Charting the Future of Decentralized Online Identity with DecentraWeb

Prepare to unlock the secrets of the decentralized web as we sit down with Michael Calce, better known as Mafia Boy, CEO of DecentraWeb. This episode is a treasure trove of insight, revealing how the advancements in Web3 technology are not only redefining digital identities but also hold the key to enhancing mental wellness for children. We traverse Michael's riveting journey from chairing Hewitt Packard's security advisory board to co-founding DecentraWeb alongside Adam Barlam. Hear how DecentraWeb is distinguishing itself in the domain and Web3 identity space with its unique DAO setup and staking mechanics, carving out a competitive edge against the likes of Unstoppable, Handshake, and ENS.

Get ready to explore the empowering philosophy of DecentraWeb, where users can wield control over their digital assets and private keys. This episode delves into the spirit of decentralization, discussing updates that are reshaping user experience and expanding community involvement. From discussing the development of user-hosted nodes to the new chat solution, DecentraChat aka DChat, we highlight the power of decentralized applications in social and corporate environments. Developers, too, will find their curiosity piqued by the DecentraWeb SDK, which throws the doors wide open for innovation on the platform.

Wrapping up, we look ahead with excitement to the future of DecentraWeb. We unveil the forward-thinking tools and widgets designed to simplify user engagement, alongside the strategic decisions that are steering DecentraWeb through a bear market. With the introduction of Benjamin Leff to the team and eyes on new marketing horizons, Michael reaffirms DWEB's dedication to building a robust ecosystem while keeping the community at the center of it. Join us on this episode to gras

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Chapters

• 0:00 Technology and Decentralized Web Discussion
• 15:04 DecentralWeb
• 25:29 Decentralization and DecentraWeb Development
• 30:51 Decentral Chat
• 43:42 Empowering Developers With DecentralWeb SDK
• 51:48 Decentralweb Tools and Future Plans
• 56:13 Decentral Web Updates and Marketing Strategies
• 1:05:07 DecentralWeb
• 1:12:06 Community Involvement and ENS Updates

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

no-transcript. In just a moment, hopefully you guys can hear me. But yeah, as you come into the space, please like and retweet and we will get started in just a moment, as soon as we get Mafia Boy in the building. So yeah, I'll be with you in a little bit. Thank you. I always hate the awkward silence where the music isn't playing. But yeah, just chatting with him right now. He's coming into the space as we speak. I think he may have a technical issue, but yeah, just thank you guys for being patient. We will get started in just a moment. Thank you All right, in the meantime, while we wait for him to connect and come up, just wanted to re-remind everyone that we are what?

Speaker 1: 5:50

Three weeks out from NamesCon and two weeks out from Consensus. I'll be attending both. So anybody who wants to connect doesn't matter what naming platform you are bullish on, I am bullish on you Feel free to reach out via DM and connect with me and I'll make sure I make some time for you. So yeah, whether you're going to be at Consensus or at Namescon, both of these events are going to be in Austin, texas, pretty much. They've been in that city for a couple of years. Consensus is going to be from the 28th I think it's officially 29th to the 31st, but a lot of events are starting on the 28th, so I'll be there from the 28th to the 1st, and then NamesCon will be from the 5th through the 8th of June, so right in the week coming right after.

Speaker 1: 6:39

And let me check with him real quick and see what his progress is. See, this is when you know something's good, when there's suspense and you got to wait for it. Yeah, and in the meantime I'm going to send a couple speaking advice. Like I said, I'm not going to let a bunch of people up to bombard Michael with questions, so feel free to ask me in the comments section, but I will invite a couple of you up. So if you do want to come up, feel free to accept it. Thank you, hey. How are you doing Ken? I don't know if we've ever spoken on the spaces together before, but yeah, hi.

Speaker 2: 7:59

Good, good, how are you? I've been on a couple of your AMAs previously, I think. I'm trying to remember the most recent one. I can't tell you the art one. I remember I was on for a while, asked a few questions, had some good conversation on that. That was going back.

Speaker 1: 8:18

Oh yeah, that was a while ago.

Speaker 2: 8:21

Well, I used to go by Kenny Calzone, so the name change throws people off too.

Speaker 1: 8:28

So yeah, now I 100% know exactly who you are and how you do it, kenny. So yeah, that makes sense now, yeah, you always had the Macy PFP.

Speaker 2: 8:39

Yeah, yeah, I had the Macy PFP, so I changed that to a D-God too. So, yeah, I changed things up a lot recently. But, yeah, trying to get people to know who I am again under the new name and the new PFP.

Speaker 1: 8:58

Okay, cool. Well, yeah, how's the meeting treating you? I know that you are pretty big into the Central Web community as well to you.

Speaker 2: 9:05

I know that you are uh pretty big into the, the central web community as well. Yeah, yeah, I am, I'm a, I'm a mod in their discord and uh, and I've been invested with them for, uh, for a couple of years. Um, yeah, I think the project is going well. They're building out a lot, uh, you know, building quietly under the scenes, which uh, under the radar, which is always good to see. Um, not really a hype driven project, more of a technology-driven project from my perspective. But, yeah, yeah, it's going well. Man trying to, you know, stay abreast of everything else happening in the domain space. I saw UD has another patent out, which is interesting. You know just a lot of drama happening in the Web3 domain space right now, so you know more than I do. Since we're waiting for Michael to join, do you have any thoughts on the UD patent?

Speaker 1: 9:59

A couple right. It definitely caught me as a surprise and it almost seems like they knew that this checkmate or not necessarily a checkmate but they knew that this was going to come or that this was in the back burner when they were having the conversations with Nick the entire time. So, yeah, well, played on their behalf. And again, it's just the nature of doing business if you're a corporation doing business if you're a corporation.

Speaker 1: 10:23

If you're, if you have a decentralized mindset, if you're in the space for decentralization, that's always going to rub you the wrong way and time will tell just how those patents are used. That's there's. Obviously I have a lot of opinions about it. Kind of professionally, I try not to get into the middle of the drama and the mess because you know I'm always going to maintain a neutral standpoint. I have bags everywhere. So good news for everybody is good news for me. Bad news for everybody is bad news for me as well. Personally, I do have some opinions, though we can always talk offline about this. But yeah, without further ado and thank you everybody in this space for waiting patiently we finally have Mafia Boy aka well, michael, aka Mafia Boy on the stage. Ceo of Decentral Web. How are you doing today, sir? Hopefully all the technical is working well.

Speaker 3: 11:12

Yes, sir. Thank you for having me and apologies for the delay. I was having a couple of technical issues on my phone. I don't really use Twitter too much on my phone, so sorry about the delay.

Speaker 1: 11:30

Not at all. Not at all. Good things take time and, like I said, I'm very thankful for everybody for being patient. I know not only me but a lot of people in the space have very much been looking forward to this. So, yeah, without further ado, if you don't mind, we're going to go ahead and dive right on in. I'm going to go ahead and get started by introducing the space.

Speaker 1: 11:44

First and foremost, welcome to another I Heart Domains Tech Talk AMA. We are the number one resource for curated content and deep dive with builders, entrepreneurs, visionaries and protocols in the Web3, digital identity and blockchain domain name space. For those who are unable to attend or who want to listen back to the spaces later, our tech talks are always recorded, so you can listen back to our entire content archive on our website at iHeartDomainscom, or you can listen to it in podcast form on every major podcast player, including Apple and Spotify, and you can get to that pretty easily at techtalkhost. Again, as you're coming into the space, please like and retweet. I have a couple people up on stage.

Speaker 1: 12:25

Our AMAs work a little bit different, so instead of just chiming in if you do have a question, kind of like to wait towards the end for everyone else. Please leave your question inside of the comments and I'll do my best to ask them if we have time. But, yeah, like and retweet. And also, I encourage anyone who is interested or needs more information to join the community directly. As always, do your own research and our AMAs are not financial advice, no matter how bullish I am on who I'm doing an AMA with. And yeah, so, with that being said, as you can see in the title, we have the pleasure of having DecentraWeb in the building. Yeah, go ahead and introduce yourself, michael, and a little bit of your background and history, and tell us about DecentraWeb. Yeah, go ahead and introduce yourself, michael, and a little bit of your background and history, and tell us about DecentraWeb.

Speaker 3: 13:08

Yeah, sure, thank you for that. Again, apologies for the delay. My name is Michael Calce. I'm the CEO and co-founder at DecentraWeb. A little bit about myself.

Speaker 3: 13:18

I've been an avid user of technology since a really young age. I actually got my first computer when I was six years old. Technology since a really young age. I actually got my first computer when I was six years old. Now, bear in mind that was in the year 1990. So that wasn't very typical of a six-year-old at that point to have access to a computer.

Speaker 3: 13:34

Really, you know, I was born a technologist. Really I love to take apart technology and put it back together and figure out how everything works. I got into hacking actually at a really young age. That's how my exploration went. So I always wanted to figure out and explore the unknown. If you will push the status quo, I used something called IRC, which is known as Internet Relay Chat, and got together with a group of hackers and, you know, did a couple of nefarious things and some of you might be familiar with, you know, yahoo, ebay, cnn, dell, amazon being taken down in the year 2000. I was the culprit behind that. I was also 15 years old, I was just a kid. I was also 15 years old. I was just a kid, so I quickly knew that what I did was wrong and I wanted to make amends. And I devoted my life to cybersecurity and free technology, free internet and I did exactly that and I worked in cybersecurity for over 20 years advising some of the biggest companies in the world, many Fortune 50 plus companies. I've given over 200 keynotes to date. I've written an award-winning book. I also have launched a second book that just came out which raises awareness around cyberbullying and things of that nature.

Speaker 3: 15:04

Mental wellness for kids because I care a lot about kids. I have two kids. Nature mental wellness for kids, because I care a lot about kids. I have two kids. But I think my biggest role was serving as chairman to the security advisory board for Hewitt Packard. I had the honor of doing that for over five and a half years.

Speaker 3: 15:20

And, yeah, we land on DecentralWeb, which you know. I teamed up with Adam Barlam, who was the co-founder of Decentralweb I know Adam, actually, since I'm 12 years old and we had a great idea and we took a look at the space and what was going on in this. You know this Web3 ecosystem, especially focused on domains and Web3 identity. You know there was some competition, but we felt there was a gap that Decentralweb could fill. And, yeah, that's where Decentralweb could fill. And yeah, that's where Decentralweb comes around.

Speaker 3: 15:51

And, if you're not familiar, decentralweb powers Web3 domains on Ethereum and Polygon network and, a little bit of a teaser here, we're looking at potentially also putting our resolvers up on base. A lot of people have been talking about base and there's a lot of action going on on base, but if you're not familiar, I suggest going heading over to Decentralweborg checking out our platform. We have an amazing UI, but we really like to innovate and create and I think that's what we've done over at Decentralweb. There is, you know, some other players in the space and I think we've done a good job at creating some tech that separates us from the pack, and I'm excited to dive in and talk about that today. So that's my intro and I hope you know you enjoy the conversation we're about to have.

Speaker 1: 16:43

Yeah, you actually just said a trigger word for me, for anybody who knows me and what I've been bullish on for the past few months, but definitely excited to see how you guys start to develop on base chain. I really feel like anybody who is building on that chain is really building in a direction where a lot of liquidity and a lot of the quote unquote normies are going to enter the space and they're probably going to have a leg up on some of the more technical platforms and protocols out there, not to say that those aren't going to do well, just saying that. You know those that are building on that chain are putting themselves, I think, in a direct path of adoption. You know, maybe closer to it than others. And yeah, your personal background has always been like super impressive. It's been, you know, obviously, like I'm trying to think of the word intriguing and yeah, it seemed like a natural progression or kind of natural that you would see a desire to build something in this space. You know, especially in the technological internet space, considering that you know so much about it and you know quote unquote kind of broke it.

Speaker 1: 17:48

And yeah, for for those of you who again are familiar with me and kind of our personal story with iHeart Domains. You know as much as I give in, you know much as the part of the beginning stories and I give it up to you know, handshake for introducing me to the other side of the business. You know, entangled with that conversation has to be decentralized, because I discovered decentralized literally right after that and I was so bullish on the platform kind of with the combination of decentralization and some of the things that you know lacked on that platform. Ie you know the NFTs and the things that can be done, you know with the SDK and all that kind of stuff that you know. Even to this day, our own deFi wallet and exchain registrations take place on our website via the DecentralWeb widget.

Speaker 1: 18:37

So again, very happy and excited to get into this. Let's talk a little bit more about, or get into more about, the basis of DecentralWeb itself. So I think everybody's kind of familiar with the SLD TLD concept in the space. You guys function more on the TLD registration side of the space but there's a huge decentralization aspect to it If you can kind of dive into more of the structure, a little bit about the DAO setup, the staking, how those mechanics work, just to get people familiar with you know how different this is from, let's say, a handshake or a free name who you know. I think a lot of people in the audience have registered TLDs from and are more familiar with those platforms.

Speaker 3: 19:23

Yeah, happy to dive in here. I mean, look, you know, the truth is is Decentralweb came around a little bit later than, you know, some of the other players, so they had a little bit of a head start, but we wanted to use that to our advantage. And you know, when you're launching a company any company really competitive analysis is obviously an important aspect. And you know, we took a look at Unstoppable, we took a look at Handshake and, of course, we took a look at ENS. We welcome competition. We think that that's what innovates really is when people are creating together. We're not here to talk bad about anyone or what anyone's doing, because I think everyone has value add. However, when we were looking at the space and kind of what was being developed and what was being built, you have some centralized players and, more importantly, I think that when you look at scale and adoption, there was some critical mistakes that we feel like the other competition had made. I'm going to use VNS as an example here and, trust me, this is you know, we love the NS, we love what they've built. They definitely paved the way, but at scale and adoption, you know just having the eth top level domain and then everything is built off the sub-level of that. That strikes as an issue when you're looking at overall scale and adoption. Why? Because, say, a company like Microsoft comes around and wants to join this ecosystem, to say, you know what? We're investing money in web three, we want to have Xbox gamer tax. So all of a sudden, like what's more appealing, like username dot, Xbox dot, usernamexboxeth or usernamexbox, like it's just, it seems more natural and synergistic. So that's just an example of the things that we were looking at when we created DecentralWeb.

Speaker 3: 21:20

Now, if you guys aren't familiar too much with DecentralWeb, I would suggest heading over to docsdecentralweborg, would suggest heading over to docsdecentralweborg. Why? We've created a very explanatory, in-depth look at our technology. What separates us? Like the ability to actually stake domains and basically generate passive income. If you do something wonderful, like iHeart Domains here has and created an entire brand around these Web3 domains, which I think and I give credit where it's to is extremely innovative. What you're doing, and that's what the community needs, is more builders. We are just simply giving you the ability to do these things. But really, you know, the central web is a facilitator. It's up to the users to decide what to do and you know how to utilize this technology. So, yeah, head over to docsdecentralweborg and you'll see many features about our SDK, our staking technology.

Speaker 3: 22:23

There's quite a few guides and explanations on how to best use our technology, so I would definitely take a look there and I think you know, overall, decentralweb is quite different. You know you look at Handshake and them being on their own chain and being susceptible to things like 51% attack, and you know, especially if the market is down and you know it doesn't take as much power to to actually take control of an environment like that. Again, handshake was also one of the first companies that we took a look at and were entities, if you will, because they obviously dissolved. But you know, decentraland wanted to take a little bit of what everybody was doing right and build on that and then add our own spin on things. So, yeah, there's a lot to dive into here today. Decentral Web has a lot to offer. But I'll let you interject and see where you want to carry this conversation about you know what's coming next or if you want to continue about what's what separates us from the others if you want to continue about what separates us from the others.

Speaker 1: 23:33

Yeah, definitely, and just wanted to touch on I agree with the view, you know, when you're so this is, it's crazy because, not to criticize those who have obviously adopted, you know, using third-level domains, you know, based off of the extremely popular TLD that we all know, I mean that ecosystem obviously has its benefits. But being in Web3 and considering that you know you can develop things without limits. It is kind of limiting to narrow your identity into that when you have the ability to represent yourself as whatever TLD or extension fits you best. So I definitely agree with that view and that need and the desire to create the technology to do so. And then also kind of getting back to the different options that are out there, like I was saying and as you're saying, there are a lot of options to exist in this space, even at this level.

Speaker 1: 24:27

But one of the things that we've talked about, you know, quite a few times, is and I think quite a few people in this space also agree that there is always going to be a distaste for some for platforms that are quote unquote centralized. Even if we don't understand why, we have a distaste for them. So, from your viewpoint, from someone who has built a platform that is decentralized, what would you tell us, or what would you say is the biggest value proposition on a purely decentralized platform, where you as the builder kind of has the keys to create your own kingdom, whether you're skilled and have the skills to create a prosperous kingdom or not, why someone would want to go that route in lieu of centralized options that kind of take the keys from you.

Speaker 3: 25:19

Yeah, it's a good question and actually you just reminded me part of your last question was revolving around decentralization.

Speaker 3: 25:25

So I'm going to touch on that a little bit and just explain that DecentralWeb. Obviously, right now we are making a ton of updates etc. But we put stuff in place to further decentralize and there's two key components that are going to do that. One is obviously the DAO we're going to release, which will, you know, give everybody a voice essentially and see what direction that you think is correct and obviously put things to votes so you'll have a say in, like the direction of what's being built. I think that that's critical when you look at decentralization. The second thing is that the resolvers were in the process of building nodes where they are gonna be hosted by users and there's going to be a reward system. Obviously, it's not going to be released next week or anything, but we've been working on it for over a year because it's very critical to get it right and figure out a system where you could verify what's true and what's not true, etc. I mean, that's my cybersecurity background coming in and just making sure that when we release this feature we'll, you know, we'll be almost truly fully decentralized.

Speaker 3: 26:39

Now what's the difference? And like, why should you want decentralization? You know I'm a person that believes in a free internet, so that's just obviously a personal choice. But if you look at the space, and you know, I'm a person that believes in a free Internet, so that's just obviously a personal choice. But if you look at the space, and you know I'm not going to name names or whatever, but there's been TLDs that have been released and then suddenly, all of a sudden, however, I think there was like a couple hundred thousand subdomains that were on that TLD and that TLD was then rescinded. Tld was then rescinded. Um and guess what?

Speaker 3: 27:08

you claim a credit or whatever like who cares like that's that to me, uh, that there's a reason why you know personally, like I don't put my crypto on. You know, uh, exchanges and stuff like that, like if ftx and like things, incidents like this are not, you know, convincing enough. I'm not what will convince you, but you, as the person, has the power, and why shouldn't you seize that power? That's the way I look at it. It's the same thing like private keys and such. I would never give anyone my private keys. Why would I want to put my assets on a centralized location where I don't have control? They can take control at any moment, they can lock me out of my funds, they can do whatever, but circle back to the space.

Speaker 3: 27:54

And yeah, there was a TLD that was released and it was rescinded and all the users basically lost their sub-level domain and some people paid exorbitant amounts of money for those subdomains, or even if you didn't, regardless, like just knowing that someone can take it away, uh is the true, like you know, epitome of what centralization means and is. And, uh, we at the central web are not about that. We believe that it's your private keys, it's your nft, it's your domain, you do what you want with it and we basically have no control over that, and that is the true um. You know, I think, like when you look at what decentralized is, decentralization is that's.

Speaker 1: 28:40

That's it in its truest form yeah, I'm, I'm very, uh, familiar with the the situation that you're referring to, and I'm not going to say I was affected by it because it didn't affect me that much, but I did have to turn in some things to get some credits. And you're right that it does suck when you've invested money, especially into something that's an identity. Identity is something you can't just replace or switch off or change. A lot of people have tried and it's a hard process to do so. Having the fear of losing that is definitely something I think most of us want to avoid. Yeah, so I agree with that in net terms.

Speaker 1: 29:19

You know, oftentimes kind of the trade-off for decentralization is speed of development and decentralization and many of the protocols that are in the space or platforms that are in the space that you know are opting to build in that route. Oftentimes it does come, you know, at the expense of development being, you know, a little bit slower than the VC funded back. You know, however people like to describe it, I will actually kind of want to get into the meat and potatoes of what you guys have going on, because that's not necessarily the case with DecentraWeb and you guys actually have been developing a lot in the back end to give the best of both worlds, and one of the things that you guys have is a fully functioning product called DecentraChat that you know. It's been in beta for quite a while. I think it's fully live right now and working.

Speaker 1: 30:08

Wanted to talk more about some of the developments that you guys have done that are currently working, that people can use, and then I want to get into, you know, some of the other benefits of decentralization and the SDK that you guys have out. So if people want to build, you know, or impatient waiting for things to be built, on your end you know what enables them to do, what kind of power that puts in their hands. But yeah, let's talk about DecentraChat for a little bit. If you can give us an overview of the product and then actually how to use it from both a social and potentially corporate perspective.

Speaker 3: 30:45

Yeah, happy to. I think it's a perfect segue actually. So kudos to you. Look, decentrachat we've been talking about it for a while. What is it? What does it mean? How does it benefit the space development power behind it?

Speaker 3: 31:11

I was even myself a little skeptical about you know the use case and like does the world really want this? Or like do they need it? Or like what's the story here? You know. But I will give credit to Adam uh, adam Barlam, who is the CTO and co-founder here at Decentralweb. He definitely, uh, put a push behind it and definitely saw like a an excellent use case for it behind it and definitely saw like an excellent use case for it. So if you're not familiar with decentra chat, it's essentially a fork of signal. So it's end-to-end encrypted and quantum resistant chat where you do not need a phone number to log in. You could simply log in through your Web3 identity and it supports things like ENS et cetera.

Speaker 3: 31:50

Now back to what I was just saying. The value turns out to be quite incredible and we're going to talk a little bit about it today because I think the community especially if there's some dewebers here you have a right to know that there's been some pretty big developments with DecentralChat. Actually, it's come a long way. If you haven't checked it out, I would definitely check it out, you know. And what do I mean by it's come a long way and like what it's done for us, it's, you know, a lot of communities have actually started reaching out and they're interested in, you know, joining the DecentralChat ecosystem, and that's great, because anything related to Decentral Chat directly correlates back to Decentral Web. Now, I don't know if anyone here uses Telegram and things like that, but Telegram, et cetera, plagued with bots, spammers, and it's a pretty big issue, if I'm being perfectly honest. And we wanted to think of something that would allow someone to express their domains, furthermore, through their Web3 identity, and do it in a better environment where it's not, you know, full of spammers and bots, etc. And then also there's a list of crazy features on DChat I call it DChat for short, decentral Chat that I'm happy to dive into and kind of discuss, but overall, like the big picture is, it's Imagine Signal, but for Web3, where it's completely end-to-end encrypted and you have the ability to chat strictly through your web3 domain. Now, we thought this was incredible.

Speaker 3: 33:32

But back to sort of the leak. Um, some big players have reached out and are interested in getting their communities to be a part of the central chat. Um, I cannot believe the amount of traction um it's been getting and a lot of pretty crazy feedback that we've received. So we thank those who were a part of the pilot and beta program, because without you, you know, it would have taken a lot longer to figure out all the bugs etc. But we're in a really good spot right now where people are very interested in using this technology.

Speaker 3: 34:08

Just to give you like an idea, I'm not going to say you know names right now, but there's a community out there that has over 800,000 users that is looking to converge onto Decentral Chat and that, to me, is really exciting because it shows the willingness to adopt this technology, something that we've built, and again, it directly correlates back to Decentralweb. So there's a ton of new features that we're working on. We've devoted quite a few resources to ensuring DecentralChat success and then, of course, we're going to be doing some marketing around it. We feel like it deserves a lot of attention and it's a great extension, a great arm to the DecentralWeb brand and ecosystem that we're building chance to touch it.

Speaker 1: 35:05

Just for my personal use, decentralchat works extremely well and, you know, I look forward to seeing how you know people outside of the Web3 space. You know A start to adopt it and then start to use it, but just from a pure Web3 perspective, right, and a lot of us that are here that are investors in this space. You know we're also investors in the DeFi space and the general cryptocurrency scene. Some of us have projects, some of us have communities and a token gated chat using your digital identity. There is a lot that you can do with that, like you were just saying, like even from my perspective in my day to day. You know, like I admit, I am a DJ in my normal life, when I am not talking about domains. I do have, you know, like I admit, I am a degen in my normal life, when I am not talking about domains.

Speaker 1: 35:51

I do have, you know, alpha groups and chats that you know I participate in and being able to host a chat like this where you know you can create use case now for your TLD when people ask, what can these things do? Why should I want one of these? Well, there you go. You can issue, you know this digital identity that even if all it does is work here, you can issue this specialized digital identity to your community token, gate it and create your own alpha group, your own private chat, and that by itself is, like I said, on a daily basis I use that type of feature.

Speaker 1: 36:22

So kind of expanding on that, how have you seen people use DChat so far? I know you guys have. You know you've kind of moved the main conversation from Decentral Web itself there. But even outside of that I know that you guys have created additional features such as like the groups and things like that. How have you seen people using those? And then, if you could, can you touch on some of those features that will help make it, you know, kind of more useful or more appealing to a demographic outside of Web3?

Speaker 3: 36:57

Yeah, for sure. And I got to say we got to get Adam on one of these AMAs because you know, I think the Decentra chat as of late has been definitely one of his passions and I'm sure he'd love to talk to the community about a lot of the specifics and stuff.

Speaker 3: 37:12

Obviously, as ceo I overview everything, but uh, adam's obviously been knee deep in it. So, um, we definitely got to get him on um. But yeah, you, you really touched on one of the key aspects of the center chat, which is the ability to essentially which is the ability to essentially either set up a token-gated chat or a domain-gated chat. Now just imagine, let's say, you know there's an exclusive poker club out there and they hop on the chat and they want a place to privately chat, to set up their cool games or whatever, and that poker club buys a top-level domain and then issues all the different players a sub-level domain. You now have the ability to set up a chat just strictly on that domain and obviously gate it so that only those private members could get in. I. I look at the same thing that could be applied to, for instance, a car club. I'm personally in a car club that's exclusive and private, um, but we have to set up like chats on like whatsapp and like stuff like that, and obviously you know these things are more centralized and obviously overall less cool, because it'd be cool to have, you know, a dot car company or a dot car club, you know whatever, just as an example, and and have access to a chat, and then you know what? Only the only people in that chat are people who own, uh and have access to that domain. So I think that that's. You know. The key use is that, um, getting these communities together and having these private clubs and obviously other web3 projects too. This obviously doesn't just apply to Web2, but just answering your question, but obviously there's a massive application to Web3 existing projects and getting them onboarded and having a token gated chat, or you know.

Speaker 3: 39:02

I think that there's obviously a lot of potential here and we've been seeing it. We've barely even fully done our launch and again, just to reiterate, a big player reached out to us that has a crazy big community, is interested in pushing forward with us. So we are making the necessary arrangements to make that happen and it's going to be fun as hell to market this. I think there's a lot of potential here and a lot of people are going to be fun as hell to market this. I think there's a lot of potential here and a lot of people are going to be looking for quantum resistant chats as we push forward, obviously, into the quantum space as well. But yeah, we got to get Adam on here and definitely have him have some conversations with you about Decentral Chat as well.

Speaker 1: 39:46

Yeah, this is definitely not going to be the last of the conversations that we have, so, and yeah, looking forward to getting Adam on and getting into the to his perspective on it as well. And you know, as, as we continue to progress identity, I think we have again we have this fascination, for some reason, of Web3 domains, just resolving the website. But the implication for identity and token gating, you know again, as more people start to adopt Web3 and start, you know, to adopt the use case and the utility of Web3 with the ability to, you know, for, like I said, for immutable identity, the ability to own assets and transfer assets with the ease of just typing in somebody's name, I think identity is going to become kind of a bigger focus and you know, especially identity that you control at the TLD level.

Speaker 3: 40:44

I just wanted to interject quickly because, before I forget, we've now added the feature to pay a user through crypto. That basically accesses a third party wallet. So, like you know, like your MetaMask or whatever like, and through this chat app and because everything is behind you know private keys and your domain you can directly transfer a user money and there's no question as to the validity of that person. Directly transfer a user money and there's no question as to the validity of that person. I mean, of course, unless that person's private keys got compromised, which is, you know, very unlikely, and if that does happen, well, that person's money is gone anyways, because that means they have access to their wallet. But being able to pay users directly through a chat, that is a very critical feature, moving forward, we think, and very cool.

Speaker 1: 41:32

Sorry again, I didn't mean to cut you off, but I didn't want to forget that point. No, that actually was a good cutoff. So you're saying that in the middle of a chat? If I wanted to send somebody money, I would just be able to click on their profile and go through it. That way, Bingo.

Speaker 3: 41:44

Exactly.

Speaker 1: 41:47

Yeah, and that's exactly what I'm talking about and I'm glad you did mention that because, again, for Web3, usability, for what we actually came here for, and I love the utility that you're building space, if you're using it, if you're transacting with people, if you're in DeFi. These are probably situations that you're coming across every day that you don't realize that these web-through domains or that these digital identity protocols can solve, and it is very much refreshing to know that you guys are building that into this app. So, again, not financial advice, do your own research. But DecentralChat is an already working tool. They work, obviously, or you know, with the DecentralWeb domains. Who else I think you mentioned? We support ENS as well.

Speaker 3: 42:41

We support ENS as well.

Speaker 1: 42:44

Okay, so that's a great thing as well, for you know, I know a lot of people in the community that I'm connected to are very bullish on ENS, so yeah, there's another utility for ENS domains out there as well, so I do encourage you guys to check out that app. Let's get into Metamask Unity. I know a lot of people probably have a question of what is even Metamask Unity and the difference between that and you know the typical Metamask that we're working with. But then also you know how that integrates with DecentralWeb and Gamertags and kind of your bullishness on that utility moving forward.

Speaker 3: 43:20

Yeah, perfect. Obviously, I think we've made it evident and clear that DecentralWeb feels like probably the lowest hanging fruit for adoption is to focus on gaming. Um, obviously, web3 gaming has exploded in the past few years. Um, ever more so this year and last year. Obviously we see tremendous growth.

Speaker 3: 43:42

Um so metamask, unity, sdk. So what does that mean and what did we accomplish by doing so? Um, so unity is essentially is a supplier, it's a developer tool and you know a lot of these AAA games etc. They're using these engines. Specifically, a lot of them use Unity engine and what this means for them is that, since we're built in to the Metamask Unity SDK is that when they're developing these games, they now have the ability to essentially set up Decentralweb like basically natively. It's built into the SDK, so they don't need to add any code or structure. And MetaMask obviously works with Unity and you know it's just a great development tool, especially when we look at the future of Web3 games.

Speaker 3: 44:29

This was a tremendous win for Decentralweb.

Speaker 3: 44:31

I don't think it got nearly enough attention or acknowledgement that it should have, because it's a huge, massive push in the right direction and you know, I personally think that Web3 gaming, et cetera, and even bridging over Web2 games to Web3, this is where a big part of the adoption is going to happen, and you know we want to have those conversations with companies like Microsoft etc.

Speaker 3: 44:57

To get Xbox onboarded. And you know, what's going to make that decision a lot easier and have them hop on board is having things like the MetaMask Unity SDK, so they have proof of concept, they have the ability to go through the code and look at the SDK and develop games that basically have a built-in tool and feature that would allow them to create gamer tags. Because, when you look at it overall, nobody wants their gamer tag to be a 42 character hex address. It's very simple uh, it has to be human, readable or companies like xbox are never even going to look or touch web 3. Um, it's essential, uh, essentially. So I think that this was a massive win for us over at the central web and it basically overall just to dumb it down and make it very concise developers can basically build gamer tags into the game that they're building for Web3 environments, with the DecentralWeb code being built into the SDK.

Speaker 1: 46:06

Yes sir, yes sir, I wanted to also touch on, you know kind of the type of support and functionality that you provide for investors of people who are in this space that want to build their own thing. A lot of people are navigating towards using kind of like the Web2 extension hacks with the ids for people who wanted to build their own registry, et cetera. But again, for those who are wanting to build something purely in Web3, you guys do have a lot of development and kind of tools to help the investor not only get, not only build on top of the platform or build additional utility using their own individual TLD. But you have some branding options and stuff like that that are available for personalization for, like I said, branding on OpenSea and the hardware. The TLD itself that said branding on OpenSea and the artwork. The TLD itself Wanted to see if you could talk about, tell us a little bit more about the SDK, what us as a TLD owner can do with the SDK, some of the things that possibly that we could build, and then also, like I said, how you empower us on an individual investment level.

Speaker 1: 47:31

When someone buys a TLD, they're able to now sell SLDs on that TLD, just as we've stated as a normal feature with the other TLD providers. If you can go kind of through the mechanics of how that works as well, and before we get through this, I'm going to go back and touch on how staking and stuff like that works, because that's a very important part of your ecosystem as well. It was probably one of the most attractive things about the ecosystem was that pretty much all the profit goes back through to the stakers, the little bit going to the development, et cetera. But it really is a circular, decentralized ecosystem where everything is powering everything. So yeah, without venturing too far from that, if we can go back to the first question, yeah, let me tackle this, um.

Speaker 3: 48:17

So let's start off with our own sdk and kits. We've developed and again I'll reiterate this, if you haven't yet, check out docsdecentralweborg. It's an incredible resource. A lot of what you can do on our environment is on there and how to do it. But just to touch quickly, we've set it up in a way where, you know, we have public github and you have access to our sdk and tools and kits and this basically gives you the power to do what you want. And of course, we've, you know, artistic, personalized touches where you create custom artwork for your NFT. That's just, you know, a quick example, but overall, the kit allows you to build and work with the resolvers.

Speaker 3: 49:04

We've obviously you mentioned that at the beginning of this call, where we talked about, you know, you having a widget, for example. Our goal is to empower you. That is essentially what true tech projects should do. It should give you the power to do what you want to do, and I think we've done a very good job at doing that, and I think almost too good of a job, because obviously some people wanted some more marketing et cetera, but we were very tech focused and we'll we'll get into the marketing component. And just a bit hopefully, but just to give you an idea, through our platform you can essentially be your own unstoppable domains. You could register, you know, 12, 13 top-level domains or I don't know what they're at right now Unstoppable, I think it's 13. But you could essentially register 15 top level domains, 20, 30, 40. It's entirely up to you, but you could essentially, through our platform, be your own unstoppable domains, do your own marketing, build your own project, build your own brand. We empower you to do that. Not only that if you do it well and you do it successfully, you could create a business model around it. And what do I mean by that? And that goes back to, for instance, the staking technology of those top level domains. You can make them all funnel through one website where you're basically a registrar, your own registrar, and you set a flat fee or whatever your desired fee is, and stake the domain and any user that agrees and wants their own sublevel domain on one of your top-level domains can register. And you don't need to be there. You could literally just set it up through our staking portal, and we thought that that was incredibly impressive to empower users.

Speaker 3: 50:57

Now there's obviously still a lot of work to be done here, but we're by no means done or going anywhere. We are just actually getting started. The exciting stuff is what's to come and empower you more, and we're going to do that through specific marketing campaigns, where you know we're getting more and more people into the ecosystem and, as that happens, it creates more demand, and the more top level domains that you already own and you know have access to it will make them more desirable for you. So that's part of our goal and part of our strategy. Now we have obviously focused very heavily on tech, but we are definitely going to be headed towards an integration slash marketing era, and we're already doing so, and maybe we'll segue into that. But again, go to docsdecentralweborg. We've created some very powerful technology for you to use. I definitely would take a look at our kits, our GitHub, et cetera. It's all there. It's all available for you. Basically, power is at your fingertips if you so choose to use it fingertips if you so choose to use it.

Speaker 1: 52:13

Yeah, the widget, it actually is a very it's a great and very easy to implement example of one of the tools that you guys have out there. I think I've been asked about it by several people because it really is plug and play and can pull in any of the TLDs that you stake. And for those who you know, I think I've talked about it on Spaces before but essentially, when you purchase a TLD from the Central Web, you have the option to you know, keep it private or to stake it and then select the pricing on which other people can register SLDs on there. You guys do actually have a substantial amount of back-end control as well, which I've always appreciated, like the ability to you know what is it a reserve or block domain names. I think that's a very important feature. You know the domains that people buy from you. You have the option whether or not to make them renewable or non-renewable or permanent domains. You know and that's another good choice Again a lot of power being put in the registrar's hands. Personally, if you register a defi wallet or a exchange, that is a forever domain, but I do like the fact that if you have a business that does require, you know, recurring revenue and if you're providing that value, that justifies that revenue. And again, linking into that digital identity. And again linking into that digital identity if you're running an alpha chat and you want renewals each year on that so that you can keep funding that and et cetera. I love that you guys have that ability out there. So, again, like you were suggesting, I do also recommend that people check out docsdecentralweborg. A lot of very useful tools on there.

Speaker 1: 53:52

Again, you might have to be a little more technical to implement some of it, but that's the trade-off. When you want decentralization, when you want power, when you want flexibility, when you want the ability to build something that is your own. It's a little technical and somebody's not always going to build that for you and personally, that's exactly what I was looking for when I came into the space. I wanted to be our AMA with Decentralweb Things that we've talked about so far. If you're not already familiar with Decentralweb, they allow you to register Web3 top level domains, so your anythings kind of like the x crypto et cetera. You guys know what I'm talking about. They allow you to register top-level domains and then create a registry or a registrar on your own top-level domains. They're decentralized, they're currently on the Ethereum and Polygon blockchain, so you can met the TLDs to either of those.

Speaker 1: 55:05

We talked about DChat. We talked about MetaMask Unity. We just talked about the T, about the and some of the things that you could do with that. And, yeah, now I do kind of want to the future. You know what we can see next from Decentralweb. I think a lot of people this is the question that they have been waiting on and want to hear about. What is the future for Decentralweb? You spoke a little bit about marketing. So if you can leak any of the plans for marketing, or maybe some of the strategies that'll be coming out, and then also any future developments, that again can help enhance the utility on the base end of what we can do with our TLDs.

Speaker 3: 55:46

Yeah, happy to, and I know a lot of people have been waiting and some people are impatient, and I think that's normal.

Speaker 3: 55:52

But I don't think, you know, some credit is given where it's due. You know, when you're creating something long term and something that will stand the test of time, you really have to do it carefully. That's just my experience as a technologist and you know building cybersecurity tools myself, etc. You know building cybersecurity tools myself, etc. But, needless to say, let's let's broach the topic here. I think a lot of people joined to hear about where we're headed and what we've been working on. So I'm going to kick things off with this. This is a sneak peek and I told people I mean, I told you that I would actually disclose some stuff that hasn't been made public yet. So let's start with number one. Uh, benjamin leff. Uh, is going to be joining the team at decentral web.

Speaker 3: 56:37

If you're not familiar with who benjamin leff is, uh, he was, uh you know a leader and head at business development for kraken. Um, he has an expertise in integrations, partnerships and and also he runs a VC fund and is going to help us with raising capital etc. Awesome dude. You could check out his LinkedIn, benjamin Leff. He owns Leff Ventures. Really, really awesome guy, has a wealth of knowledge. It's tremendous reach and overall, I think he fills a tremendous gap that we have at Decentralweb. Don't think we don't know where our weaknesses are. We do, and we are obviously gonna make the necessary adjustments to expand our team and fill those voids where we're obviously a very tech heavy company and have some great you know, some great technologist minds. But this individual, benjamin, is going to definitely add a lot of sauce to the table and really covers a lot of areas where we need a lot of focus right now. And I think that when a lot of people talk about like, where's the integrations, where's the integrations, where's the marketing, where's the funds, etc. Uh, benjamin covers, uh, a wide spectrum of that and uh, we're, we're thrilled and excited to have him. We haven't done any posts, so you're hearing it first here now. Uh, live, um, we will be making an announcement uh, in the next few days. Um, and again, we're, we're very excited to have him on board and he's already working on many things. By the way, even though we're just now making it official, he's been already hard at work and you know, I think there's a lot of exciting things to come from him being onboarded.

Speaker 3: 58:27

Now let's talk a little bit about marketing very quickly. I know people want, you know, overnight success and stuff like that. That's just not really how we're going to do things. We have started, you know, a Twitter campaign and we're testing different waters and seeing what results yield the best. You know, and I think that this is the critical component when you're doing marketing, because when we find that exact lane that has the best ROI for Decentralweb, don't kid yourself, we're gonna pour tons and tons of gasoline on it. We are just.

Speaker 3: 59:03

It's been what like a month and a half now, two months, since we've announced our marketing venture and you know it's been well underway. We obviously did some galaxy campaigns which brought some users and, uh, some optics up in terms of, uh, followers, etc. Which is, you know, part of a necessary thing, even if some of those followers are bots and they're just joining for the campaign or whatever. Everybody does it. That's the thing. Um, so when you're looking from an optic standpoint, um, you know you, you do gain some users that are actually genuinely interested in top level domains and things in web 3, etc. And we know this because we could see on our back end the uptick of domain registrations. So all this data is being monitored real time.

Speaker 3: 59:50

We are taking what is successful, what isn't, and you know, again, we're just trying to figure out the correct path so that we don't just needlessly burn money or, you know, waste time. So we've done several different campaigns on X and we have different video samples and seeing, like, what the audience responds to the most, and then we're going to kick that more into high gear and then we're looking at doing some more um high level uh posts with, uh, some reputable news sites discussing, obviously, the launch of Decentra chat and, uh, you know, probably even highlight, uh, the metamask Unity SDK, because, again, I don't think that that got enough attention. Um, but overall, we're fully aware of what the community wants, um, and we're working towards it. That that's the truth. I know people, a lot of people, just care about token price and and where that's at. And I'm just going to reiterate, like again, this is not financial advice or anything of that nature. But in regards to token price and stuff like that, you're going to only see a real massive uptick and trade volume increase when we list on a T1 exchange and have a market maker, I mean, when you're looking at, you know, tokens being traded et cetera, and there's $20 million worth of token being traded in volume in a day.

Speaker 3: 1:01:15

A lot of that is whitewashing as well. Right, it's market makers. So we're fully aware of this, we know what needs to be done, we know how to get there, but obviously we've had a lot on our plate and you know, as CEO for those who don't know I just had my second child and I was obviously, you know, had to take some time to help early on with my wife. But I'm back full time and back full swing and taking a look at all the optics, all the data and, you know, just want everyone to be rest assured that we are marketing and we will pour more gasoline when we see the best path with the least resistance and, you know, the path that has the most ROI for us.

Speaker 3: 1:02:00

But, yeah, just to sum it all up, we also really feel that, you know, getting big partnerships is also part of the best part of marketing, right, like getting a company onboarded that has, you know, or a community onboarded that has 500,000, 50,000, whatever the number is like. That is guaranteed exposure to our platform and our ecosystem as well, and that's also something we've been working on. And again, if you missed it and you're just joining now. The latest member to join the Decentral Web team is Benjamin Left and he was head at BizDev at Kraken, one of the world's biggest exchanges, and you know, very well known, very respectable guy has a lot of contacts in the space, even in Web 2. So yeah, I mean I think that's the mouthful, so I'll let you jump in here and hear your thoughts and we can dance around it.

Speaker 1: 1:03:00

Yeah, I wanted to first take. Well, I want to do two things. I want to take a to say welcome to Mr Left and the team. I'm I think all of us that are members of the D-Web community are definitely excited to have another member on here, especially somebody who's, you know, experienced in business development that can get some integrations. Yeah, so, definitely welcome to him. Also, wanted to congratulate you on your child as well, because that I think that's another addition to the CentroEd team. So congratulations there. Thank you for that. I think that's another addition to the Accenture Web team. So congratulations there. Thank you for that.

Speaker 1: 1:03:40

Yes, sir, and yeah, so I mean, in hindsight, now that we've kind of, you know, gone through this bearish period and you know, during that period, obviously a lot of people had questions about marketing, and I think that's every platform probably got the same complaints. I think now that we're on the other side of that, a lot of us can see. Well, first of all, timing is everything right and although we don't understand the timing might be wrong, when we're making those demands, when you get on the other side of something, you do start to realize that maybe that wasn't the right time, and I think we as a space are coming to realize that we are now getting into the better time to start gunning those engines and putting that effort and that marketing out there, because we have a better way to explain what the point of these things even are. You know, it would have been a lot harder for you to push a marketing campaign and put something out there if you didn't have a Decentral chat out there that was fully able to communicate the value of your platform already. You know, same with a lot of the other things that you know have been innovated in this space. Prior to innovating them, marketing just would have went to the wind. So you know, for anybody who's listening to that, you know I'm glad that we've come around to a space where the marketing I think will have a much bigger impact and I'm glad that you guys are realizing that and got a plan for that. So that's awesome stuff, kind of.

Speaker 1: 1:05:07

As we wrap this up, I want to let you give us some kind of final thoughts and any final stuff you want to put out there. About D-Web again, you know, getting people bullish that you know are looking for a place to buy a web through TLD. Who may? You know, again, there's going to be a demographic of people out there that, no matter how much I or anyone else or that platform you know creates or builds utility or creates a use case or shows them, they're just not going to adopt anything that's centralized, and so you know it's good for people to know that there is a decentralized option out there. There are options. There's a great decentralized option out there. So you know. Any final words or thoughts for those people who are looking for that home, why they should come to the Central Web and how easy it is to come in into the ecosystem.

Speaker 3: 1:05:52

Yeah, thank you for that handoff and thank you again for welcoming my daughter, my latest addition to the DecentralWeb team. Yeah, look, here at DecentralWeb we have an ethos. We believe in a free internet. We believe that you should have the power. We believe that our goal is to empower you to accomplish your goals, to create a brand, to create an identity, to create a community. We welcome you with open arms. We are excited at the prospect, and I understand that there's some free name maxis out there, some ENS maxis out there.

Speaker 3: 1:06:24

All I can encourage you to do is try and check out Decentralweb. We've built some incredible technology and the use cases are only growing by the day. And I appreciate your comment about timing is everything. And because we firmly believe that too, like people, like we were in the barest of markets and people are like, oh, throw millions of dollars at marketing. It just doesn't work that way and that would be completely reckless as a CEO you know to you know it would just be irresponsible, and I get it. Trust me, nobody is more vested in the interest and success of Decentralweb than myself. I dedicate my. This is full time for me. I'm not part time on this. I'm not doing other stuff. I gave up my role at a Fortune 50 company to do this, so I don't need to hear comments about what are you guys doing? This, this, that? Yes, unfortunately we cannot share some things. That's just nature of business. If you're working on a deal with Microsoft, you obviously can't discuss it. And, by the way, I'm not saying we are or aren't, I'm just saying in general, a lot of things obviously have to remain hush until contracts and deals are signed and there's a co-marketing event that occurs. But yeah, I mean to circle back like we are fully capable and fully there to help you, you know, realize your dreams of being a business owner, being an entrepreneur, or if you want to just be a user and join our ecosystem and be a part of DecentraChat. It doesn't matter what it is you're trying to accomplish. We just want to be the ones to help you accomplish that. So I encourage you to take a look at what we've built Because, honestly, from a tech perspective, yeah, maybe we didn't have the best marketing campaigns to date, and I'll be the first to admit that, but from a tech perspective, I honestly think we're leading the industry in this space.

Speaker 3: 1:08:12

We are the innovator here. Other competitors are looking at what we're doing, I see comments from ENS users like oh, how come they have this widget, how come this, how come that this is so cool? So obviously we're doing something right and people are paying attention to that. Now, yes, we are focused on mass adoption and getting integrations and marketing campaigns, etc. And we'd love for you to be a part of that journey because, honestly, it also starts with communities.

Speaker 3: 1:08:43

It's up to you to spread the word and get other people involved. You know this is a group, collective effort and, again I'll reiterate it, we are all working towards the same goal. My success is your success, your success is my success. That's just the nature of good business and we firmly believe that. And you know, sorry for the road that we took, but we felt that building quietly during a bear market was the smartest tactic and, honestly, I still think I was right. I don't think doing a marketing push when everything was down and out and we didn't have all the use cases and key integration and development tools that we have now. I think now is the right time to really spark an interest and get people involved and you know, just to reiterate that point, we'd love to have you involved. So if there's any way I can help facilitate that.

Speaker 3: 1:09:37

I'm a pretty active CEO. I like to think I respond. Where you know I'm questioned or anybody needs help, I'm hands on, I get you know. I have access to the info at the central web email and I'm myself the CEO. I'm also taking time to respond to newcomers and questions and things like that. So don't be shy and you know we're, we're, we're happy to grow the community and, again, I think it's a collective group effort. So you know we, we really value the people that are a part of Decentralweb and that have been patient with DecentralWeb and, yeah, we're looking to grow that out. So if you haven't taken a look and you haven't joined our ecosystem yet, I definitely encourage you to do so.

Speaker 1: 1:10:20

I appreciate that and, just a second, that you know you were probably the first person to give me the time of day when I wanted to start this platform and the direction I wanted to go with it, and I've always appreciated that and the dialogue that you've always opened between you and I. And so, yeah, anything I can ever help to do to continue to shine a light on DecentralWeb Again for those of you who are interested in joining our community exchange and defi wallet domains are forever domains that are issued onto Central Web. I've seen the value from the start. I do agree that you know, again, on the other side of this now, you would have burned any money that you would have spent on marketing during that bear. So I'm hoping that people are coming around to realize that and are coming to appreciate you know this space, because this is proof you know and you know this space because this is, this is, this is proof you know, and and you know that we're moving towards the period of getting you know some more what do you call it? Eyes and attention that you guys are, you know, about to start ramping up. So really appreciate you connecting with me, giving me the opportunity, you know, to host this AMA with you, I think one of the very first spaces, very first tech talks I did at the end of 2022, you blessed me by coming on. So very grateful for us to come full circle, you know, looking forward to the future of DecentralWeb.

Speaker 1: 1:11:43

I still have a pretty good bag there. I don't know if a lot of you know, but we do have a treasury at iHeartDomains. I set up an LP with D-Web and ETH at the beginning of 2023. I think I've touched it since then. So you know I've always been bullish on your future, stake our future in your future and looking forward to continuing to grow. Thank you again for coming on the space. What's the easiest way for people to get involved in the community, for anybody who's curious and wants to hop on now? Oh, and one more question. It may already be over, but I just want to ask is the ENS special or thing still going on?

Speaker 3: 1:12:21

or no? That's a good question. I have to circle back with Adam because he was running that initiative and I don't know if they've enabled it or disabled it. I'm not a hundred percent sure. That's a very good question. I can follow up with you and you could post it out. But I want to say it's still going on, but I'm not 100% sure. But they did take. I remember the devs taking a snapshot. But let me circle back with you on that.

Speaker 3: 1:12:44

And I also want to tell everybody here, if you're not a part of it yet, you know, help out my man. I heart domains. You got to. You know, respect what people are doing here, building in this space, because without these people none of this would exist. So if you haven't yet supported him, I would suggest you know going to grab a sub level domain. Hop on D chat. You should definitely make your own I heart domain chat group if you haven't yet. Dchat. You should definitely make your own iHeart domain chat group if you haven't yet. But you know, support my man here because we really appreciate. I mean, I appreciate what you're doing and you know.

Speaker 3: 1:13:18

I think it's a critical. It's a critical component to success in any shape or form in this space, as having individuals like yourself that are utilizing this technology and building off of it. So to those listeners here, if you haven't yet, you know, go register a domain, support my man here. It takes time and effort to do these things, you know, to have these tech talks, and he's doing this for you, to broaden your horizon and your knowledge. So much respect and love to what you're doing. And you know, like I mentioned in our private chats, I definitely think, moving forward, we should make this more of a regular occurrence.

Speaker 3: 1:13:53

I'm happy to discuss updates more frequently because the truth is there's a ton that we haven't covered today. You know I got at least some teasers right. There's still a lot coming and there's a lot of really exciting developments and partnerships that we've been working on that are finally about to come to fruition. So, yeah, just saying, just to reiterate, if you haven't yet, support my man here. It takes time to do this stuff and you know support goes a long way, man, don't underestimate it. But yeah, I'll circle back with you on the ENS thing.

Speaker 1: 1:14:26

Thank you very much for those Tyron. Before we end, I'll let you get one quick question in Kenny what's going on, sir?

Speaker 2: 1:14:32

Hey, thank you. Hey, Michael, this is. This is Kenny Calzone. Changed my name on Twitter, kind of rebranding myself now, but but yeah, I just wanted to jump up and say, you know, as a member of the community, like I really appreciate you, you know, doing these AMAs, going out, talking to the community, Like I'd love to hear more of this going forward. Like you said, there's a lot happening in the back burner that you didn't even get to today and personally, I know I'd love to hear those details and a lot of other people would love to hear those details as well. So, you know, just wanted to say thank you for doing this AMA and I look forward to hearing more and joining more of them going forward.

Speaker 3: 1:15:16

Well, kenny, we're the one who thanks you because you've been an active, supportive, positive member for Decentralweb for as long as I can remember, man, and that goes a really long way, dude, and we really appreciate the support.

Speaker 3: 1:15:28

And you've been nothing with but positive man, even in dark times when people are, you know, in the bear market, freaking out and and looking for people to blame, and you know you were always a positive light.

Speaker 3: 1:15:39

So, uh, yeah, man, we're, we're really grateful to have you on a part of our community and, um, you know, happy to do these more and more often as, as the time permits and there's a ton of stuff happening and it'd be exciting to have Benjamin also to have a platform and, you know, ask him what drew him to DecentralWeb and what he's working on and what the future plans are for integrations and partnerships on his behalf will be. But there's a lot to be excited about right now, man, and you know I thank those, especially, you know, certain members of the community that were extremely patient with us and realizing that the markets and conditions were not, you know, ideal. So, yeah, man, just really again, thank you for being a part of the community and you know we look forward to having other community members hopefully a part of this AMA. Hopefully you get a nice takeaway from this. So I appreciate everyone that took the time to come and listen today and hopefully you heard some cool, beneficial stuff.

Speaker 3: 1:16:41

And if you're not on yet, man, hop on DecentraChat. Shit's awesome, dude.

Speaker 1: 1:16:48

Hop on. It really is. It is a very nice application that works extremely well. Um, again, I've already got a private chat that I'm going to set up, uh, using it for some of my degen activities. So very much looking forward to to getting that rolling. And thank you again for coming on the space again. Um, I want to remind everybody we are very blessed with the type of guests that we're able to get on the space. You know, if you're a builder, it is a blessing to be able to connect with those who are building these platforms that we're using to grow the space. So thank you again for taking the time to come on here.

Speaker 1: 1:17:20

There is a lot of technical stuff to the platform, so I am looking forward to doing more spaces because, if you are a tech oriented person and you like to build, you're a tech oriented person and you like to build. I think the sensor web has a very good what do you call it? Template or a base to work off of, and I kind of want to dive into more of those things as well, cause I think a lot of times, most of the spaces are always, again, they're talking about what the platform has already built for. For you. That's plug and play, but I think we should have a lot more conversations about what people can do kind of individually on the development end for those who want to build their own product on the side, and I know that you guys very much empower that. So, yeah, thank you again for coming on. Thank you for Kenny for coming up, thank you, crypto Reporter for being on stage and showing love and supporting.

Speaker 1: 1:18:04

Yeah, you guys have attended another Tech Talk AMA. Hope you enjoy the rest of the week. As always, like I said, our spaces are recorded, so if you do want to listen back to this AMA, you'll be able to do so in a couple of days on techtalkhost, which will be on every major podcast player, and we'll also do a recap blog and it will be embedded on our website at iheartdomainscom. I wish you guys all the best of the rest of the week. I'm sure there's probably going to be a whole bunch of dramatic spaces going on today and tomorrow and the rest of the week about that weird patent. So look forward to seeing y'all in those ones. And thank you again, michael. I'll see you in D-Chat.

Speaker 3: 1:18:43

Take care everyone, Thank you.