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From Parliaments to Protocols - Why power keeps drifting upward

From Parliaments to Protocols - Why power keeps drifting upward

Some stories repeat themselves so reliably that they begin to feel less like history and more like gravity. Governance, whether practiced in parliaments or encoded into blockchains, is one of those stories. For most of the last century, democratic societies had believed they solved a hard problem: how to build

Proof of Life, Proof of Death: Cryptographic Immortality and the End of the Human Validator

Proof of Life, Proof of Death: Cryptographic Immortality and the End of the Human Validator

By Sasha Shilina “The earth belongs…to the living; the dead have neither powers nor rights over it.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1789 I. The Missing Death in Protocol Space Blockchains are obsessed with beginnings.Genesis blocks. Fresh addresses. New epochs. “Go live.” What they are not very good at is endings.

Sybil and the Machine: Myth, Multiplicity, and the Crisis of Verification

Sybil and the Machine: Myth, Multiplicity, and the Crisis of Verification

By Sasha Shilina “I myself saw the Sibyl at Cumae with my own eyes, hanging in a jar; and when the boys asked her, ‘Sibyl, what do you want?’ she answered, ‘I want to die.’” – Petronius, Satyricon, 48. I. The problem of too many voices Web3 was built to welcome

Distributed Selves: Identity in a World of Liveness and Multiplicity

Distributed Selves: Identity in a World of Liveness and Multiplicity

By Sasha Shilina “The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.” — John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct (1922) I. Introduction: The Blink That Proves You Exist In a world governed by algorithms, the ability to verify that one is alive, through a facial

Crypto Without Capital: The Rise of Post-Plutocratic Web3

Crypto Without Capital: The Rise of Post-Plutocratic Web3

By Sasha Shilina “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1938 “Money is a new form of power, and as such it must be controlled

The Face of Decentralization: Biopolitics, Sybil Resistance, and the New Human Condition

The Face of Decentralization: Biopolitics, Sybil Resistance, and the New Human Condition

By Sasha Shilina “The body is the inscribed surface of events.” — Michel Foucault I. Introduction: The Body as Validator In the evolving theater of decentralized systems, an interesting new actor has taken the stage, not an address, not a hash, but a face. Through the face, the iris scanner, the