There's something almost comedic about the timing here. The latest policy shift promises to cut out NGO middlemen and their supposedly bloated operations. Meanwhile, blockchain-based systems and smart contracts have been sitting right there, ready to automate aid distribution with transparent, trustless execution.

The whole pitch is "less waste, more direct impact" - which is literally what decentralized tech was designed for. You'd think policymakers would be all over DAOs and on-chain verification instead of just rearranging traditional structures. But here we are, watching them reinvent solutions that crypto developers prototyped years ago.

Maybe the real inefficiency isn't in the NGOs themselves, but in refusing to acknowledge tools that already solve the bureaucracy problem.