A Primer on Composability
It’s worth exploring the value of composability, which comes about because of blockchain interoperability. I’ll introduce the idea by comparing it with another common term in software: open source. While it is now relatively common as a hallmark of software openness to make something open source, enabling interoperability is less common, and less easy. The distinction between the two is that for open source, the source code is freely available, whereas interoperability means that one applicat...
A Primer on Composability
It’s worth exploring the value of composability, which comes about because of blockchain interoperability. I’ll introduce the idea by comparing it with another common term in software: open source. While it is now relatively common as a hallmark of software openness to make something open source, enabling interoperability is less common, and less easy. The distinction between the two is that for open source, the source code is freely available, whereas interoperability means that one applicat...
Turing-Complete Governance
From decentralized governance to composable, arbitrarily programmable governance Decentralized governance has been dreamed of and experimented with for a long time. From self-managed market socialism in Yugoslavia to revolutionary anarchists in Spain to the IETF’s use of rough consensus, plenty of people have sought new and better ways to make bottom-up decisions. But doing so at scale has never been easy. It is fiendishly difficult to get lots of people to make decisions and work together bo...
Turing-Complete Governance
From decentralized governance to composable, arbitrarily programmable governance Decentralized governance has been dreamed of and experimented with for a long time. From self-managed market socialism in Yugoslavia to revolutionary anarchists in Spain to the IETF’s use of rough consensus, plenty of people have sought new and better ways to make bottom-up decisions. But doing so at scale has never been easy. It is fiendishly difficult to get lots of people to make decisions and work together bo...
