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May 1, 2025 36 mins

The digital identity revolution is gaining momentum, and strategic partnerships are proving to be the ultimate growth accelerator. In this illuminating Tech Talk, Marcus (Wen Airdrop) explores how collaborations are fundamentally reshaping the Web3 domain landscape while creating substantial value for everyone involved.

Partnerships in this space fall into two powerful categories. Ecosystem partnerships, like Freename's integration with MetaMask Snap, expand technical capabilities and utility. These collaborations ensure domains work seamlessly across platforms, wallets, and blockchains. Meanwhile, community partnerships with projects like Chimpers, Bearish, and Chiliz bring entirely new audiences into the digital identity space. The Chiliz partnership stands out by introducing Web3 domains to the massive sports blockchain community – a demographic largely separate from typical crypto users but perfect for digital identity adoption.

For TLD investors, these partnerships drive a virtuous cycle of increasing value. As more communities adopt Web3 domains, demand rises for prime digital real estate, elevating TLD values while generating passive income through registrations. This partnership-driven growth strategy benefits the entire ecosystem: platforms gain users, communities gain utility, and investors see both appreciation and revenue.

The conversation also reveals exciting new developments: AI-powered daily Tech Talk clips across social platforms, the DomainXBT tool providing domain appraisals and website generation, and the public launch of the Freename Ambassador Program. Looking ahead to 2025 – predicted to be "the year of partnerships" – there are abundant opportunities for everyone to participate in this growing ecosystem, whether by initiating collaborations, building new tools, or simply connecting communities to digital identity solutions.

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Speaker 2 (01:22):
Thank you, hello, hello everybody.
Yeah, welcome to our new timefor our Friday Tech Talk.
Yeah, thank you guys all forbeing here.
We'll get started here in justa second.
I actually pinned a couplethings at the top of the space
that I will be referencingduring this Tech Talk.
But, yeah, the first thingyou'll notice is that I have
changed the time, is that I havechanged the time, and the

(01:44):
reason why I did that obviouslyis to see if we can accommodate
more people.
The last few months of thesetech talks have been dedicated
to our Web3 domain workshop,which is why they've been timed
as such, but we might actuallystart shifting the subject
content back to how we used todo it in the old days and get a
panel up here.
So experimenting back with thistime so we can get more of our

(02:07):
more of our US people on, moreof our people west coast, east
coast on board, and yeah, so thesubject matter of these tech
talks will change shortly, backto how they used to be, which is
still going to be extremelyfocused on digital identity and
web3.
It's still likely going to beextremely focused on the value
that Freedom has to offer.
They'll just be differentsubjects than mirroring the Web3

(02:29):
domain workshop.
But yeah, with that being said,I'm going to go ahead and jump
into it and that's actually kindof a pre-.
Announcement.
But yeah, welcome to our TechTalk podcast.
My name is Marcus akaMinairdrop.
I'm the founder of iHeartDomains and we do this tech talk
usually every week.
We've done this for over twoyears now.
We use the space to highlightnews, innovation, education,

(02:52):
alpha and business developmentin the Web3 domain and digital
identity space.
We have been your number oneresource for unbiased Web3 and
blockchain domain educationalcontent, with over a hundred of
these tech talks we recorded andYouTube videos that we produced
again over the past two and ahalf years or so.
If you're curious about any ofour previous episodes or want to

(03:14):
listen to any prior recordings,you can do so really easily on
our website at iHeartDomainscom,or if you prefer to listen in
podcast form, you can do so onany podcast player, including
Apple Podcasts, spotify and ourheart radio, and you can easily
reach that at techtalkhost.
As typical fashion, going toopen up with a little bit of

(03:36):
opening news before we get intothe subject at hand Again pinned
a couple things at the top ofthe space, and a couple of them
I will reference of the spaceand a couple of them I will
reference, but yeah, as part ofagain.
Okay, so any of you who are amember of the communities that
I'm in, you probably know that Iam extremely bullish on AI.
I wouldn't necessarily callmyself an AI dev, but I'd say

(03:57):
I'm definitely somewhere in thatcrowd and I love AI.
I love building with AI.
I believe that AI is the futureof scaling, especially if
you're a one-man band or ifyou're a smaller project.
So, with that being said, I'vealways incorporated a lot of AI
into the project.
We are now going to start usingAI to produce a daily version

(04:20):
of this Tech Talk, so we'llstill always continue to record
this live here on Spaces.
But for social content right,to help with the initiative of
bringing normies into the space,I want to be able to reach
people again in smaller clips todigest and in places you know
that normies reside and they'regetting content.
So, with that being said, ourtech talk daily clips are social

(04:43):
media optimized clips that aremeant to do exactly what these
tech talk do, which is againspread the narrative, share news
, innovation, alpha about Web3domains that hopefully, will
click and resonate with peopleoutside of our space and bring
them in Current channels thatI've been posting them to.
So this has been a full week ofit.
So far, I think we've got likefive or six clips out, obviously

(05:06):
posting it here on Twitter,posting it now on my personal
social profiles, such asInstagram and TikTok, as well as
on our YouTube channel.
So you will now also see theTikTok daily clips there, as
well as the full episodes ofthese TikTok podcasts.
So, yeah, look forward toseeing that.
And if you do notice something alittle weird or say, hey,

(05:28):
something's a little off aboutthese tech talk clips, yes, they
are using AI.
So I have created a clone ofmyself and AI clone and AI
avatar actually several versionsof such and, yeah, get used to
seeing them.
These are going to be basicallyone of the ways that I scale,
you know, kind of the socialoutreach of this platform and I
build in public.

(05:49):
I build in public and I'm youknow, I love to build with
others.
So anything that I'm doing, ifyou're interested in you, want
to connect, want to learn more.
Again, our community is nothard to find and it's not hard
to join.
But the reason why I build likethis in public, because if
you're facing the same issues orif you're looking for the same
type of exposure and marketingfor your own platform, then

(06:10):
again I'm telling you I'mbuilding with AI, which is
perfectly suited for people whoare one-man bands or who need to
scale.
And now, speaking of AI, one ofthe public AI tools that I also
developed is what I'm nowcalling DomainXBT.
So, for those of you who haveknown me for a while, you may
remember the iHeartDomainsbot,and this is just the what do you

(06:35):
call it?
The reincarnation of that.
So iHeartDomainsbot has beenrenamed DomainXBT.
The reason behind the rename isfor a couple reasons A I think
Domain xbt is a lot morebrandable, uh, but b uh, this
engine uh has previously andcontinuously does and will
continue in the future it is thebrain behind most of the ai uh,

(06:58):
different solutions that I'vebeen integrating into the
protocol.
So it is is basically theterminal that powers not only
these avatars that you're nowseeing in these videos, they it
powers a lot in the protocol,and so, with that being said,
there again, there's a lot moreI plan to do with AI, automated
agents, all kinds of good things, and so the base of its

(07:20):
knowledge base will be this.
The reason why I created itpublic facing both then and now,
is because it's a tool anybodycan use.
I know people, as of late, havefound popularity in I mean
using anything that will give ita domain evaluation.
This will give you domainevaluations.
Can I promise you that there'llbe 100% spot on Nobody's can

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right?
I will tell you that this oneis going to source whatever
answer it gives you fromhistorical data.
It is going to search salesdata from name bio and other
reputable domain name sources.
It's going to take a lot inconsideration and it is going to
spit out an educated andcalculated answer so that you
have a base to work with.
Another thing that domainXBTcan do and what I have been

(08:05):
using it to do and again part ofthe building and public process
is you can also code outwebsites.
So if you have domain namesthat are sitting around,
anything hand registered, justpretty much anything and if
you're looking to create landers, you're able to use this to
spin up anything in HTML.
Will you whip up something thatlooks as nice as

(08:26):
iHeartDomainscom or someprofessionally designed website?
Probably not, but is thisenough to plug and play and get
you started and start gettingyour website SEO optimized?
Absolutely.
So, with that being said, you,as a domain or outside of
iHeartDomains, anybody canaccess the domain xbt.
Again, you can ask it foranything from domain appraisals

(08:49):
to help spin up websites toanything that is domain related,
both web 2 and web 3.
You can even ask it to helpcreate narratives and business
plans and all of that stuff foryou.
Uh, easiest way to get to it isdomainxbtcom and it will take
you straight to the chat GPT.
Well, take you straight to chatGPT.
So if you have chat GPT, onceyou access this, this will stay

(09:11):
on your left-hand side where therest of your GPTs are, and
that's the easiest way to accessit from then on out.
All right, hopefully thatwasn't too long-winded.
All right.
And then the last thing I alwayslove to leave with is yeah, we
are TLD owners in the space onFreename, just like we educate
every day, and our TLDs are openfor registration.
So for those who don't alreadyknow, our primary TLDs in our

(09:33):
registry we own quite a few, butthe ones that we stand on and
that we are currently marketingare dgen, exchain and defi
wallet and defi wallet.
If you're interested inregistering your SLD on any of
those TLDs, you can simply go toiheartdomainscom.
Right at the top of the pageyou will see buttons that say
basically mintdj, mintexchangeor mintdefi wallet we don't make

(09:57):
this hard and then it'll takeyou directly to the registration
pages where you can find thename of your choice.
You pay once, you own forever,and then you are now in the
world of digital identity and amember of our community.
And again, I try not to put abunch of promises out there, but
again, in the spirit ofbuilding in public, one of our
future plans is to potentiallyso my agents already have a

(10:23):
token and I've already owned alittle bit of the supply of that
token, which I could currentlyairdrop the holders and I might
do that just to get peopleexposure to the token that the
agent's currently back.
But, as a platform ourselves,if we ever do intend to launch a
token or partner with someoneto launch a token, then members
of our community that areholders of our domain names

(10:43):
obviously will be recipients orqualifiers of of those types of
rewards.
So, again, try not to make drypromises, but it is in my, in
the back of my mind or at thefront of my mind, in the future
expansion, expansion of ourprotocol.
So, yeah, shout out to anybodywho's already a holder and if

(11:03):
you are looking to become aholder, again go straight to
iHeartDomainscom and you willsee the options to purchase.
All right.
So now we are going to dig intothe main conversation.
So this is again, as I mentionedbefore, this is a part of our
Web3 Domain Workshop series thathas been being hosted in
partnership with Freename.

(11:24):
The Web3 Domain Workshop issomething that we do within our
VIP community.
It's a live workshop that wehost every Thursday via Google
Meet to dig into differentutilities, use cases, basically
anything in any way for you tounderstand both the Freename
ecosystem and Web3 Domains ingeneral.
Typically, we do thoseworkshops on Thursday and then I

(11:44):
mirror the best that I canthose workshops during this Tech
Talk, and so today the topic ofour Web3 Domain Workshop was
the power of partnerships and,as I mentioned earlier on the
Free Name Web3 Domain Well Talkand as I think I may have
mentioned a little bit earlieron this space and if I didn't
I'm about to say it now thiswill actually be the last of our

(12:07):
Web Through Domain Workshopseries that we host on spaces,
and the Web Through DomainWorkshops that we host for our
VIP community via Google Meetwill now be public workshops.
So on Thursday, the generalpublic will now be able to
attend our Web Through Domainworkshops and we'll be covering
again subjects that deep diveinto the use case how to build,

(12:30):
how to create narratives, how todo anything in this ecosystem
so that we all collectively growtogether and can onboard others
.
And, yeah, that takes us rightin to this topic Partnerships,
which is probably one of thebiggest cheat codes to
onboarding people and central toFreename and Web3 domain
space's growth.

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Today we're going to explore howFreename is collaborating with
strategic ecosystem partnerslike new blockchains and
community leaders to expand theutility of Web3 domains.
Again, these partnerships arenot just about growth.
They're actually also aboutcreating a real value for our
users and our TLD investors.
So, yeah, whether you're adomain investor or a web three

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enthusiast or just curious aboutthe future of identity for you,
learning about how partnershipsadds value to the space is
definitely something you shouldtie into.
All right, so what is and thisis going to kind of be a TLDR?
But what is the strategicimportance of partnerships,
right?
So, looking at the big picturein Web3, I think we can all

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agree that no platform cansurvive or thrive in isolation.
Right, there's just so manydifferent moving parts and
pieces and so many differentchoices, and there's so much of
a demand for utility that wecan't build at all, and there's
so much of a demand for utilitythat we can't build it all.
Rename understands this andthey've made strategic
partnerships a cornerstone ofits growth strategy From the
start.
One of the first things that wedid is we partnered with things

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that make web three domainsuseful right, communications.
So we partnered with MailChimp,ethermail.
We partnered with Huddle, evenstarted hosting meetings on
Huddle to show people how theyare used.
Again, these kind ofpartnerships are meant to
immediately introduce utilityinto the equation.
By collaborating with variousblockchains and other projects

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like this, again, we expanddomain utility, also expand
where these domains can be used,depending on the type of
partnership, and all of thisultimately enhances the value
for TLD investors by increasingusability and domain adoption
Hard word to get out sometimes,as I did yesterday during the

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workshop kind of want to breakdown the categories of the
different types of integrationsor not integrations, but
partnerships.
Okay, even though they're bothquote unquote partnerships and
they ultimately serve the samepurpose to an extent.
I think it's important to knowthe differences between the two
types, because they have twodifferent types of approaches

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and they also have really twodifferent types of audiences.
As far as who to talk to and,as I mentioned yesterday, if
you're a TLD investor or ifyou're a holder in the space,
there's an opportunity for youto bring some of these
partnerships to the table.
So it's good to be able toidentify these.
The first category ofpartnerships are ecosystem
partnerships.
So these are partnerships thatintroduce utility or expand

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again the utility of theprotocol.
So some simple ones tounderstand.
One of the biggest partnershipsthat we've announced as of late
was our integration withMetaMask Snap, and that's an
actual full partnership.
So they've brought us on board,they've incubated us, they've
helped do lots of things withour Snap.
They're going to help usintegrate our Snap Even had the

(15:47):
pleasure of doing a live streamwith them yesterday to their
developer community.
So very solid partnership.
It's not something to just tosneeze at, but what this
partnership did is itimmediately opened the door for
every single one of our domainsto work in MetaMask.
Some people, you know, maycriticize it and say by increase

(16:08):
by, you know it, you have toadd the snap to do so, uh, but
if you pay attention to themetamask community and what they
plan to do with their snaps,you'll find that snaps actually
might be the future reiterationof metamask.
It may actually serve a abigger purpose than the wallet
native is currently, uh, doesright now.
But my point being is that acertain ecosystem or utility

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partnerships like that, these,the intent of these is to expand
the utility of the domainsthemselves.
So, while we may notnecessarily gain users from
their community because in thiscase I don't know if metamask
has like a community besidesyour developer community, um,
but you get that ecosystemutility, which then allows you
to add value to the people whoare already holders and will

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attract people because now theyknow that they work on.
MetaMask, same thing with ourrecent partnership with
Etherlink and same thing withour recent integration with
several blockchains, includingAbstract.
These type of again ecosystemand utility partnerships help
expand our footprint, ourusability and our utility so
that as we continue to grow withdifferent partnerships on the

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community side, as the spacecontinues to bring more people
into those individual ecosystems, then those people are
automatically exposed toFreename because those people
are partnered with us.
So, on one end, these types ofpartnerships are purely
technology-based right Aboutcontinuing again to build out
the tech behind our platform,whether we're doing it

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internally or partnering withpeople to get external utility.
And for obvious reasons, it's alot easier to partner with
someone who has built a workingproduct that other people have
adopted than sometimes trying tobuild it in-house on your own,
and so that's especially in acase like a wallet right

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Probably much easier to partnerwith larger wallets.
A lot easier to get adoptionfrom the masses if you're
integrated with larger walletsthan by building your own, even
though there is a benefit todoing both, and our approach is
usually to build both.
Moving on to the next type ofpartnerships is community
partnerships.
So these partnerships are meantto expose and expand our

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footprint and bring new eyesinto the space.
And this is again a cheat codeto bulk bring a group of people
that have probably never heard afree name or may have
previously not been consideringit, but because they're so
bullish on a community that haspartnered with us, that
community comes with it, andmost often, that community
that's partnering with us ispartnering with us with the TLD,

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so their community members willshow allegiance to that project
by mentioning that TLD and it'sa cheat code to instantly get
people in our ecosystem and theperfect.
So some of the examples ofprevious and current community
partnerships in the past.
Well, so one of our firstpartnerships was with Chimpers,
which is an Ethereum based NFT.

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It's been around for quite sometime, so that's a pretty solid
four in there.
Blue Chip Recently we'vepartnered with some of the
abstract communities.
Two of the biggest NFT projectson that chain are Final Bosu
with their Bosu TLD that's whatthey issued to us and Bearish,
who we had an AMA with a coupleof weeks ago on the FreeName

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platform with their.
Bearish are both examples ofcommunity partnerships that
we've had of recent and one ofthe largest community
partnerships that we also had anAMA with and one of the ones
that I'm kind of settled in onas an example is Chili's with
their CHZTLD.
So Chili's and as we've prettymuch said from the start and as

(19:46):
we illustrated during the AMA,chili's is actually a very, very
large project in sportsblockchain that has a community
that you know is kind ofcompletely outside of the bubble
of who we primarily targetSports, anything to do with
sports, sports betting, sportsgambling, anything like that
that usually has a cultfollowing all in all on its own

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right, and many people who loveand are diehard sports fans will
pretty much follow.
Whatever platform is is isthey're you know they're fans of
, or they're, you know, bullishon, and so integrating shillies
was again a very important stepin introducing our tlds and our
technology to a demographic that, again, is completely outside

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of the bubble, is a very large,uh, community outside of the
bubble.
It's a very large communityoutside of the bubble and it
helps show how these work, evenif you're not really using these
for sending crypto paymentsback and forth.
Again, if you're bullish on aplatform, if you just want to
show your digital identity, orif there's leaderboards, if
you're doing what do they callit?
Final, what is it?

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The fantasy football.
If you're doing any of thosethings, there's a need for
blockchain resolution, right?
There's a need for a name toshow up somewhere, for a name to
be either assigned to a bed orto a record or be on a
leaderboard, and that name willbe your digital identity.
So looking forward to seeinghow they integrate it within
their ecosystem.
Also, you know, some of theseadditional partnerships bring

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about or incubate differentutility depending on the needs
of that community, and so thatis also how we are also able to
introduce different featuresthat are beneficial to the space
, and in the case of chile's, itis the only example and the
only tld that currently hasrenewals, and so I know for a
lot of communities that we willpartner with and bring on board

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in the future, that is going tobe a very, very big factor for
them being able to issuerenewals, because, you know, for
some of us, obviously there's abig benefit to the essential,
not to the centralization ethos,but the own once own forever.
Ethos, but the own once ownforever.
But the fact of the matter, ifyou're a community, if you're a

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project and you're providingbenefits day in and day out to
your holders, you need arecurring stream of revenue and
this is a way to add that whileat the same time getting the
loyalty of your community, andit's a win-win and a value add
on both sides.
So Chili's is the first exampleof the introduction of that
ecosystem.
I believe we will see many more, but this is what the power of

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community partnerships does.
It's again it helps us expandour footprint, it helps expand
our community, it's a cheat codeto immediately onboard more
people and it also helps usinnovate and align with what
that community needs so thatwe're continuously shipping on
point with where the digitalidentity space is going.

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Side note, just for any of thelisteners you know currently,
now, or anyone who listens inthe future, to this episode
speaking of these type ofpartnerships or any of these
innovations that bring otherpeople into the space, this is
where us again, as people whoknow how to navigate this space,
can play a big part.
Whenever us, as Free NameWhales, or any of us who are
again invested in this ecosystem, whenever we run into these

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people who are coming into ourcommunity via these partnerships
, it's a good idea to interactwith them, engage with them,
even help them choose.
You know the perfect name onthat TLD that brought them in
the ecosystem.
And you never know, one daythey might bite the bug, become
bullish on digital identity as awhole and then come back to you
and ask you about the TLD thatyou've got sitting on the side

(23:21):
there that they may like andwanna purchase from you.
So hopefully it's supposed tobe a circular system of value
and again, that is the valuecreation behind this for TLB
investors is that thesepartnerships, they build a more
vibrant and valuable ecosystemfor everybody by continuously

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introducing new people andcontinuously expanding utility.
This should again, if you'relooking historically on how
things work, the result of thisshould be increased domain sales
.
At the end of the day, if allthese partnerships compounding,
you know bring in or start tobring in hundreds of thousands,

(24:03):
millions of people, billions ofpeople, if this plays out the
way that you know I've predictedthat it'll play out since I've
been in the space.
Prime real estate is prime realestate, right, those of us who
have been in, especially in theFreename ecosystem and I've
explained this before, like,although we do these tech talks
and these are non-biased techtalks for everybody, the Web3

(24:24):
Domain Workshops in particularwe try to focus on the
opportunity hand, specificallythe Freename, because it is a
very unique opportunity.
If you're listening to this forthe first time, free name
allows you to invest on theright side of the dot, or what
we call a TLD.
If you're already native to orfamiliar with Web2 domains, then
you'll know this is the dot?
Eth and your name dot eth.

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We allow you to own not dot ethbut essentially the equivalent
of dot eth and the dot customextension.
So, as I said, bearish dosuthose partnerships.
In my case I own dgen and again,I consider that prime real
estate.
It is a very popular term inour space.
If we're bringing millions ofusers into the space that are
looking for their personalidentity, I would think that

(25:06):
some of that runoff might lookto dgen, and so, again, it is in
my best interest to try to helpor push along any of these
partnerships as much as possiblebecause, in result of our space
growing and of our spacegetting more adoption is
inevitably those of us withprime real estate will benefit
from it.
And again, if you own a TLD inthe space, the benefit of having

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a TLD is that if anybodyregisters their name on your TLD
so in my case, with a dgen.
If a newbie comes or anyonecomes into the space says this
is cool, I like the word degen,I want my name buddydgen.
We earn a passive-curricularstream that will pay forever

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right, and so each one of thesepartnerships is another step
towards adding more value tothese TLDs.
And then it does that as well.
You know your TLD is generatingrevenue.
The space is generating revenue.
More people come into the space.
That means the space is adopted, which now means that people
will start assigning actualvalue to your TLDs.
Now means that people willstart assigning actual value to

(26:12):
your TLDs.
We all know that our TLDs arevaluable and there are a select
number of investors incryptocurrency that will
probably pay you money for yourTLD.
But it's going to be a wholedifferent ballgame if everyone
unanimously understands thatWeb3 domains has value and
starts to want a TLD.
If hundreds of thousands ormillions of people begin to want
a TLD, it will become acompletely different ballgame

(26:33):
market-wise, and again, thatonly benefits us.
You know the ones that are hereearly, the ones that have TLDs,
the ones that have, you know,pretty much the best of the best
TLDs.
So, yes, these partnerships aresomething that we should
definitely continue to help,support and, like I said,
especially if you're in theFreeName community and we're

(26:54):
seeing new members come in fromthese partnerships, it really is
in your best interest to helponboard those people, help them
understand the ecosystem thatthey just joined, help them pick
a great name and then startteaching them about what a TLD
is and how they can take digitalidentity into their own hands.
So what is the future?
Well, for FreeName, we've madeit quite clear, right.

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Our growth plan is partnerships.
Our growth plan is development,again, along with internally
developing utility and buildingnew innovative solutions every
single day that make people wantto partner with us.
The more partnerships that wecan bring on board, the more
communities that we can bring onboard with our own personal TLD

(27:37):
.
You know this is going to be anever-ending quest and, as I
mentioned at the beginning ofthis space, this now brings us
around to where our communitycan play a part.
So, if you're a member of anydomain ecosystem, right, but
especially if you're a member ofthe free name ecosystem and if
you have relationships, right.
If you're building your ownproject, well, okay.

(27:58):
So let's start with this.
If you are your own project andI know that a lot of us that
own TLDs are building our ownprojects or are partners of our
own projects that are in Web3 orDeFi or maybe even just Web2
projects.
The first potential partnershipwith Freename may be yourself.
Look at ways that digitalidentity can integrate with your

(28:20):
platform.
Look at ways that maybe yourown TLDs can work within your
own ecosystem, build somethingaround it and then introduce it
to us and if we see value in it,we will introduce it to
everyone else and voila, youbecome an ecosystem or a
community partner.
It's not that hard to do.
Any one of us individually canbecome one of these partners and

(28:41):
again, the benefit to you as apartner of ours is that you now
will get our entire user baseusing your product and, of
course, you'll get our marketingmarketing your product, and the
benefit for our holders is weget your utility or we get new
community members via yourcommunity to help expand and
drive more demand towards ourdomain, so win-win.

(29:03):
The second part of that is, evenif you're not a project, if
you're a part of a project, amember of a project, if you're
in your own community of NFTs ortokens or whatever and they
don't have digital identity,well, this is another great
opportunity to both introducethis to them and introduce it to
us.
And this is another easy waythat partnerships are
established, because, again,this is a never-ending goal or

(29:27):
never-ending bowl to fill right.
And then same thing on theutility side right, if you're
building any technologysolutions, if you're building
wallets, if you're building Vapps, if you're building any of
these things.
This is the expansion of ourecosystem.
This is the expansion of ourecosystem.
We're going to start seeing alot more of this happening,

(29:49):
almost like a marketplace ofpeople who are building things
and people who need to integratethose things that are being
built.
And so, as a community member,if you know of these things or
if you're connected with thesethings, these are the easy
things that you can do to help,kind of speed rail, you know,
the, the, the, the integrationsand the utility building of our
particular ecosystem.
Again, partnerships areprobably one of the most

(30:10):
important and easiest ways togain not only branding, to
expand your community, to expandthe usability and utility of
anything that you're building inthe space.
So this is why we holdpartnerships, again, very, very
close.
Look forward to introducingsome of our new partners on the

(30:30):
free name space in the comingweeks.
We do have quite a few more tointroduce.
So, again, I'm very excited onhow our community is expanding
2025.
2025, as I predicted on I thinkI wrote it actually on January
1st 2025, as I predicted isgoing to I wrote it actually on
January 1st 2025, as I predictedis going to be the year of
partnerships, not only for freename, but also for iHeart

(30:51):
domains.
The same thing stands thereright?
So, again, this being the lastof this particular format of the
space and going back to thelast part of our spaces.
Uh, one of the partnerships perse, or one of the opportunities
that is once again going toexist uh, is going to be the
ability to come on stage andshare what you're building and

(31:13):
become part of this uhconversation.
Uh, when we change these overto, uh, the web3 domain
workshops, this kind of camemore of a solo endeavor, but I
do want to go back to includingmore builders, more people who
are innovators and have ideas inthe digital identity space, to
come up on stage and become apart of the narrative and part
of what everybody else is isable to hear.

(31:34):
Again, we record these herelive on x?
Uh, but these actually go to amuch larger audience on our
podcast and on youtube.
Uh and um, you know, a lot ofpeople benefit from hearing
these.
I do get reached out to youknow often enough from people
that I've never heard frombefore that say hey, you know, I
just ran across your podcast.
I have, you know, a questionabout this or a question about

(31:55):
that.
This is where new mints come in, et cetera.
So, if you do have any valuethat you feel you can add to
these tech talks and if you dothink that you can get some
value out of getting exposure tomy growing audience and to
people who are bullish on WIP3domains and this technology,
then I would definitely love toinvite you to attend future

(32:15):
spaces and come up on stage, andI'll be sending invites out to
some of the people we'vepreviously partnered with then
as well.
And then same thing on theregular partnership side as well
.
If you own a free name, tld, ifyou're building a registry in
the free name space, you can goand create your own partnerships

(32:36):
that add value to your space orto your particular brand
individually.
So I encourage everybody toexpand on that as well.
It doesn't have to be with theentirety Well, I mean, the
entirety of your free name willend up getting the partnership
if it's a technical partnership,because we all share the same
smart contract, so you'll bedoing good for everybody.

(32:58):
But if you see something that'svaluable for your name a wallet
, an educational platform in ourcase, I mean we've built an
auction D app.
We've done an educationalmodule.
These AI buy anything that youcan build or integrate with or
partner with as your ownindividual brand or entity also
welcome that as well, and so weare also open to anybody who has

(33:23):
anything that they're buildingand would be a good fit to
partner with.
So yeah, with that being said,if you're interested in
exploring any of thesepartnerships, or if you're
interested again in joining ourcommunity, learning more about
iHeartDomains, listening to anyprevious content or just bullish
on digital identity and want tosupport by meeting a dgin, a

(33:45):
deFi wallet or exchange domainname, you can find us at
iHeartDomainscom.
Do want to thank you guys.
Always love that you guys pullup and support.
I see Divinon out in the crowd.
I see my guy, ecw, wrestlingiHeartCoffee.
Love you, as always.
Thank you, guys for attendingmy tech talk.
Again next week we'll bechanging the subject matter kind

(34:07):
of back to the way we used tosome good general subjects and
getting some people up on stage.
So very much looking forward togetting back how it used to be.
And, yeah, our workshops thatare one-on-one workshops are now
going to be public.
So please stay tuned for thelink for that and join the
Freename community, of course,to stay on touch or stay on top
of anything that we're launching.

(34:28):
Oh yeah, before I end off tooand I think I did pin this up at
the top we at Freename actuallyjust launched the ambassador or
the public version of ourambassador program today.
So if any of you hold anyFreename asset that could be one
domain Right any Freename assetthat could be one domain right
and it doesn't matter whatblockchain is on.
If you join the FreenameDiscord and verify that asset
basically to get a role as adomainer you'll be able to apply

(34:56):
for our ambassador program.
This ambassador program is abrain child of mine.
We have been running the betaof this program within the VIP
community for the past month anda half and now we have
introduced it to the public.
The concept is super simple.
If you have social media or arewilling to use social media to
help us expand the word andbring more people into the space
by sharing your own domains, bytalking about your own

(35:17):
experience, by being bullish onyour own TLDs, we will reward
you for it, not only with XPthat will be useful in the
future but with direct FNcredits that you could use
within the Freename ecosystem tobuy more domains.
So, yeah, anybody who wants tojoin the Ambassador Program, the
link is pinned up to the top ofthe space.
Again, you can just join ourDiscord and verify or join any

(35:38):
of our Telegram communities.
The links are pinned there, butdefinitely want to put that in
the minds of everybody.
We are going the links arepinned there, but definitely
want to put that in the minds ofeverybody.
We are going very strong withonboarding people, uh, to this
ambassador program.
We have very, very big plansfor it.
So get in early, as you canshout out to my vips who have
helped us test this out early.
They have been awesome, um, and, yeah, looking forward, uh, to

(36:00):
continue to grow this.
So, yeah, thank you again forjoining my tech talk Again.
Focus on your mission and notyour condition.
Keep building and I'll see youguys all next week.
Thank you,
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