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   "text": "Blockchain is not a disruptive technology but a foundational technology, and its transformational impact therefore takes decades rather than years.",
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   "text": "Because blockchain is a foundational technology, blockchain-based governance solutions for agency problems depend on the creation of infrastructure components that have not yet been conceptualized in the decentralized technology evolution.",
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   "text": "Decentralized infrastructure is interdependent across layers, so even a fully developed and instantiated infrastructure product in one area may collapse without supporting decentralized infrastructure products in other, inevitably related areas.",
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