hi - the Web3 Neo-Banking platform - and Unstoppable Domains, the leading provider of Web3 domains, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver comprehensive digital identities through Web3 domains with a .hi suffix.

The .hi domain will act as a simple, unified identity for Web3 and can be used to manage payments, send crypto, log in seamlessly to hundreds of Web3 apps, games and metaverses, and much more. Unstoppable and hi’s integration will enable people to use their hi domain name to send and receive assets in the hi app or from their crypto wallet-of-choice.

Eligible members from hi’s 3.5 million-strong community will be able to claim their .hi domain from Unstoppable Domains via the hi App, free of charge. For example, if you have the hi nickname ‘sam’, you will be able to claim the sam.hi domain. Once claimed, you own that domain for life (unless transferred) and the holder of that domain address is entitled to the corresponding nickname on the hi platform.

To celebrate the partnership, hi and Unstoppable will issue a limited edition, co-branded NFT that members of the Unstoppable Domains community will be able to claim for free and use to customize an NFT Debit Mastercard from hi. Go to ud.hi.com to learn more.

“Our partnership with hi will help us bridge the gap between Web2 and Web3,” commented Sandy Carter, SVP and Channel Chief at Unstoppable Domains. “Everyone deserves to own their digital identity, and the new .hi domains will make it easy for people to start their Web3 journey.”

Adding to this, Sean Rach, Co-Founder of hi said, “Exploring new ways of expressing and managing your identity has been a key priority on the hi roadmap since day one. Within the next few weeks, members of the hi community can look forward to building out their .hi identities and accessing exciting new functionality in the hi App, powered by Unstoppable Domains.”

Unstoppable Domains provides Web3 domains that give people a user-owned, secure, and portable identity for Web3. Web3 domains, like smriti.hi, are minted on the blockchain with zero gas fees and stored in your wallet. Once you buy and claim a Web3 domain, it’s yours forever, with no renewal fees. People can use Unstoppable domains to log in to hundreds of Web3 apps, games and metaverses without having to remember a password, replace lengthy crypto wallet addresses on more than 100 wallets and exchanges, and build decentralized websites.
Earlier this year, hi and Mastercard revealed the first-of-its-kind Debit Card program to allow NFT avatar customization and enable hi members to spend their digital and fiat assets at over 90 million Mastercard merchants worldwide. Both Unstoppable Domains and hi have partnered with Polygon—to date, more than 2.6 million Unstoppable domains have been minted on the Polygon blockchain with Unstoppable covering all gas fees for transactions that take place on Polygon.