Fabric DHT

Fabric enables you to sign Nostr events, and DNS records with a Bitcoin sovereign handle (a space), or a public key (an npub), and publish them to the Fabric peer-to-peer network without adding any bloat to the Bitcoin blockchain!

Who can use it?

• Own a Space? Publish forward records tied to your handle e.g., @example. To grab one, see quick start or buy one from a secondary marketplace.

• No Space? No Problem! Use your npub to publish Nostr events (like NIP-65 relay lists) instead.

npm install -g @spacesprotocol/fabric 

and verify installation

fabric --version
beam --version

By default, the beam tool will try to load trust anchors from http://127.0.0.1:7225/root-anchors.json to verify space handles. If you don't have a spaces spaces client, you can load the file from an external source that you trust e.g.

export FABRIC_REMOTE_ANCHORS=https://bitpki.com/root-anchors.json

Don't trust, verify! Run your own Bitcoin full node and spaces client.\

DNS Records

beam <space> <record-type>

For example:

beam @buffrr TXT

Nostr events

beam <space-or-pubkey> <event-kind> <optional-d-tag>

Publishing records by handle

If you own a space, you can publish forward records resolvable by your handle e.g. @example

Publish DNS records

Spaces use the DNS class code 2 (CLASS2) to further distinguish them from regular domains in the IN class.

1. Create a zone file:

Add your records to a file and save it e.g. myexample.zone

@example. 3600 CLASS2  TXT   "Hello Fabric"
@example. 3600 CLASS2  A      127.0.0.1

Remember to replace @examplewith your space name, and remember to put the .at the end. It's not a typo in DNS zone files!

1. Sign the file

space-cli signzone @example myexample.zone > signed.event.json

The wallet will turn it into a signed Nostr event and bundles proof information to make it ready for publishing to Fabric.

1. Publish it with beam

beam publish signed.event.json

Publish Nostr Events

To sign a forward event (lookup by a space handle), you could do the following:

Note: there's no standard yet for using kind 0 for forward lookups yet but it's here as an example.

{
  "kind": 0,
  "created_at": 1679673265,
  "content": "{\"name\": \"Alice\", \"about\": \"A Nostr enthusiast\", \"picture\": \"https://example.com/avatar.jpg\"}",
  "tags": []
}

space-cli signevent @example event.json --anchor > event.signed.json

For lookups by handle, you should use the --anchoroption to include trust path information and append the spacetag to the event.

beam publish event.signed.json

Publishing records by pubkey

If you have an npub, you could publish events on Fabric. This is still experimental and no Nostr client supports lookups through Fabric yet. Here's an example publishing a NIP-65 relay list:

{
  "kind": 10002,
  "created_at": 1679673265,
  "pubkey": "97c70a44366a6535c145b333f973ea86dfdc2d7a99da618c40c64705ad98e322",
  "tags": [
    ["r", "wss://alicerelay.example.com"],
    ["r", "wss://brando-relay.com"],
    ["r", "wss://expensive-relay.example2.com", "write"],
    ["r", "wss://nostr-relay.example.com", "read"]
  ],
  "content": "",
  "sig": "<signature>"
}

Then publish it

beam publish event.signed.json