Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
Swath Protocol, an Auction House for Satellite Imagery
A proposed on-chain order book where satellites, drones, analysts, humans, and software agents bid to fulfill polygon-based imagery requests.
Why it surfacedSwath sketches a genuinely specific mechanism: suppliers bid prices down, USDC stays in escrow, and an oracle checks the delivered STAC item against the buyer’s sensor and area requirements. It is not live yet and is launching through Pump.fun, making this both an intriguing piece of protocol design and a useful specimen of crypto’s attempt to turn satellite data into a market.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.