Realizing the Potential of Blockchain: A Multistakeholder Approach to the Stewardship of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies

In this report, the authors explain the core differences between the internet of information as a network of similar networks and the blockchain as a balkanized internet of value, where real assets are at stake. The report then goes onto what the authors have found to be the most urgent threats to this resource, which they view as governance challenges. By governance, they mean stewardship, which involves collaborating, identifying common interests and creating incentives to act on them. The authors do not mean government, regulation or topdown control. The report explores governance needs at three levels: platform, application and the ecosystem as a whole.