Why ieUnit is needed at all
Every single reference has its own bias.
Imagine setting a price that should hold for a year. In which unit? Dollars? They keep losing purchasing power. Gold? It swings heavily. A cryptocurrency? Even more so.
That is the core problem: no single currency and no single asset works as a reliable measure. Every single reference has its own bias.
In politics and finance such shifts are often intended – they are a tool. For companies, projects and decentralised systems they are a risk: planning becomes uncertain, calculations wobble.
A real-world example
The problem shows up most clearly in decentralised networks with their own token. An interesting example is Infinity-Economics with its coin XIN: a transaction fee of "1 XIN" sounds simple – but it becomes unaffordable when XIN rises sharply, and meaningless when it falls. A fixed fee in a volatile unit is a bad idea in the long run. The same applies to every long-term price, every contract, every calculation – in any industry.
What is missing is a neutral point of reference that is not driven by any single development. That is exactly what ieUnit provides.