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Today, ENS is mostly seen as usernames. That’s fine for now. But that’s not how serious systems get used. As capital moves onchain, things need to be… clear recognisable hard to get wrong That’s where a small number of financial terms start to matter more. Not as identity. As infrastructure.

BlackRock. Franklin Templeton. Coinbase Asset Management. Superstate. Robinhood. Everyone is converging toward the same destination: onchain funds programmable assets continuous markets The rails are being rebuilt first. The financial interfaces follow next. fund.eth

@circle @KashRazzaghi Real adoption starts when onchain systems stop feeling onchain. The winners will make global value transfer feel as intuitive as sending a message. That also changes the importance of naming, identity, and financial coordination layers over time.

AI adoption is accelerating because the tools are simple and accessible. For onchain systems, the focus is on reaching that same level of usability. @KashRazzaghi on why clear, practical use cases, like real-time global money movement, are driving interest.

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BlackRock. Franklin Templeton. Coinbase Asset Management. Superstate. Robinhood. Everyone is converging toward the same destination: onchain funds programmable assets continuous markets The rails are being rebuilt first. The financial interfaces follow next. fund.eth

The next decade of finance probably looks less like “crypto replacing banks” and more like: traditional finance gradually rebuilding itself on better rails. Quietly. Incrementally. Infrastructure first. That’s why the most valuable ENS names increasingly resemble financial primitives instead of memes.

there will be a time when everything you see around you will be tokenized onchain what has been tokenized and what will be tokenized: > stocks > bonds > treasury bills > real estate > commodities > gold > silver > oil > carbon credits > private credit > invoices > trade finance > money market funds > equities > ETFs > forex > government securities > corporate debt > real estate investment trusts (REITs) > luxury watches > fine art > collectibles > wine > rare whiskey > sneakers > cars > yachts > airplanes > intellectual property > music royalties > film royalties > patents > trademarks > solar farms > energy infrastructure > data centers > telecom infrastructure > farmland > livestock > crops > shipping containers > supply chain assets > warehouse inventory > mortgages > insurance products > sports contracts > ticketing rights > domain names > gaming assets > loyalty points > carbon offsets > stablecoins backed by fiat > tokenized deposits > startup equity > venture capital funds > hedge funds > private equity > revenue-sharing agreements > future earnings > receivables > infrastructure bonds > municipal bonds > NFTs backed by physical assets > identity credentials > educational certificates > healthcare records > water rights > mineral rights > timberland > parking spaces > hotel ownership shares > rental income streams > fractional ownership assets > AI compute power > GPU infrastructure > bandwidth markets > internet infrastructure assets > satellite infrastructure > battery storage systems > renewable energy credits > shipping fleets > ports and logistics assets > e-commerce inventory > precious stones and diamonds > fashion assets > franchise ownership rights > event revenue rights > creator economies and social tokens > advertising inventory > future cash flows > subscription revenues > cloud infrastructure assets > sports teams ownership shares > music catalogs > publishing rights > farmland yield > airline revenues > hotel revenues > telecom tower revenues > mining operations > natural gas reserves > infrastructure revenue streams we’re early

@CremeDeLaCrypto The most valuable onchain primitives may ultimately be the ones that make entirely new forms of coordination possible. Not just programmable assets but programmable identity, reputation, escrow, delegation and trust between humans, agents and capital.

I feel torn on this. There's *so much* happening right now with the onchain economy upgrading legacy financial products and that opportunity alone is enormous But I can't shake this feeling that when we look back a decade from now, we won't be talking about the existing products we upgraded, we'll be talking about the net-new things that weren't previously possible. The things that couldn't exist prior to the advent of programmable assets and composable infrastructure Maybe I'm wrong but I still think the bulk of the opportunity is in these things that don't exist yet This is one of the theses I feel most passionate about

Speed matters. Precision matters. But the real transformation is that money itself is becoming software. Transferable. Programmable. Borderless. Always on. Simple financial primitives become very powerful in that environment. money.eth

ENS may ultimately succeed for the same reason Bitcoin did. Not because people care deeply about the underlying architecture… …but because ownership, identity and financial coordination become meaningfully different once they move onchain. The technology is infrastructure. The human behaviour is the story.

@mert @mdudas Web3 has spent years advertising the plumbing. Consumers rarely care about plumbing. They care about what suddenly becomes possible in the bathroom.

decentralization is a bad sell the reason is that it focuses on the absence of something rather than a concrete, perceptible difference gained from its addition humans buy presence -> i.e the gain of time, money, access, identity, status, and joy bitcoin does this well, and is arguably the only one to have done so the decentralization isn't why you buy bitcoin, you buy it because of what it promises you for some people, this is money free from the state; for others it's identity, for some insurance, for some status, and for most it's the appreciation of the asset and hence money decentralization is necessary for the selling point to work, but it is not the end itself so if you've made the choice to build on top of a decentralized platform, it is mostly useless to talk about it (except in so far as trying to avoid regulatory responsibility, which is fair), talk about why you are now different as a result perhaps that's asset selection, perhaps that's access, perhaps it's efficiency or composability or speed or security, but without something tangible you won't be able to sell effectively once you do this, you'll understand whether the thing you're building is useless or not because if there's nothing gained from the decentralization vector except putting the word itself in your tweets to signal virtue, then you are building the wrong thing

@domaprotocol @DadsGoneCrypto @heyheyfred “Domains are the internet’s #1 asset” is a much bigger statement than most realise. Especially once identity, payments, AI agents and tokenised assets all need human readable routing layers.

Domains are the internet’s #1 asset. Universally understood. Globally reachable. Tied directly to brand, identity, and distribution. On @DadsGoneCrypto, our CEO @heyheyfred explains why domains are the most powerful digital assets on the internet and why they belong onchain 👇 youtu.be/k9t1e05ZSfY

@okx The future of finance probably won’t look futuristic at all. It will look simple. Instant settlement. Programmable assets. Global liquidity. 24/7 markets. Eventually, even the naming layer becomes infrastructure. money.eth

We’re modernizing money and markets.

The interesting ENS names are often the ones where the shorthand already exists before the domain narrative does. People naturally compress toward the root term over time. Semiconductor → semi
SemiAnalysis → semi
Identity usually follows language. semi.eth

The interesting thing about semiconductor.eth isn’t the sale. It’s the direction of travel. ENS eventually expands beyond crypto-native identity into industry coordination, infrastructure and AI-era primitives. Some sectors already have globally recognised shorthand. Those tend to matter later.

People still talk about crypto in terms of coins and chains. Meanwhile, the largest asset managers in the world are talking about… tokenized funds onchain credit programmable settlement 24/7 markets AI driven financial coordination The conversation has already moved up the stack. The naming layer follows eventually.

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@FundstratDirect @Badie912 @fundstrat Preferred insight. Sounding like an insurance firm now. 😉

@Badie912 @fundstrat 😊here is the full report fundstratdirect.com/stock-lists/fs…

This is one of my favorite reports from @fundstrat @FundstratDirect I like the format, the information presented and the plain language used to explain it all. Great work!

Most ENS names are usernames. Some are future brands. insight.eth sits in the second category. AI agents, financial systems, trading infrastructure, research products, media platforms, analytics firms. Every cycle creates a handful of words that become structurally more valuable. “Insight” is one of them. Quietly available.

@RWAFoundation_ Missing the interface layer. Every system eventually converges on something simple, a way to reference assets, counterparties, and contracts without friction. Without that, the stack exists…but it doesn’t scale

Real-World Assets Need Lots of layers to click into place in order to become complete: Asset origination Legal structuring Custody & asset verification Tokenization layer Onchain issuance Compliance / KYC & AML Oracles & data feeds Liquidity venues (DEXs/CEXs) Settlement & clearing Risk management / ratings Investor access layer Servicing & reporting What layers are we forgetting?

Economic systems define the rules of the game. Who can participate. How value moves. Where control sits. We’re starting to see those rules rewritten. Not loudly. But structurally.