So far, many of the things we build on and with blockchains have presented themselves as new types of property enclosures. From cryptocurrencies to NFTs, decentralized ledger technology seems mostly dominated by the asset logic of financialization. But the landscape of blockchain-enabled digital culture is fantastically diverse and can encode much more than a desire for wealth and ownership. In this short essay, media theory and digital art researcher Martin Zeilinger explores what might become possible – for artists, activists or community organizers – when we reimagine blockchains not as property-oriented infrastructure, but as structures of belonging. Doing so may ...