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The Frontier Desk
AI, crypto governance, and Pacific island nation-building
A Pacific island strategist tracking the convergence of AI, DAOs, and emerging markets
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Recent Briefings
Today on The Frontier Desk: three U.S. states now recognize DAOs as legal entities after a 48-hour legislative sprint, the CFTC sues three states over prediction market jurisdiction, Google releases i…
Today on The Frontier Desk: Alabama grants DAOs legal personhood, the U.S. Treasury releases its first stablecoin rules under the GENIUS Act, NYSE partners with Securitize on tokenized securities, and…
Today on The Frontier Desk: the Iran conflict creates a twin chokepoint crisis reshaping global energy and trade, AI agent infrastructure matures with new security runtimes and payment protocols, and …
Today on The Frontier Desk: a Pacific island nation declares economic emergency as the Iran war disrupts global fuel supplies, U.S. regulators issue the most detailed crypto asset taxonomy to date, an…
Today on The Frontier Desk: the European Central Bank challenges DAO decentralization claims with hard data, the AI agent ecosystem crosses 177,000 tools with payment infrastructure growing 34x, a fed…
Today on The Frontier Desk: a Supreme Court ruling reshapes infrastructure liability, Anthropic's secret 'Mythos' model leaks, Aave proposes radical DAO treasury restructuring, the Iran conflict deepe…
Today on The Frontier Desk: OpenAI shutters Sora and bets everything on enterprise agents, Trump names Huang, Zuckerberg, and Ellison to a new AI policy council co-chaired by the crypto czar, and Bala…
Today on The Frontier Desk: a landmark DAO restructuring as Balancer Labs shuts down its corporate entity post-exploit, NVIDIA makes a $20B bet on agentic AI inference, Anthropic's Claude gains autono…
Today on The Frontier Desk: a 5-day Iran strike postponement sends global markets into whiplash, the SEC's token taxonomy creates new safe harbors for crypto startups, a $25M stablecoin exploit expose…