[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Hyzik ➕ [@HyzikHyzik](/creator/twitter/HyzikHyzik) on x 3062 followers Created: 2025-07-16 16:46:52 UTC When people hear “stablecoin”, they think safety. But most stablecoins today (like USDC or USDT) are backed by real dollars in a bank. That’s fine... until the bank freezes, fails, or gets political. To understand why this is a problem, let’s look at two old-school economists who had very different visions of money: 🧠 John Maynard Keynes 🧠 Friedrich Hayek They basically argued about one thing: Who should control money? Keynes said: 👉 “The economy needs help sometimes.” He believed governments and central banks should manage the economy, especially during downturns. How? ➕ Print more money ➕ Spend more money ➕ Lower interest rates → This became the foundation of modern fiat systems. In Keynes’ world, when things get rough, you trust the government to stimulate growth. That’s why we have central banks printing trillions during recessions. But here’s the issue: 📉 Too much printing = inflation 📉 Bad timing = bubbles or crashes 📉 Political manipulation = broken trust But Hayek? He wasn’t buying it. He believed money shouldn’t be in the hands of governments at all. His idea? Let private currencies compete, and let the market decide which one works best. No central control. No money printers. He wanted decentralized money with Just rules, not rulers. He wanted choice. He wanted freedom. Hayek wanted money to be like the internet: open, decentralized, and permissionless. In fact, he wrote in 1976: “We’ll never have good money again until we take it out of the hands of government.” Sounds pretty crypto, right? The only problem? in his time, the tech didn’t exist. Today, it does! And $SPOT is what that future is. It’s stable like fiat, but free like crypto. ✅ No reserves ✅ No collateral ✅ No central banks ✅ Fully decentralized It's Inflation resistant and powered by AMPL's supply elasticity. SPOT is a derivative of $AMPL, created through a clever mechanism called tranching. This splits AMPL into two parts: $SPOT → the senior tranche (low risk, stable with low volatility) $stAMPL → the junior tranche (high risk, higher reward potential, absorbs volatility) $AMPL is the raw elastic asset, its supply expands or contracts daily based on market demand. But instead of holding that volatile asset directly, $SPOT holders get the stable, predictable side of the equation. You’re not exposed to all the ups and downs, just the value-preserving part. It’s not a stablecoin. It’s a new and better category: A decentralized, low-volatility asset designed to be composable, censorship-resistant, and inflation-aware. If Keynes built the fiat system we have now, and Hayek dreamed of what could replace it... Then $SPOT is what finally bridges the two: ✅ A stable store of value ✅ With no reliance on trust ✅ Built for a permissionless future So the next time someone asks: “Why not just use USDC or Tether?” Tell them: “Because I believe in money you can own, not borrow from a bank.” $SPOT isn’t only a token. It’s monetary independence, onchain.  XXX engagements  **Related Topics** [money](/topic/money) [usdt](/topic/usdt) [stablecoins](/topic/stablecoins) [coins stablecoin](/topic/coins-stablecoin) [usdc](/topic/usdc) [coins made in usa](/topic/coins-made-in-usa) [coins bsc](/topic/coins-bsc) [coins solana ecosystem](/topic/coins-solana-ecosystem) [Post Link](https://x.com/HyzikHyzik/status/1945525552007258496)
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Hyzik ➕ @HyzikHyzik on x 3062 followers
Created: 2025-07-16 16:46:52 UTC
When people hear “stablecoin”, they think safety.
But most stablecoins today (like USDC or USDT) are backed by real dollars in a bank.
That’s fine... until the bank freezes, fails, or gets political.
To understand why this is a problem, let’s look at two old-school economists who had very different visions of money:
🧠 John Maynard Keynes 🧠 Friedrich Hayek
They basically argued about one thing: Who should control money?
Keynes said: 👉 “The economy needs help sometimes.”
He believed governments and central banks should manage the economy, especially during downturns.
How?
➕ Print more money
➕ Spend more money
➕ Lower interest rates
→ This became the foundation of modern fiat systems.
In Keynes’ world, when things get rough, you trust the government to stimulate growth.
That’s why we have central banks printing trillions during recessions.
But here’s the issue: 📉 Too much printing = inflation 📉 Bad timing = bubbles or crashes 📉 Political manipulation = broken trust
But Hayek? He wasn’t buying it.
He believed money shouldn’t be in the hands of governments at all.
His idea? Let private currencies compete, and let the market decide which one works best.
No central control. No money printers.
He wanted decentralized money with Just rules, not rulers.
He wanted choice. He wanted freedom.
Hayek wanted money to be like the internet: open, decentralized, and permissionless.
In fact, he wrote in 1976:
“We’ll never have good money again until we take it out of the hands of government.”
Sounds pretty crypto, right?
The only problem? in his time, the tech didn’t exist.
Today, it does!
And $SPOT is what that future is.
It’s stable like fiat, but free like crypto.
✅ No reserves ✅ No collateral ✅ No central banks ✅ Fully decentralized
It's Inflation resistant and powered by AMPL's supply elasticity.
SPOT is a derivative of $AMPL, created through a clever mechanism called tranching.
This splits AMPL into two parts:
$SPOT → the senior tranche (low risk, stable with low volatility)
$stAMPL → the junior tranche (high risk, higher reward potential, absorbs volatility)
$AMPL is the raw elastic asset, its supply expands or contracts daily based on market demand.
But instead of holding that volatile asset directly, $SPOT holders get the stable, predictable side of the equation.
You’re not exposed to all the ups and downs, just the value-preserving part.
It’s not a stablecoin. It’s a new and better category:
A decentralized, low-volatility asset designed to be composable, censorship-resistant, and inflation-aware.
If Keynes built the fiat system we have now, and Hayek dreamed of what could replace it...
Then $SPOT is what finally bridges the two:
✅ A stable store of value ✅ With no reliance on trust ✅ Built for a permissionless future
So the next time someone asks:
“Why not just use USDC or Tether?”
Tell them:
“Because I believe in money you can own, not borrow from a bank.”
$SPOT isn’t only a token. It’s monetary independence, onchain.
XXX engagements
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