# 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...

# 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...

The history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of who controls money creation. This power has always been concentrated in the hands of the few: monarchs, governments, central banks. And with this concentration has come predictable consequences: inflation, inequality, financial exclusion, and the weaponization of currency for political ends. The question is not whether this system is broken. The question is whether it was ever designed to work for everyone.The Monopoly on MoneyFor m...

The history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of who controls money creation. This power has always been concentrated in the hands of the few: monarchs, governments, central banks. And with this concentration has come predictable consequences: inflation, inequality, financial exclusion, and the weaponization of currency for political ends. The question is not whether this system is broken. The question is whether it was ever designed to work for everyone.The Monopoly on MoneyFor m...