Published June 21, 2025
By Anthony Wile, NatGold Founder & CEO

Imagine a world so financially distorted that the term “stable” is applied to a digital token backed by… the U.S. dollar. Washington certainly has that imagination, and this week the U.S. Senate approved bipartisan legislation to create the first-ever federal framework for dollar-backed stablecoins.

Yes, the same U.S. dollar that has lost over 97% of its purchasing power since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. The same dollar that requires ever-larger injections of demand to sustain its own illusion. The same dollar that gets printed into oblivion regardless of which red or blue figurehead happens to be reading the teleprompter in Washington.

This is the bedrock of what’s now widely known as the “stablecoin.”

We should pause and applaud the marketing team that coined that one.

Stablecoins, for the uninitiated, are digital tokens pegged to something of stable value–like gold, for example. And here is where we find that pesky U.S. dollar being hailed by mainstream finance as a bridge between the old and the new. They’re built on the bones of the blockchain, yet anchored to a monetary instrument that is systemically designed to lose value over time.

Why? Because perpetual inflation is the oxygen of modern fiat economics. It’s not a bug–it’s the feature.

The U.S. dollar must be devalued steadily and deliberately to keep the debt machine from seizing. That machine requires other governments, pension funds, and asset managers to constantly absorb ever-larger amounts of dollars just to keep the gears turning.

America’s pension funds–loaded to the gills with dollar-denominated promises–stand like dominoes in a warehouse full of gas cans. When the dollar falters (and it will), retirees will learn what “stable” really means in the hands of central bankers and career politicians: a slow-motion collapse masked as prosperity.

Which brings us to the irony of the week.

While millions of young, idealistic blockchain–and millions of gold advocates–are rightly calling for a monetary reformation, what we’re actually getting is a digital echo of the same broken fiat system.

Even the rebels have started building bunkers out of paper.

It’s amusing–no, staggering–to watch the financial elite scoff at Bitcoin while they gorge on a system of centralized debt that rewards the few and burdens the many.

Take Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, for example. A man whose empire sits atop the very fiat pyramid that fuels the wealth gap. Dimon regularly attacks Bitcoin, calling it everything from a “fraud” to a “Ponzi scheme.” And yet the irony couldn’t be richer: his bank has benefited handsomely from a dollar-based system in which the rest of the population works harder each year just to afford eggs and rent.

And so here we are in 2025, watching as digital assets evolve into a full-fledged sector… only to find that many of them are hitching their futures to the same melting iceberg.

Stablecoins are expanding. They may even dominate transaction rails in the short term. But the idea that a digital dollar proxy is the solution to anything is delusional. It’s a digital duct tape on a leaking foundation.

Let’s be honest–stablecoins backed by gold or fiat are just the same old system, dressed up in blockchain code. Their DNA remains unchanged. Above-ground vaulted gold, even in tokenized form, still carries all the environmental and social costs of extraction and storage–and ultimately delivers a progressively dilutive return, eroded by the ongoing expense of keeping that gold vaulted. Nothing really changes except the method of access. Fiat-backed stablecoins? That charade simply continues in another wrapper–form changes, substance does not.

Here’s the truth: anything tied to the dollar is tied to guaranteed loss.

It’s the opposite of stable.

Fortunately, not everyone has fallen for the shell game. Since the dawn of the Internet Reformation, truth has been seeping through the cracks in the official narrative. Sound money is making a comeback–not through slogans or political campaigns, but through innovation, transparency, and logic.

Bitcoiners get it. Gold advocates get it. And increasingly, the next generation of investors gets it too.

They don’t want more inflation. They don’t want more IOUs from politicians. They want value–real, untouchable, incorruptible value.

That’s where NatGold comes in.

We’ve spent years engineering an entirely different path forward–one that doesn’t worship the dollar, doesn’t inflate, and doesn’t pretend that government credit is the same thing as wealth.

NatGold Tokens are built on the best of what both gold and Bitcoin have to offer–combined into one superior alternative to fiat.

It’s sustainable. It’s non-dilutive. It’s finite. And most importantly–it’s honest.

We aren’t interested in mimicking the broken system. We’re here to compete with it. On merit. On principles. And on performance.

NatGold represents something entirely new: a non-dilutive, sustainable, in-ground digital monetary asset–a true store of value for the modern age. Frankly, the real problem may be the name of the category itself: stablecoins. It’s time for a new label–one grounded in truth and built for what comes next. Perhaps they should be called Reformation Tokens. Gold-backed and Bitcoin-based assets may not be perfect monetary combatants, but they still belong under this new umbrella. There’s room for everyone–except fiat-backed coins.

As the rest of the digital asset world scrambles to tether itself to a sinking fiat relic, we’re proud to offer something different: a digital monetary asset unburdened by the structural flaws of either fiat-backed stablecoins or vaulted gold tokens. We aren’t digitizing dilution–we’re tokenizing truth. NatGold is built on a sustainable, non-dilutive, in-ground gold asset class engineered for a post-fiat world–anchored in real value that doesn’t get devalued with every stimulus cycle.

The truth, as they say, shall set you free. And the Internet Reformation is unshackling millions of minds and yielding brilliant solutions.

NatGold isn’t just another token.

It’s the foundation of a global monetary reformation.

And it’s just getting started.

NatGold. It Just Makes Sense.