Washington, DC

DC's Home for AI and Crypto Builders

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

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500+: Community Members
12×: Events Per Year
2: Focus Disciplines
1: Annual Flagship Summit

About DC DAO

Where DC's AI and crypto builders come to build what's next.

DC DAO brings together the builders, investors, policy leaders, and industry professionals advancing frontier technology.

Our monthly community events and annual flagship conference during DC Blockchain Week create a consistent forum for meaningful conversations, lasting relationships, and collaboration across the AI and crypto ecosystem.

How It Works

A Community Built on Presence

Join the Network

DC DAO is a professional community. Join our virtual group and gain access to the people who are shaping the conversation in DC.

Attend Monthly Meetups

We bring together builders and tech professionals that move frontier technology forward. Our events are designed around thoughtful exchange, substantive conversation, and purposeful networking that create lasting business connections.

Gather at our Summit

Our annual conference brings together builders, investors, and industry leaders from across the country for a full day of high-signal panels and networking around the ideas shaping AI and crypto.

Focus Areas

Two Disciplines. One Community.

Discipline One

Crypto & Web3

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.

Stablecoin and payment infrastructure
DeFi governance frameworks
Privacy, security, and compliance
Protocol Growth and Web3 wallet adoption

Discipline Two

AI Alignment & Ecosystem Growth

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.

Collaborations with Willo
Agentic workflows
Operations, control, and observability
Reliability, latency, and cost
Helping people embrace AI tools

"Building the next era of AI and crypto."

DC DAO is a community for the professionals building technology, allocating capital, and shaping the conversations that will define the next era of AI and crypto.

Who Is in the Room

Crypto & Web3 Professionals

Protocol founders, engineers, and ecosystem operators who need to understand the transformative nature of blockchain technology.

AI Builders

Product leaders, engineers, and developers building the technologies that will define the next era of innovation.

Investors

Venture capitalists and business leaders investing in the companies and infrastructure advancing AI and crypto.

Policy Leaders

Top U.S. and international policy leaders, along with industry regulatory counsel, who are navigating the intersection of technology and governance.

Leadership

Meet the Stewards

Brenda Loya

CEO, Tellor

Thomas McCarthy

Board

Brian Nistler

Head of Policy, Uniswap Labs

Gerald Gallagher

General Counsel, Sei Labs

Monica Anschel

Board

Shailee Adinolfi

Board

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DC's Home for AI and Crypto Builders

Where DC's AI and crypto builders come to build what's next.