For centuries, the modern state has rested on a silent foundation: its monopoly over truth. Not in the philosophical sense, but in the practical one, the power to decide what counts as real in the social and economic world. But this quiet architecture of trust is now under attack. Blockchain technology, with its immutable ledgers and cryptographic certainty, is displacing the institutional foundations on which the state’s authority rests.

For centuries, the modern state has rested on a silent foundation: its monopoly over truth. Not in the philosophical sense, but in the practical one, the power to decide what counts as real in the social and economic world. But this quiet architecture of trust is now under attack. Blockchain technology, with its immutable ledgers and cryptographic certainty, is displacing the institutional foundations on which the state’s authority rests.