We argue that the principal application for blockchain technology will not be in the financial sector, but rather in maintaining decentralized human governance, from archives to transparent policies encoded in the blockchain in the form of smart contracts.. Such decentralized, blockchain-grounded governance comes not a moment too soon, as nation states are dissolving before our eyes. Will blockchain-based communities replace the nation state? What are the prospects and dangers of this development?

翻译：我们认为，区块链技术的主要应用将不在于金融领域，而在于维持去中心化的人类治理——从档案管理到以智能合约形式编码于区块链中的透明政策。这种基于区块链的去中心化治理来得恰逢其时，因为民族国家正在我们眼前瓦解。基于区块链的社群会取代民族国家吗？这一发展的前景与危险何在？