Balazs Nemethi is a Hungarian technologist and entrepreneur working at the intersection of internet infrastructure, identity, and applied AI. He is the founder of the .agent community at agentcommunity.org, a community-backed effort to establish .agent as a new top-level domain and open identity layer for AI agents; and the author of AID, a DNS-first standard for agent identity and discovery. His work focuses on how trust, discoverability, and coordination evolve as software agents become first-class actors on the internet.

Over the past decade, Balazs has built trust and identity infrastructure across fintech, web3, and digital standards. He served as a director at the Decentralized Identity Foundation, helping scale the organization from roughly 50 to more than 300 member organizations. Earlier, he founded taqanu, a financial-inclusion company in Germany focused on banking access for refugees in collaboration with organizations including UNHCR, Amnesty International, and major European banks and regulators. That work took him to the G20 Financial Inclusion symposium. He later founded Veri Labs, where he built web3-native compliance tooling and became the inventor on a granted US patent for programmable access control on blockchain assets.

Outside of work, Balazs is an obsessive home cook who loves the whole process – from planning and sourcing to prep and hosting. He is known among friends for long 7- to 10-course dinners as well as informal one-course nights, and it is a standing joke in his circle that if someone has a cooking question, they ask him. He is also an avid paddle player and genuinely loves the sport.