Blockchain Governance

De Filippi, a leading researcher on blockchain governance at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, addresses one of the most pressing questions in digital organisation: how do you govern systems without traditional hierarchies? The book examines how blockchain networks develop governance mechanisms — from Bitcoin's informal consensus to Ethereum's formal improvement processes — and what this teaches us about distributed decision-making more broadly. For product direction, it offers frameworks for thinking about governance in any networked system where authority is distributed rather than centrally controlled. The institutional analysis connects to broader questions about how technology reshapes the boundaries between markets, firms, and commons. Essential reading for understanding how governance emerges in digital-native organisations.