An alternative border is obvious
Back when there was a physical border, with checkpoints and army patrols in the countryside there was a massive amount of smuggling of everything from pigs and petrol to plastic explosive and machine guns.
Since we don't want pigs and petrol (or explosives and machine guns) to be smuggled we simply need the opposite to a guarded physical border.
Blockchain is the exact opposite of an army road block and so will have exactly the opposite result.