  The article does a close reading of a discussion paper by NITI Aayog and a
strategy paper by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
(MeitY) advocating non-financial use cases of blockchain in India. By noting
the discursive shift from transparency to trust that grounds these two
documents and consequently Indian state's redescription of blockchain, the
paper foregrounds how governance by infrastructure is at the heart of new forms
of governance and how blockchain systems are being designated as decentral by
states to have recentralizing effects. The papers highlight how a mapping of
discursive shifts of notions such as trust, transparency, (de)centralization
and (dis)intermediation can be a potent site to investigate redescriptions of
emerging sociotechnical systems.
