Blockchain holds the promise of helping us out of the grips of our current Big Tech, digital feudalism. Through decentralisation, big corporations and governments may lose their influence over the digital landscape. However, power games will still be played in the new world of blockchain, and we must work hard to make sure that it is once more not solely the rich who hold all the cards, write Wessel Reijers and Morshed Mannan.

In a recent article for The New Yorker, Charlie Dektar envisions what a deactivation procedure for Facebook’s planned ‘metaverse’ might look like: a user cowering before the throne of a Mark Zuckerberg avatar, who with menacing calm dispatches the supplicant from his digital realm.