Yes, you can. Whether it helps the person actually paying you is the other half of the answer.
Short version, since you probably arrived here with an address on your clipboard and a client waiting on you. Naming systems exist and they do the thing you are imagining. On Ethereum it is ENS, which gives you something like yourname.eth, and Solana has its own, where names end in .sol. You register a name, point it at your wallet address, and anybody sending to you types the name instead of the long string.
A name of five characters or more costs about $5 a year, shorter ones cost more, and it comes round again every year.* Miss a renewal and you get ninety days of grace, after which the name goes back in the pool for somebody else to claim. It is closer to rent than to ownership.
Here is the part that decides whether it is worth your money. The name gets looked up by whatever app the sender is using, so it only works if the person paying you happens to be on a wallet that does that lookup. Many do. Many of the apps a client abroad actually uses to push money out do not, and then what you have handed them is a word, not an address.
Why There Is No Name Check on a Wallet Address
Think about sending money to a Nigerian account. You type ten digits, and the app shows you a name. ADEBAYO OLUWASEUN T. You decide that is near enough the human being you meant to pay, and you press send. That one line is the entire safety net, and it is why transfers here feel survivable even though nobody has memorised an account number. Every bank has its own codes and details to get right, and you still relax at the name, because the name is what catches you.
A blockchain address has no version of that step. You paste a string, the screen shows you the same string back, and the only thing checking your work is your own eyesight at eleven at night (I have read the same address four times and still handed the phone to somebody else). Then the money goes, and it stays gone. Solana's own documentation does not soften it: transactions are permanent and cannot be reversed. So this was never really about length. What people want is the half second where something tells them yes, this is the right person.
The Network Matters More Than the Name
A .eth name would not have saved you from this one anyway. Money rarely disappears because somebody fumbled a character; it disappears on the network. The same USDT lives on several of them, and your USDT wallet on Mular accepts deposits on ERC20, TRC20, BEP20, Polygon and Solana.** Correct address, wrong network, and your money is somewhere you have no door into. Your client's platform picks one when it sends, your wallet is expecting one, and the two have to agree. Settle that and the 42 characters become the boring part of the afternoon.
How to Share Your Wallet Address Safely
Never type a wallet address, name or no name. Open Mular, go to the wallet the money is landing in, and copy the address the app hands you. Send that to your client like any other message, and if they are standing in front of you, let them scan the QR code instead.
When an address arrives by message, do what the Solana docs suggest and compare the first four characters and the last four rather than squinting at the whole thing. And if the person you are paying is also on Mular, there is no blockchain address in the picture at all: Mular accounts carry a Mular ID that looks like @sample, and a Mular to Mular transfer moves Naira or crypto straight between the two accounts. Anyone can receive Naira that way whatever stage of verification they have reached.
Is a .eth or .sol Name Worth Buying?
I am not saying do not buy one. If you publish an address in public, on a portfolio or an invoice going to thirty people, a readable name beats a string nobody can verify, and one name can hold addresses for more than one chain. For a single client who pays you the same day each month, it is five dollars a year solving what copy and paste already solved for free.
What You Wanted Was the Confirmation
You never wanted a shorter address. You wanted ADEBAYO OLUWASEUN T. You wanted the screen to tell you, before any money moved, that you had not just sent four months of work to a stranger. A name service gives you something pleasant for an invoice, but not that moment, because the chain underneath it was never built to know who anybody is. Until something does, the dull habits hold: copy, never type, match the network, check four characters at each end.
Get Paid Without Reading Out 42 Characters
Mular gives you USDT, USDC and the other coins it lists, plus a Naira balance, in one app. Your client sends to an address you copied rather than typed, you can see what it is worth on the USDT to Naira page, and you pay a Nigerian bank account straight out of that balance when the rent is due.
Download Mular and stop dictating characters to people.
As always, stay Jiggy.
Love, Mr Mular.
* ENS pricing and the ninety day grace period come from Binance Academy, read 16 Oct 2026: https://www.binance.com/en/academy/articles/what-is-ethereum-name-service-ens
** Mular's deposit networks are as at 16 Oct 2026. Networks get added, so read the deposit screen rather than this sentence.
Written after watching somebody read an address down a phone line, character by character, the other person repeating each one back like a pilot.
Related reading: what a wallet address actually is, and getting paid in crypto as a freelancer for what happens after the money lands.