Light Dao Salon: AI, Tokenization, and the Spatial Web — A Fireside Chat with Dan Mapes (LA)
Join Light Dao and our community of conscious entrepreneurs, builders, and investors for a salon evening of connection, shared inquiry, and a fireside chat with Dan Mapes, founder and CEO of Verses and co-creator of the Spatial Web Protocol.
We are entering the next evolution of the internet, where intelligent agents, open standards, and decentralized infrastructure enable people, machines, and environments to communicate, coordinate, and transact across interoperable networks.
Join us for a fireside with Dan Mapes, who has spent decades developing foundational internet protocols and cognitive computing systems that enable intelligent agents to operate securely across physical and digital environments.
Through his work with Verses and the Spatial Web Foundation, Dan is helping build open standards such as Hyperspace Modeling Language (HSML) and the Hyperspace Transaction Protocol (HSTP), which provide a shared framework for identity, permissions, and transactions across decentralized systems.
This conversation will explore how intelligent agents, open protocols, and tokenized infrastructure support secure coordination, programmable transactions, and interoperable systems across the Spatial Web.
We’ll cover:
• The emergence of intelligent agents and agent-based software systems
• How open standards like HSML and HSTP enable interoperability
• Tokenization and programmable transactions across decentralized networks
• The Spatial Web and the evolution beyond platform-based infrastructure
• What founders, investors, and builders should understand about this emerging layer of internet infrastructure
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ABOUT THE GUEST SPEAKER
Dan Mapes is the founder and CEO of Verses, a cognitive computing company developing infrastructure for intelligent agents and decentralized coordination. He is the creator of the Spatial Web Protocol (HSML), an open standard designed to enable people, machines, and environments to communicate, transact, and coordinate autonomously.
Dan has been a pioneer in decentralized systems and internet infrastructure for over two decades. His work focuses on enabling intelligent agents, interoperable systems, and decentralized networks that form the foundation for the next generation of the web.
ABOUT YOUR HOST
Katrina DeAngelis is the LA Ecosystem Lead for Light Dao and a leadership and organizational systems architect working at the intersection of regenerative business and human development.
Her work focuses on supporting founders, investors, and organizations in evolving beyond extractive operating systems and into models that enable greater ownership, coherence, and long-term resilience. She advises leaders and teams on organizational design, leadership development, and ecosystem strategy.
Through Light Dao salons and gatherings, Katrina cultivates spaces for meaningful dialogue and relationship-building among founders and investors who are actively shaping the future of technology, business, and society.
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