Gold to Hit $16,402 an Ounce!

Several months ago, we published our second blockbuster investment research white paper titled, “The Perfect Storm: Why Gold and Silver Are Poised for an Unprecedented Bull Run.”

You can still get a free copy of our report. Feel free to pass it onto family and friends because it’s that important to their wealth. 

To remind you, I made some stunning price predictions for both gold and silver. In fact, jaws dropped over my 10-year price target for gold, with one talking head on a popular financial show calling me “f***ing nuts.”

You be the judge.

Here are the price predictions I made for the yellow metal:

• 2025: $3,138
• 2027: $3,678
• 2029: $5,668
• 2034: $16,402

I think once I explain my investment rationale for gold to you, it won’t seem so crazy.

You see, in the last gold bull market, from 2000–2011, gold appreciated about 602%, moving from $278 an ounce to $1,950.

In this new bull market, I’m predicting gold will rally 720%, from $2,000 an ounce to $16,402.

When I present it that way, it doesn’t look so shocking, right?

Wealth Daily has been bullish on gold for years now… going super bullish in early 2024 when gold convincingly broke out from its resistance level at $2,000.

But the gold bull market is different this time. That’s because the U.S. dollar and gold are converging to form a monetary disruptor — a type of cryptocurrency (or token) called a stablecoin.

And stablecoins are set to dominate the global financial landscape.

Let me explain…

Trump and Musk’s Gold Connection

Read this paragraph:

That’s the second paragraph in President Trump’s executive order (EO), “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology.”

Signed on January 25, 2025, the executive order is laying the groundwork for what will be one of the most disruptive innovations in the world of finance — ever!

Not just because of what this means for Bitcoin. Although the creation of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is not trivial. But what it means for other cryptos and tokens being launched, created, and currently trading other than Bitcoin.

You see, in the eighth paragraph of the executive order, you’ll find the following…

Again, the key word in this paragraph is stablecoins.

If you’re unfamiliar, a stablecoin is a cryptocurrency designed to maintain stable pricing. Typically a stablecoin is connected to a commodity or currency. 

Stablecoins — like USDC or Tether — are cryptocurrencies (or tokens, if you will) that are backed by the U.S. dollar or U.S. Treasuries. 

USD Coin (USDC) and Tether (USDT), for example, are both a type of stablecoin that is pegged to the U.S. dollar, meaning its value is designed to remain stable at around $1. It is fully backed by reserves of U.S. dollars and cash-equivalent assets, making it a reliable option for digital transactions.

It should also be noted that there are stablecoins backed by gold too. 

You can probably see where I’m going with this.

Elon Musk and DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) have been all over the news of late regarding the U.S. government’s gold bullion reserves at Fort Knox. There hasn’t been an audit of the gold reserves in Fort Knox for decades. Some speculate if the gold is even there.

However, the gold sitting in Fort Knox — if it’s there — has been pegged to a fixed price of just $42.22 an ounce. If the gold was revalued at mark to market, the gold is suddenly worth over $2,900 an ounce… and the asset side of America’s ledger suddenly balloons more than $750 billion.

It’s similar to applying for a mortgage. You've got two sides of the ledger: Assets and liabilities. Sure, we're over $35 trillion in debt… but we got this gold over here worth $750 billion… and a bunch of other good stuff worth well over $300 trillion. If the U.S. tokenized it all and made it liquid… bam — you could take out loans against it… no debt crisis!

It’s real collateral, not faith.

It’s like we own a house and never got it appraised. That’s the USA.

Until now… and holy shit, we're rich!

And stablecoins — backed by the U.S. dollar and gold — will be the medium. 

The good folks over at Security Token Market (STM) published an excellent report that explains why stablecoins are such a big deal. Check it out…

The largest application of tokenization today is currency with over $200 billion in dollars given to companies in exchange for digital dollars totaling over $230 trillion transactions since 2019. The largest stablecoin issuer last year generated $13 billion in profits from the float earned on their deposits. Sound familiar?

Stablecoins have managed to tap into the banking industry’s core business model. Starting 2020, stablecoins (which are 99% U.S. dollars) represented only $5 billion in market capitalization out of a total of almost $200 billion market capitalization on the digital asset industry as a whole.

Today, stablecoins seem to be growing their overall share of the digital asset market, up more than double since 2020 to over 5% of the pie according to data from Visa’s stablecoin dashboard and CoinGecko. Despite this unorthodox growth, U.S. dollar stablecoins represent just over 1% of the M1 supply (the money supply that is composed of currency, demand deposits, and other liquid deposits — which includes savings deposits). 

STM predicts that this will likely be closer to 16%–27% of M1 supply or roughly $3–$5 trillion in stablecoins. 

The Use Cases for Stablecoin

While the original premise of Bitcoin often convinced many to go all-in on Bitcoin and never sell, many other trends in crypto since then have led to the endearing term of digital casino, e.g., NFTs, memecoins, etc. More on this in a minute.

This further justified a need for crypto natives to use something of stable value because everything else… wasn’t. What is also not ideal is taking profits and taking them off the blockchain. 

Crypto natives move fast and need to be able to jump into the next big thing immediately. Between having to wire money in between exchanges and personal bank accounts in order to buy new tokens versus an instantaneous on-chain settlement solution, the choice is obvious and one that can be fatal if you aren’t as fast as the next person. Without a doubt, one major driver of demand for stablecoins is the need for a tokenized U.S. dollar in the world of crypto.

On the other hand, stablecoins have blown up beyond being a niche application solely designed for crypto natives to use. Businesses have also embraced stablecoins with numerous fintechs like PayPal and Revolut offering their own. Spanning the globe, many parts such as Latin America are relying on stablecoins to combat their own country’s currency devaluing itself to zero. Stablecoins have plunged into the mainstream and found their way to solving some very real-world problems beyond crypto. 

As the new U.S. administration looks to push supportive stablecoin legislation to maintain dollar dominance, further global economic activity will embrace instant settlement, cheaper fees, and get used to on-chain tools and applications. This will only further push demand toward stablecoin activity. 

Now, last week, a new stablecoin oversight bill was introduced by Senator Bill Hagerty. It’s designed to set up a federal regulatory framework for issuing dollar-denominated tokens. 

If this legislation passes, blockchain will be approved to be used in capital markets in the U.S. This is huge. With this, all assets could now transact on a virtually instantaneous operating system using blockchain to go in and out of any real-world asset that’s been tokenized using stablecoins. 

As crypto analyst Herwig Konings wrote…

Whether it’s the Fed, the new Crypto Czar, both houses in Congress, or the president himself, this new administration has understood and embraced the benefits of stablecoins to further improve the dollar dominance in the world.

If the U.S. dollar is the world reserve currency for the Web2 world, why not also for the Web3 world? Simply put, the more people that buy stablecoins, the majority of which are in dollars, the better it is for the USA.

Now, here’s the thing…

While the U.S. dollar can serve as a stable backer for stablecoins, gold is far more stable. Indeed, the lion’s share of stablecoins will be backed by both the U.S. dollar and gold. Worth noting: Gold is now the second most sought-after monetary asset after the U.S. dollar, globally. This isn’t just a random coincidence. 

And here’s something else that’s not just a random coincidence: China just freed up $27 billion from insurers to buy gold. 

Stablecoins Explained With a Real-Life Analogy: The Digital Casino Chip

Imagine you walk into a Las Vegas casino and, instead of using cash, you exchange your U.S. dollars for casino chips. These chips represent real money, but they’re designed to be used within the casino — making transactions faster, easier, and more secure than constantly handling cash.

Now, let’s apply this concept to the tokenized gold market.

Buying NatGold With Stablecoins: The Gold Casino

Let’s say you want to buy one NatGold token, which represents one ounce of unmined gold stored in a certified gold deposit.

1. You exchange your cash (USD) for stablecoins (USDT, USDC, etc.).
• This is like walking into the casino and exchanging dollars for chips.
• Your stablecoins are now digital dollars, ready to be used in the blockchain "casino."
2. You use stablecoins to buy a NatGold token.
• Just like how you’d place a casino chip on a bet, you use your stablecoin to purchase a real-world asset — in this case, gold that hasn’t been mined yet.
• The blockchain records this transaction, ensuring it’s secure, instant, and verifiable.
3. Your NatGold token represents ownership of unmined gold.
• Think of it like holding a gold certificate — instead of carrying physical gold, you have a digital claim to it.
• You can trade, sell, or redeem this token for actual gold (or the equivalent value in stablecoins).
4. Why stablecoins?
• Imagine if casinos only accepted random currencies like euros, yen, or pesos. It would be a logistical nightmare for people trying to gamble.
• Instead, casinos use standardized chips — just like blockchain markets use stablecoins as the standard for trading tokenized assets.

Why This Matters: The "Token-Dollar" System

Now, imagine if every digital gold trade, real estate deal, or oil transaction on blockchain required stablecoins.

• Instead of the petrodollar system, we now have a token-dollar system, where stablecoins serve as the global digital reserve currency.
• Just like oil producers demand U.S. dollars for oil, soon tokenized assets like gold, copper, lithium, and real estate will require stablecoins.

This is why stablecoins aren’t just another crypto gimmick — they are becoming the financial foundation of the tokenized economy.

Would you rather carry gold bars or have instant, verifiable ownership of gold in your wallet?

That’s the power of stablecoins in real-world asset tokenization. 

As Trump changes the political and economic landscape at the speed of light, the trifecta of this new financial dawn will be the U.S. dollar, above-ground gold and below ground gold. And it’ll be wrapped in stablecoins. 

Gold is going to the moon, my friend — followed by its little brother, silver.

The Prophet of Profit,