SolidPeer — Branding
The brand decision, tagline, domain registration plan, and the candidates evaluated en route. The product ships as SolidPeer.
1. Decision in one sentence
The billed gateway in front of bitcoind RPC + Fulcrum + Chaingraph ships under the brand SolidPeer with the tagline "A solid peer for Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash."
2. Brand thread
- Solidity — Ethereum's smart-contract language
- → SolidCash — sister project; Solidity adapted for Bitcoin Cash
- → SolidPeer — billed-gateway infrastructure serving SolidCash apps and the wider BCH developer ecosystem
Both consumer-facing names directly quote Satoshi Nakamoto's 2008 whitepaper title:
"Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"
SolidCash echoes "Electronic Cash" (the language). SolidPeer echoes "Peer-to-Peer" (the infrastructure). The "Solid" prefix references Solidity. Anyone deep in Bitcoin culture reads the reference instantly.
3. Tagline
"A solid peer for Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash."
Eight words. Quotes the whitepaper title verbatim. "Solid" pulls double duty as brand name and adjective. Self-explaining — says what the product is (a peer) and what it serves (Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash apps). Implicitly accommodates the bitcoin-family roadmap (BCH today, BTC/LTC/DOGE next) since all are "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash" descendants per Satoshi's framing.
4. Domain registration plan
Tier 1 — operational set (register immediately, ~$110/year)
| Domain | Status | Approx. annual | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
solidpeer.io |
available | ~$35 | primary; dev-default TLD |
solidpeer.cash |
available | ~$45 | BCH credibility signal |
solidpeer.net |
available | ~$15 | .com fallback |
solidpeer.org |
available | ~$15 | community/protocol signal |
Tier 2 — strategic crypto/finance defense (~$275/year, optional)
.ai ($70), $60), .finance (.money ($50), $45), .exchange (.fund (~$50)
These are TLDs a competitor or speculator might grab to confuse the brand once SolidPeer has visibility.
Tier 3 — typosquat insurance (~$150/year, optional)
.app, .dev, .me, .co, .xyz
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The long tail — .world, .group, .solutions, .codes, .technology, etc. ~$400/year of marginal value; speculators rarely target these.
solidpeer.com
Held by a 2026-04-06 speculator registration with no DNS / no website (NXDOMAIN). Not blocking. Strategy: leave alone; after 6–12 months of brand presence, a casual outreach offer ($500–$1k) usually clears 1-month-old speculator holds.
5. Naming criteria
The chosen name had to clear four bars:
- Bitcoin axis — bitcoin-coded vocabulary (signals industry, pairs with SolidCash).
- Data/infrastructure axis — reads as data provider / RPC service, not as a unit or asset.
- Clean namespace — no major brand collisions in crypto, fintech, or developer-tools space; .io and .cash domains free at minimum.
- Pairs with SolidCash — same prefix family, ideally a deeper brand thread.
SolidPeer was the only candidate of 15+ tested that hit all four. Specifically:
- Peer is bitcoin-native (P2P from the whitepaper title) AND data-coded (peer = node = chain-data source).
- All operational TLDs free; zero crypto-namespace collisions.
- The whitepaper-quote pairing with SolidCash is tighter than any other Solid+X candidate produced.
6. Candidates considered
| Candidate | Verdict | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| SolidPeer | ✅ chosen | Hits both axes; clean namespace; whitepaper pair with SolidCash |
| SolidSat | runner-up (positioning) | 10/10 TLDs free; "sat" reads as unit, not data/infra |
| SolidWell | runner-up (functional) | 8/10 TLDs; data-well metaphor; only HVAC-industry collision |
| SolidSource | considered | 7/10 TLDs; IT-services collision in same software industry |
| SolidStack | rejected | Multiple software-services firms own the namespace |
| SolidPort | rejected | Polish maritime + Rotterdam port-logistics collisions |
| SolidRail | rejected | K2 Systems solar-mounting product brand |
| SolidNode | rejected | Defunct hosting with shady history; N|Solid (NodeSource) adjacency |
| SolidInfra | rejected | SolidBase Infra exists; generic |
| SolidByte | rejected | Multiple Solidbyte software-services firms |
| SolidHash | rejected | UK SOLIDHASH LTD is a blockchain company (direct industry collision) |
| SolidChain | rejected | Multiple crypto/Web3 entities own the namespace |
| SolidBit | ⛔ hard reject | SolidBit = ransomware family (RaaS, active since 2022); also defunct Seychelles crypto exchange |
| SolidBlock | ⛔ hard reject | SolidBlock real-estate tokenization platform + SOLID token on Ethereum |
| SolidGraph | rejected | SolidGraph CAD system holds .com since 2004 |
| SolidRidge | rejected | Ridge-wallet brand adjacency; broken theme with SolidCash |
| SolidDwell | rejected | "Dwell" = stasis; semantically opposite of gateway transit |
| BitFlow / ByteFlow | rejected | Multiple existing crypto/IT brands in the exact namespace |
Earlier-round non-Solid-prefix exploration considered Bastion, Solidus, Janus, Stater, Quay, Aegis, Atlas, Bulwark, Polaris, Compass, Sextant, Codex, Bifrost, Heimdall, Solder. Abandoned in favor of the Solid+X family once brand cohesion with SolidCash was set as a hard requirement.
7. Open items
- Trademark search — USPTO TESS, EUIPO eSearch, WIPO branddb in classes 9 (downloadable software) and 42 (SaaS) before public launch.
- Register Tier 1 domains — solidpeer.io, .cash, .net, .org.
- (Later) Register Tier 2/3 if budget allows after launch.
- (Later) Approach solidpeer.com registrant once brand presence is established.