Bridging Web 2 and Web 3: New Years Strategies for a Tokenized Web Era

Discover the ripple effects of Vitalik Buterin's ENS token endorsement as we kick off with a Tech Talk that's crackling with the excitement of the new year! Our latest episode is a treasure trove for those keen on the intersections of Web 3, digital IDs, and domain tokenization. We'll traverse the significance of Unstoppable Domains' bold move to tokenize .com domains, and why this might just be the bridge we've been waiting for between Web 2 and Web 3. As liquidity surges and lending platforms like Teller join the fray, investors and digital gurus are poised at the edge of a potentially lucrative frontier.

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Chapters

• 0:04 Vitalik’s Announcement Sparks Speculation
• 13:32 The Potential Impact of Tokenizing Domains
• 23:25 Investing in Domain Names
• 33:34 Building Foundations and Initiatives for 2024
• 42:38 Nerd Merch Debut at Grammy Awards
• 49:26 Onboarding Celebrities and Educating With AI
• 1:01:51 Importance of a Telegram Community
• 1:14:12 Announcing Future Community Resource and Partnerships
• 1:21:23 2024 Journey and Digital ID Integration

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:04

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Speaker 2: 1:35

Hello, hello. We'll get started in just a second. How's everybody doing today? How are you doing?

Speaker 3: 1:43

Chris, I'm doing well. I am doing well. How about yourself?

Speaker 2: 1:48

I'm doing pretty good as well. Yeah, we're getting the year started and it's always. If you guys could do me a favor, if you could go to that bottom right hand corner, like and retweet the space we share this around. Get some people in here. This is our first tech talk of the year. So excited to get into some of the initiatives, as we have going on, that are, you know, aimed at the community. So excited to get into this one yeah, looking forward to getting into.

Speaker 3: 2:17

You know they say, you know what they say.

Speaker 2: 2:19

You start off strong yes, sir, yes sir, actually we have started off pretty strong. I know you and I have had some conversations outside of the space, so you have you know more of a direction of what we're talking about than everyone else does. But yeah, it is definitely starting off strong this year. You know, it feels like the bull kind of all the way over or all the way around. Not only you know the rest of the markets, but especially in the web 3 and ID space, a lot of projects building, a lot of projects launching, a lot of partnerships happening.

Speaker 3: 2:48

So, yeah, definitely going to go the year so far, so far so early, right, exactly, exactly, and for it to only be a few days so far. You know, and you see this type of progress and hear a lot of the whisperings and announcements that it gives you a sense of confidence about what's to come yes, sir, yes, sir, want to remind everybody, as you're coming in, please like and retweet.

Speaker 2: 3:15

If you have any comments, any questions, if you want to leave some great comments in the spaces that everybody know that you're bullish on I heart domains, bullish on web 3 ID, please do so. Also pinned quite a few things up here at the top of the space. These are some of the things that we're actually be talking about. So so the reference points yeah, without further ado, we can go ahead and get started. So, yeah, I'd like to welcome everyone to another I heart domains tech talk, the first tech talk of 2024. We discussed news, innovations, education, alpha, all good things in the web 3, digital ID and domain technology space. As always, our tech talks are recorded and you can view our content archive on our website at I heart domains calm. Also, our tech talks are available in podcast form on every major podcast player, including Apple, spotify, and you can get to that pretty easily at tech talk host. Again, if you guys would like to retweet, please also reference to the top of the space.

Speaker 2: 4:20

I want to start off with a little bit of opening news until we get into the main topic, one of the things that. So a couple things right, for I guess, just because my talent said he was bullish on an ENS token shut up pretty dramatically. So. So not only that the news isn't really the, but I guess for most people they would see the news as the token shooting up itself, but it's the narrative also that I'm paying attention to as well, that you know he's kind of doubling down on you know, I kind of wanted to get your opinion on it and that narrative is that basically, I guess ENS position, or perceived position, is to essentially be the root zone of all went through digital ID, and then, you know, everything else is just to be built as an L2 on top of it to connect back to it.

Speaker 3: 5:12

And I mean, yeah, yeah, you know. So I didn't hear the act, I've, and I think that this is good because, you know, I've seen the post about it. I didn't really dive too far into it, right. But I'm saying this for a reason because you have the viewpoint that that that you have when you have you're well informed, and then you have the viewpoint that you have when you're not informed. I'm taking the not informed viewpoint on this particular subject, and the reason that this is important is because I think what it sounds like that Vitalik was casting a reel into was the waters of mass adoption, right, it was that.

Speaker 3: 5:57

And a lot of people would sit there and say, well, how could you reach that conclusion? And you didn't hear what it was that he stated. The reality of it is that you don't have to be in, you know, involved in a conversation to recognize what the tone of the discussion is if you have any type of cues that are available to you. So Vitalik is, you know, if you pay attention to social media, he's vocal, but not vocal, right? He has a prominent role in aetherium's existence and and the status that it has in the world of cryptocurrency, and then he comes out. It's almost.

Speaker 3: 6:31

Like you know I'm not equating him to an Elon Musk or you know anyone of that nature, because you know he has his status in and of his own right, but he's one of those people that, when he speaks, people listen, right, and things happen, and and you get the ripples and you get the effects and the impact. And for him to sit there and, like you said, double down at a time right, he did this. The timing is impeccable. Right, this wasn't the middle of 2023, this is at the beginning of 2024. Anyone who understands what announcements mean when they're coming from major figures or big public entities, the timing is a big part of that. So, if I had to say anything with respect to what his statement meant, I think that it means that something is coming, like he, it's already planned, it's already in the works.

Speaker 2: 7:22

It's just hey, you guys get ready, because the rollout is coming yeah, I think you and I talked about this a little off-space as well. As far as you know the market for you in SNY, it is the way it is and kind of some of my questions about it, but you're right there, there could perchance be a lot brewing behind the scenes to make not only him but everyone else feels that way. You know, we've talked about, you know, the relationship with JP Morgan Chase. Obviously they have a relationship with Coinbase, pretty much executing the model as, as Vitalik is saying it should be, and then also, you know, in this also has integrations that haven't been able to be achieved by other naming services. So what, if there is? You know, and I'm sure as the year progresses, we'll start to learn more about what, what's happening with the ecosystem, but there could perchance be some grail integrations that are that solidify its position as such. I mean, that's the reason why I can't.

Speaker 3: 8:21

I can't right exactly, and and you have to look at the affiliations and you're talking about JP Morgan Chase. You know, and and this is just purely speculative, but I'm just letting you know how quickly it can happen right, jp Morgan Chase could wake up, I mean the entity, not like the person, but the entity could just wake up and just sit there and say, you know, hey, every customer now has an ethny. Like that, that quick, right, not saying that the technological underpinnings would just kind of unfold, like that, but you get what I'm saying. Like, you can literally wake up tomorrow and JP Morgan Chase is running ads that now you need your digital identity to protect your bank account, like no things like that. And when they say that anyone who sees those commercials would sit there and say they have to be talking about ENS names, right, because that's who they're tied in with.

Speaker 3: 9:14

And and I think that just with this space, people are so used to this, this blaring siren, that something is coming, that they tend to overlook the subtle indications that something major is coming.

Speaker 3: 9:27

And so I think that you know, vitalik, he's, he's not the, he's not the, he doesn't fit the picture of the everyday person that that we see discussing. You know, web 3, digital identity and so on and so forth in the spaces that we frequent. But he does have a stronghold, if you will, on the technology that propels a lot of the things that you know we we're buying into and investing in and see a future for. So you know it shouldn't be taken lightly. And the fact that you know he and his team over there are rubbing shoulders with individuals, whether you like them or not right, we're not going down that rabbit hole, but they're rubbing shoulders with individuals that clearly have power, they have influence, they have territories that they govern and you know who knows what's gonna come out of this. I mean that we're at the top of the year, talking like this, and imagine what will be February, march.

Speaker 2: 10:23

Yeah, I'm definitely taking the announcement seriously. Unfortunately, prior to this moment, I don't hold any ENS tokens, although I do hold about 100 ENS domain names, but that doesn't do any good, does it? It does because I'm a participant and an investor in the ecosystem and still going to be a beneficiary of the ecosystem again, looking forward to seeing really how, if anything else, there's a responsibility that comes with being so bullish. There's a responsibility with asking Vitalik to be so bullish, because now you've got to build it. Right now you've got to live up to this perception that you put out here that we're going to be the ecosystem of ecosystems. A lot of good is going to come from them trying and I am certainly looking forward to seeing what gets developed, not only internally but with the partners, of course to support the ENS ecosystem that are essentially going to make it what it is.

Speaker 3: 11:27

If I may, I'm just going to tap in right there and just say that they've generated a lot of revenue. That's a lot of capital to put some things in motion. When you're generating that type of capital, whether you're acknowledging yourself as being a corporate structure or something other, you have advisors around you. It wasn't like Vitalik just woke up out of his bed and just said hey, I'm just going to call an ex and say this. It was likely something that was discussed with the people who are on the team, the advisors, the people who are playing a role in determining where a lot of this capital that they generated will go.

Speaker 3: 12:09

It is, it's a siren in and of itself. Whether it's going to be a siren for good coming or bad coming, hopefully is the earlier and not the latter. We don't know. But, like you said, we have a stake in the ecosystem, be it through tokens, be it through the names, be it through just being inquisitive about where all of this is going. We have a stake in the process and we must not lose sight of that, because the moment that we lose sight of that and we stop doing our part, then it leaves the situation in the hands of others who may or may not have our best interest. It's just good that I'm glad that we started with this space of referencing that, because that's a really, really big breakout update.

Speaker 2: 12:48

Yes, sir, yes sir, how are you doing today? Oh, you just dropped down from a speaker. I was just going to introduce you and say hi, if you want to come back up, I'll actually shoot you another speaker request, but be good to have you on. The next kind of piece of news I wanted to cover before we get into the main topic actually comes from you know, the other guys right, and again a testament to what Ish was saying in the space prior. This is why it's also good to diversify, because technology is technology. Technology doesn't care who's building it, it just wants to evolve, right. So, before I get into that, what's going on? Uncle Nate, how are you doing today?

Speaker 5: 13:25

Hey, long time no speak. I'm doing well. Happy New Year everyone. Happy New Years as well. Very interesting news this morning. That's stuff from Vitalik, but hopefully we'll hear more about that or we'll talk more about that. But good morning, Thanks for having me out.

Speaker 2: 13:44

Yes, sir, good morning, and yeah, I'm definitely excited to learn more about where he's coming from, but also, you know, I expect some action and some building to combine this, so looking forward to seeing that too. And what I was just about to get into is kind of on the other side, and this is kind of combo news, but I'm speaking about it from the perspective of, or from the subtle announcement. I guess that's coming from Unstoppable, but we've already seen evidence of it from 3DNS, the concept of it bringing domains on chain. So something that was said by Matt earlier today in a comment to somebody's tweets is that coms will be coming on chains soon, through Unstoppable, obviously.

Speaker 2: 14:28

And that's something else that I kind of wanted to touch on as well, because you know, like some of the conversations I've had with you as well, chris, I think that does a humongous thing for not only for the Web 2 space the tokenization but also for even us individual investors some of us smaller investors who have just now gotten to the space. Like my portfolio is mainly Web 3 focus, blockchain focus, crypto focus. I think that tokenizing the domains that are in my portfolio on the Web 2 side will open it up to a completely different demographic. That understands the narrative of the reason for why I have those domains to begin with.

Speaker 2: 15:07

So I think a lot of domains are going to become more valuable because of that, yeah, the tokenization, the tokenization and the bridging.

Speaker 3: 15:15

I think that a lot of people are just it's going over their heads, and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that they have this real maximalist attitude, and the maximalist attitude, ironically enough, puts you in kind of a box, and so when you hear something like you know, ud making a, when you again you got to consider remember I was referencing you know just, vitalik's role, right, and what he represents and what he's you know he's interwoven in in terms of what Ethereum is.

Speaker 3: 15:47

It's the same thing, you know, with Matt. You know, and I'm not comparing Matt to Vitalik, but I'm just saying that you know he has a role with an entity that is proven to be sizable, right, and that's proven to be committed to scaling what they're offering right, and so he's speaking. And when he speaks, when people are in positions of power yourself, myself, age, uncle Nate, everybody in the room when, when you speak, it's important to listen, right. When people speak, it's important to listen to what they're saying, and Matt making that announcement thatcoms will be coming on chain. That right there. If you know, people needed another reason to go ahead and be bullish about Web 3 and blockchain, digital identity, or they were expelling some type of uncertainty. Well, this is just another thing that's going to iron out a wrinkle of uncertainty, and so what do you think is going to come of that?

Speaker 2: 16:42

Well, like I said, even from the individual investor standpoint, the way I imagine this happening and I can always be wrong, but again, having access to more liquidity, having access to more buyers, having a bigger market, typically makes things more valuable. So A I think not only will it make those domains more valuable, but then it also opens up those domains to the tools that exist in the Web 3 space and not saying that these tools don't exist in the Web 2 space, but they're more efficient and permissionless in the Web 3 space and I'm talking about things like lending. So even Issh had made the same example in his space about being able to hold on to a name, build it, accumulate a value and then, instead of having to sell it, you can borrow against it and then repurpose that money or use that money to live on, et cetera, et cetera. Well, the same things are being already existing in the Web 3 space. You have, like Teller, that's already lending on DOT, eTH domains.

Speaker 2: 17:40

As our space continues to grow, and especially when you bring all that Web 2, you know all these Web 2 names in here and potentially a portion of that market will finally start to accept Web 3, at least for the benefit that it gives them. There, You're going to see a lot more of these entities pop up that are going to be lending, that are creating resources for you to do things with these names. So, yeah, it's going to make these, in my personal opinion, a lot more valuable. I don't know what it will do as far. I don't know how it will reflect on the value of Web 3 native domains, but certainly for those who are holding Web 2 domains, you should be happy about that.

Speaker 3: 18:17

Well, I think what's going to happen is that there's going to need to be, like you referenced, teller.

Speaker 3: 18:22

You know it's going to be game changing the moment that you know Teller says that you can borrow against, you know, or you can leverage Web 2 names that are tokenized for loans, right, that's going to be a game changer and I think that's kind of inevitable.

Speaker 3: 18:37

You know, if they're thinking how I believe that they're thinking over there and they're aware that this is, you know, is happening actively, they're likely positioning themselves, if they're not already positioned to do it, to take advantage of it, and I think that's where you're going to see other entities that are going to pop up and say hey, you know, not only can you go ahead and, you know, borrow against your Web 2 domains, but we'll take these Web 3 domains from this name service and so on and so forth. It's going to be interesting, like you said, the liquidity is definitely going to come in and I think that the value narratives are going to start to be set. But I think that we're getting ready to see a surge and a need in branding, right, because there are so many options out here, and I think that we're going to have a real strong effort to brand different TLDs so that that value cannot be temporary but it'll be solidified for the long term.

Speaker 2: 19:30

Yeah, and before I get to you on, some of these Web 2 guys are going to get a taste of something they've never seen before and I'm talking about straight Web 3 DGNs. Like I said, when that bridge finally is fully crossed over and they're able to bring their assets over here and sell them on things like OpenSea and Rarible and things like that, and they realize that people will buy digits, people will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the stupidest things. They'll realize why. You know, Web 3 definitely is a lucrative market for Web 2 domains.

Speaker 3: 20:03

No, you're spot on one.

Speaker 2: 20:06

Go for it, Okaday.

Speaker 5: 20:09

Now, I love this conversation because, you know, I think there will be a convergence of the concept of a crowdfund with domain names Once people understand that they can bring a domain name in and monetize the domain name. Much in the same way that we have been coaching, or artists have been coached, to have their own smart contracts right, when you can merge the fact that you can bind together the features of a smart contract with a namespace, with NFTs, and crowdfund a business. Or, you know, take a business to a certain stage of funding using some of the techniques that are relatively mature. Right, I see the ability to offer NFTs that have some sort of attachment to something material right, we know that. But then also some sort of a right being a thing that hasn't really hit the mainstream yet, hasn't hit the mainstream of artists, hasn't hit the mainstream of brands, hasn't hit the mainstream of makers and whoever makes that easy or whatever process makes that easy, and that's, you know, going to start with registrars probably.

Speaker 5: 21:35

I've had this discussion with Ray King at Porkbun in the past about having actually like an Apple Genius bar for domains, so, like registrar is actually having storefront locations where you could go and get your domain and get your business online and get all set up and sit down with a consultant. I mean, that's a business someone could do, especially now with the advent of Web 3, naming and being able to ascitize a namespace and use that together as an incentive to be part of a community, but also to give someone in a community a piece of collective ownership and some assets right without giving away stock. So it's really like a very interesting mix of things that hasn't really caught on super deeply yet, but once this kind of perfect storm gets a little bit of critical mass and I think this year is going to be the year domains are going to be a big role.

Speaker 2: 22:44

It is you, you oh, he's rocking a little bit.

Speaker 5: 22:52

I thought it was me.

Speaker 2: 22:55

Twitter's having a hard time today, yeah it has been. I don't know if you can hear me, chris, but you're breaking up a little bit in the interim. Gobovi or gobo, your go pal. Right how you doing, sir.

Speaker 6: 23:07

Hello, gobovi, it's okay, it's okay. Hello everybody, I'm happy to hear, of course, that you're going to be amazing, I'm sure about that, and it's about domains. I think it's a cool topic for you all. I lose my domain in IRL business, I think one year ago, and they want to charge me like 2,000 Euro in that direction and, of course, I didn't pay for that. But the question is, which domain? We have a lot of domain here and it's just for my presentation. I don't want to start to trade, but which domain? Guys? I have a dream, but I might have Bitcoin. Or to have Solana, to have Tesla. What the fuck? It's too much For me. It's yeah, maybe it can give me advice.

Speaker 2: 24:14

So the answer is it depends, and I'll make that. I'll kind of clarify that Before I get into it. I was just about to tell Chris if we can all back up. But it depends, right, because think of it this way which token is the best token to have? Right, and depending on how you want to be in the space, if you're here as a profit backseat, then the token that you should have in your portfolio is any one of them that you think is going to go up, right. If you're in the domain space or speculating in the domain space, from that perspective, then that would be your answer. It would be invest in any of them that you think is going to go up. If new ones pop up, invest in them too. If you're coming in the space as an end user or, as you're coming into the space as an end user builder, right. If you're going to build on the property that you're buying, because essentially that's what these are, then you probably only need one or two names and you need to pick the one that has the utility, is on the platform and works or identifies with you in the best way.

Speaker 2: 25:20

Some people will, you know, down the sword. That's always going to have to be something that ends in acom. Some people on the web three space, you know obviously some people will down that same sword and say that's always going to have to be aEth. But as we're obviously seeing, you know, brands can build on anything if you're building on it, and then again more scenarios exist that dictate you know different ways of buying or investing in things. Like if you're building a brand, you know it may be best business practice to just acquire your name everywhere else so that people can impersonate you. So it's not necessarily you doing it from an investment perspective, but you're doing it from, you know, a brand in business protection perspective. So that's where my answer is depends, go for it.

Speaker 6: 26:05

Yeah, but that AI can be something or that it's just an IRL or and will not be monetized here. Yeah, if I put a right question, because it's for me, it's totally new, new domain.

Speaker 2: 26:27

Yeah, if you're. Obviously you know, as a disclaimer, nothing I say here is financial advice. It's educational leechy towards you know, making your own decision. But yeah, I mean dot AI right now. I think the question you're asking is dot AI, good investment, right now.

Speaker 2: 26:47

There's certainly a narrative being painted around it. There's a lot of investment coming into it, a lot of it, particularly, you know, by one person who is also being extremely vocal about it. He's a very respected domain investors, what people are listening, and it's getting the attention that that you know. Obviously you're seeing how it will turn out. I mean, no one knows.

Speaker 2: 27:10

But again, you know, kind of the same as Ish was saying in the space before some sure fireways to make sure that you get value out of any domain that you buy is a like he said so to yourself give it a value internally and then build that value so that it is worth at least that. And it's not worth that just because it's words sitting in, you know, your wallet or in your account to help someone else buy. It's worth that because you built it to be worth that and you can look someone in the eyes and ask him for that. So that would be the advice on any extension, but to answer your question the best as I can, it seems like, yes, that extension is kind of heating up, but again I would be careful.

Speaker 2: 27:48

You got to look at who's buying the domain names. We see the sales, we see the amounts. We see, you know, domain name selling for 100 grand, 50 grand, 80 grand, but again these may be investors. Selling to other investors Doesn't count until you get a real person to buy the domain name as a real retail. You know purchase. That's an actual cop to me, unless you think you have something that's fired up to sell to another investor.

Speaker 6: 28:14

Okay. Okay, yes it's interesting and it's the future, of course. This is one of the one of the things in WebC that that we have real value, One of that, and yeah that AI sound cool, but you, I don't know that will work in the future.

Speaker 6: 28:44

You know it's. Who will stay in that com? I don't know, all will be like it's. It's totally new. But how can, can, can, can have real value? You know, of course, we, we, we see that it's, it's something valuable, but who will give that value? We have value. You know when, when the big, the big company like Microsoft, will start to have that it, or they will come here with that it, or they will stay in that com. You know it's, it's. It's a philosophy, philosophical question, but it's very interesting where, where, where the market of, of domain will, will grow and will grow, because I saw a lot of domain on that art, that AI. Of course, it's kind of too much maybe.

Speaker 2: 29:55

Yeah, like I said there, there are definitely a lot of choices out there. There are certainly some that the market is always has already shown that there's value in. So, again, different ways to invest. You know, obviously it's an educational platform focused mainly on, you know, web three, digital identity, certainly bullish in the direction that it is being developed. Obviously, everything speculative, right, we, they work in the way that they work now. It's purely speculative how they will work in the future. But what we're here to do in the meantime is is educate, to encourage people to build, to connect people to those builders. So that's, you know, the space grows, that value continues to be grown and and communicated to the communities and you can make those kind of decisions. And, yeah, we're, we're actually about to. Yeah, we spent a good amount of time on the opening news, going to shift a little bit, or shift now into the main subject. Want to make sure you can hear me though, chris. I know we lost you a little bit. You there with us.

Speaker 3: 30:54

Yeah, I'm here. X is really acting really strange today, like I had to go through. Yeah. Back up here.

Speaker 2: 31:02

Now all good, all good, glad to have you back. Hopefully we get page back into wanting to get his input as well. But yeah, again want to remind everybody that's in the space. Two things First is, please like and retweet if you haven't already done so already. Welcome to the I heart domains ticked off. Also got some stuff pinned up at the top that I'm going to go over and, yeah, we're going to go ahead and get started. If anyone does have any questions or one of our press and speak roll, please feel free to do so and I will add you on up. And yeah, let's get to the topic at hand. And actually it probably wasn't going to take me long to get through this, but wanted to follow up with a new year's space, kind of from the last space. So the last space I think I did was coming into the New Year's and some of the direction.

Speaker 2: 31:52

I hinted at the direction that we were going to go in and I wanted to be more specific, now that we are on the other side of the year, at some of the initiatives that we're going to be embarking on, kind of outside of what has been the normal course of business last year. So so, one of the kind of itemized, those hints for the title of the years plans more adoption. Before I get into it, do want to introduce my co-host. We've got Chris Namertips on stage. Please introduce yourself and say hi once again, hello everyone once again, welcome to 2024.

Speaker 3: 32:27

Thank you for joining us in the first tech talk of what is shaping up to be a phenomenal year. I'm Chris. I am the strategy director for Namertips, as you always hear me say. I have the wonderful pleasure of being a part of these tech talks, learning, sharing the information that I have on this side and just taking in the camaraderie and the community that's being built here and hoping that you all you know get value and you all take it out there, and we built this thing out together.

Speaker 2: 32:57

Yes, sir, and, as always, glad to have you on extremely proud, proud and glad to have you on the first space of the year, starting it off right. Wouldn't have it any other way. Thank you for all that you gave us last year. If you guys aren't already following Namertips, please do so. Please also stay tuned for all Namertips has coming out this year, very much looking forward to what you guys have had developing. So, yeah, let's all stay connected. And, with that being said, that's kind of so I've hit into it before.

Speaker 2: 33:34

I call last year kind of the period of getting my peers to understand our purpose. So last year was about building the foundation for I heart domains. For those who don't know, I officially launched launch to the public November 5th of 2000. November 5th of not last year, that was just like a month ago, the year before that. So what is that? 2022 getting mixed up now? It kind of conceptualized in September but been around for roughly a little over a year.

Speaker 2: 34:05

So last year was the first calendar year, right, and during this calendar year made a substantial headway in connecting with building, relations with building, with meeting in person, all kinds of things with builders, platforms, entities in this space, and that was really the goal of last year was to create a foundation, get people to understand, you know, the purpose of my platform connect, begin to create that content and set the stage for what's coming next, which is, you know, ultimate what the purpose of all this is? Right, there's digital identity needs adoption, digital identity needs users. When we talk about digital identity, where we most of us, you know the visionaries are talking about it in a way that's bigger than just Web 3 and trading crypto and NFTs, like we talk about how it can empower the everyday user. So you know how if the everyday user doesn't know anything about digital ID. So this year, you know, now that we've connected with several people, that I feel will help and definitely, you know, benefit others on this journey of adopting people, and I look forward to building with them and helping highlight them as well.

Speaker 2: 35:20

But the purpose of this year now is to start doing that right. So, create some initiatives to bring in normal, everyday people and obviously, like I said, these initiatives are, even though they are part of what I heart domains is they're going to be kind of outside of the box, because people who are outside of the bubble, the marketing that comes from outside of the box. So I wanted to talk about what a couple of those things are, and all these things currently exist. So if you're not already a part of our community, this is going to be a refresher as well and an invitation for you to join our community or interact with some of these things if they benefit you. Before I go into it, just wanted to give anybody a chance to ask any questions.

Speaker 3: 36:03

No, no you know what, if I may, you touched a little bit on and this is not to pull the conversation back, but you know you touched a little bit on like what the goal was for 2023.

Speaker 3: 36:17

And I just want to reiterate that.

Speaker 3: 36:19

You know myself, the team that I work with, to have the privilege of listening back to these spaces.

Speaker 3: 36:26

I'm pretty sure that everyone that tunes in is they have immense confidence in what's going to be achieved by our I heart domains and everyone and every entity that I heart partners with, based on what was achieved in that last year right, we would not stop, have had an opportunity to contribute and bring value and, you know, help paint the bigger picture for what the blockchain and digital identity narrative is going to be in the future.

Speaker 3: 36:55

So I just wanted to leave that there, because I know that you're getting ready to roll on into what's coming and what people can expect, and I think that it's important for everyone to just take that moment and digest the fact that there was a lot that did unfold in 2023. A lot of positive and you know, I just want to tip my hat to you again for just remaining dedicated to it and those individuals that work with you on your side making that possible, and thank you for everyone that has joined these spaces and provided room for this dialogue to be had. And now, here we are, getting ready to hear what's coming up for 2024, and I'm excited. I'm pretty sure everyone else is.

Speaker 2: 37:35

Yeah, I'm excited as well, then and again, this is just the beginning. I know this is nerd stuff, but I do anticipate a day where we have thousands or tens of thousands of people in the space, that the fulfillment of the utility and what do you call it? The not financially. I'm not trying to say that we're the prosperity that it can bring to people when people start to, when that fulfillment starts coming true and people really start to get this and it's going to come in different ways, right, and some of those ways I'm going to talk about, some of those ways that people are going to end up adopting this.

Speaker 2: 38:12

It can't look like this, right, and so kind of itemizing the initiative, and I'm going to itemize it at first, then I'm going to kind of go through it and if you guys want to reference to the top, one of the announcements that I recently just made and I and I actually pen to the top of the profile is an initiative that I that I've, you know, dropped hints and some samples about, but that is nerd merch. So I'm going to go into that and make that make a whole lot of sense for everybody.

Speaker 2: 38:41

Also, I'm going to, I'm going to touch on the I heart domains but, right the, the purpose that it serves currently and where I'm developing it to be, and the purpose that I think it'll serve in the greater good of adoption. I'm going to reference and invite you guys to join my telegram community if you haven't already done so, and then I'm going to talk about some of the other initiatives and partnerships that you know we're making and cultivating outside of just the identity space. But you know, on the prosperity side, you know as as we come into you know the bull market and have a lot of opportunities start to pop up. I heart domains, you know instantly enough, because I'm good at creating content and considered a kol by certain people, which means we do get opportunities to to participate or and get access to things that I can pass on to our community. So there are community benefits via those things that we plan on offering and and actually gonna kind of making a lot more organized with the telegram group. So I want to get into that as well.

Speaker 2: 39:43

But starting with narrative, much okay. So I personally love fashion and I think fashion has a way of subtly putting a narrative out there without people knowing that they're doing it like case of point. I'm literally sitting here having the space wearing my dot hip hop shirt and if I need to go get some groceries, I'm clean, so I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna go grocery shopping wearing this shirt. Everyone is going to continuously see this and I'm non-swantly just wearing this around, right, it's not a bad shirt. I love that it says hip hop, and I wanted to create something along that lines. Like that inspired me. If, if, in order to get people to start getting used to some of the things that we're putting out here, or at least make it look cool enough for people to not think it's weird, right? Um, what's the easiest way to communicate with them? Right, and that's something stylish, something as easy as a t-shirt. I had people wear these things all the time, right, and so that that's what inspired the concept of nerd merch, and there there's more to it than just getting people to buy t-shirts with cool sayings and stuff on them.

Speaker 2: 40:55

And to give you a, before I get into that, let me describe to you what nerd merch is. So nerd merch and you can get to it by either going to nerd merchxyz or nerd merchcfd. It's a print on demand store that I set up that has designs quick and easy designs that I made. It's meant to be casual fashion, with with web three and digital id references on it. So basically, subtle advertising, subtle, you know, subtle promotion of technology, hence for nerd merch very cheap to buy. So it's not something meant to be super serious. But it allows me to talk about something else. When I'm in front of people, it allows me to engage with people in a different way, idly, fashion, and one of the perks of nerd merch, or one of the benefits of nerd merch, is that if you any order, or every single order, actually will come with a credit to redeem for a free domain name, now go for it, chris.

Speaker 3: 41:56

I was just going to ask a question that I already know the answer to, but I think everyone else should know the answer to why did you choose to use dot cfd for the website address?

Speaker 2: 42:07

and that is also a hundred percent on purpose. Again, we all have the opportunity that we're building to create narratives, to help develop narratives, especially when we're in a very, extremely open minded world. So cfd is a web 2 domain extension in several spaces. We've talked a lot about different web 2 extensions. I think there's over a thousand of them that exist out there that are going to come into very much use because communities identify with.

Speaker 2: 42:38

Cfd literally stands for clothing, fashion and design. So what a perfect domain and perfect extension to base a, you know, clothing design business on right. And it also gives me the opportunity, when I'm explaining to people where to go, to also explain to them what cfd means. Therefore, you know kind of in, in essence, what he called it a indirectly promoting the use of domain names for digital identity, the whole narrative thing, everything you know. This is all. All of this is meant to to create and inspire these conversations so that people can understand the why of why we're doing these things and what exists, so that they can practice or so that they can get inspired to make the same steps and enter in the same way exactly and you know what's going to happen.

Speaker 3: 43:23

You're that's going to really, really strengthen your branding because when you give individuals nerd merch dot cfd, they're going to sit there and they're going to remember that cfd because they're going to say cfd and you're going to say, yeah, clothing, fashion and design. And they're going to say, oh, it makes sense and is the aha moment. And then you know what they're going to do they're going to go ahead and purchase them some nerd merch because they're thankful that you educated them.

Speaker 2: 43:48

They learned something in that snap of a second yes, sir, I'm hoping so and so and that's the, the second part of the nerd merch thing that, uh, I wanted to explain and that's referenced there. Uh, and what we have pinned on our page is, like I said, it's an initiative, so it's it's. I'm not simply hoping people will find nerd merch and and get it there. There is going to be an entire campaign behind it and I figured probably the most effective campaign and the easiest way to make something cool amongst anybody, or at least get the general public to pay attention to it, um, it is to communicate to them through somebody who would influence them. I mean influencers, um. So the irl yeah, we're going to do an irl debut, the irl debut of not only the physical nerd merch but also the concept of it and the naming that comes with it and that whole narrative. Uh, it's going to happen, uh, live in, la, during the grammy, uh, during the grammy awards. So so during that whole week, um, we have access and presence and a an exclusive, luxury celebrity suite. Pretty much all of the nominees, uh, both past and present superstars, will be in that suite. It is, um, a very intimate engagement. I am very lucky to have those connections coming from being a formally being a celebrity fashion designer, um, and so, yeah, I'm going to make this debut in the biggest way.

Speaker 2: 45:18

Um, again, thinking outside the box. Um, I think is is is going to be the best way, or I think is going to be the most effective way, to start getting more people in this ecosystem moving forward. I see we've got page back on. Before I lose you, I wanted to say hi, how you doing? Sir, please tell me your speaker words and it doesn't. We lost them again. Uh, yeah, before I keep going, uh, yeah, anything you want to chime in on that?

Speaker 3: 45:55

yeah, again. Yeah, this is all right. We start off strong, but x apparently isn't right yeah, it's having some issues, right.

Speaker 2: 46:10

Yeah, are you, are you able to hear me? Uh, if you guys in throwing emoji, if you ever hear me, I don't even know if I'm connecting directly. Yeah, can you hear me? Yes, sir, okay, perfect. So yeah, um, continuing on and hopefully page can make it back up, uh but, yeah, so, uh, the the plan is, here we go. Let's see if we can get him back. Can you hear me, page there we go, I guess.

Speaker 4: 46:37

Uh, if I have tool two streams going through my wi-fi, it doesn't work. I heart domains. I wanted a drum roll. I wanted a da da dum dum in real life. Merch, I love it, man. I just I gotta tell you this is where we need to be. This is where you're taking us. You made a comment on an earlier show my business, how did you say it? The business of my business is building this business, or something like that.

Speaker 4: 47:09

But uh, some like that just couldn't be more excited about if we really believe what we have is cool and special. You know there's a kid's gospel song. Hide it under a bushel. No, tell everybody about it. And I just love what you're doing that says this is cool, this is fun.

Speaker 4: 47:28

This isn't uh, selective information to get you to rug pool and give your money to a wallet that no one's ever heard of. This is real stuff. You know, and and I just wanted to encourage uh, you know what you're doing at the grammy's, uh. You know what you're doing on these shows, uh, and then I have uh. And then I have a uh, a question for you about the three dns. That I could do at any time, but I just, more than anything, wanted to give the the respect to what you're doing in real life with the merch. Thank you for using the cfd.

Speaker 4: 48:07

Um, it is merch, it is real and what I've been. This is my, my big uh announcement here. I don't know how we're gonna do it, but you know you look at a football game, as we saw over the weekend, and you look at everyone sitting in the stands wearing the jerseys for their teams and are you telling me that the crypto fans and the nft fans out there don't have the same passion for their project and they wouldn't want to sit there and wear their stuff and say to everybody this is who I am and this is what I want to be. So you know? I just think that in real life, real world assets, with still the crypto spend and the digital identity, couldn't be more excited this is, sir.

Speaker 2: 48:56

Yes, sir, thank you very much. Also. Um, uh, I I do want to give a big shout out and and a thank you to free name, who's actually sponsoring um, the this showing out here at the granny. It says a lot about them. It says a lot about them believing in this vision and them also, you know, understanding, like I said, the need to go outside the box. Um them participating in helping sponsor to actually adds a lot of value. Um, in addition to them being exposed to the nerd merch, um, we're also going to be directly, you know, trying to onboard these a list celebrities, uh, into web3 digital identity, right there on the spot. Um, so hope to make a lot of great progress and also to use their influence to bring you know, their fans and their community on board as well. You know, people listen to influencers before they listen to a nerd. So we'll get to them to the way we get to them, the way we get to them right love it absolutely.

Speaker 3: 49:59

Yes, sir, yes sir, you're back with us, chris yes, yes, I guess I guess I flipped the coin on on the incorrect side this space, because I've dropped down too many times. But I'm back, I'm, I'm persisted, right yes, sir, uh.

Speaker 2: 50:15

So yeah, just to remind everybody, um, if you do like the nerd merch again, uh, it's all put on the man, very easy to order. Each one does come with a credit for you to redeem for either a dot defi wallet or a dot exchange domain name. Um, so, yeah, uh, looking forward to continue to expand that. Uh, again, this is in our initial stages. Um, as we continue to expand and continue to grow, um, you know, hey, I'll add more to it, I'll do more with it. We'll continue to grow it.

Speaker 2: 50:42

Fashion is my thing, so I look forward to making this a lot bigger and using this is a big tool, like I said, to onboard people. My vision is, like I said, regular, everyday people see us saying that they like get a t-shirt just because it looks cool, get a wet through the main with it, tell a friend that they got this cool thing free with their t-shirt, watch, wrench and repeat and get everybody to continue doing it until we get the whole world on board. I know it's a big vision, but it's got to start somewhere and that is one of the ways that we are going to help push the space forward and another way that we're going to get into. I think I said I atomized what we're going to get into. I've posted about this a million times and I see people interacting with it, so I'm super glad that everyone is hearing it. I wanted to go a little bit more in detail about it, though, and that is the I Heart Demand bought.

Speaker 2: 51:34

So the second initiative you know, in addition to onboarding people, like I said, with fashion, indirectly is also to onboard people with education. So, this last year, you know been using our spaces and you know doing the best we can to educate, but as AI is starting to really become a powerful force, there's an opportunity to create, you know, educational tools that people can use on their own time and on their own pace, and so, you know, being the innovative soul that I am, I took the liberty of already creating such, which is the I Heart Demand stopped by, one of the things that I wanted to clarify for everybody, because some people may be saying that it's called the I Heart Demand stopped by and think that the bot has an agenda other than educating.

Speaker 2: 52:23

I do want to clarify that my bot is a neutral bot, that is meant to educate with all of the information that I've gathered from around the space and from builders and through my interaction with people all across this web through digital identity space. So I believe that it probably gives the most well-rounded, neutral and guided advice of any AI bot out there, and that's the purpose that it serves. It literally is there for everyone. It's meant to serve as a self-directed educational tool and before I get started, I want to see if anybody had any blame put, because I'm going to go in a little bit by talking about this bot and kind of what I think it'll do for the space or any bot for that matter.

Speaker 3: 53:11

You know, go for it.

Speaker 3: 53:13

No the bot, the bot. I really think that we definitely need to touch on this particular subject, because one all we're going to learn very soon that all bots are not created equal. There are bots, and then there are bots that provide benefit, and so what you're getting ready to do is break down a bot that offers benefit, and I am interested in you diving deeper into that, because I think anyone who's even thinking that this is something that should just be swept under the rug I think that they'll be quickly they'll quickly come to the realization that what's being offered here is not just another offering. It's actually one that is going to help streamline their ability to get a firm or grasp on the digital identity space and where everything is going, and hopefully be better positioned for what's the impending shift that we're getting ready to see.

Speaker 2: 54:09

Yeah, impending shift, is it right? So in this time we're talking about earlier, about the space now becoming bullish on AI domains, a thing is happening, not only a trend per se, but a shift in technological culture. The way things are going to be done is going to be extremely different, and it will 100% include AI. Ai isn't just a thing that you can use to make cool pictures or ask questions to. Ai is something that you can use to actually assist and educate you and take over tasks that you either don't know how to do or take up a whole bunch of your time. It makes you more efficient.

Speaker 2: 54:51

With that being said, the iHeartDemain's bot is set up or designed to do exactly just that. So, at its face, it's meant to serve as a greeting for people who are coming to a page to my page for the first time, that wants to simply ask a question about what it is they're looking at while they're on the page. What are Web3Demain's? So let me start off with that. So to access the iHeartDemain's bot, it's super simple. You can either go to web3demainai, which takes you straight to the telegram version of the bot and, by the way, these bots are the. You can access it that way or just by going to iHeartDemaincom and it'll pop at the bottom as a chat bubble. And now I'm going to say both of those bots are connected via API, so it's the same bot, coming from the same knowledge base that I'm continuously updating and training and doing all that stuff. So two ways to access it. But that's first and foremost the purpose it's meant to serve. Is first person or inquisitive soul ending up on the site for the first time, they see the bot from the bot that greets them and says I am the iHeartDemain's bot. You can ask me a question about anything, go for it. And it's meant to first start that initial conversation right.

Speaker 2: 56:04

So, as a tool as it currently exists right now, any level of domain, or whether you're fresh to the space, or whether you're experienced with a whole portfolio ofcomses or whatever it is, you can engage with this bot to learn about other platforms, to learn about what you already have, to educate you, to advise you. Again, not financial advice, but it will advise you in order to help guide you towards decisions that you can make on your own. You give what I'm saying, but it serves that purpose. Currently, the way I want to continue to develop it is eventually to be an agent that you'll be able to continue to use, to even actually mint the main straight from there. And AI agents are extremely powerful and it takes a lot of development. But I'm going to figure out if you can incorporate, like I said, different APIs. There's a lot that could be done with them.

Speaker 2: 56:58

So I'm saying all that to say that I want, if you're not already using or haven't already interacted with the iHeartDemain's bot, I want to encourage anybody that has any basic question or any question that you want to challenge the bot with, to go play with it. That does two things A, it'll allow you to see how powerful and smart the bot actually already is. B, it'll allow me to continuously optimize that bot so that it becomes smarter for the next person, because AI also doesn't learn and teach itself. Currently, I think I've also I've showed a nametag. We have over 3 million characters of data imported into this bot to serve as part of its knowledge base. It also is taking every single word that I say from every one of my tech talks and it is essentially learning how to be me, to think like me, to be as open minded and to give the advice in the same way that I would.

Speaker 2: 57:53

So definitely an extremely powerful tool. Again, going to continue to develop and build it. Two easy ways to use it. If you have questions about ENS domain, hns domains, you'd be surprised at what this bot can teach you how to do. So, yeah, encourage anybody who haven't already used it to do so. Two ways to give to it Go through domainsai or iHeartDomainsbot or iHeartDomainscom.

Speaker 3: 58:17

You know what you know. I'm going to get behind you on that, because you talked about training the bot to be the equivalent of you when it comes to the information in the alpha, and anybody who has been attending these spaces knows that you are exceptional at what it is that you do. So having a bot that is providing a more streamlined version of that 24-7,. Okay, it makes sense. I see where all of this is going. Now I'm going to ask you this question Do you have any plans to have it where the bot issues maybe coupon codes to register domains or anything of that nature?

Speaker 2: 59:03

100%, and that's I'm glad you said that, because as we continue to develop the bot, as AI continues to, grow yeah, all of those things will eventually anything and everything that helps with onboarding the community and consumer experience, the investor experience.

Speaker 2: 59:26

That's what this bot will serve to do or is being trained or developed to do, and it is always going to be trained and developed to do that in the capacity that a person wants to engage with it in a neutral manner, and I hope I'm saying that the right way.

Speaker 2: 59:42

But I really do want to emphasize that I don't want to take anything away from any tools anyone else is building, and those tools are absolutely necessary. When you go to a particular platform's website or go to a particular platform's community, you do want to engage with a bot that is an expert in that particular community, and so that certainly has relevance. But when it comes to people who are looking at investing in the entire space, in the general space, who want to have a broader outlook or who want to be educated in a more diverse way, that's what the purpose of our bot stands for. I heart domains is not only the name of my platform, but it's also the culture of my community. It's also the ethos of our community is I heart all domains. It's the type of collectors and investors that we want to continue to educate and cultivate, or people that want to look at the entire ecosystem and have to benefit the world as all Go for it.

Speaker 3: 1:00:47

No, I love the fact that you talked about creating a neutral bot, because, don't get me wrong, like you said, there's going to be bots that serve their purpose for specific subjects, but I think that is really too early in the game to have bots that resemble or convey the maxi mentality. I love that. The way that you're approaching this is to ensure that people have access to as much information as possible so that they can make informed decisions, because the thing is is that it's not really an informed decision if people only know what's happening within the bubble or within a particular ecosystem. It doesn't take away from what's happening in other ecosystems. But I think the biggest benefit that we can provide at this stage of the space is to ensure that the people who are coming in know what options they have and they know where to look and then they know what to take from these situations. So I want to commend you and say congratulations on launching the bot.

Speaker 3: 1:01:51

I know you've referenced it a few times in 2023, but it really takes on a different meaning now that we're in 2024 and we really have to focus on okay, where is this information and this education coming from? And here it is. I heart strikes again by saying hey, listen, we have this bot, it's neutral, you can access it 24-7. You can access it two ways you can hit it through the telegram or you can hit it through the website. So you're reaching people where they are and the information, the data set that you've outlined, that you've trained it with, ensures that people are going to go ahead and get adequate responses and not just the typical ABC and D based on data that was grabbed from the internet. So, yeah, congratulations on that.

Speaker 2: 1:02:38

Thanks sir. The reason why I attached the Web3Demandai to it is that hopefully one day that it gets indexed and starts being able to catch some of this lost traffic that may actually be looking for information on Web3Demand but again, maybe hitting a roadblock because it can't talk to a person or don't know how to join that community. Well, if they end up on the bot, they can just talk to it and hopefully get a guide them where they need to go. So go for it, paige.

Speaker 4: 1:03:07

Yeah, and at a minimum, functionally. I don't believe you have a disclaimer that says I can only provide information after November 2022, like chat, gpt does, and imagine if you tried to invest in fast moving industries with outdated information. So I think Namer nailed that one, but just the fact that your information can be updated, currently both for new things as well as perspective and analytical you know saying, you know talking about things over time so I really just think, even just from a base functionality being updated is a great reason to have your bot, so way to go.

Speaker 2: 1:03:54

Yeah, sir, yes, sir, thank you.

Speaker 2: 1:03:56

Yeah, I put a lot.

Speaker 2: 1:03:57

I put a lot into this bot and I don't really know what I'm doing yet, and so I definitely look forward to I'm going to end up bringing some more people on some devs to bring a lot to a lot of functionality to this.

Speaker 2: 1:04:09

Like I said, I'm pretty deeply now immersed in like learning about AI and different models that are coming out. Like I said, the agents of what they can do and I have some great ideas about it could be applied to this bot and again be used as a resource to not only guide people who are just coming into the space to looking where to go first. But, mind you, I am really trying to build this as a powerful tool for people who are already in this space, whether you're a seasoned demand or an unit advisor, to help you figure out what to do with your current portfolio. Like you said, to help you give, to help give you use cases for domains. It can already do that, so you can go into it now and type in a domain name and ask it to give you a use case and it'll come up with some things you didn't even know. It make you more bullish on your own name. So things like that to be used as a tool for all the mainers.

Speaker 3: 1:04:58

So definitely so it's like a consultant.

Speaker 2: 1:05:02

Absolutely sir. Okay, it's an assistant. There you go.

Speaker 3: 1:05:07

It's an assistant.

Speaker 4: 1:05:09

I'm with you. Hey, ding ding ding, just had a name cell. Ding ding ding. You did right after Nick a little $949.

Speaker 4: 1:05:19

visit palace Verdes, dad cam Okay sir, Congrats and I brought a lot of my names down to the 499 to 949, just because, hey, would I take it? Yes, so if I take it, I might as well show it. I know there's another school of thought. And if you're a part-time hobbyist Domainer and you're after the biggest price, go make offer. You know, if you would have caught someone interested in visit palace Verdes, you might have been able to get four, six thousand maybe, or something you know I mean, but I need money every month so I price them to sell. So yeah, so anyway, nice start of the year with after Nick, if I can do about About about three thousand a week. That's my goal. So nice to get a thousand done today.

Speaker 3: 1:06:14

Congratulations.

Speaker 2: 1:06:16

That is super solid, actually, kind of leads into to one of the well, and I could keep going with with some of the initiatives that we're gonna go, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna stop at the last one but also having access to that type of expertise and and and even if you're even if you're not able to get it formally, even getting it, you know, by listening to, to the advice or listening to the wisdom from people like Paige and and Namer tips in these spaces. This is all part of the benefit of being a part of this community, right, cuz this? You know, everybody doesn't get to listen to it. You, a lot of people are out there flying blind. So one of the last initiative and it's an initiative, that's, that's how we started the platform I heart domain says always had a telegram community, a Telegram community for pretty much anybody who wants to come and learn about went through digital identity.

Speaker 2: 1:07:10

A Lot of the people that are in that telegram community initially followed me from, from, I guess, the DGN, nft, defi space, and so a lot of those people still remain. The community itself really does serve as a catch-all for all the marketing that we do. We typically funnel people into the community and up till I want to say about a few months ago Would incentivize people for being active into it, kind of gone through a mental roller coaster about closing the community and Building it out and doing several things with it and ultimately decided that more than ever it's more important to have that telegram community in regardless of who's in it, to create a platform for people Not only to do what they can do currently, which is learn about what you demand, but even encourage what may ultimately get them to adopt them in the first place.

Speaker 2: 1:08:05

So I Think oftentimes when we're having a conversation about what three domains, or digital identity, it's a very assumption conversation and that is, we assume that if we tell people about what it is, that it's a dot, easy, you can use it to interact on the blockchain, blah, blah, blah, and that if that person has some small interest in blockchain, that it will automatically make them see the value and run and want to get it. And that's not necessarily happening. A lot of people are adopted by accident, right, they they don't know that they need something until they're knee deep into that thing and then need that thing.

Speaker 2: 1:08:43

Right, or Me deep into something and then need or come across that thing, and I think for a lot of people that adoption is going to come from way out sources that aren't directly related to digital ID, meaning some people are going to end up on the blockchain, just like the the last bull run, I would say the majority of the people I probably talked to ended up on the blockchain and a web 3 and Probably have their web 3 digital ID right now because of buying pictures on the internet. Like that's literally what it took to get these people in the tech. And this next run could be anything right. It could be social 5, it could be airdrop season, it could be any of those things that get people to rapidly amass adopters. We come into this bull run and then, once they're in the space, it's a lot easier to communicate to those people that now you need a web through domain name, especially if I fostered a community where it may not even cost of anything to get it. So, with that being said, my telegram community is not only for that, but we will also Create an incubate, basically those outside sources that may perhaps bring people in. So, with that being said, I think I mentioned earlier, you know, being being considered a KOL by a lot of different entities does give me access to whitelist opportunities, token opportunities, all kinds of things, so I'm going to be sharing those with our community.

Speaker 2: 1:10:04

If you have already, or if you're already a part of the telegram, you will see I think a few days ago that I developed sections for it, so it is now sectioned out. There's a section not only for general chat, but there is a section for shilling your domains, so if you have either web 3 or web 2 domains, you can share them in there. And again, you know, as people begin to engage with it, as we continue to drive people into it, those are people who are going to see your domains and you'll be able to converse about them. But also, as you will see, there is a DYOR Alpha channel and that is a channel where we'll be sharing a lot of these Opportunities and plays that come exclusive to the community. And again, some of these are extremely degenous. So enter at your own will.

Speaker 2: 1:10:49

But it is a part of creating a bigger Community, or at least a community that will attract an audience outside of the bubble. And that is again, it's an initiative. It's meant to be outside of the box on purpose. It's something that I love, that I came into the space with. It's something that I can easily connect and bring people in the community with. So for those of you who may be looking for not only, you know, education and guidance on digital ID, but also, you know, want to stay on time or stay on top of you know opportunities that exist in the Web 3 and D5 space, there's an invitation for you to join the community that.

Speaker 3: 1:11:30

Also, I love the fact that you're unapologetically Expanding, right this idea that just because Somehow everyone else benefits you know a lot of people they get lost in that and so they don't maximize the potential Whatever it is that they're investing in, because they're hogging the information or they're unwilling to share. So in this case, what you're doing is that, not only just with the spaces, but through the telegram and then the section channels, you're making your your. You have this wealth of information that you provide Every Wednesday, right in collaboration with the folks who graciously share their time to have the AMAs and talk about what's coming up in the future. But you're taking it and you're sectioning it off and making it ever more digestible so that people can understand whether they're inside or outside of the bubble, that this just doesn't have to be a one funnel. You know access point, like there can be variations of Information that you receive when you want to receive them, because in this one space, what you've referenced is not only you've alluded to In 2024, we're going to continue with the spaces, the alpha, the AMAs and so on and so forth.

Speaker 3: 1:12:46

Then you've referenced the AI bot Right, where you can go ahead and get 24 7 access to the information, it's automated as accurate, it's updated frequently.

Speaker 3: 1:12:56

Then you can shoot over to the telegram if that's your style, if you, if you want to go ahead and text, you'd like to go ahead and get immersed in in the mobile setting, so to speak, you can Do so.

Speaker 3: 1:13:06

But you don't have to go here and trade off the value that you get from the spaces or from the bot, because there are channels that are Dedicated to the things that you want to know about and you can move in between those channels. And there's opportunities there, like when you talked about the page where, whether you have, or the section of the telegram where, whether you have, web 2 or web 3 domains, you can go ahead and you can talk about those domains there, you can advertise them, and that's really important because for everyone in the space that has names, you can never have too much exposure, especially coming through a Channel that you know for a fact is a valid and and reputable source for web 3 and Blockchain digital identity information. So this this definitely shouldn't go under the under the bridge, because if it does, you'll find yourself a bit confused and you don't have to be, so take advantage of it.

Speaker 2: 1:14:02

Yeah, also as kind of what you call it a secret hand or whatever. Don't sleep on that domain shield channel. I'm not announcing it during this space, but very soon I'm gonna announce another community resource that is going to directly benefit anybody with with good domain names that are looking for a new market for them.

Speaker 2: 1:14:23

So stay tuned for that too a lot of things that I have planned and, again, because I like to keep our spaces, you know, kind of digestible and keep it to a certain amount.

Speaker 2: 1:14:33

I could literally ramble all day about the ideas and things that I already have in place, that are being built out for the platform, but, trust me, there is a whole lot of it, you know, and and I look forward to showing as we always have, improving as we always have and building as we always have, and making those ideas come to fruition. Like, said, like, like we've been talking about, you know, with the, with the greater community, in the onboarding. I have a lot of relationships with a lot of different people that are outside of the way through the main space and those people are also receptive to hearing about it. So I'm gonna do the best I can to To bring people from all sides of the space With what interests them, so that then, you know, they'll be more receptive to the opportunity that exists with meeting the name. But you got to need it first, right? So, yeah, go boy.

Speaker 3: 1:15:27

No, no, no, I was getting ready to say exactly you do have to get a man. I want to say thank you to you. You know thank you to you as well, because you know it's not it's not the most glamorous work, but it's it's the more impactful work. So you know the fact that you are constantly thinking of broader ways to bring folks in and not just assuming that, because you have this single channel, you're gonna say what you're gonna say and that's gonna be it. You know, and everyone is supposed to extract value from that. You're giving them Multiple lanes through which they can go ahead and travel to extract the value, and I think that that really, really means a lot. I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 2: 1:16:05

Yes, sir, sir, and we will make it all make sense. Also, as an ad of incentive I think I mentioned earlier in telegram, community used to be incentivized. It is now re-incentivized. So all you have to do is simply be active. We do have an airdrop bot that I trigger off every day that sends out a little bit of cake to sweeten up your day for being active and talking about whatever. Hopefully more so went through to mainstream again. As you see, cake actually rose up quite a bit from the bull run when I are from the bear.

Speaker 2: 1:16:36

Earlier last year, when I first started air dropping this, though you know those people did well and yeah, we're gonna transition also to the hay wallet bot. I think I have some links posted in the group. So there's airdrops and things coming back. Also have been doing onboarding through quest in and through the three, so if you come through via those means, you already know that we have quests constantly out for monetary rewards. So if you're somebody that wants to the airdrop or warm farm reward farm, come to our platform to learn about the existing campaigns. Also, if you participate in any of our quest in or link three campaigns, you do receive a Poe app each time you do so those co-apps if you get five of them, are also redeemable for a win three the main. So all rows lead back to owning your identity.

Speaker 2: 1:17:24

That is the goal for 2024. It is basically to trick the world into wanting their digital ID and and I'm saying that joke only obviously I want you to want it, but we, we will educate you and get it exposed to you by any means necessary. That is, that is the part that I intend to play. Like I said, there's a Responsibility that has to be accepted when you call yourself something, and that's the responsibility that I've accepted. So Do what. I tend to think outside the box to get it done. I encourage everyone else to do the same. If you want to partner with doing it, my doors open to have those conversations. I'm all about big a building, growing and getting adoption. Wanted to go back to either Uncle Nader named to see if you guys have anything else to say. Like, say, we're coming to Write about the time that I like to close the space. So if you guys have any last words, go for it.

Speaker 3: 1:18:16

Well, I'm just gonna go ahead and, you know, say that all of the greatness that you shared and all of that that you Haven't disclosed it comes as no surprise because, you know, anyone who has really been in this space to to help build it out knows that the the genuine individuals, are gonna be around and so, being an educator, understand that. You know what you're bringing to the table right now and you know what you and the I heart domains team as a whole are Bringing to the table right now is something that's very much needed, even on the name or tip side. You know, less talking and more rollouts. 2024 is gonna be exciting. So congratulations to you guys for making it this far and Congratulations on everything that's coming. What you shared was awesome.

Speaker 2: 1:19:04

Thank you, sir and definitely look forward to building together and and look forward to your rollouts as well, so we can help do our part to amplify it in the way that we can again building together. All of us have our part to play Individually and then we have our part to play collectively by supporting each other. Uncle Nate got any last words for us, sir, there.

Speaker 5: 1:19:30

I don't, I don't really. I was just trying to find my Twitter here. I'm uh, I'm Up to my eyeballs here, but no, I mean, this is the Very. I'm glad to hear this. I mean, we kind of talked about Partnering and various different education things last year, so I'm I'm excited to know that this year there's even more energy and more momentum and More awesome people involved and stuff. So I'm, I'm psyched, I'm very bullish.

Speaker 2: 1:19:58

Yes, sir, yes sir, and we've got some big partnerships that I can't wait to announce. So, yeah, a lot of building. Also, just to remind everybody that these spaces, including this space, is recorded so you can listen back to it here on Twitter or on our website in about a day or so, at I heart domains calm, it'll also be available from the podcast one. Our first AMA of the year is actually going to be on the eighth, which is Monday, with none other than had died with 1W3.

Speaker 2: 1:20:31

So he's been on a lot of spaces lately. For all of you who have been Curious about what 1W3 is, how you can use it to build a decentralized website, I'm actually extremely excited to finally get him on and walk everybody through that. I mean, people are live and building awesome websites, like right now. So, yeah, please tune in if you've got dot each name or any name that you've been looking for a website on the floor. So that's exciting for that first one. And then again, like I said, we've got Some big partnerships that can't wait to announce. Gonna be some big spaces with some big industry players again Thinking outside of the box. Gonna be talking with people that are ecosystem partners and builders, the people who will be building the tech. Essentially, that will bring the people in. That will then be a digital ID.

Speaker 2: 1:21:18

So thank you guys for all being with me on this journey in 2023. I look forward to you guys all being here for the journey in 2024. I look forward to giving you so much value. I hope all of you are able to capitalize on it. If you don't already have your digital ID, my goal this year is to get it in the hands of everybody that I touch. So, yeah, feel free. Please join our community, join name or tips and, yeah, look forward. Our next space also is gonna be that one that's on the eighth, so that will be. Our next space is on Monday with Hagaia for 1W3 and, with that being said, thank you guys for attending another I heart domains tech talk. I hope you have a blessed rest of the week and look forward to seeing you guys and learning more about how to build and grow. And let through to main space.