# 🎙 Tarun Chitra on whether Code is Law | Layer Zero

*Author: David Hoffman*
*Published: Mar 15, 2022*
*Source: https://www.bankless.com/fr/-tarun-chitra-on-whether-code-is*

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**Tarun Chitra**, in addition to being Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, is a gigabrain, polymath type in the Ethereum space. His fluency in mathematics results in a creative, almost artistic approach to a traditionally rigorous and analytical field.

Perhaps related to his search for beauty, Tarun observes the structural changing of massive systems happening in the broader geopolitical ecosystem today. We explore the relationship between regulation and finance in a unique light—finance itself is fundamentally a legal practice… it’s money plus law.

Finance becomes more elegant with smart contracts, and we muse on the idea that broader governance structures can improve with smart contracts as well. Is code law? Can we generalize capital efficiency?

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