Get ready to journey into the future of the digital realm! We're back from an awe-inspiring Domain Expo, where we've explored the landscape of web3 and digital identity. The event brought forth incredible insights, and you don't have to worry about missing out because we're here to share everything.
We were thrilled to have Fred from Superfans among us, contributing to enriching discussions about the future of web3. Beyond the Domain expo experience, we also ventured into exciting conversations about our platform's future. We're geared up to bring more collaborations and content your way, all centered on the fascinating world of web 3.0 and domain investing. Got a knack for sustainable fashion? We've got you covered with a deep dive into its intersection with web3 and digital identity.
As we forge ahead, we're thrilled to give you a sneak peek into our plans for 2024. From improving user interfaces to creating utility for our two flagship TLDs, we're committed to enhancing your experience. And let's not forget Super Fans, the upcoming social fi network that aims to unite fans and creators, while offering sustainable crypto earnings. Tune in for an invigorating discussion on how the Clothing Fashion Design tld (.CFD) might revolutionize the fashion industry. So, buckle up for an enlightening journey through the enticing world of web3, digital identity, and sustainable fashion!
Get ready to journey into the future of the digital realm! We're back from an awe-inspiring Domain Expo, where we've explored the landscape of web3 and digital identity. The event brought forth incredible insights, and you don't have to worry about missing out because we're here to share everything.
We were thrilled to have Fred from Superfans among us, contributing to enriching discussions about the future of web3. Beyond the Domain expo experience, we also ventured into exciting conversations about our platform's future. We're geared up to bring more collaborations and content your way, all centered on the fascinating world of web 3.0 and domain investing. Got a knack for sustainable fashion? We've got you covered with a deep dive into its intersection with web3 and digital identity.
As we forge ahead, we're thrilled to give you a sneak peek into our plans for 2024. From improving user interfaces to creating utility for our two flagship TLDs, we're committed to enhancing your experience. And let's not forget Super Fans, the upcoming social fi network that aims to unite fans and creators, while offering sustainable crypto earnings. Tune in for an invigorating discussion on how the Clothing Fashion Design tld (.CFD) might revolutionize the fashion industry. So, buckle up for an enlightening journey through the enticing world of web3, digital identity, and sustainable fashion!
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Speaker 2:Hello, hello everybody. We will get started in just a moment, as always. If you guys could do me a favor and go down to the bottom right hand corner, like you, retweet the space and get a few people in here just got back from the domain or expose, so very excited to share our experience. And yes, you guys see from the top of the space, we're going to talk a little bit about the future as well. How you doing today, chris. I am doing well.
Speaker 3:I'm going to be with the audience and this one hearing about all of the festivities. I missed my flight here in New York City and wasn't able to make it on time, so I know I missed a lot of great things.
Speaker 2:Well, the good news is it's brought the value back with us. Right wasn't just about the relationships that were made there, but the opportunities that are created for the future, and of course, we will share in those. Also believe do we have Fred here from Superfans, or who do we have here from Superfans?
Speaker 4:Oh, I had some problems with the mic, sorry. Yeah, it's Fred. It's Fred on the account. Hi, so happy to be here, man. How's it going?
Speaker 2:Doing pretty good. It's our usual tech talk space on a Wednesday, excited to recap all that happened last week and, yeah, talk about our journey kind of into the future. And glad you're up here because, yeah, you're part of that conversation as well. I'm excited to talk a little bit about Superfans too.
Speaker 4:Woop, woop, let's go. I'm stoked. Yeah, this is my second space of the day and this week we got a very special week where we just, you know, work with all the people in web3 that have been showing up, like you yourself, when and I think it's very, very important that we at this time connect with people we trust we know that show up regardless of market conditions. Right, and we build community out here. So that's what we're doing. If you allow, if you would like, I could play a little intro song and then we can just get the link out to some more friends here. If you like Kanye West I love Kanye West then I would. I would play Touch the Sky by Lupe Fiasco with him. So let me know.
Speaker 2:I would play either one of those songs, unfortunately, because I do upload these to my podcast. It could perhaps put me what is that? A copyright infringer?
Speaker 4:That's right, okay then. Well then, we won't do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but thank you for the offer and we're about to get started anyway. We usually our spaces are usually pretty, they flow pretty well, we're packed with content. I see that we also are blessed to have Ishmael here on the stage. How you doing today, sir?
Speaker 6:GM. Everyone. I'm doing great. Man, how are you? What up name of the shapes? We missed you at the conference. I see NFC verse super fans. I was just checking out your app the other day. Yeah, bless us, bless, be here, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely glad to have you, and for the first half of this space, we're going to be kind of letting Chris know what he missed during the demeanor expo, and then you know, the second half is going to talk about what we're going to do, building into the future, so kind of getting on both ends of the spectrum here. And, yeah, like I said, we are about to get started. Once again want to remind everybody if you can go down to the bottom right at corner, like and retweet, share the space, leave a comment, all that good stuff and yeah, without further ado, let's get into it. I'd like to welcome everybody to another I heart domains tech talk. This is a space where we discuss news, innovation, education and alpha in the web, three domain and digital identity space. As always, you can see that our tech talks are recorded so you can listen back to them, not only on here, but also on our content archive at link three dot to four, slash defy wallet or on I heart domains dot com, where you'll see not only the archive archive content of the space itself via podcast player, but you'll also see blog posts and recaps, and then, yes, it will always also be in every major podcast player, including Apple and Spotify.
Speaker 2:And yeah, let's get started a little bit with the news of the week, couple things kind of prior to get into the main topic. You'll see that I picked up at the top. The portal presale is tomorrow, so just wanted to remind everybody of that. I know that some of you follow our platform have seen us post that on the timeline. Again, not financial advice, do your own research. You know, part of the advantage of being in our community is that I will always share that you have. For that I personally participate again. So, yeah, if anybody has their eyes on that, just wanted to alert you guys to that and that that's kind of what's to come right.
Speaker 2:This and obviously we're going to talk about super fans as well these big ecosystems that are coming into the space will drive not only, you know, mainstream adoption, you know these other potentials to bring in eyes that aren't currently in our space, but also, you know, obviously I can come up with a hundred use cases for went through digital ID and hopefully, you know, as these ecosystems grow and continue to build on our space, they will incorporate that digital ID. So, getting early on concepts not only that can benefit you financially but also, you know, may perhaps be building into the space that we're in. Yeah, there's opportunity for that. Yeah, before I go to the next, anybody up at the top have anything you want to say about that? Or am I the only person here bullish on portal?
Speaker 4:so I want to comment on that before. I think what they did, marketing wise, created the kind of virality that we haven't seen in a long, long time. I think it was the same level of virality as perhaps mainland, or perhaps even more viral, if I'm honest, and so that's impressive, right, if you know how to get that kind of attention, then good things can come out of that. I have to admit, I did look into it and it's the kind of thing that I didn't understand immediately from the fold, like within five seconds, and I didn't really spend more than a few seconds on the site. I just didn't understand what, what it was offering, right, and why I needed a coin. So if you got any intel on that and I'm really happy to soak that up, but otherwise I'm bullish on their marketing and you know, they seem to know how to harness attention and yeah, that's about all that I see yeah, and that's why you know, again, I have to stress, put in bold letters, stamp out there now financial advice, do your own research.
Speaker 2:I've looked as much as I can and understand I'm not, I don't come from the gaming world, so I'm not really. What do you call it? I don't have those pains, right. I don't understand what pains are being solved with with web 3 and gaming. I'm just, you know, I'm taking everybody's word for it, right.
Speaker 2:With that being said, not all the information about this platform is out there, right, like we still don't really have tokenomics, you know, there's a light paper, not really an end, that white paper. I'm expecting some of these things hopefully to be released before people start actually buying the token ID tomorrow, but who knows? So, with that being said, yeah, that connection isn't necessarily being made for me as well, however, right, we also can't ignore the power of virality of web 3, and then it usually creates or equates success, right. So, with that being said, I'm kind of pitching that out there for people to take it. You know, in that context, right, I'm hopeful for what it can be participating in, mostly because it's something that I think, at least, will be on the timelines for a while, especially, you know, during the launch, with as many people are participating. But yeah, at the same time, you know, ain't much information out there and you know, maybe at the end of the day people don't go for it we don't know, but that's to be said right.
Speaker 2:People experimenting in web 3, building these things, this, what do you call it? Social experimentation, and there's going to be a whole lot more of this. So, yeah, that's kind of my thoughts on that one.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I see, I see that they're building on on layer zero, which is something that we see coming up now as well for farmers that love to, you know, get. Look, maybe at ecosystems that are not. So how should I say? They're a bit overlooked right now. Right, I think everyone's attention is on Solana, for good reason. You know, with dozens of protocol, that you can, you know, get in early on, including ours, hint, hint, but there's zero. It seems like a really good opportunity to look into that, where maybe the crowd is not at right now.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, yes, sir, yes sir. Well, yeah, encourage anybody who is interested on in portal to do your research. The opportunity is going to be open up tomorrow for the pre-sell. It's going to be a free for all. So if you don't like high gas, well, tomorrow's not going to be a good day for you. But yeah, moving on from portal, also wanted to remind everyone that the right of the auction that started at the demeanor expo is actually ending tomorrow. So if anybody had any bids in a worse planning on making any bids, you're kind of a crunch hour we do happen to have a domain in the auction I couldn't up at the top which is purchased crypto. It does have one bid on it now, so that's something that you're interested in. You got up until tomorrow. So, yeah, I don't know if anybody else, and well, I'm pretty sure that there's people that are in the space that probably have some domains in the auction. So good luck to you. But yeah, don't know how many people have followed or participated in it. But yeah, I wanted to put that reminder out there as well and yeah, without further ado, let's get into the main topic. So, first and foremost, now that the instrument is here on the stage and I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 2:I wanted to first start off with a big congrats for a successful and impactful event. The first Domainer Expo is in the books. The meetings were had, the connections were made and all that alpha was shared. Anybody that is currently in the listeners wants to come up and request a speaker role. Please do so. But yeah, I want to dive into the experience and kind of break down the Expo, you know, kind of starting from the beginning, from like the setting, the agenda etc. Kind of get a little flow so we can go through this. And obviously anybody that's up at the top for free to chime in and yeah. But yeah, let's first talk about the setting.
Speaker 2:So, for those of you who don't know where it was, this was in Las Vegas, nevada, at the Westgate Casino and Resort. The weather was actually pretty nice, little chilly at night, but during the day was, yeah, it was pretty nice to wear a t-shirt. The vibes of both the hotel and the conference itself were very intimate. It wasn't overly packed and busy, except for all the cowboys that were there for the rodeo, but if you just zoned them out it was really nice, right, it wasn't overly too much so much. So where we were at that, I didn't even notice that they had that shooting until people were telling us that happened at the campus and you know prayers to everybody affected there.
Speaker 2:But yeah, the vibe of the conference itself was very nice and I'm talking about from start to end, no trauma, all nice. You know the top tier attendees, the type of people that were there. You know if you're in the domain of world and you're a domain geek and you've got people that you look up to, you likely connected with one of those people here at this conference, and that was something that I was also very much looking forward to. Before I start getting into the agenda wanted to give you a chance to chime in a little bit and tell us your overall thoughts of the conference. You know, from now, from being kind of past it, ishmael.
Speaker 6:Honestly, I'm just glad that it's over with, but yeah, it was cool. I didn't embarrass myself. Yeah, I feel like when you take an event for, like asking people to be at the same place at the same time, you know it could go all type of directions and it turned out to be well. It didn't. It wasn't a flop by any measure standard. We had not as many people as I wanted, but the quality of people that were there was just exceeded my expectations. You know we had VP's from very sign domainers that have sold names, extensions, registries, several registries were in attendance like very successful domainers who have had multiple seven figure exits, business space and Web 3, specifically the founder of Unstoppable, the co-founder of Free Name, and just a healthy mix of people that are builders and shapers of this domain industry. Very informal, very, very intimate, especially being the ground floor level. So people were able to interact and engage with each other in a more meaningful manner, versus if it was like thousands of people out there and people couldn't give you the attention that everyone at the conference received and I felt like everyone just left with an enhancement of their network. I always say that your network is your net worth, so consequently, I think everyone was better off that attended and we're just moving on to the next phase, which is how do we take the information that was collected or curated and distributed to a wider audience?
Speaker 6:Very virtual conference. So that's the next task and you were very helpful. You came in super clutch from your bro recording the sessions and just things that I perhaps had overlooked or been overwhelmed putting together any band by myself, sort of like downplayed, but it felt like everybody was rooting for the success of the conference. I didn't get and this is the first time I've done five of this type of conferences. I've sold some. This is the first time I didn't get one person complain, so it was kind of like beautiful. Usually someone's always bitching about the coffee's too cold, some bullshit, some Karen's type shit, but it was a mature audience and I really, really had a good time. I was able to interact with the speakers and just basically do some business, develop in myself and I've had a ton of opportunities that I've personally benefited from organizing this and I'm sure everyone there has a lot of follow up as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 7:I'm just a lot round off, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And there's a whole bunch. You said that I mean. I agree with all of it 100%. So, first of foremost, bro, glad to help in any way you can. Like you said, we are definitely rooting for not only the success of the conference but the success of you. That's the benefit, right? One of the benefits of coming to something like this at the ground level is that we are all here to build each other as well as this ecosystem Like this is ground zero, right? This is where it starts, this is where success starts, this is where relationships starts, et cetera. And another thing too as well like I did really appreciate the intimacy. I am one of those people.
Speaker 2:I go to these conferences and it is extremely easy to get carried away or sidetracked or at some other, something where you're not connecting with the people that you wanted to. Obviously, we always go to these things with this big list of people that we want to connect with and it gets narrowed down to only half of that because you get caught up and tied up doing other things. And I want to say and this is not just me hyping you up, but I think people know by now that I'll keep it 100. I'd rather just not say anything Of all the conferences that I've been to. When I'm talking about value for value, pound for pound, getting able to touch everybody and shoot my shot, I think I got more value out of this and I've gotten out of any other place I've gone to.
Speaker 2:I've been to consensus. I've been to a lot of large conferences but A they're not 100% my niche and B I'm not getting to talk to 100% of the people that I want to talk to, and you brought both of those to the table for me. So I left there with a big old smile on my face. How you doing, collector.
Speaker 7:Jim, guys, I know you want to get started with the formalities. I don't even know how far into the space you are, but it sounds like you're just in the intro giving everyone their flowers and then starting with the formalities and stuff. So I just wanted to say a quick GM to everyone. This is for real, like a whale, fireside fucking domain whales. You got super spaces or super fans in here earlier as well. I think they dipped off Hats off to you as well.
Speaker 7:Ishmaelie, obviously I wasn't there in person, but like bam. So at the magnitude, so at the level of the people that were in the room, people like organized these kind of events with like I don't know like years of planning. I think you kind of stumbled across this idea randomly on the space and kind of ran with it in like a few months timeframe. From what I kind of like picked up and shared, that was big Like. You had like fucking unstoppable in there. You had free name, you had the right at a dot which launched recently and stuff as well. Web free domains are probably like one of the smallest element of like web free and shit. There's no floor price on like any domains on them, opency and stuff. But the magnitude of like volume and the whole things that people have in the grails and all this kind of shit is huge. So yeah, bullish on everyone in web. Free domains definitely bullish on super spaces, super fans, iheart domains name of tips and the domain or XBO hosted by Eschmilly. Very, very bullish on everyone.
Speaker 6:I appreciate that. I'll say this. You know, going into the XBO, I didn't even know what to expect in terms of you know how everything would just come together. You know we put together I actually personally put together the agenda based off the speaker roster and, you know, unfortunately several people couldn't make it, so we had to make adjustments on the fly. It's just part of the game, but everything worked out well. You know, the sessions were very insightful.
Speaker 6:I thought that the speakers that did happen to make it over delivered of anything. They're very transparent, very clear, a lot of articulate conversations, and I thought that it was a good look for Web 3 because we had people there at the highest level in Web 2. You know, we had a broker from CEDA, which is one of the biggest marketplaces we had. You know the VP of business development and corporate strategy at Verisign, which managescom, and these people were very attentive and very interested in you know, what Web 3 is doing and has done. So I thought that that was very encouraging to see that the people that do understand domain in are all Pro Web 3.
Speaker 6:And it was sort of like a breath of fresh air from Twitter, where things are so divisive and everyone's like, you know, pumping bags. It was a very mature, cohesive conversation collectively. Yeah, it wasn't any. You know this is a scam, this is a. You know it was. There wasn't any sort of like unnecessary negative criticism. It was more like okay, well, let's study what everyone's doing and people were very respectful to each other. And that's the beautiful thing about this in real life events is because you know, most people are decent people in real life. You know, when it comes to social media, you're dealing with that and others right, and others don't make the effort to attend events like this because it doesn't fit their agenda right. There's no one there to be part of your calls of negative, pessimistic views. So I just thought that that was. That was.
Speaker 6:That was a good thing, where you could be in a space where you could really learn without someone in your air pumping their bags and being there with companies that are earning billions of dollars like VeriSign, and people like Colin Campbell who sold registries to GoDaddy, and you know countless others in the room that were just kicking back and sharing what they've encountered in their journey and asking questions on what they don't understand, and I think that was the conducive environment to build your personal business network, your personal and business network. So the good thing is, you know, if you missed it, you know we can't cry over spilled milk. The good thing is, you know the marathon continues. Rip, nip.
Speaker 6:You know we're going to host a virtual conference next month. I'm going to add some additional speakers so we have bonus content and you know we'll try to create in a virtual environment another networking opportunity and keep building. Hopefully you can make it. It's going to be a year round effort versus something that you know a couple of weeks of pushing it and from there we'll see what happens. Yes, sir.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, I see we have a couple of other people on the stage.
Speaker 2:I'm going to welcome you guys up in a second. But coming back to that, yes, there was a balance there, as you said, between Web 2, web 3 that really it really was appreciated. And I'm appreciating it more now that I'm looking back, because that's one of the things I don't think I noticed while sitting there, but coming back and I think about it, the environment there, like I said, it was completely open-minded. There was no drama, there was even like there were people you had unstoppable and the same room and people are conversing and learning. You know where each other is coming from and what they're building in the space. Like it was the perfect place for that type of dialogue and that balance. I definitely felt like we came and personally my agenda was to come to teach as many people as I could you know about my vision to mission, to Web 3, but also to learn Web 2, because there's a huge economic opportunity there and there's a lot of lessons you know, not only from a building standpoint and from an economic standpoint, but also from a consumer.
Speaker 2:What do you call it? Consumer trend standpoint like knowing your customer, knowing what to register on the Web 3 side. There's a lot of things to learn on the Web 2 side and if you're going to be in this space, if you're going to exist in this space and be profitable in this space, doing yourself a disservice to leave that part of it on the table. They aren't leaving this part of it on the table. So I'm glad that you created an environment where we could all find some synergy and maybe build some bridges to work together. I wanted to put that out there, but, yeah, I wanted to introduce some of the other people that we have up on the stage. So we've got both Uncle Nate and King. How are both of y'all doing today? Let's go with Uncle Nate first and let's go to Kate.
Speaker 8:Hey, thanks for inviting me up. I'm doing great today, enormously bummed that I missed. I was supposed to be speaking at the conference and unfortunately something came up at the last minute. I wasn't able to make it. Ish, very sorry. I know we haven't spoken since then, but you've been busy. But now I'm very pleased.
Speaker 8:I had a feeling that this was going to come out of this event and I think what it sounds like is you're all describing a place where there wasn't any degening going on. Not to say there weren't any degenes there, but there was no degening going on. And I think when you put people face to face and we all know online, when you're not face to face with people, you can kind of be whoever and you can kind of act, however, within limits generally, but when you're face to face with people, it's a completely different thing. So I'm bummed to have missed it. I'm looking forward to the virtual conference and then to the next IRL coming up. I'm definitely not going to miss that one. So hopefully I'll get a chance to speak at that one too. Yeah, thanks for having me up. Appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely looking forward to the next conference and definitely looking forward to meeting more people at the next conference and this is no shade at all to the people that couldn't make it. But I think some of what does lend to the environment that opens a dialogue for people to speak, especially at smaller conferences, is, I think people respect who they do see in the room right that are there, because it shows that especially something like this, like something that's monumental, like this, was why it was super important for me to be here and everybody played a part, like even the people who couldn't come that were here on Twitter helping you know build the engagement to get people there. People notice that right, like as you're building near the beginning of something, people notice who's there and the opportunities typically come to those people. But again, I have to spell that out we are very our industry is so small, so we have like hopes but we can only be short-sighted because our industry is so small.
Speaker 2:When you look in the Web 2 industry and see what they've accomplished over there, like, and you imagine that even a portion of that and potentially multiples of that could happen on the Web 3 side, you start seeing the importance of you know, making those connections kind of as soon as possible so that you're not left kind of out of that equation. And, like I said, being first networking, marketing, talking about ideas, birthing ideas with people, like there's been a lot of those conversations. I've been back a lot of conversations, of new ideas being birthed from the conversation that started out there. So looking forward to what comes from that as well. King, what's up?
Speaker 5:How you doing. Hey, hey family, hey family. I'm Pop. I'm in the middle of a deep meditative session for today, right now. So I just want to say I appreciate each and every one of you. It's only so much I can say in words, but the innovation that you guys bring to the culture, the community, I mean I know where the next 10 years are going to look like. I'm so thankful to have met each and every one of you, because the culture needs it more than ever before. Our community, our kids. I'm really worried for them.
Speaker 5:I'm worried about what that next 10 years looks like, and I believe that it's only going to be through blockchain, through education, that we correct the course that our cultures are on right now. You know, I understand what's going on from the influence of music. I know what's going on at the labels. I know how they're manipulating the minds of our youth and they're keeping them in a position which is going to be dangerous come the next few years. Help, come the next year, as we see the US dollar crumble around us, as we see this economy crumble, it's only going to be through leaders like yourself that we save this culture, that we save our kids. So I just want to say, during this meditative session, right now, I want to give you all your flowers because, at a global level, each one of you have been doing the damn thing and I will promise you this we will bring attention to you, all of you, each and every one of you in this space, even those that are not a speaker. We will bring attention to you, your narratives, your projects. I swear on everything, because it's only through us that we will save this culture.
Speaker 5:So, thank you to the host, thank you for collecting Collector brother. You've been a supporter for a while now. Man, I just want to say thank you so much, king. It's milk, bro. Just, we're going to have coffee tomorrow, if you're available, or whatever you're available, and I'm going to really show you what the hell I've been working on for the last six years, and just know that everything else shown to date is just what I've been doing Back in 2017, picking up where I left off, but just know that there's something, really, really the evolutionary game changing that each and every one of you will have. So thank you so much for blessing me with your presence, thank you for blessing with your intelligence and thank you for being leaders within this community. I appreciate you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you as well. You were actually another person. I was looking forward to meeting out there and sorry we did get the cross paths this time, but I'm sure there's an opportunity to present itself and a part of what you said to, like builders, people who have drive that are building. A lot of us that came there, I think quote unquote from the rep three side, I think share that same sentiment. And another thing that I appreciate that we're able to do as well. In addition to receiving, like I said, you know came there to get some game and make some connections on the web two side we're able to do a lot of giving to.
Speaker 2:I think quite a few people were surprised by the why many of us exist in the web three side and some of the you know the real problems. You know socially, economically, whatever it is that we, we believe the digital identity will solve, the reasons why we're investing in it, maybe for the future, not even our future. I remember having a couple conversations with people you know regarding, you know, my own investments in my daughter's future you know, kind of her pre future with domains, and I'm glad that we had that opportunity to give that info back as well, because perhaps you know, we've touched some of them to explore some different opportunities and reasons to be involved in their space and ours. And we need more people like you out there next time to represent more of those efforts so that people start to see the building. And I love that transparency as well, you know.
Speaker 2:Think Todd got on stage and he, you know, he said he's there to see the opportunity and he explained you know, building is where the money is at, so there there is opportunity on both sides of the fence. There there's. There's the side for us builders and then there's a side for the spectators. And you know, there's again appreciative for the dialogue, for us to both come together and figure out the balance so that we can build the market for both of us to thrive and succeed. And yeah, before I kind of get to the next thing, I wanted anybody else. I'd see we got super fans finally came back to trying to connect you back on stage for a while.
Speaker 4:You doing alright well, you're about to tell me I guess I had some troubles today, all kinds of troubles on on the mic.
Speaker 6:But hey, we made it now and yes, sir, yes, sir, yeah, yeah before, before we move on, I just wanted to reiterate that we're going to be hosting a virtual edition of the conference January 24th to the 26th. We're, you know, mastering all the audio and all the video and stuff like that, so it'll be available. Then there'll be a live stream and then, you know, depending on what participation level you join us and you, you probably have a chance to get the recorded sessions of not just what happened at the conference but the bonus content that we're currently curating. And you know, I'm inspired from this to build an ongoing platform, not just wait till next year. So, between now and next year, when we host the conference in September in Vegas, again that there's a need, in my opinion, to build a community of the best of the best in domain and where we have more of these networking opportunities, give builders more of a spotlight and build bridges, connections, not just between web soon, web 3 but between, you know, stakeholders that can, you know, work together to achieve their goals faster, right?
Speaker 6:You know some people need funding, some people need marketing, some people need, you know, coders, whatever it is. So I'm inspired to build an ecosystem that you know is sort of like the domain and expert community, for lack of better words and and and just keep a year around and make it as inclusive as possible, because there are people that you know, no matter what it is, they'll never be able to make it. So physical conference this you know we're human, we have in real life shit. So if there was a platform that was year-round, I feel like it was sort of a meaning as well. And then, you know, make that conference part of the parks, have been part of that community. So that's what I'm in the lab cooking up and you know, just stay tuned for announcements on that. I appreciate your time today.
Speaker 2:I alright yes, I appreciate you coming up as well and also appreciate you sharing that, and I agree and look forward to that as well, and I'm definitely for anybody that's connected to my community. We will definitely be sharing the links once the virtual conference is live, once the recessions are able to be watched, looking forward to you guys being able to see those. Obviously, I got the pleasure of seeing these in person and there is a lot of alpha and value to get from them. Amazing speakers again that I mean you couldn't ask for a better roster of speakers. You couldn't ask for a better agenda or a better subject matter. That was balanced in web 2 and in web 3 also.
Speaker 2:Before we kind of get to the next thing that we're going to cover, which is, you know, the roadmap and roadmap and outlook for 2024, I did want to give a few shout outs as well. The first shot I wanted to give is to the, to the ENS Maxis, to both, well, to three. Well, actually there's a lot of them out there. So to flexor, to Ron, to Anna, to Eve, to Bama I mean you talking about people that showed some amazing hospitality, super cool people took me in like I was family. You know that last night, that Chinese restaurant that we went to with Ron and experienced there that what a perfect way to end the expo.
Speaker 2:Right, to connect with fellow domainers that are on the same page, building every day with you, and for it to be genuine. Right, we went there as people who knew each other in the domain space left their friends couldn't ask for better than that. People like AOX Victor, who I finally got to know after he was fakes docs as mofo you turned out to be someone else, but completely awesome in his own right. You know, people like King King sing, todd, everybody like there's a bunch of amazing people that that were just so cool, gave me so much of their time. I'm extremely appreciative to you and I wanted to give you guys a shout out and especially, not least, let's all get one more round of applause for Ishmael on this project sorry, I didn't realize I'm on mute it now.
Speaker 7:But you know, you know these conversations that these guys are saying that they had like casual with this person. That person, most of these people, literally created the internet and stuff like they're talking with like millionaires, billionaires, every single deal that, like these guys are talking about, like in the hundreds of thousands of knowing the billions and not billions like millions and shit. So the people that they're saying were gathered in this room for this Millie's conference were like a month or two of planning, are literally like gig, a gig at Wales.
Speaker 2:Like that's what you need to understand right now yeah, like seriously, we have people like money con there who it pretty much did create the domain industry like dead serious. And to be able to have a conversation with him and to ask him real questions about what am I here even doing, I mean that feedback is enormously valuable. Yeah, people who've had to fail at the main for 20 years to learn things it was able to ask not standing right there.
Speaker 2:So again, very, very appreciative of that and a lot of that is playing into, you know, kind of the next part of the space, which is what does that look for 2024? What are we going to begin doing and what are we going to focus on? Again kind of want to take this moment also to reset the space. I want to welcome anyone who's just now coming in. Thank you, guys for obviously attending another I heart domain tech talk. We are talking right now about the recap of the domain or expo that we just returned from last week. That was in Las Vegas, just got finished up. Thank you so very much for it, for coming on, and also thank you to all the speakers who have tapped in. And now let's talk about what we're going to be focused on in 2024, now that we're kind of getting to the end of the year.
Speaker 2:A lot of people think this is going to be the year the bull, and we think so as well. So, with the yeah, there you go. With. That being said, the future of our platform at I heart domains is going to kind of take a two sided approach, which is going to be what I call the inside and outside of the bubble approach, right? So this is a bubble. We're like a bubble within a bubble. Right, web three domains, digital identity domains. Web three, even in general, is above. There's certain amount of people that get it. The rest of the world doesn't. Obviously we all said that's complete.
Speaker 7:But, of course, the main points going to continue to pump 1000% every single week for the next 69 weeks. So, like, please, please, don't flood the market. So you just literally drop my bags 20%, 30%, by saying that a meme coins will actually prevent people from entering the space, sir.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we do need to get rid of those, but yeah, but with that being said, the inside the bubble approach is going to be kind of more of what we are already doing, but with more of a structure. So what you can expect kind of more of the same old same from that approach, meaning more spaces, more AMAs, more blogs, more podcasts, more videos, more conferences, aka turning it up. So the inside the bubble right going to approach this with kind of three different types of collapse of one of those things that they were going to be focused on is the creator collapse. So, for those of you who know already, do this Wednesday Tech Talk space. Also do the Tech Talk AMAs. Were the Friday spaces in this might actually this might be the first time you're here in this collector the Friday spaces is actually now going to become part of our core content. So the the collapse spaces that I have its free name will now be on our content catalog, will now be something that you'll be seeing well on the website.
Speaker 7:I'm permanently not co-host now like brah. Is that what you're saying live on our show? Like I'm trying to control my emotions right now, but it's all a little too much for me to take in right now so you and I we need to DM Elon and ask for another co-host spot and figure that out somehow.
Speaker 2:Um yeah. I didn't look at it that way.
Speaker 7:That's going to drop my super fans ranking, because if you're just a speaker and you're not a co-host, like the ranking drops like 420%.
Speaker 2:So I tell you what we'll alternate. We'll figure that out, so we'll see. We'll make sure you get your credit. But yeah, the point is that more taking these spaces more seriously, more consistent, creating more content behind it the key is again to create a pool of content for people that are entering the space to find right. As all of us collectively are putting our effort out there trying to get outside the bubble, those people need information to figure out what they, what they're going to do to get inside the bubble right, and the more information out there, the better. So we will do our part by putting out as much as we can, but we do want to collab.
Speaker 2:I don't want it to just be me that you're hearing. So the free name space is something that I truly enjoyed. I enjoy you collector, I enjoy people, I enjoy the subject matter. It's a. It's a different tool. We talk more about general domain topics, which is help. It's helping right, like I just said, getting outside the box, thinking more about web, to investing, along with what three, looking at the trends and things are happening over there. So it's a great space to listen to. If you're considering investing in what three right or not what three, but what to do because a lot of our subject matter comes from there.
Speaker 2:Also going to be doing a collaborative spaces hopefully soon with missed laws by Anna, so that should also be a another fun space putting out great community content. I like said I really enjoy the connection that I made, you know, with the eons maxis in the community and the people that I've already been connecting with their spaces. Real life made it better, just maybe want to do more with them. So, yeah, we we're talking about putting some content out there, some consistent content as well, and I'm open to anyone else who who has a creator in the space, in the web through the main space or digital identity space, who wants to collab on the spaces. We can definitely talk. You know, next year I want to put as much information, as much content out there as possible. Yeah, before I kind of get into the next set of collabs, want to see if anybody else had anything say. Hopefully I feel like I'm rambling no, this is real solid.
Speaker 3:I mean, I'm sitting back and I'm listening to how it's coming together. 2024 is going to be very interesting. I think that there is going to be a lot of meaningful rollouts and I think you made a very good point about that inside the bubble and outside the bubble, and I think that a lot of individuals are going to learn the art of educating. I think that that's going to be the thing that we're going to see happen next year. I think that there's going to be a lot of trial and error, but I think that there's going to be more reach in people, so that's definitely something to look forward to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have definitely seen an influx of content creators, I think, in this past quarter, six months, and I'm loving it all and I do definitely see that trend, you know, rolling into 2024, definitely with more reach, with more creators coming on, hopefully not just representing specific naming services. Hopefully we see more people who are, you know, going to educate, kind of full circle around it. But it doesn't matter, right, as long as people are here, onboarding, speaking the good, adding good and not adding bad, creating this content again. It leaves that pool of content for people to see when they're coming into the space. I can't tell you how much having things to look at or watch when I first came into the NFT or DeFi space and now I wish I didn't watch it, but it was there for me to help learn the space and I'm very appreciative of it and I want to leave kind of that same base of knowledge for the next that comes in right, because I mean, digital ID has more relevance than anything else that's ever been built on the blockchain, excised from the blockchain itself.
Speaker 2:Besides the information being stored on the blockchain, having a name to get to it is the second most important thing. So we know that we definitely need to build a bedrock of information for people to come in so that they, you know, are able to onboard into the space a lot easier. Now, kind of going next into some of the types of collabs that I would like to do and are going to start talking about people with doing, and also kind of already set up, is community collabs. So I want to create some kind of official collabs for communities to do some highlights on, you know, their programs, how people can enter them. Also, collabs to create perks and benefits, not only for their community members but our community members as well, and this is actually a perfect time since you're up here, I think we've already introduced super spaces and super fans.
Speaker 2:But this is one of those types of collabs, right? This is one that we just embarked on. So, for those of you who aren't familiar with super spaces, super spaces is like a super tool to optimize, basically, your performance on spaces. So you're able to track them, you've got leaderboards, you're able to see analytics. Basically be better at what we do, right, and they have now launched a social fly platform and we were blessed because of, I guess, how well we did last year during our space run.
Speaker 2:And yeah, of course, collector is the one that introduced me in the first place and probably is the only reason why super spaces even knows my name. But they're new platform that the launch and they actually partner with our community and are allowing people to pre-engage, pre-earn points for an airdrop and actually you get 2X with engaging through the link in our community. Yeah, tell us more about the super fans platform that's coming out kind of the opportunity that's there, yes, so that people can understand more how to utilize it. And, again, this is more of the collabs that we want to start offering so that people that are engaging with it and it'll more the bigger community that I plan to build.
Speaker 4:I'm going to explain where that's going to come from in a minute, so I'm definitely going to make all this make sense, but go for it, fred 100%, and I have my better half, chris, here on the other account, who later is going to share a little bit about how this came about with the 2023 Wrapped campaign that we're running at the moment, which is the reason that we're here. But yeah, absolutely, man. So you mentioned it. You've seen more content creators come up over the last months, right? So what do we think? Is that trend going to stop ever? Or is it just going to exponentially rise, like we're on the side of the spectrum? That just says okay.
Speaker 4:Well, in the last couple years, we have 50 million people leave their jobs to become creators, and over the next decade, this is just going to grow exponentially, and there's no other way that we can do this and earn a living sustainably than on Web three rails, on crypto rails, and so this is the industry that we're in. The main problem that we have, if we remain content creators on Twitter, on YouTube, on Twitch exclusively, is that we're not in control of our earnings. We don't have freedom. Tomorrow, elon could wake up and he could decide that the $50 ad share revenue stimuli that you get every month for reply farming all the time is all of a sudden going to stop and you're not going to get that anymore, right, and this is why we need to really get together as a community and find the people that care about us, care about our work, and enable them to support us by tipping, by subscribing to us, by just unlocking this potential that is in our fan base so that we can earn a sustainable living as a creator, and this is what super fans is about.
Speaker 4:Super fans is a social find network that will launch within the next coming weeks, just early in Q1. And it's really about just engaging more deeply between fans and creators, right, and having your fan base work with you on exciting deals like sponsorships, on exciting content, and so we're providing the tools in the network for it, and you can earn crypto at the comfort of your mobile phone with it. So that's a little bit super fans in a nutshell, and what we're giving away today is a very special campaign. We have double the airdrop points that we have here for you from the iHeartDomains community, because, yeah, iheartdomains has been hustling and has been here throughout the bear market and, yeah, we should all be proud in connecting with people like this, with communities like this that are there no matter the market condition, right, and yeah, so the double airdrop points count towards the fan token, which is an SPL token that is going to launch.
Speaker 4:It's on the Solana blockchain and, yeah, I think I'm going to pass it over to super space is to just tell a little bit more about the 2023 RAP campaign and maybe the super fans of iHeartDomains that I have actually carefully curated here today that will receive a special fan allocation as well. So, yeah, over to you, chris Bang. What's happening everybody.
Speaker 10:Yeah, really a pleasure to be here. Super pleasure to be here. Listen, I'm looking at the stats right now in super spaces, as iHeartDomains said, where data analytics platform so you can deeply understand how you're doing and what you're doing on Twitter spaces or X spaces, and so I'm looking at these numbers for you guys. Just in the last 30 days, you're up 33% month on month with spaces with 33 time in spaces. You're up 52% this month with 32 hours 45 minutes. Listeners are up 38% this month to last month, with 2K listeners and 9K plus emojis going on here. And your Twitter account has onboarded another 687 followers. So these are some of the data points and these are literally just some of them on super spaces and we've identified thousands of communities in Web 3 with super spaces and it's always been our plan to do a social find network to try to incorporate some kind of monetization. That's always been the thing for creators. Hey, we're in a bear market, we're looking for different ways to collaborate and monetize and we want to bring multiple different ways to communities and we won't forget where we started and that's in spaces, and that's why we're rewarding every single person in the spaces that really mattered in 2023, probably one of the hardest years in Web 3 ever. So, yeah, we like to reward everybody. So with the social find network, with super fans, people are going to be able to get in on their favorite creators on a launch pad. So one of the things that we bring to social find opposed to others, is that we have a launch pad just like cryptocurrency projects or NFT projects your favorite creators, instead of them stealth launching. You'll be able to get on them before the crowds right. And that has a lot to do with the token. If you have this token, you'll be able to enter in and get first access to your favorite creators on the social find networks. Another thing that Fred mentioned this is not just some silly chat room to give you access. What we've learned from big creators like Frank and Anamoka Brands is it's just not worth their time to come in for just a basic chat. So the amount of utility that you get owning a key of your favorite creator gives you the deepest connection you could possibly have with your creator. You're able to engage by doing tasks with them and for them doing polls. You can poll your audience. You can do all kinds of games. We have interactive web, three games for giveaways and everything else. We have a feed that is lockable. If you own a key, it's unlocked, but you can also monetize on your feed with a monthly subscription and stuff like this. There's going to be so many things to deeply connect with your guys.
Speaker 10:Here, again, we start with the spaces, content creators here. So, with iHeartDomains, you guys have absolutely kicked butt this year in 2023. And there's two things that we're giving away. As mentioned, every single person in the community that comes through the link that iHeartDomains will be posting go find that link. Every single person that joins will get airdrops. Now, we're not this project. That's going to be very cryptic with our airdrops and our token. Our token comes before the launch of our platform, so everybody's going to be able to get their hands on tokens to be able to really get in at the very first stages of the project With that, as I mentioned, staking is one of the key aspects here.
Speaker 10:There'll be many benefits to staking, and the big one is to get access to your favorite creators Now the three top fans that we've identified in the iHeart domain community. We're going to reward them a Tier 2 access to the Launchpad. This includes a crap load of tokens that will be staked on your behalf to get you access without having to go to exchanges, buy tokens and stake, and we thought this is a great way to distribute widely our token in a way that we're not doing any sales or anything like this. We're just going to reward the Web3 users that are here for the long run. We've identified you and so the three top listeners and people that engaged on iHeart domains through 2023, the guys that support. None of the creators in spaces can do it without their listeners, without their supporters and I see collectors got his hand up. I can't leave that hanging. I can't leave it hanging. What's up? Collector.
Speaker 7:I wouldn't do you, Mr Chris. I believe Jim. So how are you? I was actually going to say on this magical internet leaderboard that you have, is there any people in the top three currently ranking your leaderboards, or anything? So maybe this could be the listeners right now as well.
Speaker 10:This is a beautiful subject, so we're really into leaderboards. I think leaderboards are part of the culture of Web3. It started with CoinMarketCap back in the day, the leaderboards of the top MarketCoins and these types of things. On super spaces, we have the top hosts, which we call super hosts. We have the top co-host, which we call super co-hosts. We got listeners, we have speakers, but with our social-fired platform, the games have already begun, so you're able to earn points and get these points for doing tasks and doing all kinds of engagement on our platform already to earn more points, which gives you a bigger chunk of airdrops. We have a leaderboard. You'll be able to see the top 100 people that have done the most, and that's by sharing your own referral links to invite your friends and people around you Also doing just some tasks. We have daily tasks up there helping us join spaces or engage on our social media accounts or do gift competitions and all types of stuff. The more you do, the more airdrop you get.
Speaker 10:Yes, collector is actually at the top of this list. I think he's in the top three on the top 100. He's obviously been there from the very beginning for us. So this is a really good thing to talk about Collector Anybody out there? You guys get double airdrop if you want to catch up to Collector. We will never give him a 2X. We will never double up his airdrop points.
Speaker 7:You guys might be able to.
Speaker 2:So basically everybody who's been using Collector's link, which he was so kind to share, appear also to the top.
Speaker 7:You're losing 50% of your airdrop, yeah, so it'll only be like eight times the head, it's okay.
Speaker 2:And I appreciate all the guys are sharing. I know that we are going to talk about this a lot more in detail as we get closer to the launch of the platform. Spaces have obviously been like a humongous part of our existence. A lot of the other people who are in this space share in a good world of Web 3 and digital identity. Also, you know, use spaces to do so, and I know we've had a relationship for a while. Collector's make you guys a person. You guys are good people. So anybody who hasn't already used Super Spaces to level up and, like you said, to keep track of analytics and optimize your spaces game, definitely a great tool. And then super fans certainly bullish on. You know, being a part of that social ecosystem, I sucked at friend tech and everything else that came out, so maybe this will be a little bit better.
Speaker 2:Also, one last community collab that I wanted to talk about as well, which you'll start seeing kind of more lately, is with a TLD called dot CFD, which is a spark Our interest. I think we talked about it. What was it? The space right before I went out to the Domainer Expo, so got a chance to obviously meet Page's daughter in person, got a chance to see Page again. I chance to have quite a few conversations about, you know, the vision for that TLD and yeah, in a little bit I'm going to actually explain kind of how I plan to start building on that particular TLD.
Speaker 2:But it stands for dot, clothing, fashion, design. They are building a community. It says a web to domain as well. They're building a community of like minded people. That will also be breached as a digital identity. And then there's a lot of opportunities there for community, for growth, for onboarding an entire industry and actually a extremely influential industry. You get certain industries to get it, industries like fashion, music, you know, film, things like that. Your floor chairs come in through it. Then all of a sudden, everybody wants a digital identity. So, yeah, helping do my part that way and it doesn't hurt that I have a background at it. So, looking forward to what I'm going to do there and that's actually going to be a part of the outside strategy which I'm going to talk about in a little bit. The last thing also to look forward to on the collab end, it's corporate collabs. So just as a super space is outlined and super fans is kind of outlined the ecosystem that they're building.
Speaker 2:Web three ecosystem is humongous and I think I've said a million times, the opportunity for digital ID is the same as the opportunity for all of web three digital identity. If it uses a wallet, it needs a name. So it's important to pay attention, to tap into all this stuff out here, because there's going to be some point where digital identity becomes relevant and not rather the community be on top of it before, then, when it's too late, right scrambling to figure out how to connect your name before it's too late. I'd rather you be already in the crosshairs of any air drops or anything like that. So we have been presented with opportunities to do bigger AMAs with bigger ecosystems. A lot of some humongous ecosystems that are building kind of the framework of rep three that will eventually tie in digital ID. So look forward to more of those and you'll kind of you'll obviously see who those entities are when you see them.
Speaker 2:I think we have an AMA actually this Friday with a layer one blockchain that's doing multi chain, cross chain swap without a bridge. I mean this is and it actually incorporates digital ID already off the top. So looking forward to getting into that. But, yeah, a lot more of that type of content, again, starting to educate people. The bigger world of web three, the bigger ecosystem, because interacting with those entities also not just about receiving right, it's also about giving you get to explain to them. You know how digital identity can play a part in the ecosystem. Henceforth, you know why I'm mentioning so much about. You know the portal thing as well is there's an opportunity there too. So looking forward to more of that. Now to kind of close out the space, I want to start talking about how we plan to build the bridge outside of the bubble, because, as I said, you know, the inside the bubble approaches is just more and more optimized and more structured way of doing what we already do, being the better version of ourself.
Speaker 2:But, now we're going to start trying to interact with people outside the bubble, and I'm talking about completely outside the bubble. So building a bridge to normies is pretty much it would, for lack of a better way to put. It is going to be one of my focuses for this year, right For the year of 2024. For a couple of reasons A, because that was the plan the entire time.
Speaker 2:B, also because of the timing hoping it helps right as we come into the bull market, it's going to attract a lot of eyes that are going to be looking at all sorts of things and those eyes are going to be open minded, especially, you know, depending on what they're looking at. Oftentimes in the bull they're looking at opportunity and people just want to find a way to get in. So a couple of ways that I'm going to do that. As most of you guys already know, we have quite a few quote unquote web three TLDs, but we have two that we would consider AKA, our flagship, which is the dot x chain and dot defy wallet. So one of the first things that I am doing is I am going to focus a lot more this year on getting the UI right and creating utility for the people who want to come and into our ecosystem via those two TLDs right.
Speaker 2:So, I've already been speaking to some potential partners for UI. As you guys all know, I have the TLDs, both on the web three side. Then I have the dot ID components on the DNS side. I've bridged those into the NES already. I've had conversations with people like fear in from in, as visioned, about possibly setting up a register directly connected to the dot IDs. I'm thinking about possibly switching to the free name widget.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of things out there, a lot of options, but the point is is I am going to be zero, focused in on getting the registry right, the UI for the registry right for mass onboarding, and that's going to make sense here in a second. One of the tactics that we will always use is onboarding through education. So, like I said, creating this constant catalog and doing a lot more mainstream advertising of this constant catalog, hopefully we'll get people to base knowledge as they start to come into the space to onboard them. So yeah, with that being said, I'm going to be doing a lot of advertising of the fact that we exist in normal advertiser channels.
Speaker 2:We have videos on YouTube. Currently. You know the content is being viewed by people who get it. I want it to start being viewed by people who don't get it, so perhaps you might put paid ads in them or start running them through Google advertising. And I want to partner with more providers of normie quote-unquote utility, ie businesses that I see that have synergy to Web3 or digital ID that may not know it yet. I want to create kind of opportunities, make some stuff work so that, one by one, we can educate people on digital identity. I've got more to go, but again I feel like I'm rambling, so I'm gonna take a break and give it to anybody. If you got anything to say. You mean that.
Speaker 3:Yeah nice space you have here and it's nice to hear all the alpha. You know that you go cooking for 2024. It's nice to see.
Speaker 2:Thank you, yeah, and I'm connected with you also throughout this year, looking forward to actually connecting with you more in your community and collector's community Another, you know, example of community collabs. I want to do more of more structured things for some. I'm glad you're here to hear this as well, so stay tuned, I'll definitely be reaching out. Go for it, chris, you're gonna say something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I was getting ready to say that. You know you're hitting it on the head. You're really emphasizing the timing thing. You know you'll notice that in a lot of the spaces you know I talk about the seasons and the creative season and you know, just kind of knowing your place, and you know we're approaching that season where content and education are going to go hand in hand and so you know, I'm looking forward to, you know, what I Heart has in the pipeline, because it aligns with what, I believe, a lot of the other creators, the ones who understand timing, it aligns with what they're doing, like even, you know, even on the Namer Tip side, like you know, we've had talks away from the spaces and we've had discussions about the content catalog and then, you know, in the first quarter of January, wrapping up the pilot program.
Speaker 3:So all of it is coming together. And so you know, it's just music to my ears, in particular when I hear you talking about stepping outside the bubble, because being inside of the bubble, you know it can feel stagnant but progressive at the same time. So to hear you really hone in on 2024 is when we, you know, not so much focus on looking out, I mean looking inward, but we look outward and reach out and help those other individuals that are, you know, like you said, not really too sure about what all of this is, and be able to clear a lot of things for them up and hopefully give them a smooth runway into what we, you know, we know is going to be the future.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, yes sir, and I'm about to go way outside the bubble, and that's, that's a big part of this initiative, and so I'm I'd like to think that I'm good at what I do here in the Web3 space, right?
Speaker 2:But I also am very aware of what I'm good at and I'm wanting to bring those skills to this particular platformer. And one of those things that I am extremely good at, and have been good at my entire life, is breaking brands right. I've been able to make things that people didn't want before wantable and been able to make those things make sense by providing value. I've been able to compare that value, especially my past career in fashion. You know, I sold high fashion. I sold things that were priced, as the people are definitely not comfortable spending every day and where you have pretty much every choice in the world. If you're spending at that level and I still was able to make it make sense and, you know, gained a lot of consumers that way and clients that way. So not at all a stranger to building brands kind of that not necessarily are impossible to build that, but that have a challenge. Right, and I see this as nothing else. Right, it's nothing different. Right, we know the opportunity for digital ID. The challenge is, the majority of the world doesn't even know the opportunity that exists in Web3, let alone digital ID. How do we make that connection? How do we start building that bridge? Will people get it? I don't know, but I'm going to try anyway and this is how right. So, going far outside that bubble of I've already explained that the vehicle that I'm going to use and utilize and put a lot more attention to and build more utility around is the two TLDs X-Chain and DeFi wallet. Another thing that I'm going to do based on those two TLDs is something a little more visual. So I think everyone will have, and, if you haven't noticed, you can see it pinned up at the top. But there is a tweet up there that I put out yesterday which was kind of the official announcement of what I am calling Nerd Merch, right? So Nerd Merch, what this is or what it is currently, it's a fun, disposable fashion based on Web3 naming. As you click on it, you can see obviously it is using printify. This is the test collection. So, this test collection, I'm wanting to see how people react to this kind of design, right, I want to see how people react to wearing these kind of sayings. It's called Nerd Merch, obviously kind of as a play on the Namer thing, namer the nerd, etc. But it's cool, right, I'm proud to be a nerd and I'd be proud to wear this. A lot of the cool sayings inside things. You know I'm starting to put on these shirts.
Speaker 2:A lot of them are referencing the TLDs. My two TLDs are the way they are on purpose, right. It's the narrative behind where we think Web3 digital identity is going, or the blockchain is going that everyone will have an exchange defy wallet. So a lot of the fashion, the education, the narrative behind the brand when speaking to quote-unquote normies, is going to be through the context of obtaining an exchange defy wallet, right. So we are going to use this line to help onboard people through this, through these wares, through this fast fashion, as you call it, into Web3. Naming Shopify is cool enough. They have actually the ability where you can create inserts and include those. So we're going to likely put a QR code on these inserts that people can use to claim a free name on either the exchange defy wallet. Again, this is just a test collection.
Speaker 2:If I get good results from this and buy good, it wouldn't take that much for me to consider these good results. If I see interest, if I think people like it, if I think people don't think it's courting on my wear, I will put some effort into it, and when I say effort, that means I will develop it into a full streetwear brand at some point. Start looking at other things like, like full wearable jeans, maybe shoes, maybe things like that. Like a whole bunch of ideas are coming to my mind. The point is is that one of the ways that I plan to build a bridge outside the boxes through something that's easier to communicate with, which is fashion? Again, I don't know much, but I know that I previously built a career in it. I have launched a fashion brand both on the streetwear side and on the mentor side, so I look forward to seeing where this goes with this.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, for those of you who haven't checked it out already, we acquire the domains nerdmerchxyz, also nerdmerchcfd. We're going to be using this platform to highlight thecfd extension and try to onboard some people that way. And then also we got nerdmerche from nerdmerchx. So, yeah, looking forward to seeing that. Right now you can already go to those URLs. You will see a couple of examples up there. The fun things I've got a bunch of designs already waiting to be, released on the site as well.
Speaker 2:So you'll see more in the next couple of coming weeks. But, yeah, I appreciate any feedback. Again, this is the purpose of this line, right? Or this test part is to get feedback. Let me know what you like, what you don't like and, again, yeah, we'll see how this works. And then, last but not least and this is kind of the chain of where I plan to go with the outside onboarding, the TLDs themselves are what will be used for the onboarding. The merch will be highlighting the TLDs and using it to convert into fashion, etc. Etc. And then I'm also going to be partnering with some influencer marketing in order to get people to want the streetwear or the nerdmerch. So, yeah, I'm going to partner with some of my past celebrity and influencer clients. Again, that feedback from the designs will help me kind of narrow down what works with the general public.
Speaker 2:And then, once we narrow down really on something I do have, yeah, I have a launch plan to get that stuff out into the hands of influencers, start getting into the hands of normal people. These normal people hopefully we'll look at this QR code start wanting to claim their X chain or DeFi walletid domain. Then we'll be able to use those to come into our community, become educated and then hopefully join the rest of your communities. Right, that's the funnel that we hope to create. Yeah, chris, got any feedback on?
Speaker 3:that. Yeah, I definitely feel that it's a viable strategy. I think that it's just important moving forward. I heard you reference a little bit about partnering with the influencers and you have a network of preexisting I mean preexisting relationships, so we talked about that. So I'm not necessarily referencing those people, but I'm referencing anyone who might be listening and they might think let's go seek out these influencers and so on and so forth.
Speaker 3:And it's an old saying that goes that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Speaker 3:If you're going to take what you're hearing and you're going to apply it to your situation as far as it relates to getting influencers to push, whatever it is that you're doing, just be mindful of what. Be mindful that we're not totally out of the woods with regard to the influencers being heavily tied into the crypto marketing and pushing. So let that factor into how you approach an influencer and which influencers you choose to approach, and be very clear about what you expect for them to go ahead and do, because one thing that a lot of people don't care for is being sold. So influence does have its place. Make sure that you partner with people who are just as passionate about Web3 or interested in learning and teaching others as you are, and then blaze a path like no other, but just don't fall into a lot of the same traps that we've seen happen in that whole crypto thing, because right now, that whole SEC thing and all influencers and what they were pushing, that was just one big old mess.
Speaker 3:But, like I said, this is not related to your network because we talk away from the spaces. So I know you have a solid group of people that you work with. So, yeah, just anyone's listening to that. If you're going to bring influencers on board, just make sure that you know what you're doing in that particular.
Speaker 2:Right and, as you said, there's a strategy to this and you know how apprehensive I've been since we've known each other and even people who've known me longer in the Web3 space know that I've been extremely apprehensive in introducing this element into the space because, kind of, once you go there, you go there right. Once you make your first impression and start involving certain people in the space, if it goes bad, it goes bad. You can't take it back, hits forth why, again, everything is timing right. This and everything is also for me. I think if you speak to me long enough, and especially those with met me person, you'll start to see that, even though sometimes it sounds like it's all over the place, everything with me is by design. So year one for this platform was really so that we could build a reputation within the Web3 ID space. I wanted everyone to know who our platform was, what we stood for, to create that foundation of trust and knowledge so that people understood that we were here for the good and building the space right. This next year, we want the world to know who we are right. This is about again trying to attract people from outside the bubble. I've said it many a times before we have a great thing, but we are just circling the same liquidity. All the spaces that we're having, we're having the same people. Everyone that's in this space gets it right. We need to find more ways to reach people outside the space and I've been struggling with how to do that.
Speaker 2:And again, you know, I looked at my strengths. I look at the conversations that I have every day with people who want to interact with me and I'm talking about in real life, and the thing that most of them ask me about is what they know me for, why, which is fashion, which is when that bridge came. It's easy to educate people with fashion. Look at things like Kanye West. What he does he puts messages on his shirt. People read them, people who are following his fashion to put messages out there, whether it's funny message or whether it's serious messages. And why not? Right, got the expertise in the space, and this is especially using this vehicle. Influencers are much more likely to come on board and are being much more comfortable promoting a fashion brand than they would be a crypto or digital identity brand, right? So, like I said, everything by design, even though you know, I'm kind of explaining it casually, kind of in the moment, while we're here on the space, there is actually a ton currently in the works and I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:These aren't just ideas.
Speaker 2:There's actual wills and motions, there are some actual deals that have already been made.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, look forward to seeing a lot more outreach, a lot more what would you say attention, or you'll start seeing a lot more about the merch and then, you know, that kind of total plan will start coming together and you'll start seeing some of the campaigns we have set up. And, again, you know, the hope is is that, as normally, start coming on board and start, you know, buying this funny merch that they, you know, may see funny in one way, but then may start to get in the way that we mean it and, hopefully, when they start seeing, you know, the things that are included in the packaging, it starts bringing into space that way, right, and that's all we need. We just need one person at a time to become bullish, to teach more people, to teach more people. This is an effort that's in, you know, conjunction with what everyone else is building at the same time. That is also, you know, built and designed to bring more of these quote unquote norms into space. So that's how we intend to play our part. So what about Chris?
Speaker 3:You know, I want to highlight something that you have said. When you, when you were talking about bridging everything, I want everyone to focus on the fact that you know, I hard didn't just reference just the merchandise. He referenced the bridge right and you, you, you mentioned the dot CFD extension and the fact that you, you got nerve merge dot CFD. You know that that was it was. It was brilliant, right, I know some individuals might be like that's an overbaked, you know, response, but it was brilliant because it was super logical, super simple.
Speaker 3:But a lot of people who are in the domain space probably would have missed making that correlation right, cfd, the moment that on this side, I know, once I heard about CFD, I immediately told the couple this is, this is where you need to go because, like you said, you know the creatives, the people who are in that, in that expressive place, they tend to be a lot more open to new ideas and concepts. Right, and, like you said, you talked about wearables and it's just, it's logical. And I'll throw this nugget out there because, you know, during the time that you know, cfd was discussed in the last space, you know there were some investments made but, like you said, strategic investments. And.
Speaker 3:I had a call. It was last week, friday towards the evening and it was with some representatives from the garment district here in New York, right, and the discussion that we were having was about the CFD extension, right, anybody who's familiar with New York and they're familiar with the garment district in New York that that is a space that's dedicated to fashion and creativity and it just made sense. In hearing CFD be discussed they're like oh yeah, you know what that dot has to be connected. So you know, I say all that to say this.
Speaker 3:You know, I commend you on connecting and making that dot because, believe it or not, the merch is going to be the merch, the tangibles are going to be the tangibles, but the impact that you have on someone through the means by, through the means that you educate them, through that's going to have the lasting impact. So people are going to remember that CFD and they're going to associate that CFD with I heart. They're going to associate I heart with the merchandise and search, associate the merchandise web three, and it's going to create this, this, this chain of trust, right and security that a lot of the the quote unquote normies or, you know, the mass population is going to need to come into this space. So you know, I commend you. I know that that was kind of like rambling in itself, but it was just a real sensible move. So 2020, 2024 is going to be bright with approach like that.
Speaker 2:Now, that was perfectly said and, as I said, everything by design, you nailed it on that. I see that we have a dot CFD up here. How you doing. I'm assuming this is Julie how you doing.
Speaker 9:I'm great. I was debating if I was going to say something to your knocks.
Speaker 9:I'm actually in the lab right now and I didn't want to interrupt the space while we're talking about it. I just wanted to say like I am so thankful for all the work y'all are doing to promote this and all the genuine like you're talking about. I think it's a great idea. I think it's exactly what you're saying, where we're bridging. That it's all you like. You have the expertise to be able to do this. You know I'm working on gaining the expertise to be able to do it, but you already have that background, and so, because this is one of the best ways to do it it's one of the biggest industries in the world is fashion and design and clothing, and so and I, it also brings the gap between you know it's a very male dominated space, and so I mean, that's how I got it. It was because my dad like, oh, we need help with clothing, fashion, design, and so I think the fact that it works once, it can work again, and so I want to say thank you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to say thank you too as well, and like not only for being awesome, but also for the opportunity as well, because this is another thing, another piece of advice, too right?
Speaker 2:As we're all navigating through this and we're trying to figure out, like, not only our why, but the biggest thing is like the how, right? We're all trying to figure out how to get more people in the space. Well, sometimes you got to kind of rely on your strengths and you actually came out of nowhere and really, like, fell into one of my strengths and gave me a way to figure out the how. Because fashion is my strength, right, and I can use it to speak to people 99% of the people that I know in my everyday life. I can't start a conversation with what's the digital identity, but I can start the conversation with fashion all day and then I can slide it in and make it make sense, just like you know what King said King's able to do with music, what other people are able to do with other things, other strengths. These are the things that we have to do as builders.
Speaker 2:Moving forward is to find our strengths and use those to communicate with the quote, unquote normies so that they can understand why we're here, because we're all normies. They're just normies who haven't come into the blockchain yet and don't realize why they need and why we use it. So, yeah, I thank you because CFD is right up my alley. It's an attractive extension. I learned so much about the extension that made me more comfortable as well. So, yeah, definitely ready for this right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, before I say what I was going to say. Uncle Nate, I see you have your hand up.
Speaker 8:Yeah, well, I feel like this is a great time to introduce this. I'm working with a team at one of my co-working spaces to organize an AI hackathon and I've been working across domains Web3 domains in digital fashion and tangible tethering, supply chain stuff for a couple years and I would definitely love to get CFD involved in sponsoring or not even necessarily sponsoring, but bringing expertise to bounties whatever for an AI hackathon that involves Web3 naming and also fashion. So the other co-working space that I work out of actually has two 16 needle embroidery machines and silk screening studio and teams would be able to, and a fab shop and a wood shop and a metal shop. I mean, teams would be able to actually do some pretty cool stuff potentially as part of that hackathon and I think that as a model too, being able to take that knowledge of doing that and then repeat it and make it repeatable for other people having events and you can co-locate events like, for instance, with what is done with the Domainer Expo, there's a model to be able to take that and do that again, of course, and do a virtual event, but then there's also a model in addition where you can take that and co-locate it across alongside other events like NFT NYC or the NAMM conference in LA or the HIMS conference, which is healthcare related. That happens in Vegas or Orlando.
Speaker 8:So the ability to take these building blocks and open source the knowledge of creating them, but also broadly amplifying the results is important, of course. But then the piece around making it sustainable that's what was one of the challenges in Web 2 around hackathons is that people would get together and build stuff and maybe sometimes a unicorn might come out of that and a unicorn of a unicorn might come out of that. Even, but mostly, a lot of projects taught people how to work together but didn't necessarily catch and ignite. And that was one of the things that folks realized certainly investors and the industry in general around startups that if you're going to do those types of events, you want to have some sort of sustainability idea, a way to make it sustainable.
Speaker 8:The other thing that it does, too, is it focuses talent. It focuses the ability to see talent and put it together and create a situation where the talent creates a good mix and ignites something. So that is all to say. I'll land my plane here, but I'm real free to at me anybody or DM me who wants to talk about this, but I'm planning on doing it and it's something that people can participate in virtually for sure.
Speaker 9:Thanks, yeah, definitely I'm going to reach out to you, because one of the things we're doing is trying to work with AI is because the whole thing we're getting at is how to make it easier for people to start a business. So it's like one of our main hooks is how can we make this easier for you and empower you to do this, and one of the ways we're going about that is using AI to build, to design, to even just run your site, for you to build your site, anything like that. So I definitely would love to reach out and I think that's one of the things that AI heart remains for creating this space so that we stumble upon these interactions.
Speaker 8:Yeah, no, I was super psyched to hear about what you were doing because I've got some connections to some folks here in town who essentially have spoken at Fashion Week this year about digital fashion and AI specifically. She studies this. I'm totally blank on her name right now. I've actually got a run to a call coming up. I got a prep for it. Yeah, definitely, let's connect. I'm really psyched because that's been sort of my mission is to have people understand how unique web three names are essentially very powerful serial numbers that are easy to incorporate in with objects like garments and enable that garment to conferring the provenance but also the value of some apps on the blockchain where that garment's identity can play a role. So, creating a hackathon environment where people can play with that concept. I've got some of the building blocks and I'm sure you do too, so it's exciting.
Speaker 3:No, you used a keyword and it was sustainable. Cfd is special You're referencing in terms of putting together these events where not only people can build together but talent can be discovered. Sustainable fashion is something that because again, you talk about being in the bubble for those of us who venture outside of the bubble or have backgrounds and histories and work with individuals that are more well versed outside of what we're a part of, know for a fact that there's an entire world, or worlds if you want to be more exact, that exists outside of what we discuss in the spaces, and it's beautiful to hear the doors kind of creaking open to embracing those particular segments of creativity, art, expression and so on and so forth. So, with that being said, you know, if you know I know you referenced embroidery and screen printing and some things like that I'll definitely reach out to you via the DMs because I think any way that names can be tied into this and individuals can understand how what they create needs to be. It needs to be referenceable, right, but it also needs to be protected, right. It needs to be promoted.
Speaker 3:There's just so many benefits that's high into having the appropriate name right, and so, with CFD, it's one of those things where clothing, fashion and design it is self-explanatory, right. So, being able to connect with people who are creatives and who are in the clothing, fashion and design realm of things, and for us to know these people and be able to connect with them on, you know, just a phone call and an email or in person, I think this is a perfect opportunity to really, you know, lay the foundation for something great to happen and bring people into Web 3 via a route that they're familiar with. So, yeah, I'm gonna reach out to you. I might even have to get you over embroidery CFD, because we hope that, so maybe that can be worked into.
Speaker 8:Yeah, and what I was gonna say I just put up four photos of the two or three most recent things I've did in the past few days, examples, and I'll pop some of the machinery in there too, so you guys have an idea. But it's, you know, it's a makerspace and I was just talking actually with the guild leads at the makerspace because the makerspace is organized into guilds, so the textiles guild lead and the tech guild lead I both talked to and they were like, yeah, if you know, you want to do it. So even if it's not attached to this other thing, I mean there's other, there's, there's people in this area because I live in the belly of Nike, adidas, keen, a bunch of footwear, sportswear, outdoorwear, adventure stuff, so fun times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so what you guys both illustrated are exactly what's kind of the TLDR of the last part is that there's opportunities out there. Right, 2024 should be about exploring these different opportunities, these different use cases, and doing more about just talking about them in spaces. As I said, you know, during, you know kind of the beginning of the spaces. But our goal is to continue doing more of the same and amplify more of the same, but to also start and really drilling out initiatives to start looking at these opportunities to educate outside the space. Again, like you see, fashion is an easy one. There are a lot of use cases for Web 3, digital identity, for domains, for cataloging in fashion, but talking to each other on spaces doesn't help onboard anybody in the fashion. We got to start having these conversations with the people that can actually implement and use them, and so 2024 for us is going to be connecting with people that we are familiar with and can have those conversations with and start showing them how they can use Web 3, digital ID in the blockchain to amplify or make better their business, so that we can start onboarding regular people who aren't even looking this way. And yeah, we're about to wrap the spaces. This has been a great one.
Speaker 2:I'm extremely thankful to everyone that's come on to help us relive the experience of the Domainer Expo and listen to me ramble about what I plan to do next year to make iHeartDomain to need a better platform.
Speaker 2:I think, as someone in our said perhaps even I forgot who said it but we're nobody without the listeners, absolutely no one without everyone who comes to these spaces, and it was helped us platform build. Everyone that sends a DM, everyone that comes on to do an AMA, every single one of you. I look forward to continuing to build, and not only am I excited that you guys are going to be here to help me grow, but anything that I can do to help you grow I'm happy to do as well. Again, door is wide open for collage to help build this space forward and help extend this message outside of our bubble. I'm going to give anyone on the stage that wants to leave us with some last words the opportunity to do so, and then we are going to close up. My daughter's been trying to get my attention for, like the past 15 minutes. Go for it, king.
Speaker 5:The future is ours. The future is ours.
Speaker 2:Yeah it absolutely is.
Speaker 3:No, I'll wrap with, you know, letting everyone know like, listen, don't discount this next season of creativity and collaboration. Right, Look outside your immediate circle and you'll see that there are people who are searching for that new lane for them to find themselves and discover what's going to be their next passion and what we're doing here in digital identity as an opportunity for them to do that. So, you know, don't discount creativity. You know, look out your window. You know, look to your left, your right, look behind you, find some creatives, connect with them, collaborate, introduce them to this space. And, you know, let's go here to make 2024 far more creative and engaging than what 2023 was, Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Got anything else to leave us with Julie?
Speaker 9:Oh, sorry, no, I just can't use my hand to move a lot. Thank you for posting the space and everything.
Speaker 2:Thank you as well and it was a pleasure to meet you out in Bay use again. I was already hyped on the on. The TLD in and of itself already made perfect sense to me. But meeting and talking to people really discussing a vision of purpose, a person changes things, so very glad for that just makes me even more convicted with our path. Anything else to leave us with Fred before we leave.
Speaker 4:No, actually I've commented yeah, maybe that I've commented out the people who won the allocation, so I'm going to quickly pin it up top. So Kev created who is in the audience. You really rocked up into the show with I heart domain. So often appreciate you. And likewise for Cheedow hey BG, I hope I pronounced that correctly. Didn't have that on my bing card to pronounce a name like that today.
Speaker 4:But yeah, if you send us a DM then we'll proceed and pass you all the details for the allocation and for the rest, yeah, I enjoyed the talk so much and have a great week ahead and yeah, let's crush it together, fam.
Speaker 2:It's super awesome. Yes, so congrats. Kev created and I don't know how to pronounce that one either, but congrats to both of you. Yeah, looking forward to that. And again, this is the purpose of these of these community collapse, right. We hope to, in addition to super spaces, continue to build relationships that reward people for showing up and showing support. And these are real air drops, right? Like I said, I'm not bringing weird stuff to the table. So, yeah, congrats to both of you guys. Thank you so very much for your generosity, fred. Looking forward to what you guys are building.
Speaker 2:And, again, great tool to use for any of you creators out here wanting to tighten up your spaces. Game spaces, by far, has been probably the number one tool of any of us to build our community and on board, so it is important. So, yeah, with that being said, I do want to thank every single one of you for attending another. I heard domains take top. Look, we're going to be doing an AMA on Friday with a platform called layer one X, so looking forward to that. That one's an interesting one. I've actually done already a demo of their platform and it's again exciting things to come multi chain, cross chain swaps without a bridge change dance for me and then after that. Yeah, we've got some very exciting AMA binder for next week too. Friday we will also have the space with free name in the morning with me, beva and collector. So yeah, until then, I will see you guys a little bit later. Thank you guys for attending.