Bitcoin is about as close to…

Bitcoin is about as close to a free market as we can get. It facilitates property rights via utxo model. Its almost a paradox that a free system creates a proprietary (as in property of) system. But this is a good thing. The base layer is free, and creates a free and fair market for all sorts of property, including the equivalent of digital companies. The weakness with the permissionless model is that it attracts scams. We dont yet have mechanisms to differentiate honest projects from the scams. That is something that is needed.