.1.13</h3>
      <p>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 <b>name-constrained</b> to those TLDs, so it cannot vouch for
         <code class="inline">.com</code>. Everything reverses with the bundled uninstaller.</p>
      <div class="meta">Windows 64-bit · bundled Node runtime · unsigned · 2026-10-01</div>
      <div class="h">SHA-256 <code class="inline">a16d10759efede4412f4fdb52d59424bf56bbb258bb002ab930f4a5a5aef8a41</code></div>
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      <a class="btn acid" href="https://dl.silentmode.st/latest/AriadneResolver-Setup.exe">Installer</a>
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  <div class="note" style="margin-top:1rem"><b>Inside Theseus.</b> 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.</div>
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<!-- ============ HOW ============ -->
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  <h2>How a lookup resolves</h2>
  <ol class="steps">
    <li><b>Type a name.</b><span>Anything with a dot goes to the resolver; a bare word is a search.
        The name is normalised to its registered form first.</span></li>
    <li><b>Two sources, first answer wins.</b><span>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.</span></li>
    <li><b>Read the record, serve the page.</b><span>An <code class="inline">h</code> record is a page
        inside a transaction; <code class="inline">s3</code> fetches the Sia bucket directly;
        <code class="inline">ip</code> connects to a host with its TLS fingerprint pinned on chain;
        <code class="inline">u</code> redirects.</span></li>
    <li><b>Show the proof.</b><span>The badge in the address bar names the registry and the storage
        that served the bytes. Tap it for the block height and transaction.</span></li>
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  <h2>Verify what you downloaded</h2>
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      <h3>Android</h3>
      <p>Hash the <code class="inline">.apk</code> 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.</p>
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      <h3>Windows</h3>
      <p><code class="inline">certutil -hashfile &lt;file&gt; SHA256</code>. The build carries no
         code-signing certificate, so Windows warns about an unrecognized app. That warning is
         expected; the hash is the check.</p>
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      <h3>Every build, every hash</h3>
      <p>The <a href="releases">releases page</a> lists current builds with checksums, and the
         machine-readable <a href="https://dl.silentmode.st/releases-manifest.json">manifest</a> is
         what the apps themselves update from.</p>
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