Over the last 15 years, the web has come to be dominated by a handful of powerful players. To access and use their proprietary platforms, we gradually give up our privacy, lose control of our data, and become vulnerable to censorship and manipulation. We did not fare much better with the global financial system. Money is managed non-transparently, for the benefit of a few and to the detriment of many, leading to a vicious concentration of power which often overrides nation-states’ agendas and ecosystems’ well-being.