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Zweichain Announces New Token “$CPI” — Redefining the Consumer Price Index and Proposing a New Economic Theory Based on Statistical Mechanics, Tackling Off-Balance-Sheet Pension Debt
Zweichain Introduces the “CPI Token” to Visualize the Real Economy
Zweichain, the patented blockchain ecosystem, ZWEISPACE JAPAN (Zweichain) today announces the launch of a new token “$CPI” to analyze the trends in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from a unique perspective. This project aims to move beyond simplistic economic models rooted in high school-level mathematics, and instead, build a new economic theory and fiscal policy framework based on thermodynamic statistical mechanics.
$CPI
Sector Category: Macroeconomics / Inflation Observation
Base Token: Zweicoin ($ZWC)
Key Features:
・Construction and tracking of an index reflecting real-world price trends
・Quantitative assessment of volatility and supply-demand dynamics using statistical mechanics models
・Analytical infrastructure to visualize the economic impact of off-balance-sheet liabilities and pension systems
・Real-time data utilization to support economic and fiscal policy decision-making
・DAO-based economic research model leveraging internal research outcomes
The CPI token aims to serve as an infrastructure that transforms the public’s “intuitive sense” of inflation into data, facilitating a deeper understanding of social structures and policy issues. By modeling behavioral shifts among consumers and changes in real purchasing power, it provides a framework for investors, policymakers, and corporate leaders to make structurally informed decisions.
Web: https://reitjapan.com/cpi
Background — Complex Off-Balance-Sheet Debt and Nonlinear Economic Behavior
Although the CPI has been trending upward in recent years, public awareness of the fiscal sustainability of pension and healthcare systems remains insufficient. For example, Professor Kazumasa Oguro’s research outlines a structural imbalance: with ¥300 trillion in reserve assets, ¥1,500 trillion in paid premiums, and ¥490 trillion in treasury contributions, future pension payouts fall short by roughly ¥980 trillion. (Reference: Tokyo Foundation – “The Zero-Sum Nature Inherent in Pay-As-You-Go Pensions Dr. Kazumasa Oguro“).
At the core of these issues lies the fact that the full picture of off-balance-sheet liabilities is not properly understood or communicated by either the media or the public.
Japan’s demographic structure is also undergoing rapid change, with the annual number of births falling below 700,000. Unpredictable economic environments — such as pandemics and natural disasters — have made government forecasts increasingly unreliable. In such conditions, we must design economic models that incorporate fluctuations (volatility in finance, or beta in statistical mechanics indicating temperature and diffusion).
The economy of a nation with over 100 million people cannot be represented by a single curve, as in high school algebra. Rather, we face a quantum or statistical mechanical problem — one that must be approached through probabilistic distributions.
Even Now, Two Solutions Remain
There are still two main approaches to addressing this issue:
Inducing Inflation:
Improving Pension Investment Yields:
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Fundamental Issues:
The full time-series picture of off-balance-sheet liabilities is not visible, understood, shared, or explained.
Future economic expectations are not modeled using statistical mechanics-based probabilistic distributions (e.g., beta, volatility).
In the U.S., quantitative modeling based on physics was introduced to both Wall Street and Washington during the tenure of former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, influencing even fiscal authorities. Japan too must update its approach to economic modeling. Disclosing time-series forecasts of off-balance-sheet liabilities — by registering and publishing them on a blockchain — could be an extremely low-cost and verifiable solution.
Two Core Policy Solutions
Enhancing pension investment returns and improving IRR (internal rate of return) across the stock market, financial sector, and national economy.
Inflation-based adjustment to effectively compress the real burden of debt.
While Western countries have recently raised interest rates in efforts to suppress inflation, Japan has spent the past 30 years hoping for moderate inflation — yet it has failed to materialize. Only now, through external exchange-rate factors, is Japan experiencing cost-push inflation.
In this context, simply raising interest rates could risk repeating the bubble collapse that marked the end of the Showa era. What is needed instead is a globally unprecedented, uniquely tailored monetary policy.
The Role of CPI — A New Key Economic Variable
Even if current issues can be addressed through the collective wisdom of private-sector experts, the variable that remains as the key is inflation — both its rate and composition.
For instance, the reduction in candy sizes or the shift in demand from increasingly expensive pasta to relatively cheaper, price-controlled rice reflect real economic behavior. These shifts are rarely captured or explained in official reports.
By uncovering the realities behind CPI numbers, this token aims to provide insights that support fiscal policy and, by extension, corporate management decisions. The research and analysis conducted through this initiative will generate a unique information ratio — a measure of informational value — and create independent, sustainable resources to fuel the project’s longevity.
Ultimately, the $CPI initiative seeks to generate benefit for economic participants and contribute meaningfully to the advancement of human knowledge.
