Have you ever calculated this: a sum of money from the parent generation could support a family for a year, but today it might not even cover a month of daily expenses. This is not just about rising prices; frankly, it’s your money being invisibly evaporated. As long as the printing press keeps running, everyone’s savings are being gradually diluted—this process is frighteningly silent.

History is full of such examples. Zimbabwe’s economic collapse was not a joke of history but a vivid lesson: when currency loses its credibility, printing more banknotes won’t buy you a loaf of bread. And those who control the printing presses? They have long since converted their assets into USD or other hard assets to escape.

This also explains why more and more people have been rushing into the crypto market in recent years. Don’t misunderstand—not everyone is betting on getting rich overnight. For many, holding assets that cannot be arbitrarily issued or frozen is the real need—this is an active and necessary battle to defend wealth.

But a new problem arises. When traditional assets like stocks, bonds, and real estate start entering the on-chain world in the form of tokens (RWA), who guarantees that their prices are real and cannot be manipulated? If the pricing power itself can be distorted, then we are merely shifting wealth from the physical world’s cage to another cage in the digital world—essentially still trapped.

This is the real challenge. And solving this problem is exactly the mission of projects like decentralized oracles. They build a layer of protection using code and economic incentives: a tamper-proof, distributed fact-based pricing layer. It doesn’t involve political stances; it’s simply about using technology to ensure that the price discovery process of on-chain assets is transparent and trustworthy.

Compared to helplessly complaining about the printing press, such technical solutions are obviously more pragmatic.