I think you were close to the solution when you mentioned a gold stadard. Though a standard is needed, it can never be gold again, it is physically impossible due to now the appearance of solar energy which is effectively creating product for nothing, expanding what is still claimed to be a fixed base of all capital.

You can see how this works if you think about solar energy converted to electricity and then to hydrogen by electrolysers. Hydrogen, despite all the attempts of the fossil fuel industry to suppress the benefits of it, actually functionally replaces fossil fuels, but more, it powers electric cars via fuel cells replacing toxic batteris, backs up solar 24/7, circulates and filtrates both drinking water and air, and even converts to food (See "Solein"), and at the input the sun supplies the Joules creting it for free, it doesn't ask for anything in return, actually it refuses to accept anything in return.

So the ideal energy ecology is 100% solar, backed up by hydrogen. This is perfectly achievable, again despite effforts by both the utilities energy industry and the banking industry to subvert and suppress all information on it, including even the information of one Nikola Tesla, who always said free energy means free money. Imagine, if we had acted on that back then, 120 years ago, we might have avoided two world wars, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and the third, probably final, nuclear world war now brewing in Europe.

So the only physical standard that could be put on money now is a number of Jouls of energy per token. This is almost done already by energy KWhr pricing in markets.

This actually has to happen, nature actually insists, it doesn't matter if money goes to CDBCs or otherwise, as long as it is not issued to honestly and authentically reflect solar product actually created, then the value of the money has to continue to diminish to nothing, because solar is inevitably scaling up, as sure as the leaves on a plant grow, that is where we are headed, mostly on a domestic and community basis, still to be mostly backed up by hydrogen, but it is happening.

Imagine the difference it would make if the full backlog of money remaining to be issued reflecting the product created historically since solar became significant, was to be issued. It isn't small amounts. In UK alone, it was more than 50Bn for 2022 alone.

Since we know this represents about 20% of the total electrical utilities, it follows that with 100% solar would mean 250Bn created per yeat, replacing the utilities electricity industry.

Issue of that money would cause an avalanche of solar installation, removing probably most crime, thus law enforcemnt, reducing the load of those on fossil fuels, and of course war, no-one would be extorted into joining an army to act as cannon fodder, if everyone had this money as effectively a kind of solar backed UBI.

I wonder how much more dying and suffering, and financial inflation we will need to see until this accepted, if it ever is accepted before we are all wiped out by nuclear war.