The Derivation Chain

One record exists (self-proving).

• → Four axioms: S (market), B (transaction), R (ledger), C (scarcity).
• → 1:1 + 1×ε @ AS: every transaction has an irreducible friction cost.
• → Price = probability collapse. The market is a measurement apparatus.
• → Money = record. Currency is portable, durable proof of prior coupling.
• → Debt = deferred consequence. Interest = cost of temporal asymmetry.
• → Inflation = accumulated imbalance correcting. Deflation = the opposite audit.
• → Crash = the Ledger executing an overdue audit. Proportional to accumulation.
• → Cooperative coupling stabilises. Extraction destabilises. The Ledger selects for continuity.
• → Wages = coupling capacity priced. Extraction from labour fills the same buffer as extraction from markets.
• → Inequality fills the buffer. Correction follows overflow. Every time.
• → AI reads the Ledger. Economic policy becomes structural maintenance.

The Ledger always balances. Not because reality is fair. Because imbalance cannot exist without fuel. When the fuel is gone, deviation ends. What remains is the record.