KBW 2026 recap: Opening the Frontier in Seoul
By Michael Ho, Co-Founder D3
Korea Blockchain Week was a packed one for us at D3: we launched Frontier, spoke at three events, met a number of our community, and had a very good dinner. Here's how the week went this year.
Bridge Summit: where we opened the Frontier
Our first stop was Bridge Summit. At our booth, we introduced gochujang.com as the first creator domain on Doma, and walked people through the idea of tokenization: what it means for a domain to be tradable onchain, while staying fully DNS compliant.
I also took the stage to announce Frontier on Solana. That was the moment the program launched: Frontier is our membership program for the next round of internet extensions. Deposit with supported vault providers, earn Frontier points, and commit them to establish priority for names with participating registries, ahead of general registration. I announced it on stage, and to date we have over 51K+ members joined, opened the first vault on Solana with Loopscale, and 148 extensions live.
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Solana Ecosystem Day: powering the Solana supercycle
On Monday afternoon, we headed to Solana Ecosystem Day, where I joined a panel called "Powering the Solana Supercycle," alongside Botanika. We talked about how D3 and Botanika are building the rails for what's next.
Solana Summit: Tokenized domains land on Solana
Next up was Solana Summit in Yeouido, Seoul. I gave a talk on stage about the domain supercycle coming to Solana, introducing tokenized domains as real-world assets (RWAs) landing on Solana, along with the Frontier program launch and its first vault on Solana, live via Loopscale. If you want the full story on the vault, we wrote it up here.
Closing the week with GOGIYA!
We closed KBW by hosting a dinner at the famous Samwon Garden. There was a lot of BBQ, our Korean network around the table, and our biggest community member Fireant, who recently launched gochujang.com and the gochu game. It felt like the right way to end the week, since gochujang.com was front and center at our booth on day one.
Thank you to everyone who stopped by the booth, came to a talk, or pulled up a chair at dinner.
Be first to the new internet Frontier.
And there's a big date coming up: ICANN has announced Reveal Day for Wednesday, October 7, when the list of applied-for strings goes public. If you want to be ready for it, Frontier is open now - and tune in to our live show of Doma onAir, alongside the ICANN reveal window - Wed, Oct 7 - 6pm UTC. Tune in here.
Next stop: TOKEN2049 Singapore, October 7-8 🇸🇬
See you there!
— Michael Ho, Co-founder, D3
