# Decentralized Promissory Notes: The Foundation of Trust-Based Economics For five millennia, the power to create money has been the ultimate form of control. Kings minted coins, governments printed currency, and central banks conjured liquidity from thin air. This monopoly on money creation has been the invisible chain binding humanity to cycles of inflation, inequality, and financial exclusion. But what if money creation could be democratized? What if every individual could issue credit bas...