OpenAlias ([openalias.org](https://openalias.org)) is an open standard for simpler addresses for any crypto currencies. [Read more here](https://openalias.org)
At its most basic, OpenAlias is a TXT DNS record on a FQDN (fully qualified domain name).
By combining this with DNS-related technologies [it has] created an aliasing standard that is extensible for developers,
intuitive and familiar for users, and can interoperate with both centralised and decentralised domain systems.
It is using the [OpenAlias rust implementation](https://github.com/nabijaczleweli/openalias.rs/) - and is simply a ruby wrapper with a native rust extension.
Maybe this is a bad idea, but I had a few minutes and wanted to try it. It works perfectly (but gem install takes a while to compile the extension)
At some point it would probably be awesome to rewrite the whole thing in pure ruby - which is likely very easy.