🔥 INSIGHT: Cloudflare outage took down a huge chunk of the internet, including major crypto platforms. A reminder of how much Web3 still depends on Web2 infrastructure.

This is exactly why I’m so adamant about DNS/ENS interoperability. .ai already exists in DNS. If Binance and SPACE ID are handing out matching .ai identities independently of the actual domain owners, they’re creating conflicting identities under the same names. That means the same name could identify one person on the web and someone else in a wallet. Users shouldn’t have to understand competing naming systems to figure out who they’re interacting with or paying. ENS is open and permissionless, with no licensing fee to integrate. It supports both .eth subnames and real DNS names. Binance could build its own branded naming service using that infrastructure. If all you need is an app username, use an app username. There’s no reason to dress it up as a DNS domain without respecting ownership of that domain. It’s 2026. We already have the infrastructure to avoid this confusion. Handing users DNS lookalikes and leaving them to discover the difference is embarrassing. I expect better from Binance and SPACE ID. Their users deserve better.

## Why can a decentralized exchange halt trading or temporarily deactivate features? This question comes up regularly, and it's a fair one.