On April 26, 1956, in Newark Port, an old oil tanker named "Ideal X" slowly sailed out of the harbor. In its hold, there were no gold, oil, or important political figures, but 58 uniformly sized, sealed metal boxes. At that moment, humanity witnessed the true meaning of "container" for the first time. There was no welcoming crowd, nor media coverage. However, historians later looked back and determined that the significance of this day was no less than the roar of the steam engine or the birth of the Internet. This metal box is not the commodity itself, but it reshaped the way goods flow; it did not shorten the distance across the oceans, but completely reorganized the global Supply Chain structure. And decades later, in the distant digital world, another kind of "standard" is quietly rising. Its goal is also not to change the nature of currency, but to provide a unified interface for the circulation of global currency. Today, we still cannot determine whether it can attain a status like that of the "container", but it already possesses all the conditions of a great invention: being misunderstood, resisted, and underestimated — yet changing the world.

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