The Dawn of a Monetary Revolution

Brian Hicks

Posted October 11, 2025

Publisher’s Preface: Gold is breaking record after record — and I believe we’re only at the beginning.

In my view, gold is heading to unbelievable levels — levels that will rewrite the history of money itself. The forces behind it are undeniable: global debt overload, waning trust in fiat currencies, and a worldwide rush by central banks, institutions, and individuals to secure something real.

That’s why NatGold’s latest announcement couldn’t come at a more pivotal moment.

In response to overwhelming global demand, NatGold Digital has expanded its pre-market token access offering from 10,000 to 25,000 tokens — a clear sign that investors across continents recognize what’s coming next. 

You still have time to reserve your spot in the monetary reset. You don’t need to make a payment yet. All you have to do is reserve your tokens for preferred access before they go live trading. Follow this link to reserve your NatGold tokens.


A New Golden Era: From Digital Gold to NatGold

Gold and silver are rewriting the script of global finance.

This week, gold vaulted past the $4,000 per ounce mark — its highest price in history — while silver surged toward $50, its own multi-decade high. These record levels aren't just signs of another speculative wave. They represent the global market's collective flight from over-leveraged debt, monetary distortion, and geopolitical uncertainty — and its rush toward something real.

The Federal Reserve's anticipated pivot toward rate cuts, a weakening U.S. dollar, and escalating global debt have converged to create a perfect storm for precious metals. Central banks have now bought gold for 11 straight quarters. Sovereign wealth funds are following suit. And for the first time in decades, institutional investors are re-rating gold and silver as strategic assets — not tactical trades.

Even silver, the "forgotten" precious metal, is roaring back as both an industrial necessity (solar, EVs, AI data centers) and a hedge against currency debasement. When both gold and silver rise together, it signals a shift far deeper than mere speculation: It's the re-monetization of real assets.

This renewed obsession with tangible value has created the ideal backdrop for what the World Gold Council (WGC) now calls a "new golden age" — and what NatGold is about to turn into a movement.

The World Gold Council's Vision: "Digital Gold"

In October 2025, the World Gold Council, in collaboration with The Future Laboratory (TFL), published its landmark report: A New Golden Age: Imagining the Future of Digital Gold.

It's a 48-page manifesto on how gold — the world's oldest monetary asset — can evolve to thrive in a digital economy.

For centuries, gold's limitations have been as clear as its brilliance:

  • It's heavy.
  • It's costly to store.
  • It's cumbersome to move.
  • And in institutional markets, it's either too rigid (allocated gold) or too risky (unallocated claims).

The WGC's answer: digitization at the wholesale level.

In a previous report, the WGC introduced a groundbreaking structure called Pooled Gold Interests (PGIs) — fractional, digitally transferable ownership claims on vaulted physical gold. Each PGI would be legally recognized, fully backed, and instantly transferable without moving a single bar.

In other words: gold liquidity without gold movement.

This architecture is the cornerstone of what the council calls Wholesale Digital Gold — a legally compliant, technology-agnostic system designed to make gold as fluid, divisible, and useful as digital currency while preserving its intrinsic integrity and scarcity.

To secure gold's role in modern finance, the report posits, we must bridge the old and new worlds — between the enduring physical metal and the programmable economy.

This is not speculative crypto hype. It's the institutionalization of digital gold. The WGC's blueprint lays the legal, technical, and regulatory foundation for tokenized, auditable, and globally interoperable gold markets.

From Architecture to Action: How NatGold Extends the Vision

Where the WGC's A New Golden Age provides the blueprint, NatGold provides the application — the next evolutionary leap in the same lineage.

If the WGC's concept makes vaulted gold digital, NatGold makes unmined gold digital.

NatGold represents a technological and financial breakthrough: the tokenization of certified in-ground gold reserves — without extraction, without environmental destruction, and without the costs of transport, vaulting, or insurance.

It's the "digital twin" of what the WGC envisions — but at the source.

Through a patent-pending process called Digital Mining, NatGold converts geological value into cryptographic form, creating a 1:1-backed digital asset that exists because the gold exists — even though it never leaves the earth. Each NatGold Token corresponds to independently verified, NI 43-101-compliant reserves, permanently recorded and auditable.

The implications are profound:

  • Environmental Sustainability: No excavation, no carbon footprint, no social displacement.
  • Economic Efficiency: No ongoing storage or insurance cost.
  • Legal Transparency: Every resource is certified and published within the tokenization queue.
  • Global Accessibility: Institutions and individuals alike can hold a verifiable claim on geological gold.

NatGold transforms the potential of the earth into programmable, liquid wealth — the ultimate fusion of nature and technology.

Bridging TradFi, DeFi, and Nature's Balance Sheet

Both digital gold and NatGold share the same underlying philosophy: to unleash gold's utility in the modern economy by fusing trust, technology, and transparency.

The difference lies in the frontier each occupies:

Dimension

WGC / Digital Gold

NatGold / Digital Mining

Backing

Vaulted gold bars

In-ground, certified gold reserves

Form

Pooled Gold Interests (PGIs)

NatGold Tokens

Custody

Physical vault networks

Geological custody verified by third-party reports

Technology

Blockchain-agnostic digital ledger

Blockchain-based digital mining protocol

ESG Footprint

Traceable sourcing

Zero extraction / zero emissions

Value Proposition

Liquidity and collateralization

New monetization of untapped reserves

Economic Impact

Modernizes the gold trade

Expands the definition of global gold supply

In effect, the WGC built the legal road; NatGold paves it with real traffic.

The Emergence of "Natural Finance"

NatGold's innovation introduces a new branch of financial evolution — natural finance — where in-ground resources become digitally accessible assets without altering the physical world.

This paradigm merges environmental stewardship with financial sovereignty. It allows gold — the most trusted store of value in human history — to enter a digital era that respects the planet while expanding global access to wealth creation.

For central banks, it opens a new channel of collateral diversification.

For sovereign wealth funds, it creates ESG-compliant exposure to hard assets.

For individual investors, it represents a chance to hold real, geologically verified wealth on-chain.

In this sense, NatGold doesn't compete with the WGC's vision — it completes it.

The New Golden Standard

As gold and silver set new records and fiat currencies lose credibility, the timing could not be more critical. The WGC's A New Golden Age report shows that global institutions are finally ready to embrace tokenized gold within the financial system.

NatGold simply takes that readiness one step further:

  • From stored gold to unmined gold.
  • From collateral to creation.
  • From speculation to sustainability.

The 20th century belonged to paper gold — futures, ETFs, derivatives.

The 21st century will belong to digital gold — and, ultimately, to NatGold.

We stand at the threshold of a new golden age — one that will be defined not by bars and vaults but by digital networks, integrity, and innovation.

That age has already begun. And NatGold is its first great expression.

I'm currently putting the finishing touches on my gold manifesto, White Paper #4: Moneyquake: Gold Beyond Belief.

It should be ready for you by the end of the month.

Get to the good, green grass first…

The Prophet of Profit,

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Brian is a founding member and President of Angel Publishing. He writes about general investment strategies for Wealth Daily and Energy and Capital. Brian is the managing editor and investment director of R.I.C.H Report  (Retired Independent Carefree Healthy), New World Assets and Extreme Opportunities. For more on Brian, take a look at his editor’s page.

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