A reading from the book of hunt_ak:
The United States is a very unique country in a lot of ways. The biggest way arguably is its geography. The US boasts more navigable waterways, deep water ports, farmable/usable land, friendly neighbors, and a host of other 'x-factors' that greatly aided the states to rise to the top of the world's superpower list, and for a myriad of reasons it will probably stay there for a few generations.
In 1944, as the dust was settling from WWII, hundreds of delegates from 44 countries descended upon Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. What were they doing there? Along with likely some heavy posturing from countries which in no way were in a position to posture, these delegates were going to put their heads together and figure out what they were going to do in terms of a collaborative effort to establish some sort of global foreign exchange system.
Mind you, at this time, the US was one of the least ravaged first-world nations, post-war, and could have leaned a heavy shoulder into many of these countries, set up some semblance of a presence there, and had a significant global impact all around the world. This would have been time consuming and dizzyingly costly, for little more than to establish 'domain' around the world?
In what, at the time, seemed like almost an act of charity, the United States agreed to utilize our massive naval force to basically be the 'world shipping police', promising to protect free trade routes along any major shipping corridor for the countries who would sign the agreement. Having little to offer in terms of countering what could've been an aggressive proposal from the US, the nations jumped at the chance to utilize the US Navy, almost at their disposal, to protect their international commerce efforts.
Every one of these nations do, in fact, have SOMETHING to offer, and the US was in a position, had the capacity for, and offered to come alongside these nations in this brilliant effort that secured the US dollar as the currency for worldwide trade. Instead of trying to do a brute-force takeover of different nations or establish themselves in some semi-permanent way on foreign soil (in a larger capacity than we already do in terms of the agreement), the decision was to collaborate.
Phonon is this collaboration. There are already a ton of 'nation states' in terms of Crypto that are doing their own thing, every one of them with their own benefits and achilles heels, and Phonon is poised to secure these global crypto trade routes. This allows these native projects to continue to churn away, doing their own thing, but freeing themselves. The freedom comes from them having their own 'Pheverdream' and allowing Phonon to do what it does best, which is unlocking the capacity of ALL crypto, on any chain, and become the worlds financial superpower.
Phonon is the Bretton Woods agreement and those who hold the governance for this system hold the keys to the castle.