The Marketplace

SithBit is not just a way to send mail — it is a small open economy, and three kinds of value change hands on it. Every trade settles in SOL, on-chain, with no platform sitting in the middle taking a cut of the principal:

• Alias names — short, memorable, globally-unique handles that resolve to a wallet. A good name has value, so names can be listed, auctioned, or sold to a specific buyer.
• Domains — the on-chain authority to carry a DNS mail domain’s inbound mail. Selling a domain sells its future settlement income along with the name.
• Attention — through campaigns, you can opt in to be reached by advertisers who pay for the privilege. Your inbox becomes an income stream instead of a spam target.

The first two are the name marketplace: an asset changes owner. The third is the participant pool: nothing changes owner — you rent out your attention, one message at a time, and keep earning. They share a home here because they are the ways SithBit lets you turn what you own — a name, a domain, or your own inbox — into SOL.

Why it works this way

Traditional mail gives value in one direction only: a provider monetizes your data and attention, and you pay for the privilege of being marketed to. SithBit inverts that. Because every message already carries sender-paid postage and a name is a real on-chain asset, the same machinery that prices out spam also lets honest value flow back to the people who create it — the name holder, the domain operator, and the recipient.

Nothing here is mandatory. You never have to list a name or join the pool; these are levers you reach for when you want to, and the base experience of owning an address and receiving mail stays exactly as cheap as before. What the marketplace adds is upside.

The two surfaces

Everything below is reachable two ways, backed by the same on-chain accounts:

• In the browser — the marketplace pane (standalone, or mounted inside the webmail/Outlook/Thunderbird clients) lets you browse names for sale, buy with a click, list your own, and browse the participant pool by topic.
• From the terminal — the sithbit CLI drives the same operations: alias sell/buy, domain sell/buy, and the whole sithbit campaign tree for the participant pool.

Where to go next

• Trading names — list, auction, or sell an alias or a domain, and buy names other people are offering.
• Campaigns — opt in to earn from your inbox, or run a bountied campaign to reach an opted-in audience.
• Economics — the same flows traced lamport by lamport: who pays, who collects, and where SOL parks along the way.