I have been very inspired both by the work of Dr. Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum who also wrote the formal specifications in the yellowpaper, and by the work of Johann Gevers, co-founder of Monero. These two researchers are developing narratives that converge around Gavin Wood's idea of crypto-law.

Johann Gevers takes a long-view approach while Gavin Wood is looking at the concept from the perspective of someone who is developing the first iteration of a technology that could support crypto-law.

In his research, Johann Gevers describes how human-based trust systems, such as the legal system of the nation-states, are limited by the memory limit of the human brain, dunbar's number. Because of this limit, human trust systems are unable to scale in a decentralized way. This is the reason why we have used highly centralized legal systems.