Original title: "Blockchains as sovereign communities: a manifest"
## Author: Mustafa Albasan, founder of Celestia
Compiled by: Ismay, BlockBeats
Editor's note: Today, Celestia's native token TIA rose from a bottom of $9 to nearly $12, an increase of more than 30%. Last night, Celestia founder Mustafa published an article on the sovereign blockchain on the official forum, explaining his views on blockchain technology giving communities the ability to achieve sovereignty through self-organization and collective action. This technological innovation enables new Social and economic models emerged, and the sovereign aggregation chain further lowered the threshold for achieving community sovereignty, making it easier to deploy a sovereign chain, thereby promoting the proliferation of millions of sovereign communities with their own top-level social contracts.
In 2018, Mustafa and Vitalik co-authored a paper called "Data Availability Sampling and Fraud Proofs", describing a design that allows light clients to receive and verify fraud proofs from full nodes. The data availability proof system reduces the trade-off between on-chain capacity and security, thereby solving the scalability of the blockchain without sacrificing security and decentralization.
This is where modularity, a new primitive of the blockchain, was born. Now, with the price of TIA recovering, will people refocus their attention on modularity and the sovereign chain?
“Everyone has the right to peaceful assembly and association. No one shall be forced to join association.” - Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Communities have the right to thrive through self-organization and collective action The inalienable right to development without being bound by the status quo. The technology that enables community-owned computer programs to be launched, forming sovereign blockchains, is critical to realizing this right.
Throughout human history, societies have been driven by like-minded people pursuing common goals, whether that be for grassroots activism, struggle, innovation or culture.
In order to fully realize the rights to freedom of assembly and association, people must be able to create and enforce shared social agreements and contracts that document interpersonal relationships within the community. They must be able to enforce these agreements without relying on intermediaries such as states or companies, which have traditionally been slow, bureaucratic, untrustworthy, corrupt or vulnerable to censorship.
Blockchain enables, for the first time, consensus-based people to establish shared economic and contractual relationships with each other without relying on untrustworthy middlemen to enforce the terms of these relationships. This has enabled the emergence of many new social and economic prototypes, including decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), distributed cooperative organizations (DisCOs), decentralized finance (DeFi), collaborative finance (CoFi), and regenerative finance (ReFi).
Sovereign Blockchain is Sovereign Community
"Governments of the industrial world, you tired giants of flesh and steel, I come from cyberspace, the new home of the soul. For the sake of the future, I beg you These people of the past stay away from us. You are not welcome where we gather." - Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace
Blockchains are community-owned computer programs whose rules are governed by All people who have a copy of the same computer program and participate in the network as nodes execute it jointly.
The network does not require any higher authority such as the military or police to enforce the rules of community-owned computer programs. Rules are directly enforced by network participants, and the ledger produced by the network has meaning and value because it is given by the community through the existence of a social contract.
Blockchains are therefore sovereign because they directly implement the wishes of a community bound by a shared social contract. This in turn gives communities sovereignty, similar to that of nation-states.
TOP SOCIAL CONTRACT
All rules and laws governing contractual relationships ultimately derive their authority from the social contract.
For example, the authority of a traditional organization comes from the laws of the country where it is registered. The authority of these laws may come from the country's legislative body, such as the Parliament, and the authority of the Parliament ultimately Derived from social contracts between people, which may be recorded in constitutions. Through social consensus, these social contracts can, and often do, modify the laws under them, peacefully or forcibly.
These social contracts are top-level social contracts because they serve as the fundamental source of authority for all subordinate contracts, with no higher authority above them.
Blockchain uniquely has its own top-level social contracts that are independent of the top-level social contracts that underpin the state, are enforced by the social consensus of the sovereign communities participating in the network, and give meaning and value to the ledgers generated by the network. Likewise, this social consensus can modify the rules of the blockchain through hard forks, which only make sense if the community of the blockchain network is sovereign through its own top-level social contract.
Sovereign Aggregation Chain as a Sovereign Community
Similar to traditional contracts, non-sovereign smart contracts can be created under the sovereign blockchain as a smart contract platform. For example, a DAO can deploy smart contracts on Layer 1. However, this DAO will not be a sovereign community because its authority does not come from its own top-level social contract, but from a third-party contract. If the community of a DAO wishes to achieve justice in a way that enforces its social contract, it will not be able to do so without the permission of the top-level social contract above.
The ability of sovereign communities to create top-level social contracts is a unique and powerful new primitive enabled by blockchain. However, creating a Layer 1 sovereign community entails the huge overhead of deploying and maintaining its own Layer 1 consensus and validator network.
By avoiding the need for each sovereign community to deploy a new consensus network, the sovereign rollup chain greatly reduces the friction for sovereign communities to achieve their top-level social contracts (in the form of community-owned computers). This will lead to a new reality in which communities do have the inalienable right to thrive through self-organization and collective action, unfettered by the status quo.
By making deploying a sovereign chain as easy as deploying a blog, a proliferation of millions of sovereign communities (in the form of sovereign chains) with their own top-level social contracts may be on the horizon.
Build modularly. Become sovereign.
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