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Balaji is the author of The Network State, a book laying out his vision for building new communities and eventually countries that start online and take shape in the physical world. He is the founder of the Network School, an initiative putting those ideas into practice. A widely followed voice in technology, startups, and crypto, he reaches an audience of more than 1.1 million on X.

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Censorship-resistant money and censorship-resistant speech are the same underlying technology.
This is why authoritarian states view both crypto currencies and encrypted media as existential threats: each expands the unilateral power of the individual.
India is the most important test case for the network state thesis.
With massive digital public infrastructure and a young, mobile population, India can show whether digital governance complements or substitutes for physical bundles of statehood.
The Network State's real innovation is not land acquisition but portable social contracts.
Balaji's network state model may matter less as a physical territorial project and more as a proof that shared values, rules, and governance can be carried across borders like software.