The new Freename Registrar is live, and we are celebrating. 80% off every new Web3 TLD. The code CELEBRATE is already applied at checkout, nothing to type. Royalties + Reseller Tools for $0.01 for the first year. Ends 18 October.

"My domain does not resolve to anything." The oldest request in our community. Now it does. Build a website and choose where it goes: the web or IPFS, same interface. The IPFS reference attaches to your Web3 domain records. No hosting, no server to renew.

Some people collect names. Others own the namespace. Which one are you? 👀

Every registrar spent 20 years optimising for Google. We spent the summer optimising for someone else. Someone who never types a URL. Soon.

You asked for it. It is here. The Freename referral program is live: • 25% on eligible first purchases by new customers • 20% on customers back after 12 months of inactivity • 15% on existing customers, under the 2026 rules One personal link. Real tracking. Real payouts.

The new Freename, in three parts. A new UI, cleaner and faster. Search that puts exact matches first, across Web3 and traditional domains. Better domain management: every name you own and its settings in one place. Before and after below.

Capy found some new hobbies and he's taking them very seriously. Whatever comes out of this, it's coming soon.

The new Freename Registrar is live, and we are celebrating with the people who own a TLD. $1 total. One year. Every eligible TLD you own. That activates or renews Royalties + Reseller Tools across your portfolio. Ends 18 October.

The new Freename is live. A new home. Search that puts exact matches first. One portfolio for every name you own. A checkout with fewer steps. This is the walkthrough. More is coming this month.

Four launchpads walk into a bar. Capy's already there. Nobody knows who invited him.

Second look at pay.contact, built on a Freename TLD. It turns a deal into one workspace: proposal, wallet signed contract, messages, payment. Scoped per deal, tied to the wallet, not scattered across inboxes. The name is the front door. The product is what sits behind it.

832,941 @Pumpfun launches were studied this year. 0.198% ever made it off the bonding curve. With a site and socials: 1.919%. With none: 0.110%. 17x. Presence isn't decoration.

📊 Monthly leaderboard #3, the extensions that changed hands in August, ranked by what they went for. Not one name from July repeats. And again someone took three related extensions in a single move, building a set rather than a name. The market keeps rotating.

Arc went live today. 10+ launchpads deployed on it. Ten new ways to get a contract address. Zero new ways to build the rest of it. Not for long.

Deploying a token: 30 seconds. Naming it, registering it, building a site for it: four platforms, three logins, two payments. One of these numbers is about to change.

The launchpad wars are about fees and liquidity. Nobody's fighting over what happens in the 10 minutes after a token goes live. That's where we've been working. Next thing we ship at Freename touches @pumpfun, @ponsdotfamily and @inkyswap at once. Not a launchpad.

Someone built a payment app on a Freename TLD. pay.contact lets you send crypto to alice.contact instead of a 42 character address. No account, no email, no KYC. A name you own, used as the identity people actually type. What would you build on yours?

📊 Monthly leaderboard #2, what each TLD earned in August from the names other people registered under it. .usa arrives and goes straight to the top. Behind it, .v and .etherlink hold exactly the places they had in July. A new leader on a stable base.

Wall Street moved onchain. A cat got there first. Tokenized stocks just crossed $3.1 billion in onchain market cap, an all-time high. For context, the whole category was worth less than $20 million at the end of 2024. Trading volume did something even wilder: $29.5 billion moved in the 30 days to late August, up 415% in a month, with 2.36 million wallets now holding at least one tokenized share. So where do you actually find them? Kraken's xStocks is the OG. Live since June 2025, 100+ US stocks and ETFs, $30 billion in cumulative volume, and a roadmap to 500 tickers by year end. Then there's Robinhood, which didn't just list stock tokens, it built an entire blockchain for them. Robinhood Chain went live on July 1 as an Arbitrum-based L2. Binance answered with bStocks in June. Coinbase joined on August 24 with 13 tickers on Base, and Crypto.com dropped 1,500 stocks and ETFs starting at $1 in August. Even the London Stock Exchange announced last week it's launching tokenized UK shares with Kraken's parent company in 2027. Now the fun part. Robinhood Chain was built for equities. Within days, it was running on memecoins. CASHCAT, a token named after Robinhood's retired cat mascot, pumped 2,158% in a week and hit $156 million in value. Tokenized stocks on the same chain: $12.8 million. Vlad Tenev had just told CNBC that "assets without utility do not serve a lasting purpose." A few days later he posted "it works great for memes too" and followed the cat. To be fair, the stocks did catch up: over $1 billion in cumulative volume by mid-August, with GameStop (of course) leading at $26 million a day. Meanwhile on Ink, Kraken's own Ethereum L2, something quietly big happened. xStocks holders can now vote at real shareholder meetings. Your instruction gets recorded on Ink, aggregated, and Backed Assets casts the actual vote. It arrived not as a launch, but as a change in the custody terms. Zero hype, real ownership. Two more for the road. Securitize, the company that tokenizes other people's stocks, went public on the NYSE on July 2 and tokenized $266 million of its own shares on Solana and Avalanche the same day. And in July someone found that a wrapped tokenized Google stock could be inflated 7,700% inside a DeFi lending protocol, borrowing $403k against phantom collateral. The share price never moved. The wrapper did. The takeaway: the rails are here, the money is arriving, and the small print still matters. Most stock tokens are economic exposure, not shares in your name. Coinbase's tokens carry dividends and voting rights, Kraken just added the vote, Robinhood's do not. Onchain, "owning" only means something when the asset actually sits in your wallet. Sounds familiar.