The book’s recommendations for how the two forms of governance might work together go in both directions—making the law more code-like, and code more law-like. Law can become more code-like through uses of regulatory sandboxes, like safe harbors but more limited in time or scale; by pushing the use of boilerplate in the contracts of private law to its modular extremes; and by treating institutions involved as information fiduciaries. Code can become more law-like by literally linking smart and legal contracts via incorporating the code of each within the other; experimentation with this is already underway. Traditional legal enforcement mechanisms can be incorporated into smart contracts, and law-like governance processes can be built into blockchain platforms for “on-chain governance.” Rule of law itself might come to be treated as a service.

这本书对两种治理形式如何协同工作的建议，从两个方面进行了阐述，使法律更加规范化，使代码更像法律。通过使用监管沙箱（如安全港），但在时间或规模上更为有限；通过将私法合同中样板的使用推向模块化的极端；以及将相关机构视为信息受托人，法律可以变得更像代码。通过将智能合约和合法合约的代码合并在一起，代码可以变得更像法律；这方面的实验已经在进行中。传统的法律执行机制可以纳入智能合约，类似法律的治理流程可以构建到区块链平台中，用于“链上治理”。法治本身可能会被视为一种服务。