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The Network State

also referred to as: network state

6 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 16, 2022 by Balaji Srinivasan · said 18 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Nov 16, 2022
Insight
Srinivasan: Network states are digital-first communities built to project physically
“Cloud first land last, but not land never. ... But it's not purely digital. It is a cloud formation that has the ambition of projecting into the physical world, okay?”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 55:52 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
Nov 16, 2022 bullish
Insight
Balaji: Network states can scale faster than traditional nation-states
“A nation state can no longer expand, right? Because the boundaries there are fixed. The network state can expand at the speed of a TikTok or a Facebook, right? It can grab all these people globally. It's constantly competing for people. And so it can get great…”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 2:49:03 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
Nov 16, 2022 bullish
Insight
Balaji: Network states leverage digital power to accelerate physical innovation
“What the network state is, is among other things, it's many other things, but it is a recipe for using bits to reopen innovation in atoms.”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 1:39:51 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
Nov 16, 2022
Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: A network state crowdfunds territory and gains diplomatic recognition
“Network state in one informal sentence is a highly aligned online community with the capacity for collective action that crowd funds territory around the world. And eventually gains diplomatic recognition from preexisting States.”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 38:56 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
Nov 16, 2022 bullish
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Balaji: Network states will drive a shift toward greater polystatism
“What we are going through and what we are going to see is much more polystatism and the network state is a way of not just using the existing administrative units like Florida and what have you, but setting up new ones.”
Balaji Srinivasan Nov 16, 2022 ▶ 2:36:16 The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
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Balaji Srinivasan: Crypto, AI, and social networks form network state cores
“This is the center of society and they've got their deterministic law with cryptocurrency and their probabilistic guidance with AI and their social network that binds the whole thing together. So those three technologies are like social technologies that are a…”
Balaji Srinivasan Jul 28, 2025 ▶ 0:14 Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
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