The only logical path forward for this blockchain technology is to start using some governance protocols to secure and effectively decentralized territory in the real world. Just look at how the current world works the banks are at the top the banks run the government's and then the government's have authority over physical boundaries and have the Monopoly for physical violence.
The only thing we need to be focused on to really move crypto forward is finding ways to anchor governance protocols into the real world. This is in fact the scaling solution because once we're able to effectively decentralize territory we can then put data centers and routers in this decentralized territory and now you're scaling is only limited by compute speed processing speed
As far as I know this has been implemented by some projects already, and yet there are still manipulation going on. I'm not saying that this is a bad idea, but comparing it to a bank? I mean that is where why we are in crypto though, and now we are going back to the same principle that we don't like? have central authority in the middle to control everything?
Regardless though, crypto has becoming a business now, so whichever protocols we implemented, there is a way that "decentralized" territory will be tap and obviously, someone entity will have to make money out out it, sacrificing processing speed and power.