Admittedly, this is true for other types of innovation as well. For example the invention of the decentralized Internet and its basic properties. Have the Internet not been decentralized, it would not have allowed folks in countries without infrastructure and money to build their own networks which are on par with the developed countries' ones. Also, free and open source software in general.
There isn't anything cryptographic in that and yet it was a big power re-arranger in a way.