Press kit

Last updated: 27 October 2026. Media contact: support@thefrontier.space. Website: https://thefrontier.space

This kit is written to be quoted directly. Everything in it is public and checkable on-chain or on the website. If a fact here conflicts with the website, the website is current and we would like to know: support@thefrontier.space.

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One line (18 words) Frontier is a community-funded, build-in-public project working toward asteroid mining and, much later, life on Mars and Titan.

50 words Frontier is a community-funded, long-horizon project to make asteroid mining real and to lay the groundwork for living on Mars and Titan. Founded in New Zealand by engineer Karan Chaudhary, it publishes every number, every payment and every decision in public. Its token, FRNT, is a fixed-supply ERC-20 on Base.

200 words Frontier (thefrontier.space) is a community-funded project with a deliberately long horizon: to help make asteroid mining a real industry and, over decades, to lay the groundwork for human life on Mars and Titan. It was founded in 2026 by Karan Chaudhary, an engineering graduate based in New Zealand, and is run entirely in public.

The project's token, FRNT, is a standard ERC-20 on the Base network with a fixed supply of 20,000,000. There is no mint function, no owner, no pause, no blacklist and no upgrade path; the source is verified on the block explorer. Forty percent of supply is set aside for contributors, twenty percent is locked on-chain for community rewards released over four years, twenty percent is a mission reserve, fifteen percent is the founder and team allocation locked for a year and then released monthly until 2030, and five percent is for liquidity.

Ninety percent of all contributions go to mission work and ten percent to operations, with every outgoing payment published on a public ledger with a receipt. After the project passes US$10 million raised, one percent of every contribution is donated to people living in poverty, with each donation recorded on video. As of October 2026 no money has been raised and nothing has been sold.

Key facts

Founder bio

Short (40 words): Karan Chaudhary is the founder of Frontier. A B.Tech engineering graduate based in New Zealand, he started Frontier to turn asteroid mining and life beyond Earth from a private ambition into a public, shared project that anyone can join.

Long: Karan Chaudhary is a B.Tech engineering graduate living in New Zealand. Space has been his interest for as long as he can remember, and Frontier is his attempt to do something with that interest that does not depend on being a billionaire or a government: to fund the slow, unglamorous early work of asteroid prospecting and off-Earth engineering with many small contributions, and to run the whole thing in public. He publishes every number, every payment and every mistake, and answers to the community that funds the mission. He is the sole founder and currently the only full-time person on the project.

Photo and logo: available on request from support@thefrontier.space. (Add a /press page with downloadable assets before first outreach.)

What Frontier is not

Please quote this section as freely as any other.

• Not an investment. FRNT is not shares, debt or a promise of profit. Nobody at Frontier will tell you the token will go up, and if anyone does, they do not speak for the project.
• No returns promised. Contributions fund mission work. Contributors get FRNT, a public record of what they supported, and a say in community votes. They do not get dividends, revenue share or buybacks.
• Not a mining company (yet). Frontier owns no spacecraft, no mining rights and no launch contracts. The first funded work is research: prospecting studies, engineering feasibility, partnerships.
• Not a terraforming claim. Mars and Titan are the long-horizon direction, not a plan with a date.
• Not anonymous. The founder is named, based in New Zealand, and reachable.
• Not raising money today. Contributions are switched off until a New Zealand lawyer confirms the structure. No token has been sold.
• Not affiliated with any government space agency, with Base/Coinbase beyond using the network, or with any other project that uses the name Frontier.

Suggested headlines and angles

Straight news:

• A New Zealand engineer is trying to crowdfund asteroid mining, one small contribution at a time
• Frontier publishes every payment: inside a space project that runs its treasury in public
• No mint, no owner, no admin keys: the crypto token designed to be boring

Feature angles:

• What happens when a space project refuses to promise returns
• The 1% pledge: why a space fund plans to give to people in poverty, on video
• Asteroid prospecting on a budget: what US$100,000 of research actually buys
• Can a community own a blockchain? Frontier's plan to run its own chain, published before it exists

Local (New Zealand):

• Beyond Rocket Lab: the Kiwi founder betting on the next phase of the space economy
• Why Frontier chose New Zealand, and what the Space Agency's rules mean for a crowdfunded project

Sceptical angles we will engage with honestly:

• Is crowdfunded asteroid mining a serious plan or a token with a story?
• Who checks the receipts? How Frontier's public ledger works and where it falls short

FAQ for journalists

Is this a token sale? Not today. Contributions are off. When they open, contributors receive FRNT from the 40% contributor allocation. The structure (donation, equity crowdfunding or a KYC'd token sale) is decided by New Zealand legal advice, and we will publish the lawyer's answer.

Where does the money go? 90% to mission work, 10% to operations. Every outgoing payment is listed on the public ledger with a receipt link. The treasury is a 2-of-2 Safe on Base, so no single key can move funds. The draft treasury policy is published at docs/treasury-policy.md.

What has been spent so far? Nothing from contributions, because there are none. Set-up costs to date were paid personally by the founder.

Who is on the team? One person full time: the founder. Content and tooling are built with AI assistance, which we say openly. Engineers are hired when the treasury can pay them (see the roadmap).

Why a token at all? Three reasons: it gives contributors a transparent, transferable record of support; it lets community rewards be paid without a bank; and it allows a future community-run chain. We think the risks (speculation, regulation) are real and we try to reduce them by having no admin keys, locked allocations and no return promises.

Why Base? Low fees, Ethereum security, and mainstream wallet support. The contract is a plain ERC-20 with EIP-2612 permit.

Can the founder dump tokens? The 15% founder and team allocation is locked on-chain with nothing released until 27 October 2027 and then monthly until October 2030. The lock contract address is public.

Is asteroid mining realistic? Not soon, and we say so. The near-term work is prospecting and engineering studies, done with established partners, published openly. The US$900 billion "mission estimate" on the site is a long-horizon order-of-magnitude figure, not a budget.

What is the Frontier chain? A planned community-run blockchain where FRNT pays for gas. It only starts once the project has 10,000 holders or US$1 million raised and two engineers. The technical design is published for review in docs/frontier-chain-design.md.

What about regulation in New Zealand? The FMA decides case by case whether a token is a financial product under the Financial Markets Conduct Act; Inland Revenue treats cryptoassets as property for tax. We are getting advice before any money is accepted. We will publish the outcome.

How do I verify any of this? Every address in section 2 is on a public block explorer. The website's configuration file (website/data/site.js) is the single source for every number on the site.

Will you do interviews? Yes, by email first, then video. support@thefrontier.space. Time zone: New Zealand (UTC+13 in October).

Contact

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