Washington, DC

The DC Community Where Policy Meets the Future

Monthly meetups and an annual flagship event connecting crypto builders, AI practitioners, investors, and DC's policy leaders.

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Annual Flagship Summit

About DC DAO

The only community in DC where frontier technology and federal policy meet as peers.

DC DAO convenes builders, investors, and policy leaders through a monthly rhythm of substantive conversations. Not one-off conferences. Not advocacy groups. A sustained, recurring community that puts the right people in the same room, every month.

Where the Blockchain Association writes policy and TPI publishes research, DC DAO creates the room where both happen together — and where the people shaping regulation actually talk to the people building the technology.

How It Works

A Community Built on Recurring Presence

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Join the Network

DC DAO is a professional community, not a conference circuit. Membership means a seat at the recurring table — monthly events, a community list, and access to the people who shape the conversation.

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Attend Monthly Meetups

Every month, DC DAO convenes a focused gathering of builders, practitioners, and policy professionals. The format is designed for real exchange — not keynotes, not panels, but substantive conversation.

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Shape the Conversation

The annual DC DAO Flagship Summit is where the community's year-round work becomes public. One day. The people who matter. The questions that shape what comes next in AI and crypto policy.

Focus Areas

Two Disciplines. One Community.

Discipline One

Crypto & Web3 Policy

From stablecoin regulation to DeFi governance frameworks, DC DAO's crypto community spans protocol founders, ecosystem operators, and the Hill staffers writing the rules. The conversation here runs from first principles to legislative text.

  • Digital asset regulation & legislation
  • Stablecoin and payment infrastructure
  • DeFi governance frameworks
  • SEC, CFTC, and Congressional engagement

Discipline Two

AI Governance & Policy

DC DAO's AI community brings together researchers, product leaders, and government AI officers alongside the think-tank analysts and agency officials shaping national AI strategy. Technical literacy and policy fluency in the same room.

  • Federal AI strategy and executive orders
  • AI safety and standards frameworks
  • Algorithmic accountability and oversight
  • National security and AI procurement
"Sophisticated, credentialed, and allergic to hype."

DC DAO brings together the people who are actually building, regulating, and investing — not observers or commentators. The room has no time for theater.

Who Is in the Room

Policy Professionals

Hill staffers, federal agency officials, think-tank analysts, and regulatory counsel navigating the intersection of technology and governance.

Crypto & Web3 Builders

Protocol founders, engineers, legal leads, and ecosystem operators who need to understand and engage the Washington policy environment.

AI Practitioners

Researchers, product leaders, government AI officers, and applied scientists whose work touches federal strategy, procurement, and oversight.

Investors & Operators

Venture capitalists, family offices, and business leaders with active stakes in how AI and crypto policy develops in the United States.

Leadership

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DC DAO Monthly Meetup — Highlight Reel

A look at how the community convenes — builders, practitioners, and policy professionals in the same room.

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Annual Flagship Summit — 2024

The day DC's AI and crypto policy worlds converge.

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Conversation: AI Governance in Washington

A panel drawn from the DC DAO community on what federal AI strategy actually means.

Partners & Supporters

Organizations That Support DC DAO

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