India, Aug. 23 -- Let me start with a confession. I attended last week's "Digital Davos"-the annual Wyoming Blockchain Symposium as I described in this newspaper on 15 August. It convened the leading 500 actors in digital assets as hosted by SALT and Kraken. And my head is still spinning at the technical jargon and culture of the digerati. I served as a career US diplomat, a UN negotiator, and Senior Director on the National Security Council. But at the conference I needed an interpreter from English to Simple.

In plain terms, I am a geopolitical trust architect and engineer, not a Silicon Valley genius or billionaire. But we did end up vibing. Why? Because we each map networks that facilitate complex, sovereign parties to make credible ...