You&#x27;re assuming that there has to be a &#x27;leader&#x27; of some sort. A blockchain network could be you and I. It could be my neighborhood, my city, or a group of companies that wish to participate. Any blockchain platform that can support smart contracts, of which each smart contract can have whatever &#x27;token&#x27; of value it chooses.<p>I can make a token and call it &#x27;potPlantCoin&#x27;. That token can be valued at &#x27;1 potted plant&#x27; of a certain size in my neighborhood blockchain, whereas, the token is backed by a potted plant... I could then effectively have a distributed, decentralized ledger in my neighborhood that uses the value of a potted plant as the means of exchange. I don&#x27;t have to worry about any other network than the small amount of processing power within the nodes in my neighborhood.<p>Maybe that example helps you understand how the blockchain doesn&#x27;t need a &#x27;leader&#x27; or something like bitcoin that is &#x27;so far ahead&#x27;. Bitcoin is completely irrelevant in my neighborhood. Sorry, no crystal ball here, but I do have an extremely high degree of certainty =p