The Basel III Bombshell: Why Digital Gold Could Be the Decade’s Top Trade

Keith Kohl

Written By Keith Kohl

Posted June 30, 2025

Tomorrow, a quiet monetary revolution will take place. 

No fanfare. No primetime cable coverage. No presidential addresses. But for those paying attention — those who understand how markets really work — the event will be seismic.

July 1, 2025 is the day gold will be officially re-crowned as money.

Why? Well, it all revolves around the new Basel III regulations. Don’t feel too bad if it doesn’t ring a bell. I’d bet most people have never heard of it. 

Starting tomorrow, gold will be effectively upgraded to Tier 1 asset status under the Basel III banking regulations.

Stop and think about that for just a second. 

For the first time since Nixon killed the gold standard in 1971, the world's central banks can now treat physical, allocated gold the same way they treat U.S. treasuries or cash reserves… as fully risk-free collateral on their balance sheets.

In other words, gold just became a central banker's dream again.

Are you starting to get the wild implications here? 

Because when you combine this with what's already happening around the globe — surging inflation, skyrocketing sovereign debt, wars in three continents, and a monetary system wheezing on its last legs — the writing is on the wall:

The world is finally going back to gold!

But it’s the smart investors that aren’t just watching this happen — they’ll be right at the front of the profit line. 

Gold’s Quiet Rally Toward $4,000

At the time of writing, the price of gold is hovering near all-time highs. 

And yet, this historic run is far from over; analysts at UBS and Citi see it heading to $4,000/oz by early next year. 

And they’re not alone, either. Hedge fund titan Ray Dalio, a man worth over $15 billion, believes gold is entering a supercycle that could see it surge 10x from current levels.

Look, this isn’t speculation. It’s the endgame of a fiat experiment that began in 1971 and is now collapsing under its own weight.

As you read this, trillions of dollars are being printed into oblivion. 

The U.S. debt clock just blew past $36 trillion. And across the BRICS nations, central banks are buying gold at a rate not seen since the 1950s — quietly preparing to launch their own gold-backed currency as a challenge to the dollar.

Even BlackRock and Goldman Sachs — the temples of fiat capitalism — are loading up on bullion, ETFs, and mining plays. 

But physical gold is hard to store, hard to trade, and hard to scale. Like I’ve told you before, it’s a bit of a pain in the ass. 

Now enter the breakthrough no one expected…

Tokenized Gold: The Next Evolution of Money

As gold reclaims its monetary crown, the next question becomes obvious: How do we modernize gold for the digital economy?

After all, the blockchain revolution isn’t waiting for vaults and bullion.

Over the past year, Coinbase elbowed its way into the S&P 500. Circle’s IPO lit up the boards with a 250% pop, and the mighty BlackRock baptized its own Bitcoin ETF.

Even Larry Fink declared tokenization to be the future of all markets. And in a rare moment of harmony between prediction and reality, he may actually be right.

Remember, over $30 trillion in assets are projected to make their leap into blockchain form over the next decade.

Yet amid this digital stampede, physical gold remains curiously analog. 

Why? 

Because most of it is stuck: buried under protected wilderness, shackled by permitting bureaucracy, or economically stranded due to astronomical mining costs.

Until now.

Our investment community understands that NatGold isn’t your average token. 

It’s not a meme coin chasing headlines. It’s not a gold ETF bogged down in paper promises, nor is it a stablecoin hitching its reputation to some offshore vault with a blurry webcam.

We’re talking about something entirely different — a digitally minted token backed by real, certified, geologically verified gold that’s still in the ground, undisturbed and unspoiled.

This gold isn’t a rumor. It’s been rigorously appraised under NI 43-101 standards — the very benchmarks sovereign banks trust when assessing their mineral wealth. But instead of blasting mountains apart and wrecking the scenery, NatGold keeps the gold where it is and turns ownership into a clean line of code on a blockchain.

That means holders get all the value of gold ownership without the baggage. There are no dusty vaults to guard, no heavy bars to ship, and no angry lawsuits from environmentalists. There’s no mining, no mess, no middlemen. Just value, locked in the bedrock of Earth, now riding the rails of modern finance.

It’s not just another speculative asset. It’s the foundation for a monetary system that finally marries gold’s trust with blockchain’s precision.

Most people are waking up to the fact that we’ve reached a breaking point.

Governments are choking on debt. Fiat currencies are unraveling like a poorly knit scarf. The petrodollar is coughing up blood. And inflation? That’s not a phase — it’s the new normal.

Meanwhile, the world is having a collective epiphany: real money doesn’t come from printers or parliaments. It comes from the ground — or in NatGold’s case, stays in it.

Ray Dalio knows this. Larry Fink knows it. The People’s Bank of China knows it. 

And now, so do you.

That’s why gold is being remonetized — not just by central banks hiding behind their reserves, but now by retail investors with a smartphone and a browser.

Since we left the gold standard, the U.S. dollar has shed 97% of its purchasing power. 

That’s not erosion — that’s monetary gangrene. And the bleeding isn’t stopping.

Meanwhile, tokenization is becoming the lingua franca of finance. Gold is rising like dough in a hot oven. And Wall Street’s already elbowing its way into this new market.

But before the institutional stampede, you get a chance to front-run the front-runners — to finally beat the system at its own game.

Because when fiat collapses — and make no mistake, it’s happening — the people holding real value win.

And this time, that value is digitized.

This time, it’s NatGold.

Still on the fence?

Then I strongly recommend you take just a few moments out of your day and get the full details — at absolutely no cost to you — right here. 

Until next time,

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A true insider in the technology and energy markets, Keith’s research has helped everyday investors capitalize from the rapid adoption of new technology trends and energy transitions. Keith connects with hundreds of thousands of readers as the Managing Editor of Energy & Capital, as well as the investment director of Angel Publishing’s Energy Investor and Technology and Opportunity.

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