Decentralizing through blockchain

With blockchain, all transactions and decisions get a tech-enabled, “trust-less” basis (in other words, actors don’t need to trust the words of third parties anymore and they can look most things up “on-chain”). The verifiable nature of all actions on blockchain enables a multitude of design alternatives when it comes to introducing users to governance. 

In well-engineered blockchains, each transaction is saved in a distributed manner. There’s usually enough evidence and less place for trust in the words of some individual or organization. This change in trust-related dynamics brings about many changes to the entire decision-making structure in governance. A big milestone that comes prior to all else is arguably the introduction of an onboarding mechanism into the protocol’s governance.