Our Mission
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Time to take the wheel
Artificial intelligence, digital assets, and the next generation of economic technology are moving lightning fast. Open Frontier exists to make sure they work for ordinary people by protecting consumers, defending digital privacy, safeguarding intellectual property, and preventing power from becoming more concentrated in entrenched legacy systems. We support innovation, but not on autopilot. The rules for these technologies are being written now, and we cannot afford to sit it out.
Our Values
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Vision & Vigilance
New technologies like artificial intelligence and digital assets can expand financial opportunity, lower barriers, and give more people access to tools and information once reserved for insiders. But they can also deepen inequality, erode privacy, and concentrate power if the public interest is left out.
Technology is not destiny. What matters is who shapes it, who benefits from it and what rules govern it. Open Frontier supports a people-first approach to innovation: pro-opportunity, pro-accountability and clear-eyed about the stakes for workers, consumers, democracy, and U.S. competitiveness.
FAQ’s
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Frequently Asked Questions
Open Frontier is focused on the next generation of economic technology—the tools, systems, and infrastructure changing how people access money, data, markets, identity, and opportunity.
Open Frontier began with digital assets and blockchain technology, but now encompasses artificial intelligence, digital identity, real-time payments, tokenization, data infrastructure, privacy, cybersecurity, and agentic commerce.
Open Frontier helps policymakers and other leaders understand how these technologies are converging and develop policies that expand opportunity, protect people, encourage responsible innovation, and strengthen democratic accountability.
Open Frontier helps policymakers, advocates, technologists, industry leaders, and communities navigate the economic and social consequences of emerging technology.
Open Frontier does not defend every technology, company, product, or use case. The organization identifies opportunities, examines risks, clarifies trade-offs, and develops practical policy frameworks that encourage responsible innovation while protecting the public.
Open Frontier’s role is to help map the road ahead and ensure that the public interest has a meaningful voice as artificial intelligence, crypto, digital finance, and other emerging technologies reshape the economy.
Open Frontier supports both technological innovation and effective regulation.
Innovation without appropriate rules can expose consumers, workers, businesses, and communities to harm. Regulation that is unclear or unnecessarily restrictive can prevent useful technologies from developing, limit access to better tools, and push innovation into jurisdictions with weaker protections.
Open Frontier supports responsible innovation: clear rules, meaningful accountability, strong consumer protections, and enough flexibility for new technologies to solve real problems. Innovation and accountability are not competing goals and well-designed policy can advance both.
The Issues
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NEWS & views
Erik Balsbaugh Says The Crypto Rules Being Written Right Now Will Last a Generation.
By Erik Balsbaugh, Executive Director, Open Frontier
Media
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Media
Our People
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knowledge & experience
For too long, Democrats have considered innovation a dirty word.
The immediate reaction was to kill it. But technology is moving too fast, and putting a wall in front of a train only derails it. We need educated and informed leaders who understand that some guardrails are essential, but America needs the trains to keep moving to remain globally competitive in the new world financial order.”
Consumers and investors need champions at the table.
As finance evolves, progressives need to fight for legislation that regulates new technologies in fair and responsible manners.”
The world is moving into the future.
Technology is evolving, financial systems are changing, and the geopolitical landscape is shifting. Democrats face a choice: stand in front of the oncoming train of innovation shouting “Stop!” and get run over, or present a positive, coherent vision for a better financial system for consumers, for competition, and for America. Open Frontier is here to support all who believe in the latter, who care about financial inclusion, who care about consumer protection, and who want America to deliver on the promise of growth and innovation for the average person.”
The conversation around fintech, cryptocurrency and digital assets is shaping the future of our economy,
and it’s crucial that a progressive, pro-innovation and pro-labor voice helps lead the debate.”
The challenge is not innovation versus regulation
– it’s whether we have the vision to design smart rules and trustworthy technology together to unlock opportunity, safeguard against exploitation, defend democratic values, and reinforce U.S. leadership. Financial innovations, as well as adversarial forces, are not waiting for us – we must invest now in the people, the policy, and the tech building blocks to shape the future of fintech.”
U.S. national security is strengthened by sensible regulations that empower responsible U.S. companies to invent and deploy the next generation of global financial infrastructure.
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