Nations should own
what they run on.
A conviction I’ve spent a career earning the right to hold — and the reason everything I build looks the way it does.
“A nation’s money, its compute, and its intelligence should not run on someone else’s cloud, under someone else’s keys. Sovereignty isn’t a slogan — it’s an architecture. And the window to build it is now.”— Karamjit Chana
For a generation, the world outsourced its most critical capabilities — payments, data, and now intelligence — to a handful of platforms. It was convenient. It was also a quiet transfer of control, and the bill is coming due, paid in sovereignty.
I believe the next decade belongs to owners, not renters. The states, institutions, and founders who insist on holding their own keys, their own data, and their own models will set the terms for everyone else. Currency infrastructure is chosen once a generation — and every choice made this decade locks the next one in place.
So the work is urgent, and it is unglamorous, and it is the most important thing I know how to build: giving nations a way to own their money, their compute, and their intelligence outright — engineered so that ownership is a property of the system, not a promise in a contract. That is the future I am building toward, and I intend to be early.
The ownership decade
Why the next era of value belongs to those who hold their own infrastructure — and what it means for money and AI.
Sovereignty by architecture
How to engineer control into a system so it can’t be quietly subverted — from keys to model weights.
Building the hard layer
Lessons from founding across five industries, and why the difficult problems are the durable ones.