Ai.com and Crypto.com founder unveil $70M AI domain and agent platform

Ai.com is a rare convergence of brand asset, capital and ambition explicitly framed around “accelerating the arrival of AGI.” The $70 million domain price is eye‑catching, but the more interesting claim is a mass‑market product that lets non‑technical users spin up persistent, self‑improving agents that act across apps, accounts and workflows. If even a fraction of Crypto.com’s reported 150 million users try these agents, we suddenly have a very large real‑world laboratory for agent behavior, safety and emergent coordination.([mlq.ai](https://mlq.ai/news/cryptocom-ceo-reveals-70m-purchase-of-aicom-domain/))

Strategically, this is a different flank in the AGI race than hyperscaler chatbots: a crypto‑native player leaning into decentralized identity, payments and incentives as foundational primitives for agents. The vision of agents sharing improvements across a network hints at a kind of evolutionary dynamic—millions of micro‑experiments in how autonomous systems interact with messy human objectives. That could generate extremely valuable data and failure cases for anyone trying to make general‑purpose models robust.

It also escalates the competition around who owns the “front door” for everyday AI usage. If ai.com becomes synonymous with personal agents the way gmail.com became synonymous with email, it gives Marszalek a powerful distribution channel that established labs can’t ignore. For incumbent AI companies, the risk is less about losing a domain and more about losing the consumer relationship layer to a crypto‑AI hybrid platform.