Building index-tracking assets on top of options instead of debt

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The biggest application to me is modular and composable stablecoin systems based on baskets of economic goods weighted by personalized consumer-behaviour on a person-to-person basis.

See my own post on this:

Modular and Composable Stablecoins as Homogeneous Monetary Goods

For thousands of years humans have been in pursuit of a universal kind of value that can act as both a durable store of long-term wealth and a convenient means of exchange for commerce. This has increasingly lead humanity to durable and universally valued commodities; first grain, shells, and glass beads, but later precious metals: copper, silver, and finally gold. The gold standard was not a pursuit of gold as money for it’s own sake however, but was a pursuit of gold for its universality as pr…