Recently, something happened that deeply triggered my thoughts on the nature of wealth.

The ruling of the Delaware Supreme Court allowed Elon Musk to gain that $139 billion Tesla stock option. This money directly pushed his net worth to $749 billion — the first time in human history that someone has reached this figure.

The numbers alone are shocking, but thinking deeper, it becomes a bit heart-wrenching. What lies behind this 139 billion dollars? Shareholder votes, lower courts, the Supreme Court, market confidence... a whole set of complex social contracts and legal procedures. Simply put, the formation, confirmation, and preservation of this enormous wealth rely on 'centralized' trust nodes such as corporate governance, the judicial system, and market sentiment at every step. It sounds solid, but the question is—what if something goes wrong at any stage?

This raises an important question for everyone: As our assets become increasingly digital, should we continue to place all our trust in these centralized systems? Is there a way for assets to exist more autonomously, more transparently, and more reliant on rules rather than intermediaries?

The blockchain world is attempting another path. The emergence of decentralized stablecoins is an answer to this question. Projects like USDD aim to build the core idea of creating an asset value that can exist without relying on any single central institution. This approach is completely different from traditional wealth systems—it maintains trust through protocols rather than intermediaries and ensures value through transparent rules rather than complex legal procedures.

A wealth empire built on judicial rulings and market sentiment, and a stablecoin based on blockchain rules, represent two radically different visions of the future. The former is more powerful but also more fragile; the latter is more experimental but perhaps pointing towards some inevitable direction.