Insights
Analysis and commentary from the digital frontier.
Regulation for AI, digital assets and quantum-era risk is not settled law. It is being argued out in conference halls, working groups and regulator consultations, several years ahead of the statute that will eventually describe it. This is a record of where Dreadnought Solutions has taken part in that argument.
What Chrissy speaks on
Accountability for agents
Liability does not disappear because a machine acted. It lands on whoever held the authority to act, which is why agent credentialing, not agent capability, is the governance problem.
Quantum-era preparedness
Harvest now, decrypt later means long-retention records are exposed today. With migration running five to ten years, the deferral calculus has already inverted.
The UK regulatory transition
Authorisation gateways, cross-border perimeters and the operational reality of becoming a regulated firm rather than a registered one.
Working groups
Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, AI & Quantum Working Group
Chrissy Hill chairs the AI & Quantum Working Group at the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance, the industry body for blockchain adoption in financial markets. The group exists on the premise that AI risk and quantum risk are one problem, not two: the AI estate is a cryptographic estate, and agent credentials are now the fastest-growing key population in most firms.
- Know Your Agent. The group’s first workstream. KYC asks who you are; KYA asks what a thing is permitted to do, on whose authority, and how that authority is revoked.
- Quantum preparedness. A case study on AI governance, risk management and regulatory compliance for post-quantum migration, mapped to work firms already have underway.
- Top 10 Agentic AI Risks for Financial Institutions. Out for public comment, Q4 2026.
Appearances
TradFi vs. Crypto Native Convergence
Panellist · September 2026 · PwC and the Association for Women in Crypto, More London
An all-female line-up on where institutional digital assets go next, and what converges first when two operating cultures are forced into the same settlement window.
Liability for AI Harms in England and Wales
Panellist · July 2026 · UK Jurisdiction Taskforce Legal Statement launch, The Law Society
The launch panel for the UKJT’s Legal Statement on liability for AI harms, chaired by Minesh Tanna of Simmons & Simmons, alongside Charles Kerrigan of CMS, Jessica Lee of McDermott Will & Schulte and Robert Kry of MoloLamken. The Statement sets out how existing English law allocates responsibility when an AI system causes harm, which is the ground every agentic governance question is argued on.
Agentic Payments and the Future of Money
Panellist · July 2026 · Stablecoins Unblocked, Clifford Chance
Where liability sits when an autonomous agent breaches a threshold or touches a sanctioned address, and why the answer is settled at the point of authorisation rather than execution.
CoinDesk PitchFest
Judge · May 2026 · Consensus Miami 2026
Judging CoinDesk’s flagship startup pitch competition, assessing early-stage digital asset businesses on the questions that decide whether a good idea survives its first regulator.
AI and Quantum in Financial Services
Panellist · April 2026 · Wall Street Blockchain Alliance webinar
The convergence thesis in its first public outing: trust as the axis where AI risk and quantum risk meet, and why they belong to one working group rather than two. With Cristina Dolan, Anna Linne and Joshua Klayman, hosted by Ron Quaranta. Watch the recording.
Leading the Future: AI, the Workforce and Society
Moderator · April 2026 · PWN Summit, Professional Women’s Network, London
Moderating the entrepreneur’s view of how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping business models, work, and what a career is now expected to look like.
Player One: Cybernetics, Gaming and Youth Economic Agency
Fireside chat · April 2026 · YPO Live, Young Presidents’ Organization
What happens to financial agency when the first economy a generation participates in is a game economy.
Recordings
Crypto 101
Filmed Q&A series · International Compliance Association
Eight short answers for compliance professionals: consensus mechanisms, public versus private chains, transaction tracing, mixers, risk management for financial institutions, the current state of regulation, stablecoins and the FATF Travel Rule. Watch the series.
The FCA Application Journey, and Winning the Regulator’s Confidence
Filmed panel · Edwin Coe LLP
The COO perspective on cryptoasset authorisation: what the application actually asks a firm to prove about itself, and where applicants most often mistake documentation for readiness.
BlockDrops, with MaurÃcio Magaldi
Podcast · Releasing autumn 2026
Agentic payments, Know Your Agent, and why the first generation of AI agents is being credentialed with the last generation of cryptography.
The Naked Short Club, with Dr Stu
Radio · Resonance FM
Two editions of Stuart MacDonald’s markets show, broadcast live from London in March 2026. Market structure and liquidity, tokenisation and private credit, stablecoins and dollar dominance, the intent economy, and where governance sits once agents are the ones transacting. Alongside Alessandro Balata of Fasanara Capital, Robby Yung of Animoca Brands, Toby Lewis of Trio, Constantin Kogan of Holistic Capital and Michael Borrelli of AI & Partners. Listen to 23 March and 30 March.
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Chrissy Hill speaks and moderates on digital asset regulation, AI governance and quantum preparedness, for boards, conferences and closed-door sessions. Forthcoming engagements and availability are shared on request.