diff --git a/app.js b/app.js
index 693b41d..03825bc 100644
--- a/app.js
+++ b/app.js
@@ -689,6 +689,168 @@ async function loadSovereigntyStatus() {
 
 loadSovereigntyStatus();
 
+// === SOVEREIGNTY TECH LANDSCAPE ===
+// Gemini Deep Research findings — 6 tech category panels in an outer ring.
+// Toggle with [L]. Panels visible by default.
+
+const LANDSCAPE_RADIUS = 13.5;
+const LANDSCAPE_Y = 2.2;
+const LANDSCAPE_FLOAT_AMP = 0.18;
+const LANDSCAPE_FLOAT_SPEED = 0.14;
+
+const landscapeGroup = new THREE.Group();
+scene.add(landscapeGroup);
+
+/** @type {Array<{sprite: THREE.Sprite, floatPhase: number}>} */
+const landscapeSprites = [];
+
+let landscapeVisible = true;
+
+/**
+ * Creates a canvas texture for a sovereignty tech landscape category panel.
+ * @param {{ name: string, color: string, score: number, technologies: string[] }} cat
+ * @returns {THREE.CanvasTexture}
+ */
+function createLandscapeTexture(cat) {
+  const W = 360, H = 220;
+  const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
+  canvas.width = W;
+  canvas.height = H;
+  const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
+  const col = cat.color;
+
+  // Dark background
+  ctx.fillStyle = 'rgba(0, 6, 18, 0.90)';
+  ctx.fillRect(0, 0, W, H);
+
+  // Outer border
+  ctx.strokeStyle = col;
+  ctx.lineWidth = 2;
+  ctx.strokeRect(1, 1, W - 2, H - 2);
+
+  // Inner faint border
+  ctx.strokeStyle = col;
+  ctx.lineWidth = 1;
+  ctx.globalAlpha = 0.25;
+  ctx.strokeRect(4, 4, W - 8, H - 8);
+  ctx.globalAlpha = 1.0;
+
+  // Header background tint
+  ctx.fillStyle = col + '18';
+  ctx.fillRect(1, 1, W - 2, 38);
+
+  // Category name
+  ctx.font = 'bold 22px "Courier New", monospace';
+  ctx.fillStyle = '#ffffff';
+  ctx.textAlign = 'left';
+  ctx.fillText(cat.name.toUpperCase(), 14, 28);
+
+  // Score label
+  ctx.font = '9px "Courier New", monospace';
+  ctx.fillStyle = '#445566';
+  ctx.fillText('SOVEREIGNTY SCORE', 14, 50);
+
+  // Score bar background
+  const barX = 14, barY = 54, barW = W - 28, barH = 9;
+  ctx.fillStyle = 'rgba(255,255,255,0.06)';
+  ctx.fillRect(barX, barY, barW, barH);
+
+  // Score bar fill
+  ctx.fillStyle = col;
+  ctx.globalAlpha = 0.72;
+  ctx.fillRect(barX, barY, (cat.score / 100) * barW, barH);
+  ctx.globalAlpha = 1.0;
+
+  // Score value
+  ctx.font = 'bold 12px "Courier New", monospace';
+  ctx.fillStyle = col;
+  ctx.textAlign = 'right';
+  ctx.fillText(`${cat.score}%`, W - 14, 62);
+  ctx.textAlign = 'left';
+
+  // Separator
+  ctx.strokeStyle = '#1a3a6a';
+  ctx.lineWidth = 1;
+  ctx.beginPath();
+  ctx.moveTo(14, 72);
+  ctx.lineTo(W - 14, 72);
+  ctx.stroke();
+
+  // Tech label
+  ctx.font = '9px "Courier New", monospace';
+  ctx.fillStyle = '#445566';
+  ctx.fillText('KEY TECHNOLOGIES', 14, 86);
+
+  // Technology list
+  const maxTech = Math.min(cat.technologies.length, 5);
+  for (let i = 0; i < maxTech; i++) {
+    ctx.font = '12px "Courier New", monospace';
+    ctx.fillStyle = i === 0 ? '#ddeeff' : '#8899bb';
+    ctx.fillText('\u203a ' + cat.technologies[i], 14, 104 + i * 22);
+  }
+
+  return new THREE.CanvasTexture(canvas);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Builds landscape panel sprites from loaded data.
+ * @param {{ categories: Array<{ id: string, name: string, color: string, score: number, technologies: string[] }> }} data
+ */
+function buildLandscapePanels(data) {
+  while (landscapeGroup.children.length) landscapeGroup.remove(landscapeGroup.children[0]);
+  landscapeSprites.length = 0;
+
+  const n = data.categories.length;
+  data.categories.forEach((cat, i) => {
+    const angle = (i / n) * Math.PI * 2;
+    const x = Math.cos(angle) * LANDSCAPE_RADIUS;
+    const z = Math.sin(angle) * LANDSCAPE_RADIUS;
+
+    const texture = createLandscapeTexture(cat);
+    const material = new THREE.SpriteMaterial({
+      map: texture,
+      transparent: true,
+      opacity: 0.88,
+      depthWrite: false,
+    });
+    const sprite = new THREE.Sprite(material);
+    sprite.scale.set(6.0, 3.65, 1);
+    sprite.position.set(x, LANDSCAPE_Y, z);
+    landscapeGroup.add(sprite);
+    landscapeSprites.push({ sprite, floatPhase: (i / n) * Math.PI * 2 });
+  });
+}
+
+async function loadLandscape() {
+  try {
+    const res = await fetch('./sovereignty-landscape.json');
+    if (!res.ok) throw new Error('not found');
+    const data = await res.json();
+    buildLandscapePanels(data);
+  } catch {
+    buildLandscapePanels({
+      categories: [
+        { id: 'identity',   name: 'Identity',   color: '#4af0c0', score: 90, technologies: ['Nostr / NIP-01', 'Bitcoin Keys', 'NIP-07 Signing', 'DIDs', 'Taproot Assets'] },
+        { id: 'money',      name: 'Money',      color: '#ffd700', score: 95, technologies: ['Bitcoin L1', 'Lightning / L402', 'Fedimint', 'Taproot', 'Ordinals / Runes'] },
+        { id: 'compute',    name: 'Compute',    color: '#7b5cff', score: 72, technologies: ['Ollama (local LLM)', 'llama.cpp / LM Studio', 'Browser WASM ML', 'Edge Inference', 'Claude API'] },
+        { id: 'comms',      name: 'Comms',      color: '#ff6644', score: 80, technologies: ['Nostr Relays', 'Matrix Protocol', 'Tor Network', 'SimpleX', 'Session'] },
+        { id: 'storage',    name: 'Storage',    color: '#44aaff', score: 68, technologies: ['Nostr Blossom / NIP-96', 'IPFS / Arweave', 'Self-hosted MinIO', 'BTCPay Server', 'Umbrel'] },
+        { id: 'governance', name: 'Governance', color: '#ff44aa', score: 62, technologies: ['Multi-sig (Miniscript)', 'Taproot Scripts', 'Bitcoin Covenants', 'Ark Protocol', 'Cashu Mints'] },
+      ]
+    });
+  }
+}
+
+loadLandscape();
+
+// Toggle landscape visibility with [L]
+document.addEventListener('keydown', (e) => {
+  if ((e.key === 'l' || e.key === 'L') && !e.metaKey && !e.ctrlKey) {
+    landscapeVisible = !landscapeVisible;
+    landscapeGroup.visible = landscapeVisible;
+  }
+});
+
 // === RUNE RING ===
 // 12 Elder Futhark rune sprites in a slow-orbiting ring around the center platform.
 
@@ -884,6 +1046,11 @@ function animate() {
     rune.sprite.material.opacity = 0.65 + Math.sin(elapsed * 1.2 + rune.floatPhase) * 0.2;
   }
 
+  // Animate sovereignty tech landscape panels — gentle hover float
+  for (const { sprite, floatPhase } of landscapeSprites) {
+    sprite.position.y = LANDSCAPE_Y + Math.sin(elapsed * LANDSCAPE_FLOAT_SPEED + floatPhase) * LANDSCAPE_FLOAT_AMP;
+  }
+
   composer.render();
 }
 
diff --git a/sovereignty-landscape.json b/sovereignty-landscape.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b5d410
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sovereignty-landscape.json
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+{
+  "version": "2026-03",
+  "research": "Gemini Deep Research",
+  "summary": "Comprehensive sovereignty tech landscape across identity, money, compute, communications, storage, and governance layers.",
+  "categories": [
+    {
+      "id": "identity",
+      "name": "Identity",
+      "color": "#4af0c0",
+      "score": 90,
+      "technologies": ["Nostr / NIP-01", "Bitcoin Keys", "NIP-07 Signing", "DIDs", "Taproot Assets"]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "money",
+      "name": "Money",
+      "color": "#ffd700",
+      "score": 95,
+      "technologies": ["Bitcoin L1", "Lightning / L402", "Fedimint", "Taproot", "Ordinals / Runes"]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "compute",
+      "name": "Compute",
+      "color": "#7b5cff",
+      "score": 72,
+      "technologies": ["Ollama (local LLM)", "llama.cpp / LM Studio", "Browser WASM ML", "Edge Inference", "Claude API"]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "comms",
+      "name": "Comms",
+      "color": "#ff6644",
+      "score": 80,
+      "technologies": ["Nostr Relays", "Matrix Protocol", "Tor Network", "SimpleX", "Session"]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "storage",
+      "name": "Storage",
+      "color": "#44aaff",
+      "score": 68,
+      "technologies": ["Nostr Blossom / NIP-96", "IPFS / Arweave", "Self-hosted MinIO", "BTCPay Server", "Umbrel"]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "governance",
+      "name": "Governance",
+      "color": "#ff44aa",
+      "score": 62,
+      "technologies": ["Multi-sig (Miniscript)", "Taproot Scripts", "Bitcoin Covenants", "Ark Protocol", "Cashu Mints"]
+    }
+  ]
+}