tech entrepreneur & operator. ceo co-founder @D3inc building @domaprotocol building internet infra for humans & AI.
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Fred Hsu retweeted
The internet runs on names. Domain names are assets.
Sunrise is partnering with @DomaProtocol by @D3inc to support the arrival of tokenized domain assets on Solana.
A new category of RWAs is coming onchain.
Last year we teamed up with @andrewrosener and @AmmarKubba to tokenize their domains on @domaprotocol. Today, their ultra-premium name boner.com is the first ever .com to trade on @Solana.
Turns out you can't keep a great domain down. Sorry, dad joke.
Get your hands on boner.com 🍆
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Only getting started. @elonmusk said agent use of the Internet will be 1000X that of humans. It’s no surprise we’re at $46M after only ~30d
A new USDC vault is now supported on Frontier.
Powered by @upshift_fi and @SentoraHQ 🤝
Frontier is how you build priority on the new internet extensions you’re backing, ahead of general sale.
.agent .nft .labs .wallet .crypto .api + 100s more
Deposit USDC now: frontier.d3.com/deposit/vaul…
Jason Bourne had six passports. AI agents have thousands. 😂
Anyone can claim to be ChatGPT or Claude. But who's really behind them?
A little spycraft, Jensen Huang, and the problem with identity on the Internet.
Every company wants you to use its AI assistant. Walled gardens, again. People want to bring their own. We went through this with apps in 2009 and 2012 with Facebook and mobile.
The site (The Internet) still needs to know which agent showed up, what it's allowed to do, and whether it can transact. Otherwise, what's the point of agentic commerce?
Real .com, .sol or .agent carries the principle which is - bring your own agent. The site sets the rules. Welcome to the new agentic internet coming soon.
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Fred Hsu retweeted
My agent is buying a LOT more from Shopify-powered stores. Not investment advice, but if I were running an e-commerce business that didn’t support agentic commerce, I’d feel like I was making a big mistake.
More bot traffic doesn’t necessarily mean more customers. Sometimes it just means your site is doing more work for someone else.
The better questions are:
- Which bots bring you customers?
- Which are just taking your content?
- Which do you want to allow, block or charge?
That’s why we built DNA.
See the AI agents visiting your site. Decide who gets access and what they pay. Then let them pay however they want - card, bank, fiat or crypto.
Cloudflare only sees the part of the Internet running through Cloudflare. DNA is built for everyone else too.
ai.d3.com
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Today people keep saying rebuild the internet for AI agents. We said the same thing about mobile back in 2007. Then about apps in 2010. Then about crypto wallets in 2023.
DNS already works - domains already identify
The missing piece is letting the site owner decide who gets in and who pays.
Install DNA: ai.d3.com
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The internet needs to be rebuilt for AI agents.
We are entering an era where AI agents are becoming active consumers of the internet.
– Websites need to be built for AI agents.
– Advertisements need to be designed for AI agents.
– Tools and APIs need to be built for AI agents.
– Frameworks need to be designed for AI agent development.
– Search engines need to optimize for AI agents.
– Documentation needs to be written for AI agents.
– Payments need to work seamlessly for AI agents.
– Authentication needs to support AI agents.
– Databases need to be accessible to AI agents.
– Businesses need to make their services accessible to AI agents.
The internet was originally built for humans to browse.
We are now building an internet where AI agents can browse, interact, transact, and get things done on our behalf.
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When .com went mainstream, the value wasn't the string. It was that every browser, every inbox, and every DNS resolver already knew what to do with it.
.sol and .solana just applied at ICANN for that same treatment. A real internet extension. Wallet, inbox, browser and yes, agents.
This is critical, universally-accepted internet infrastructure coming home.
.sol is coming home
The real .sol internet extension has been applied for at this ICANN round. It's a web address that will work in every browser, every inbox and every wallet.
Solana teams are already lining up. Be home first 👇
frontier.d3.com/solana
When I get the real Fred.Sol and @toly the real Toly.sol i’m gonna drive my ass down and camp out at Solana Beach, a few miles from my place. In Solana gear and Solana umbrella @solana
Doma Weekly is in 💠
▸ .sol is coming home
▸ Doma Portfolio gets a glow-up
▸ Doma onAir with @Sass (CMO .art), @mxchaelho, @solquicks
▸ Domain Supercycle: live later today with @moon_settler
Full recap ⤵
blog.doma.xyz/doma-weekly-pr…
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Five big companies are now blocking outside shopping agents.
Blocking is what you do when you can't tell who's knocking.
Adtech fixed this with ads.txt, a text file on your own domain. Agents need the same.
Install DNA: ai.d3.com
AI shopping agents were supposed to do the boring part for you.
That future just hit a wall. JPMorgan Chase, Charles Schwab, Amazon, Kohl's and Neiman Marcus are blocking outside agents like Meta's Muse from acting for their customers, per CNBC.
The fight is over who owns the checkout. If your agent does the shopping, the store loses the visit, the ads and the upsell. Would you let an agent spend your money if it found the better deal?
AMA Tuesday, Nov 10 in the Doma Discord.
Roadmap, wins, mistakes, what's next.
Bring the hard questions!
@domaprotocol
Signing is good. But a signed agent still shows up at a site that has to decide what to do with it. That decision belongs to the site owner, on their own domain.
Web Bot Auth updates from @Google
I think this is great, but I strongly prefer users bring their own reputation and identity for signing. This allows you to share trust/identity across multiple agents.
I am guessing Gemini will send customer signals through their google signed WBA requests.
All DNA customers get their own web bot identity and personal agents should use/respect user identity.
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Founders, general public, beware: @MichaelGraczykk sent me a scheduling link that led to a request for permission to post, follow/unfollow and retain access to my X account.
The profile claims an Anthropic affiliation. I can’t verify who controls it.
I almost fell for it. Screenshots below.
🤖 Made with AI
Amazon just blocked Meta's Muse shopping agent. The reason given: it didn't identify itself as an agent.
Walmart and Shopify went the other way and signed deals.
Email had this exact problem 20 years ago. Anyone could claim to be anyone. Inboxes filled with junk, and the fix wasn't banning email. It was SPF and DKIM. A few records in DNS that prove who sent the message.
Agents need the same thing:
1) Who is at the door,
2) Who sent them, and
3) Can they pay.
Then you decide: Allow, block, or charge.
DNA shows you every agent hitting your site and lets you set the rules. Install DNA: ai.d3.com
1985: six extensions.
2012: $185,000 just to apply for one.
Today: 1000+ live on Frontier, and anyone can back the one they want.
The land rush is back and this time it's open.
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.agent .labs .sol .wallet .crypto .hub .pop .max and more.
1000+ extensions live on Frontier, and the land rush is on.
Deposit, earn points, back the extensions you want ⤵
frontier.d3.com
Fred Hsu retweeted
A great domain makes a company easier to find.
@NickyScanz on why discoverability is everything, and his take on the x.com rebrand.
From our weekly Domain Supercycle space, tune into the recording ⤵
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No extension. No gateway. A name should just resolve, like every .com has for 30 years.
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In 1994 Martijn Koster wrote robots.txt - a text file that says pretty please don't (w/ cherry on top). It has no identity, no enforcement, just manners.
32 years later, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic all agreed to honor one shared opt-out line in that same file. This is good, real progress.
But it answers one question. Can you train on my stuff? Yes or no.
The web's real question now is different because bots make 57% of page requests. Some are scrapers, some are agents sent by a real person to buy something. A polite note on the door can't tell them apart, and it can't send anyone a bill.
You need to know who's at the door, who sent them, and what they're allowed to do. That belongs at the domain, in DNS, where every website already lives. No new browser, not on chromium vm instance, pretending to be you, no new gatekeeper.
That's why we built DNA - install DNA
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