On Polygon, Nonterritorial would be an application running on someone else's infrastructure.
On Cosmos, Nonterritorial is the infrastructure.
This is not a technical distinction. It is a statement about what we're building and why. Autonomous art circulation requires autonomous infrastructure. Cultural permanence requires sovereign systems. The archipelago model requires architectures that embody it.
We chose Cosmos because the question was never "what's the easiest way to build this?" The question was "what does this project actually require?"
The answer is sovereignty.
Why Sovereign Infrastructure | Nonterritorial NetworkDecember 2025
