Breaking Down MetaMask Snap: Freename's Game-Changing Integration

Freename has fundamentally changed the Web3 domain landscape with its groundbreaking MetaMask Snap integration - now live and ready for users worldwide. This pivotal development allows anyone with a Freename domain to send and receive crypto using human-readable names like "wen.airdrop" instead of complicated wallet addresses, directly within MetaMask.

What makes this integration truly revolutionary isn't just its functionality, but its collaborative approach to the broader ecosystem. Unlike other naming services that operate in isolation, Freename's MetaMask Snap resolves domains across multiple naming protocols - not just Freename domains, but also Unstoppable Domains and ENS names. This "one Snap to rule them all" philosophy eliminates the need for multiple extensions and creates a seamless user experience regardless of which naming service you prefer.

The multi-chain foundation that powers Freename stands as a core advantage that differentiates it from single-chain naming systems. With support for eight different blockchains including Polygon, BSC, Base, Solana, Aurora, and Chiliz (with more coming soon), Freename offers unprecedented flexibility. TLD owners can strategically choose which blockchain best aligns with their community needs, while SLD users maintain the freedom to mint on their preferred chain regardless of where the TLD itself resides.

This strategic flexibility future-proofs domain investments by allowing users to adapt to changing blockchain landscapes. If one chain experiences issues or another gains popularity for specific applications, Freename domain owners aren't locked into a single ecosystem. Instead, they can position themselves wherever the most value and utility exists.

Ready to experience this game-changing integration yourself? The installation process could not be simpler - just access the Snaps tab in your MetaMask wallet, search for Freename, and follow the straightforward installation prompts. Once installed, y

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction and Free Name Snap Announcement
• 5:23 Understanding Web3 Domains vs Web2 Domains
• 10:31 Multi-Chain Domain Minting Explained
• 17:46 The Strategic Value of Blockchain Choice
• 26:13 MetaMask Snap Integration Overview
• 33:42 One Snap to Rule Them All: Multi-Name Service

Transcript

Speaker 1: 1:40

you, you, you, you. Yeah, I think I was talking on mute, I don't know if you were able to hear me, but GM, gm, going to get started here in just a few moments, actually putting a few things to the top of the space. So getting to those now. But yeah, looking forward is set up right now. So, yeah, hopefully the awkward silence doesn't bore you, but again, we'll get started here in just a moment. Yeah, again, it's going to be a good one, really covering, you know, this very huge announcement that we've obviously been, you know, kind of been the hot topic of the week for free games. So, yep, but give me just a moment, all right, all right, see, that wasn't too bad, let's hop right on into it and get started. So yeah, thank you and welcome to our Tech Talk podcast.

Speaker 1: 2:56

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Speaker 1: 4:12

I'm going to start with a little bit of opening news. I mean, obviously the biggest piece of opening news, and what's going to become like extremely obvious by the end of this particular episode, is that Freename's MetaMask Snap integration is finally live. It is working. This is what we were talking about in the focus of today's Tech Talk, but that is pretty much the biggest news in my ecosystem as far as I'm concerned, and I'm going to go into it obviously in bigger detail, talking about it throughout the space, but just to kind of briefly touch on it. You know now you know all free names, the main names, ecosystem wide if they have the reverse resolution set on them, are able to resolve within metamask by just installing free name snap integration or extension. It's extremely easy to do, which again I'm going to cover, but that is opened up. You know, a world of opportunity. Now we have wallet integration, and not just wallet integration, but major wallet integration.

Speaker 1: 5:13

Metamask is one of the probably the most utilized and staples in the space. It ain't the most user friendly right, but it is still definitely a go to and diehard wallet for every developer. I use my MetaMask every single day, so for me this is definitely a game changer and, yes, so definitely looking forward to diving a lot more into you know the particulars of that integration and how that works. A little later in the spaces, but yes, that is the biggest opening news. A little later in the spaces, but yes, that is the biggest opening news. And then, actually, I am going to probably just start diving into the content at hand because there's a little bit to cover, but once again, I do want to remind everyone listening that the registry for our own free name TLDs that now resolve on MetaMask is open for registration. So that is dot dgen, dot x chain, dot 8888 that's five eights and dot defi wallet, among others, including dot spaces, host and dot gamertag, are available for you to mint your, your sld, which is your left on the dot, on those tlds. These are forever domains, so you buy once and own forever. You can get it as cheap as two dollars and 50 cents and any free name discounts that are currently available are available on our TLDs because we have enabled those discounts. So, yeah, feel free to go and register on any of those domains. You're pretty solid ones. Dot DJ is a very good universal identity. And again, now you can use those domains within Minimask with the extension. All right. So about to get into the main topic. And again, now you can use those domains within MetaMask with the SNAP extension. All right, so about to get into the main topic.

Speaker 1: 6:52

As typical, I do like to introduce the Web3 Domain Workshop and the purpose of our workshop in this series. As you see in the title of the space, the title of this workshop is Free Name, is Multi-Chain. And what is MetaMask Snap? The Web3 Domain Workshop is part of our initiative to help educate both our VIP community and our general domain community about the different ways you can utilize and use Web3 domains, mostly from a free name ecosystem perspective, because that is where the greatest opportunity lies. But most of what we say and even in this case you'll kind of catch on as well is pretty much just general good stuff for anybody who's in the space to know. Right, a lot of the alpha, a lot of the education that we try to offer during these Web2Debate workshops can be utilized no matter what naming system that you I guess you're bullish on or whatever tribe you belong to. A lot of the tools that FreeName has built are actually not only just multi-chain but they're also multi-naming service.

Speaker 1: 7:51

So whether you're, you know, a maxi of, you know those other guys, or whether you're, you know, a diehard, you know FNTLD owner, this Web3Domain workshop is here to provide value to you so that you can deep dive and learn more about how to both use and, of course, communicate the value, so that you can then sell domains from your TLDs. So we do this every Thursday within our VIP community In that format. We do it in Google Meet, so our VIPs are able to show up live, ask questions. There's an open space for our VIPs to build together For more information for how to become a VIP. Feel free to join our community and ask and we'll tell you. I mean it's not like a big secret, but, yeah, this is a utility that we provide for our VIPs live every Thursday morning and then we follow it up with this spaces on Friday. So there we go. Our Web3Domain workshop is sponsored by Freename.

Speaker 1: 8:46

And also one last thing I'd like to do before diving into this tech talk is I do like to get everybody on the same page because, again, this is broadcasted to an audience that is outside of crypto Twitter. So some people are hearing about what this is for the first time, discovering what these are for the first time, and they may get confused. They may hear the word domains and think that we're talking about those coms, those infos, those ios, those nets and bizs. We are talking about something a little bit different. So Web2 domains are what those are referencing and Web3 domains is what normally I'm talking about.

Speaker 1: 9:20

Right, web2 domains, as I just explained, work to resolve, to IP addresses, to take you from that human readable address to content that exists on the other side. So just as you typed in facebookcom or xcom to get here, that's how Web2 domains work. Web3 domains work in a similar format but in a completely different technology stack. In this world of Web3, your identity, your means of getting paid, your means of interacting with people, is your blockchain address. That blockchain address is a bunch of random characters. I don't even know how long it is, but it's long. It's impossible to remember, but, in any event, just like an IP address is impossible to remember and a human readable address makes them now accessible to the world, in Web3, the human readable address makes your blockchain address easier to read and easier to share with the world. So we are talking about the Web3 things, domains that resolve the blockchain addresses, not those Web2 things. So I think it's all on the same page.

Speaker 1: 10:19

And now, with that being said, let's dive into the workshop. This is going to be a two-part workshop. We are first going to be talking about the multi-chain capabilities of Freename and then we are going to dive into MetaMask Snap. So, again diving into an exciting workshop covering Freename's multi-chain domain, meaning I'm going to break down how Freename is revolutionizing domain ownership by allowing users to mint on multiple blockchains, giving them flexibility and strategic advantages over single chain naming systems and, again, not to knock any of the single chain naming systems, but in the greater ecosystem and in the greater economic opportunity that we provide our investors. You'll see why this is important to have this flexibility. Then we're diving to our new MetaMask Snap plugin and how it enables the seamless resolution of free name domains inside of the MetaMask wallet, making it easier than ever to use Web3 domains in your day-to-day transactions.

Speaker 1: 11:18

All right, so going into our multi-chain domain minting, most Web3 domain providers that we are familiar with typically build on a single blockchain. As I stated in yesterday's workshop, there are a few that have a couple of chains. I think even UD now allows you the option to mint on base or something like that, maybe even Solana. At this point, some of them are starting to allow a little bit of multi-chain flexibility, but for the most part like ENS specifically, even though Summit built that technology on other EVM platforms are usually limited to a single blockchain. So that means once you mint your domain, you're locked into that ecosystem with really no flexibility to migrate or integrate across chains.

Speaker 1: 12:02

Freename was multi-chain from the start and if we narrow this down like, let's say, we just take, let's take the SLD ecosystems out of the picture, right, let's talk about just some of the TLD players out there and at the time right at FreeName's launch, and what they brought to the table at that time the players again at that time, at the height of kind of like the TLD introduction and opportunity, blah, blah, blah have always been. You know, a handshake on one end, central web on the other and again, free name showing up with the ability to mint on multiple chains. At the time was a big game changer, because that wasn't something that the other ecosystems allowed or was even really usable. We're going to get into and that is since expanded, but there's like another technology that's aligned with that. That's even more impressive than I'm going to get into at this point. But again, so what that technology allows you to basically do is whether you're minting a TLD, you get the choice of blockchain. You want to make that to, as well, as those who are minting their SLD are able to mint on the blockchain of their choice. I'll explain how that works and why that works FreeName currently.

Speaker 1: 13:20

So at the time of FreeName's launch, I'm pretty sure there was three blockchains. I didn't remember the last one because I think it was one that, on a blockchain, I just didn't utilize, but the two big ones that they launched on originally were Polygon and BSC, and that was the thing that attracted me the most, because, as I've said a million times in my origin story, I was extremely bullish on Binance Smart Chain for a good portion of my entry into this space. So, as such, I've minted some of my early TLDs onto BSC, but for the most part, most of the legacy domains in the Freedom ecosystem reside on either Polygon or BSC, hence why a lot of our integrations work with our Polygon and BSC domains. But we actually support eight blockchains currently today, and those eight blockchains include, you know, base now we are also able to mint on Solana Aurora. We have Chili's now we just added them and a few more, so we have eight blockchains.

Speaker 1: 14:27

Easily go to free name IO to see them, and this is one of the things that we were able to walk through yesterday Almost every piece of information about our up-to-date integrations, about how to use our domains, about anything that we've developed, like even Linkstar, whois and things like that. They're right on the homepage of freenameio. You just got to scroll down. It's a very, very information-packed homepage. So all of these blockchains and the icons for each of them, and even some of the ones that are going to be added soon are all in the section on the website at Freenameio, so visit that website. You'll see them all there. But we now again support bidding on eight different blockchains. So the level of flexibility and getting more coming soon, and there's several reasons why you may want to choose, you know, one blockchain over another.

Speaker 1: 15:15

I'm not really going to dive into that too much here, but you know, as far as like base, base has become extremely popular for being, you know, very consumer friendly blockchain dirt sheet being able to use pretty much. It's on the EVM stack, so I mean it's. It's basically a faster Ethereum, faster, cheaper Ethereum, and it's gained a ton of popularity. It's one that's popular with me. Now. I've since stopped becoming a BSC chain maxi and I'm not really a maxi of another chain, but if you were to say I was, you would probably pick base as bullish. I am on base and all the different apps that are built over there, um, but also like solana, of course, right, like meme culture, a lot of tvl over there. Projects move fast. They're building over there too as well, um, so I mean there's a lot of value to solana and, of course, like there's a lot of wallets, um, that you know, hey, you never know potentially we may have a native integration with those as well, and those wallets are solid too as far as their ui and capabilities. So, and, and we'll get in.

Speaker 1: 16:17

I'm already hinting to why there's a benefit to having different blockchains, because there is different values on those different chains and, depending on what you're building, that value might mean more to you than something being locked on another chain. And, yeah, I'm going to dive into it. But, again, several different chains, depending on your needs, depending on how that chain operates and depending on how scalable that chain is for you. Um, the level of flexibility that we offer again, is unmatched in the space. And then some of the other ecosystems have since got multi-chain, but not like this, um, so, uh, going into why multi-chain minting has value and why it matters and this is diving deeper into, like, the specific benefits of each chain and so, on the surface, like choosing the right blockchain for your Web3 domain, it's not just about preference. There's really strategy to it.

Speaker 1: 17:13

As I explained yesterday during the workshop, most of the TLDs that I have on the Freename platform I actually have not minted, so they're sitting on the platform, they're waiting for which blockchain. I want to choose Again, like if I had minted them all when I bought them, I would have been choosing between BSC and Solana. Now we've got like six other choices and in the future we're going to have a lot more. But the reason why I've left them un-minted is because I have plans to build with these right, and I don't know what or where I'm going to build them yet. So it's a strategy to leave them un-minted and it's a strategy to figure out where to mint them. And so the first part of that strategy is I and again, do your own research, take my advice with a grain of salt. But one of the first things I think you should ask yourself between the you know, before choosing which blockchain to mint your TLD to, is where do you plan on building or creating a community for this project? Like where? Where were you find the utility or integrations, or finding easier to find partnerships for utilities and integrations? Uh, for your tld.

Speaker 1: 18:22

And let me kind of explain something a little briefly here as well. So all these blockchains, all these ecosystems, you've got two things working simultaneously and and again. Like this is why I mean there's a difference in opportunity here and I just got to be point blank. It's what it is Like. There's, there's money to be made on other ecosystems, but there really is a really big difference in opportunity here, because you've got someone out here that's building for you, but then you're able to take the wheel and build for yourself in a way that gives your, your TLD or your domain ecosystem you know, substantially more value. So you stand out from the crowd.

Speaker 1: 18:59

So, as the free name is expanding right, as it's creating partnerships, as it's launching on other blockchains, as it's trying to gain more integrations, et cetera, you, at the exact same time, while your TLD sits on some, you know a blockchain like a Solana, etc. I mean you have access and can link any developer up with the same. You know APIs and all that good stuff to integrate free name resolvers into their ecosystems as anyone else can. So if you're, you know, a go-getter and you are running an independent registry and you're out here, you know, with multiple TLDs, looking for additional utility and integrations, you have these conversations with developers and projects yourself, create those relationships and now your TLD will resolve. You know on the blockchain that you choose. If you find one is easier to build a relationship with. You can create individual utility for your own TLD.

Speaker 1: 19:56

That's what I'm saying, like there's. There's a different opportunity here where you're able to really grow and build something. That's both turnkey because, again, we're building on our side to do these things for you so that everybody in the Freename ecosystem is expanding and getting additional utility but then you're also able to add additional value by going out and making these partnerships yourself, especially ones that align with whatever your TLD is about right. So, again, when you're choosing where to met your TLD, having the option of all these blockchains that you can now look into and create relationships with and decide are the best to build your project, and then you know, waiting until you make that decision before you met that TLD, yeah, I think that's a big value. And again, it's up to you to do the research and find which ecosystem aligns best with your use case. And so that's on the TLD side, right On the SLD side.

Speaker 1: 20:54

So, as a business owner, business opportunity with free name allows you to buy what is called a top level domain in Web3. Remember. So we're not talking about dot coms, dot infos, dot, nips. We're talking about for lack of better reference dot, each step in NFTs, dot X in NFTsx, the web, three domains, freename allows you to create your own both personal ecosystem if you own a brand, as well as invest in lucrative ecosystem if you purchase keywords like ggin in the case that we own, that I described earlier. So if, when the and so here and I remember I said earlier in the spaces that I was going to explain kind of another unique feature of this multi chain technology so on the TLD owner side, as an investor, you're able to make that on the blockchain of your choice. Just describe to you every single benefit of that just right now, one of the super unique things about our ecosystem is that your community or whoever your fans, whether they're coming to you because you have a community benefit or initiativeLD, they are able to mint their SLD on the blockchain of their choice. And that's super duper unique.

Speaker 1: 22:22

And now I'm going to get into why you know someone would want to do that. So, first and foremost, obviously, if you're like in the case of Chili's, this is a perfect example. Obviously, if you're like in the case of Chili's, this is a perfect example. So Chili's TLD is live. That CAC the majority of their initial community, I would expect will met their you know their preferred username, likely on the Chili's blockchain, right.

Speaker 1: 22:50

So, and that's you know not to get into what names you should mint and that type of advice, but I always advise people when you're coming into the ecosystem. At the end of the day, these are names. Come in to invest. We talked about the strategies later but the first name you should always get is yours, the one you're going to use. So, let's say, most of the people in the Chili's ecosystem onboarded to their ecosystem with their name and they likely will, because Chili's has offered a bunch of incentives to their communities and holders to get free ones. So cool, bam I come and I claim that.

Speaker 1: 23:20

But then I click right that there's other names out here because, again, even in the SLD space, there's a very lucrative opportunity to resell names if they are popular, right. If they are brand names which I don't recommend people you know necessarily get too deep into but keywords et cetera, like there's, again, speculate as you will, but if you want to expand your portfolio outside of your own name, I think it's important that you can hold those names and then choose later where you want that name to be, depending on what opportunity exists on that other chain, right. So, again, if there's a bunch of utility being created and built from a free name side, right, just so happens to be heavy on Solana, right for a good season. Like, let's say, we just make some killer integrations over there and you love Chili's as an identity, right, you love CXE, but you may love the utility that's being built on this other block chain. You have the option of doing both, right, you could be a great community member and show your identity for that, you know, via that TLD, but minted on the block of your choice, and then go utilize those integrations. Case in point right, and I see my buddy Kiosk in the crowd. Thank you for pulling up.

Speaker 1: 24:38

This will be one that you can easily relate to. So, webhash, for instance Remember I was talking about those, our earliest blockchains, what we launched with. Well, webhash is one of our earliest partners and because of that, our integration with WebHash, I think, is limited to BSC and Polygon chains, right. So if you want to build a decentralized Web site for your dot CZTL, for your dot CZ domain name, again, you have the option of grabbing your name on the Chili's blockchain and then grabbing additional names and using those names to connect to something like WebHash and then build out your decentralized no-code website if you met them on Polygon or on BSC or on, I think, baseworks as well. So again, some of the different blockchains will offer different integrations, will offer different use cases as we continue to spend and create partnerships. So it both matters where you met your TLD, depending on, again, your community that you're building, and what kind of blockchain offers you the most value and maybe even identity. Maybe you're maxing up a certain chain or, and then even on the SLD side, it adds extreme benefit with that flexibility.

Speaker 1: 25:49

Question always gets asked if you mint on one chain, can you move it to another? Again, currently no, we've had these discussions in the early days of Freename, where it's technically possible. It just hasn't been made publicly available for it to happen. Not saying it won't in the future, but that's something to be bullish on and maybe campaign and lobby for. But again, this feature by itself blows anything out of the water and then if we were able to move them later, that would be super crazy.

Speaker 1: 26:16

Also, counter-extraction right. That is another thing that eventually you know that technology is out there, but I think its value is being slipped on and I anticipated some, you know, eventually being integrated into our naming platform and with a counter distraction, it literally wouldn't matter what chain you meant it on. So, yeah, that is. So. That dives a little bit into the strategy and behind which chain you choose and how to find the value that best fits what you're looking for.

Speaker 1: 26:49

Now, again, again, comparing these to other naming ecosystems and and you know why this is a value and helps you know, free name individually stand out is, again, especially at its onset and specifically in the opportunity that exists here, which is, you know, the ability to buy tlds, right? Um, most of those naming systems are tied to a single blockchain, and even in the case of an ENS domain, well, and so EVM has, and I'll give it to ENS ENS has expanded to other EVM-based chains with not natively, so you can't mint the eth on any of them, but you can mint subdomains from other ecosystems that are on EVM chains, such as Base, linnaeus, et cetera. So I mean, yeah, cool, I mean there's ways to make it work, but for the most part, their native naming service. Again, if you mint their domain, it's limited to Ethereum, it's on Ethereum, it's on ETH. No matter what the way is, it comes with a little time. That's where you're going to pay. The same thing with UD. If you met their domain, for the most part they were unstoppable. They were on Polygon. They were on ETH for a little bit too as well, when they first launched Crazy and then now base a little bit. Here's where that kind of and then obviously all other ecosystems.

Speaker 1: 28:10

So almost every other naming protocol is just straight up Like Solana name service works on Solana. That's it. Bns works on Bitcoin, that's it Sats name service works on. Is it Sats? Yeah, sats name service works on Bitcoin or works on Sats. And then the other one, the Stats name service, works on Sats.

Speaker 1: 28:30

You get my point. They are all limited to where they are built. The problem with that is and so it's not necessarily a problem, but again, so I'm going to say two things. Right, I have both predicted, and I get to completely understand, that every single blockchain will likely create its own naming protocol and that that naming protocol will likely be the most useful naming protocol or the most integration friendly protocol within that blockchain, integration-friendly protocol within that blockchain. Why? Because it's built there, right? I don't expect us to be able to build a better naming protocol on Bitcoin than BNS can, but maybe we can. I don't know. I don't know how they work, I don't know if they're working that well over there, but you get my point right. So, with that being said, I am pro naming. You know, I'm pro blockchains exploring. I'm not necessarily pro them exploring creating their own. You know TLDs and blockchain naming systems. I obviously do want them all to come to FreeDane, but I understand why they would right Now.

Speaker 1: 29:36

Here's the problem with that. Where do you see sats being used in the wild outside of being shilled on Twitter as a username, right? The problem is is that if that ecosystem isn't building fast enough, or if your ecosystem just doesn't support the technology like in the case of Bitcoin, right, building the Sats technology or Ordinal's technology and all that on top of it and having to build L2, like there's stuff that has to be done in order to make that ecosystem usable and because your naming system is stuck there, that's just what it is right, and so you can't transfer it. There's a lack of usefulness and interoperability being stuck on one chain. I mean there are some examples where being on one chain, in the case of ENSs, work just fine for them, right, because they have tons of integration. So I mean there's different sides of the spectrum, but again, there is value to be had there and there's limitations with being stuck on certain chains.

Speaker 1: 30:32

And again you end up stuck with, you know, the DApps and the wallets of that blockchain and then, if that blockchain happens to have any issues or risk, your domain usability is affected. Right, to have any issues or risk, your domain usability is affected, right, I'm not going to like double down too much on saying, like Solana blockchain is going to go down every five minutes, but it has gone down, right, I've experienced the unusefulness of Solana, right. So for some names or for your main name, you may choose. Like hey, that's not where I want to put it right. Well, in the case of, you know, having a sold, you don't have that choice. If you need to send, if you need to give somebody a wallet address super quick for them to send you some sold and that name's not usable, you don't have anything else to send them and you have to kind of just wait till it clears up, whereas if you had another name that were resolved to it or resolved somewhere else, you can give them something different.

Speaker 1: 31:26

So, again, some of these risks may affect you, some of these things may never affect you, but I think one of the biggest strengths and beauties about blockchain that we all appreciate and want to see more of is the ability to choose. I think choice adds value and then value ultimately gives you a bigger return on your investment. So free names multi-chain approach removes a lot of the barriers, I think, that affect other naming systems. Again, it offers all of our domain investors and builders a very distinct advantage with allowing you know you to choose which blockchain to emit your TLD to, while also allowing any of your customers to choose where they want to emit their SLDs. I think it future proofs all of our domains in our ecosystem. And, again, we're continuing to expand the blockchains, continuing to expand and add other blockchains.

Speaker 1: 32:24

So, again, if you want to see the chains that we're integrated with, you can go on freenameio, scroll down to it. It's pretty near the bottom, but you'll see all the logos, pretty bright and clear. It's impossible to miss. You'll also see some of the previews of what is coming soon. So, yeah, hope you are bullish on that utility.

Speaker 1: 32:43

Again, it's one of the most attractive things that initially brought me to FreeName in the first place, especially because they allowed minting on BSC, and at the time that FreeName launched on BSC, there was only one name and I think there still is only one naming protocol on BSC, which was SpaceID. So it really did offer a really strategic advantage for me because, being a part of the BSC community, I actually was able to get a lot of mentors and holders from my own community and that community that I belong to on BSC. They were weirdos like me. They would literally not mint something if it wasn't on BSC, so that was the only way I could get them to mint them. So yeah, there we go.

Speaker 1: 33:27

Now let's jump into part two and I'll try to grind through this pretty quickly. We do have our Web3 domain. Well, talk for free name in about an hour. So definitely invite you guys to pull up there as well, especially any of our. Well, not again keep this secret. Okay, so cool, metamask Snap, as I've pinned at the top one of my recent tweets. One snap to rule them all. I will explain what I mean by that.

Speaker 1: 33:49

But what is the MetaMask Snap plugin? Again, if you're active in Web3, you've likely used MetaMask as one of your go to wallets and even if you don't, you've certainly heard of it. Metamask is basically again one of the first or original wallets, I think, that utilize like this UI and have a mobile wallet that exists in the space. It is very easy to add other blockchains, evm based, and it's an EVM based wallet, so let me clarify that as well. Yeah, I don't think it supports any blockchains outside of EVM based blockchains yet, but meaning any platform that utilizes a zero X address and resolves, or is basically ETH layer one or EVM layer two. You can import into this wallet by integrating the RPC and most of its plug and play anyway.

Speaker 1: 34:43

But one of the frustrating limitations of MetaMask if you're not like an ENS maxi have been its inability to resolve any other domain service outside of ENS until the introduction of their Snap technology. So their Snap technology was introduced a little while ago. I think it first came on my radar I want to say close to a year ago, not sure who all else has integrated with it, did some really cool things with our resolver that I'll explain here in a little bit to work with the snap integration. That really does make it like one snap to rule them all. So, tldr, what this all means is, with the new MetaMask snap integration, you can now use your free name domains directly in MetaMask with just a simple plug in name domains directly in MetaMask with just a simple plugin. That means you can now send and receive crypto using a human, readable free name domain address instead of your long wallet address. That means, instead of now opening up MetaMask and typing in bobjoneseth, which has worked great, kudos to ENS and that integration. Shout out to y'all, we know what y'all did to get that. Kudos to ENS and that integration. Shout out to y'all, we know what y'all did to get that. But now you can type in, as I pinned at the top of the screen, winairdrop and do the exact same thing.

Speaker 1: 36:13

And airdrop is one of FreeName's corporate TLDs. It's one to watch because you never know what they might do with their own TLDs. But obviously, as I explained at the beginning of the space, my AKA, my alias, is Wynn Airdrop, so this would be my real domain. So Wynnairdrop now resolves in MetaMask and you can send money directly to it. That is one of my wallet addresses and, as I explained earlier, I guess in the first 30 minutes of the space, we are a multi-chain, so any chain that any of your domains reside on, as long as they're one of the EVM chains because Solana is you can meet there too, and I don't think that'll work here. But if you met your domain onto any of the EVM options that we have, they will resolve up here and of course, it'll pull up here where that domain is sitting, and it doesn't matter where it's sitting. You can send, as long as it resolves, to that address. If you're wanting to send base um to someone, if you're wanting to send it eth, mainnet, uh, eth, if whatever it is, whatever token it is on the even blockchain, it's going to get there. That's all it needs. So you're good to go Um and again all of the uh, uh.

Speaker 1: 37:25

So another big thing about this as well, and why this is like the one stamp to move them all or to rule them all, is, in addition to being multi-chain um, our naming plug or this plugin or our particular snap, is actually also multi name service Um. So done a couple of demos, uh demos in previous weeks or a month or so ago, or I forget which workshop right now. We've done quite a few of these, but in some of the beginning workshops, one of the first things that I dove into was our plugin and our resolver In our own free name plugin, which has been live, which you can use and which is awesome and which I encourage everybody to explore, because there's some other great features on there, including the ability to resolve to whatever websites you have connected to it to forward to. But within that particular plugin there is the ability to also connect your any MetaMask wallet or base. I think it has a MetaMask as one option and then maybe wallet connected to the other. But basically you can connect any wallet that has funds to it and then you can use it to send to any Web3 address and it obviously it has a free name resolver built into it. So if you wanted to send to WinAirdrop at that point, you could then. But one of the features that I was able to go through in detail then and it exists in this plugin as well is that that plugin or that resolver is multi-name service. So in our free name extension you can send to not only free name domain names, but you can also send to unstoppable domain names as well as ENS domain names, unstoppable domain names as well as ENS domain names.

Speaker 1: 39:04

So, as I explained earlier, snap has been out for a little bit. A couple web I know for sure. I believe that UD has a plugin on Snap or has its own Snap. There may be others that have their Snap. The thing that's going to end up happening, right, is, I don't know if native integration with MetaMask, like straight up, straight up, is ever going to happen outside of ENS. Right, and it doesn't need to, because Snap works awesome.

Speaker 1: 39:30

The problem is is that if you have names on multiple name services, you're going to need to download each one of their snaps, and I mean I guess that'll work fine. They'll just all be listed here but then, like, each one of them maintains their own snap, et cetera. It's just a lot of maintenance. Anything can go wrong there. With our multi-name service snap, let's say that you're bullish on both Unstoppable and you're bullish on FreeName and you may be bullish on a couple other naming services that will integrate you know, very soon into our resolver.

Speaker 1: 40:04

Instead of having to download all of their snaps, you can download just our one snap and it'll resolve them all, so, just as our snap. If you just had our snap within MetaMask, not only would ENS still work perfectly like it does, but you would be able to send money to winairdrop, as you see in the pin. Also, if you owned winairdropx, as I do, you'd be able to type that in as well and it would resolve that to the stoppable domain as well. So one snap to move them all, to rule them all, and again, that helps with the customer experience. For those of us who are extremely familiar with this space and don't mind again going to Snap and downloading all these plugins and going through these hoops, and don't mind again going to Snap and downloading all these plugins and going through these hoops, I don't know for what reason you would probably ever want to download every naming service to Snap. If you could download one, it just doesn't make any sense. But let's just say you're that guy. The people you're introducing to this space are definitely not that guy. Right, we're trying to find ways to make this easier and we're trying to eliminate steps.

Speaker 1: 41:07

So again, freename has always had this ethos of wanting to work beside and with the other naming protocols rather than replace them. From the start, as has been evident in their extension, in their own Freename extension, Our resolver has been multi-name service. It is something that I know that we are doubling down on and going to expand on and again, we want people to be able to come integrate our technology. Because there is there again, there's a bigger world outside of what we're currently interacting with in web3, which is these simple wallets and stuff like that. But even with that that's one world. But going outside of this, when we you, we have the ability to really integrate into technology and things that are like in the real world, being able to give somebody one integration that brings all naming services really just adds so much value to our ecosystem. So again, that that our resolver, our snap you know a lot of value.

Speaker 1: 42:01

Whether you're bullish on any other ecosystem, you should be able to get by with just the free name snap. So again, a lot bigger than it looks on the surface. Kudos to free name for building in this way. And this is why, with our workshops and I preface our workshops with again, a lot of the technology that we're building, a lot of the you know the moves that you know free name is making the space, a lot of the moves that Freename is making in the space, a lot of the connections that Freename and bridges that Freename is crossing with ICANN, with all that good stuff. These things benefit everybody, right, it doesn't matter what ecosystem you're bullish on. The future of Web3 domains, I believe, is collaborative. There's space for everybody to innovate and build within it. And so, again, kudos for free name, for always recognizing that and staying kind of on that page rather than, you know, building in toxicity, because there are some naming services that that you know aren't getting anywhere because they don't want to recognize the value of other people. So good stuff there.

Speaker 1: 43:04

So, lastly, I'm going to go into just how simple it is to integrate MetaMask Snap or the free name MetaMask Snap into your existing MetaMask, because that's another important thing. If you're already, you know, got to make sure this isn't hard to do, right. So if you're Web3 native, this is a piece of cake. If you're being walked through it by somebody and you're not Web3 native, this is still a piece of cake. If you're not Web3 native and don't have a MetaMask, once you learn how to install the MetaMask extension into your browser, you will be more than efficient to install a snap. But for those of you I'm assuming that you have your MetaMask open on your browser If you open that MetaMask and you go into your options, there is literally a tab that says snaps.

Speaker 1: 43:52

So it's right there. You will click on that. When you click on that, that will actually show you all the snaps that you have installed currently on your MetaMask extension. If you have never used Snap before, that should be zero. If you have downloaded the UD1 or whoever else's one, those will be there. Okay, there will be a tab at the bottom where you're able to go and explore more or search the Snaps directory.

Speaker 1: 44:17

So you click that and it will take you to snapsmetamaskio. There is a search bar at the top of that page and all you would do is start typing in free name. By the time you get to the fourth letter, e, and get to that N, it should automatically populate that free name resolution snap and all you have to do is click on that. It will take you to that page. You'll click install. There's a couple of wallet prompts that'll pop up and then, voila, you will be integrated.

Speaker 1: 44:47

This is not something that you have to do every single time you log in. This is done. This is not something that you have to click on and off. This is not something you have to toggle. There's not a special version of MetaMask you have to log into. In the future, from now on, when you log into your MetaMask wallet, you will be able to resolve both your ENS domains, stoppable domains thankful to our snap and, of course, all of the free name ecosystem, as long as a person has set the reverse resolution going into that part. Now, I'm saying that because as long as somebody sets a reverse resolution, that was a part of the Web3 domain workshop. We kind of got cut off on a little bit earlier yesterday. But, as I've said a million times, your domains are your digital identity. Because of your identity, they need information in order for them to be useful. If you own a free name domain or a domain from anywhere, bro, set your records, set up an avatar, set reverse resolution, put in your wallet addresses, that's it.