What we were first tracking as classic "creative destruction" now continues to sit firmly in the "destruction destruction" column, as this $4.3B Binance settlement is announced weeks after FTX's Sam …
The Flood of Illicit Fentanyl Erodes U.S. Social Integrity and Cognitive Infrastucture
Not to sound too clinical, but the network effects of the opiod epidemic have touched every household and family unit in the United States. It is the ultimate societal data fabric, encompassing us …
The Future of Blockchain Security, National Security, Cybersecurity, and Health Security
The OODA Loop Blockchain Series includes case studies of blockchain security initiatives and cybersecurity incidents. We tracked down the best-in-class research efforts and subject matter experts to …
Crypto Fraud is Less Than 1% of the Annual $3.2 Trillion in Illegal Activity in the Traditional Fiat Monetary System
The current perception of the scale of fraud in the cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies ecosystem - now based largely on the scale of and level of headlines dedicated to the FTX fraud and …
Blockchain Meets Bio: The Recent Synthetic Biology Summit and “Sustainable Biomanufacturing for Future Network States”
Opportunities for advantage will be created by the exponential disruption of the industrial base (including that of defense) coupled with exponential biotechnology innovation to build the bioeconomy …
The Future of Bitcoin and the Exponential Growth of and Risks Posed by Ordinal Inscriptions
Bitcoin-based ordinal inscriptions are the "new, new thing" and an opportunity to frame and make more accessible issues surrounding designing, quantifying, and measuring exponential innovation. To …
Saudi Arabia and the Future of Money
Featured Images Source: Mettis Global Link Once again, like the ongoing Water Wars in France, recent geopolitical maneuvers read like a lost chapter from the OODA Loop Urtext: Kim Stanley …
The Disintermediation and/or Self-cannibalization of the Defense Industrial Base
Background "A strategic suggestion to organizations if they are experiencing disintermediation is to aggressively self-cannibalize, with ecosystems and platforms as the new value creation and capture …
OODA CEO Matt Devost and OODA Network Members Review the OODA Almanac 2023 – Jagged Transitions
This conversation took place at the January 2023 OODA Network Member Meeting. OODA CEO Matt Devost on the OODA Almanac 2023 - Jagged …
Crypto Enforcement Actions, the SEC Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit, and National Security Risk
In two recent posts, we embarked on an effort to quantify crypto and digital assets enforcement and regulatory impacts and outcomes as they emerge in 2023: With Coinbase Investigation and $100M …