A name now replaces the wallet address, trader profile and AI agent – HoodDomains brings together on-chain identity, x402 payments and autonomous agents under a single .hood domain.
Hood Estatesthe naming protocol built for Robinhood Chain, has officially launched permanent, self-owned on-chain identities for .hood domains, designed to replace the 42-character wallet address with something a human can actually read, remember, and use.
Where previous name systems solved the readability problem, HoodDomains aims for something bigger: turning a name into a complete identity stack. A single .hood domain also serves as a trader profile, x402 payment endpoint, home for AI agents, and, soon, a social handle in the Robinhood Chain ecosystem.
“A wallet address was never meant to be an identity,” said a member of the HoodDomains core team. “It’s a chain of characters that no one remembers and no one trusts. We built .hood so that a single name can carry your reputation, receive your payments, and manage your agents – all without putting anyone other than you in charge.”
From ENS to .hood: the naming is growing
Web3 domains are not new: protocols like ENS proved years ago that people preferred to send funds to satoshi.eth rather than 0x71C7…9F2b. HoodDomains extends this same open, self-custodial naming standard to Robinhood Chain, but treats the name as more than a label. Each .hood domain is designed as an on-chain NFT with fully on-chain SVG artwork, meaning there is no off-chain server or IPFS pin that can quietly disappear. The name and everything it represents lives entirely on the channel, for as long as the channel.
One name, an entire ecosystem
The central idea behind HoodDomains is consolidation. Instead of juggling a wallet address for payments, a separate handle for social media, and no easy way to identify an AI agent, a .hood name is designed to solve all of that:
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Trader Profiles — A .hood name shows the channel’s background, holdings, and reputation behind a human-readable identity, instead of an anonymous channel.
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Integrated wallet — Each domain comes with its own built-in wallet. The name is not just a label pointing to an account: the name is the account.
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AI agents (OpenClaw and Hermes) — Domain holders can give their own name to their AI agents. Agents running OpenClaw, the open agent framework, or Hermes, a personal agent per domain, become discoverable and addressable – and can transact on their own via x402.
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x402 Payments — Built on the x402 HTTP-402 payment standard, a .hood name becomes a live payment endpoint. People, APIs, and autonomous agents can settle into stablecoins in seconds, by name, with no shared wallet addresses required.
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Name to name communication — Domain holders can send messages to any other wallet directly using its .hood name, without a phone number, email, or centralized server in between.
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Hood social app — A native social layer is being developed where a .hood domain functions as a portable handle, feed, and follow across the ecosystem.
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Fee-free market — Names can be bought, sold, and traded entirely on-chain, without ever paying platform fees.
Pricing is based on length and paid in native ETH, starting at 0.012 ETH per year for character names longer than four characters, with discounts up to approximately 44% for multi-year registration.
Designed for a future agent
Perhaps the most forward-thinking element of the protocol is what it does for autonomous agents. As AI agents increasingly need to hold funds, pay for API calls, and transact on behalf of their owners, HoodDomains gives them the same identity as primitive humans: a name. An agent operating under a .hood domain can be found, addressed, and paid (and can pay others) via the same x402 rail that powers person-to-person payments on the network. HoodDomains describes this as training a domain agent over time and eventually being able to sell that full domain with its merchant profile and agent performance intact.
Tokenomics and revenue sharing
The native token of the protocol, $HDlaunched as a fair launch on Noxa Fun with no pre-sale, one-sided Uniswap V3 liquidity, and zero buying or selling taxes – transactions only take place on the standard 1% Uniswap V3 fee tier. Liquidity was completely burned. Creator fees earned through trading are used to automatically buy and burn $HD, making the total supply deflationary by design.
Once staking goes live, $HD holders will be able to stake a share of protocol revenue on each revenue stream: 50% of Mint domain revenue, 50% of market activity, 30% of x402 payment volume, 30% of AI agent activity, and 20% of x402 facilitator revenue – each an independent share of its respective stream.
About HoodDomains
HoodDomains is Robinhood Chain’s naming and identity protocol. Each .hood domain is a fully on-chain, self-custodial NFT that unifies a wallet, trader profile, payment endpoint, and AI agent under a single human-readable name. HoodDomains integrates with Robinhood Chain, Uniswap, MetaMask, OpenSea, Coinbase, Chainlink and Ethereum.
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