In this talk, Victoria Lemieux will draw on recent research and writing, including her latest book Searching For Trust: Blockchain Technology in an Age of Disinformation (Cambridge University Press, 2022) to share insights from explorations of blockchains as socio-informational-technical systems. Leaning on archival and social theories, Lemieux will present her view of blockchains as microcosms in which society and culture form around and, in turn, are formed by a shared record, the ledger, through successive speech acts (i.e., transactions) that intersubjectively construct and reproduce a communicative ‘life world’ uniquely shared by all network participants. She will then reflect upon the implications of this perspective for understanding the value of blockchain technology in the present moment and end by suggesting some possible future research directions.