City/Sync Context:Original Video on dPAN’s | Local Chains as a Civic Coordination Framework | The Logic & Philosophy of a Bifurcated Economy | The idea of citizenship has long been treated as the foundation of political belonging. To be a citizen of a state or a city is to belong to its demos. The history of citizenship has historically been built on exclusionary principles, and it has defined who counts and who doesn’t, who is the ‘we’ and who is the ‘they’. The passport, the residency permi...

The City/Sync Publication (All Writings) While I have previously introduced the idea of Decentralized Public Administration Networks, or dPANs, as a mechanism to decentralize existing administrative systems, there is far more to this vision. Radical disruption of municipal systems is not something governments can easily accept or permit. History has taught us this. Local authorities operate under legal, political, and fiduciary constraints that make wholesale change impossible overnight. The ...