# D3

> D3 is a Los Angeles infrastructure company building a financial and programmable layer for ordinary internet domains. Through Doma Protocol, its marketplace and newer capital-markets products, the company lets registrars and domain owners tokenize DNS names while keeping them useful for websites and email, then trade or fractionalize the resulting assets across blockchain networks. Its wager is that compatibility with the existing domain system - not a separate crypto naming universe - can turn a slow, brokered market into an open software platform.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** Los Angeles, United States
- **Founders:** Fred Hsu (CEO and Co-Founder), Paul Stahura (Co-Founder), Michael Ho (Co-Founder), Shay Chin (Chief Architect and Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 66 people associated with D3 on LinkedIn as of August 2026; LinkedIn lists the company-size band as 11-50.
- **Products:** Doma Protocol, Doma marketplace and trading, Interstellar, Domain Asset Vehicles, Doma Agentic Engine
- **Notable:** Raised $30 million across a 2023 seed and 2025 Series A., Launched Doma Protocol mainnet in November 2025., Enabled a registrar network representing more than 30 million domains at mainnet launch.

## Products & services

- **Doma Protocol** — A DNS-compatible blockchain and set of smart contracts, APIs and SDKs for tokenizing, detokenizing and moving domain ownership across supported networks.
- **Doma marketplace and trading** — A live market for discovering tokenized domains, buying or selling domain-backed tokens, swapping assets and supplying liquidity.
- **Interstellar** — The consumer application that succeeded D3.app for buying, managing and using onchain names and domains.
- **Domain Asset Vehicles** — Curated, fractionalized vehicles intended to give investors exposure to portfolios of premium domain names.
- **Doma Agentic Engine** — A product for evaluating and preparing domains as verified endpoints for machine traffic, payments and AI agents.
- **Doma Forge** — A developer program, documentation stack and grant initiative supporting applications built on tokenized domains.
- **Top-level domain services** — Advisory and application support for communities seeking ICANN-recognized extensions such as .shib and .near.

## Achievements

- Raised $30 million across a 2023 seed and 2025 Series A.
- Launched Doma Protocol mainnet in November 2025.
- Enabled a registrar network representing more than 30 million domains at mainnet launch.
- Reported more than $150 million settled, 20 million onchain transactions and 55,000 active users by August 2026.
- Introduced live domain-backed tokens for premium names including software.ai and brag.com.
- Created a $1 million USDC developer fund for the Doma ecosystem.
- Completed independent smart-contract security work with Zellic and Halborn, including remediation of high-severity issues before or around production deployment.
- Expanded from domain tokenization into Domain Asset Vehicles and an Agentic Engine in 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Doma reported that AI agents could trade through a new MCP connector and that limit orders and token-page community chat had launched.
- **2026-08** — Applications.com launched as a tokenized domain on Doma.
- **2026-05** — D3 demonstrated live domain launches and introduced Domain Asset Vehicles and the Doma Agentic Engine at Dominion 2026.
- **2026-03** — Halborn published a case study describing its Doma security review and remediation work.
- **2026-01** — D3 hired former GoDaddy executive Bob Mountain as chief commercial and revenue officer.
- **2025-12** — D3 and InterNetX announced a program connecting more than 46 million managed and listed domains to Solana through Doma.
- **2025-11** — Doma Protocol mainnet went live with tokenization, trading, swaps and liquidity features.
- **2025-07** — D3 announced a $1 million USDC developer fund alongside the Doma public testnet.
- **2025-01** — D3 closed a $25 million Series A led by Paradigm and announced Doma Protocol.

## Links

- Website: https://d3.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/d3inc
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/D3inc
- GitHub: https://github.com/d3-inc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFKKXzivyo

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Last updated: 2026-08-14