Kris Marszalek, founder and CEO of crypto exchange Crypto.com, spent $70 million to buy ai.com, the highest price made public for a website domain, the FT reported.
The acquisition marks the executive’s move into artificial intelligence, a sector that will reach nearly $1.5 trillion in global spending by 2025, according to Gartner. That momentum will intensify this year, with Bloomberg reporting that the four biggest US tech giants, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft, plan to invest a combined $650 billion in AI infrastructure this year.
The transaction, finalized in April 2025, was carried out entirely in cryptocurrency, the FT said in its report on Friday, citing Larry Fischer of GetYourDomain.com, who negotiated the transaction. The price more than doubled the previous record of $30 million held by Block.one when it purchased Voice.com in 2019. Block.one is the owner of CoindDesk’s parent company, Bullish (BLSH). Marszalek spent $12 million to acquire crypto.com in 2018.
Ai.com announced the launch of a consumer platform offering autonomous AI agents. Unlike traditional chatbots, these agents are designed to work on behalf of a user, performing tasks such as trading stocks, managing calendars, and automating workflows. Marszalek said the platform aims to be the “gateway to AGI” through a decentralized network.
“We are at a fundamental turning point in the evolution of AI, as we rapidly move from basic discussions to AI agents that actually do things for humans,” Marszalek said. “Our vision is a decentralized network of billions of agents that self-improve and share these improvements with each other.”
The platform debuted Sunday with a Super Bowl LX ad, generating a surge in traffic that crashed the website for several hours. Writing on
