🪙 GOLD RISING. BDTC MOVES. Gold has held value... for centuries. When uncertainty grows, capital rotates back to assets with history. BDTC brings gold onto the rails of modern markets. 🟡 Physical, redeemable gold behind every coin 🟡 Direct access to redeemable gold, with blockchain mobility 🟡 Proof-of-work enforcing disciplined issuance 🟡 Reserves anyone can verify on-chain Gold’s story is being written into the future. BDTC is writing it on-chain. 👉 Trade BDTC on XT and LBank. 🪙show more

🪙 $BDTC: GOLD STRENGTH. CRYPTO SPEED. Gold holds. Crypto... moves. $BDTC unites both, one borderless chain built for the real world. 🟡 Gold-backed design to reduce exposure to volatility. 🟡 On-chain transparency for reserves and supply. 🟡 Stored securely. Redeemable for physical gold. 🟡 Proof-of-Work security and a 71M hard cap you can verify One chain, two worlds of value. $BDTC Gold’s certainty.Crypto’s freedom.show more

Had my mind blown today by how simple it... was to buy Tokenized Gold. I was listening to Balaji talk about Gold today on a podcast with Luke Gromen I asked ChatGPT “what’s the best way to buy Gold that’s digital and almost like owning the real thing?” It responded with “tokenized gold: Each token represents ownership of real, physical gold This is not a gold stock, not an ETF, and not a synthetic bet—it’s closer to digital warehouse receipts for gold.” It then said the best option was Tether Gold (XAUT). I remembered recently the World team saying that you could buy real assets like Gold on World App. I wondered if you could buy XAUT? I opened the app and one of the first ten assets was XAUT. Swap USDC for Tether Gold in under 10 seconds and that’s it. The experience was magical. We are so close the Balaji vision of interoperable money and assets. When everything is a token, value will be the only thing that matters again. Tokens are just 24/7 global markets for trust. People will be able to move in and out of whatever assets they trust instantly. Trust will become the most important thing that compounds. What’s even cooler, is that you can then send Gold to anyone, instantly in World Chat 💬 Any asset, anywhere, to anyone, in any any chat. Check out the screen recordings to see how fast and easy it wasshow more

🚨 WARNING: A MAJOR SHIFT IS HAPPENING IN THE... GLOBAL ECONOMY RIGHT NOW Japan has sold roughly $71 BILLION in U.S. Treasuries while defending the yen China has sold another $62 BILLION Combined, that is $133 BILLION moving out of U.S. debt But the real story is bigger than the number Both countries are reducing exposure to dollar assets while gold keeps becoming more important Japan is using its reserves to support the yen China is pushing the yuan deeper into global trade through gold, new settlement infrastructure, and alternative payment systems And China has now been accumulating gold for OVER 20 STRAIGHT MONTHS This is not just reserve management anymore It is a structural shift → Treasuries are being sold → Gold reserves are rising → Alternative payment systems are expanding → Dollar dependence is slowly being reduced China is also building out gold infrastructure through Hong Kong, the Shanghai Gold Exchange, and offshore vault networks The objective is obvious LESS DEPENDENCE ON THE DOLLAR And gold is becoming one of the main tools behind that move The chain reaction is simple: Treasury selling → Higher bond pressure → Currency intervention → More gold demand → Less dollar reliance China is not just stacking gold IT IS BUILDING MORE FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE AROUND IT Japan is not trying to break markets either It is trying to stabilize the yen But selling large amounts of dollar assets has consequences Bond yields react Currencies react Liquidity shifts Risk assets feel it next This is how reserve systems change Not in ONE DAY Slowly Then all at once THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL ORDER IS STARTING TO MOVE!!!👀show more

🚨 CHINA WILL PUMP GOLD PRICE TO $38,000 PER... OUNCE COMEX, where the world's gold price gets set, is 100:1 paper to physical. For every ounce of actual gold, there are 100 ounces of paper claims trading against it. Less than 5% of COMEX contracts ever result in real delivery. The rest is speculation settled in cash. Nobody touches the metal. In January 2026, gold crashed 12% in hours. From $5,595 to $4,941. That crash happened entirely on paper. While COMEX was collapsing, physical gold in Shanghai traded at a $50-80 premium above the "official" price. Same asset. Two different prices. Because one market trades gold, and the other trades promises about gold. Now China is done playing that game. The Shanghai Gold Exchange requires actual physical delivery. No cash settlement. No paper games. China imports over 1,000 tonnes of gold a year. Largest gold buyer on earth. Every gram that enters the country goes through this exchange. The People's Bank of China has been stacking gold every single month, pushing reserves past 2,300 tonnes. The message is simple. The West trades gold like a casino chip. 100 paper claims for every real ounce. China is building an exchange where the price is set by people who actually hold the metal. If physical demand ever forces a real delivery squeeze, the paper price and the real price stop being the same number. And the exchange that has the actual gold decides what happens next.show more

🚨 HOLY SH*T, CHINA IS BUILDING A GOLD-BACKED FINANCIAL... SYSTEM And almost nobody understands how BIG this could become. China is pushing to internationalize the yuan through GOLD, new payment infrastructure, and alternatives to the U.S. dollar. Hong Kong’s government-backed gold clearing system began trial operations in July 2026, linked to the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Bloomberg Research also reports that China is developing a global network of gold vaults that could strengthen the yuan’s role in global finance. At the same time, China is building blockchain-based payment infrastructure with BRICS countries designed to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar. And GOLD is at the center of everything. China has now bought gold for 20 consecutive months. In July, the UK, China, Japan, South Korea, and India all reduced their U.S. Treasury holdings while increasing exposure to gold. South Korea is buying gold again for the first time in 13 YEARS. Gold has now overtaken U.S. Treasuries as a more important reserve asset. Even Venezuela is moving its $4 BILLION, 31-ton gold reserves out of London after 8 years. The bigger picture is becoming impossible to ignore: GOLD → MORE U.S. TREASURIES → LESS DOLLAR DEPENDENCE → LESS China isn’t just buying gold. IT’S BUILDING AN ENTIRE FINANCIAL SYSTEM AROUND IT. And if other countries follow, the pressure on the U.S. dollar could become much bigger than anyone expects. China is moving toward gold. WHO’S NEXT? 👀show more

🚨 WARNING: SOMETHING VERY UNUSUAL IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW... $1.4 TRILLION just vanished from China’s balance sheet. They’re funneling every dollar into Gold. But this isn’t just about China anymore. THIS IS GLOBAL. If you're holding any assets right now, you MUST know this: The U.S.-Iran war is escalating. The ceasefire talks just collapsed. There is no pause. NO RESET. Only escalation. And markets are starting to feel it. This is how systemic shifts begin. Quiet at first. Then all at once. Gold is pumping again and this isn’t just “hype.” It’s a repricing of TRUST. A repricing of RISK. A repricing of WAR. This isn’t “diversification.” THIS IS STRATEGIC. When geopolitical conflict collides with monetary instability, capital runs to one place. Gold. THE ultimate safe haven. Let’s break it down simply. Treasuries sit at the foundation of the dollar system. So when a giant like China keeps pulling back, the system must rebalance. Now add war to the equation. Now add broken diplomacy. Now add rising global uncertainty. And suddenly, everything starts to move faster. Gold doesn’t move like this when things are stable. Gold moves first when TRUST starts cracking. China isn’t speaking. They’re signaling through capital flows. They’re done with paper promises. And now, the world is being forced to listen. When the largest players shift like this, others follow. Markets don’t react early. They react AFTER the shift is obvious. Not through headlines. Through FLOWS. Through PANIC. Through WAR. I’ve spent 10 years studying markets and called nearly every major top - including the October BTC ATH. Follow and turn on notifications. I’ll post the warning BEFORE it becomes public news.show more

China's central bank has now bought gold for 19... months straight, the largest official buyer on earth. And this week, as gold broke 4,000 dollars, China's biggest banks moved to push ordinary Chinese out of leveraged gold trading, with at least one warning it will liquidate any position not closed by month-end. Both are true at once, and together they explain what this crash really is. Start with what is being banned, because the words matter. ICBC and a string of other banks are shutting down retail trading in what the Chinese themselves call paper gold, the margined, leveraged contracts where you bet on the price without ever owning a bar. Some banks lifted the margin requirement to 140 percent to choke the leverage off before closing the products outright. Physical gold, meanwhile, stays wide open. Coins, bars, savings plans, ETFs, all fine. It is only the paper, the leverage, the casino, that is being shut, the last step in a five-year retreat that the crash just finished. Officially this is about protecting small investors, and that part is real. The same kind of leverage wiped out a wave of Chinese retail in a 2020 commodity blowup. But set the ban beside what the state is doing and something larger comes into view. While its citizens are pushed out of the paper, the People's Bank of China has spent those same 19 months buying the physical metal, more than two thousand three hundred tonnes of it now, accumulating straight through a 28 percent crash that scared everyone else out. Beijing is not trading gold. It is hoarding it. That is the strategy in one frame. China looked at the two things both called gold, the paper bet and the physical bar, and made a choice no Western government would make. It is taking the metal for the state and closing the casino for everyone else. The reason sits in a single date. 2022, when Russia's reserves were frozen with a keystroke. That taught every country outside the Western system one lesson: dollars in an account can be switched off, gold in your own vault cannot. So China is building its monetary independence out of the one asset nobody can freeze, and it does not want that foundation in the hands of leveraged traders who panic-sell in a crash, or priced by a paper market it does not control. Watch this month and the two worlds split in real time. Western investors were forced out of their gold by margin calls and a rate scare. China's central bank bought that exact dip with both hands. One side treats gold as a trade. The other treats it as the floor under a currency. The West is selling paper gold and calling it a crash. China is buying physical gold and calling it a foundation. In ten years, only one of them will look like it understood what gold was for. The metal is already moving to that side.show more

🚨 CHINA IS BUILDING THE FOUNDATION FOR A NEW... GOLD-BASED FINANCIAL ORDER. At today’s BRICS summit in India, Xi Jinping announced that China will take the presidency and open a third “GOLDEN DECADE.” That wording matters because it comes while China has been buying gold for 22 straight months, Hong Kong has launched a government-backed gold clearing system linked to Shanghai, and Beijing is pushing the yuan deeper into global trade and settlement. At the same time, BRICS countries are expanding alternative payment infrastructure designed to reduce dependence on SWIFT and the dollar system, while China has dumped roughly $70 BILLION in U.S. Treasuries in one of its biggest sell-offs since the financial crisis. THIS IS NOT RANDOM RESERVE MANAGEMENT. China is buying more gold, holding fewer Treasuries, expanding yuan settlement, and building the infrastructure for a more independent financial system. They do not need to announce that they are replacing the dollar tomorrow. The strategy is already visible in what they are building. THE GOLD IS BEING STACKED, THE TREASURIES ARE BEING SOLD, AND THE YUAN IS MOVING DEEPER INTO GLOBAL TRADE. This is how a monetary system starts to change: not with one announcement, but with a parallel system being built underneath the old one!👀show more

🚨 Wait on It — Wealth Follows. Blessings Don’t... Rush. They Arrive. 💯 Zimbabwe Is Moving. Quietly. Strategically. Powerfully. 🚨 While the world’s distracted, #Zimbabwe is locking back into real value. Gold-backed currency. Resource control. Economic restructuring. Travel noise doesn’t change the fact: capital is positioning early. 📈 They’re sitting on #gold, minerals, land, and leverage. That’s not theory—that’s assets. And when a country with real resources resets its monetary foundation, the smart money doesn’t ask permission… it moves first. 💸 Zimbabwe is already being whispered about as one of the safest rebound zones long-term, and the comeback isn’t loud—it’s methodical. Brick by brick. Policy by policy. Gold by gold. We’re still your source. Still ahead of the curve. Still putting real #currency in real hands before the switch flips. You don’t chase resets—you prepare for them. Buy safe here 👉 📌 Stack #ZimbabweDollars. 📌 Hold position. 📌 Freedom favors the early, not the loud. When the #globalcurrencyreset tightens, the ones holding real-backed currency, real backed bond banknotes, they won’t be guessing—they’ll be eating. 🥩 The window is open… but it won’t stay that way. #wearethepeople 🇺🇸show more

🇻🇪 Yesterday Venezuela unanimously opened $500 billion of Orinoco... gold to American companies. 131 articles. Zero opposition. The 1999 Chavez mining law - repealed. The 2015 gold reserve decree - repealed. Gold. Coltan. Bauxite. Diamonds. Rare earths. Open. 🇺🇸US Interior Secretary flew to Caracas with 25 mining executives in late March. 👉 OFAC cleared the Venezuelan gold trade March 6. 👉 OFAC expanded the license to all minerals March 27. 👉 Delcy Rodriguez off the SDN list April 1. 👉 Mining law passed April 9. 👉 American Airlines returns to Caracas April 30. That my friends is a coordinated schedule. And while every news desk focused the strait: 🇮🇶 Iraq votes for a president in 24 hours. That vote starts the constitutional clock on the budget, the HCL, and the rate. 🇻🇳 Vietnam was written into FTSE Russell on Tuesday. Effective September 21. First frontier currency of this cycle into the global index rails. Three countries. Three resource frameworks. Same two-week window. All reported in isolation. Connected and delivered right here 🎯show more

🚨 THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING FOR GOLD AND SILVER TRADERS... Kalshi now lets you trade gold and silver 24/7 without dealing with complicated options. Trump speeches. Fed decisions. Inflation data. Geopolitical escalations. Every major headline creates a short-term move. Now you can trade your thesis directly on Kalshi: → Gold pumps after dovish Fed comments → Silver dumps after stronger inflation data → Metals spike after geopolitical escalation → Prices reverse when the market overreacts No complicated options strategies. No waiting for traditional markets to open. Just a simple way to trade the news in real time. Prediction markets could eventually become 10x larger than the entire options industry. And Kalshi is building the platform for that next wave. This is where the next generation of traders will come from.show more

🚨 THE NEXT MONETARY WAR BETWEEN THE U.S. AND... CHINA HAS ALREADY STARTED THE U.S. IS BETTING ON DIGITAL DOLLARS (STABLECOINS) - CHINA IS BETTING ON PHYSICAL GOLD. Trump and the Treasury have now said the quiet part out loud. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "We will keep the dollar as the world's reserve currency and will use stablecoins to do it." Trump's January 2025 order put dollar-backed stablecoins at the center of U.S. policy. The GENIUS Act then formalized the structure: compliant stablecoins must be backed 1-for-1 by cash, T-bills, and Treasury repos. THAT'S THE KEY. AMERICA CAN'T PRINT GOLD. BUT IT CAN CREATE NEW DEMAND FOR ITS OWN DEBT. Here's how it works: Billions of people who may never open a U.S. bank account can still hold a digital dollar token. As stablecoin supply grows, issuers need more reserve assets - including short-term Treasuries. Dollar demand gets pushed onto crypto rails, helping extend the reach of the dollar beyond the traditional banking system. IT'S NOT A GOLD STANDARD. IT'S CLOSER TO A DIGITAL T-BILL STANDARD WRAPPED IN CRYPTO. Meanwhile, China is moving in the opposite direction. The PBOC just posted its 21st straight month of gold buying. Official holdings: ~2,366 tonnes. They're accumulating physical metal at a remarkable pace. Hong Kong has already opened the first offshore Shanghai Gold Exchange vault. The city is targeting 2,000+ tonnes of storage, while additional vault locations are being explored in Singapore, Dubai, Riyadh, and Moscow. The idea is simple: hold yuan, then convert it into gold that can actually be delivered. Physical collateral. Offshore vaults. Yuan-linked settlement backed by metal rather than promises. TWO DIFFERENT STRATEGIES. ONE BIG PROBLEM. At the same time, the London Metal Exchange's Treasury chief has moved to a crypto firm focused on tokenized commodities - while China continues building out a yuan-gold settlement network. ONE SIDE IS DIGITIZING THE DEBT - THE OTHER IS ACCUMULATING THE METAL. The real question is which system the rest of the world will trust more when the next major shock arrives!👀show more

CRYPTO IS GOING TO EXPLODE WITH THE BUSINESS CYCLE!... The BUSINESS CYCLE. Not the 4 year cycle. The business cycle mechanism is not as simple to understand as the 4 year cycle, however it's the one that drives crypto cycles. PMI crosses into expansion and manufacturers start ordering. That's why copper bottoms against gold and has been the leading indicator of every crypto bull market. Real orders hitting the copper side while investors rotate out of the fear trade (gold). Risk-on flips on. That's the exact juncture where small caps break out. Russell 2000 isn't leading by accident...it's the first stop on the risk curve. Crypto is the last stop. Same capital, same rotation... it just takes longer to get there. This has been the longest stretch without expansion, but this is what is happening right now.show more

Roqqu partners with @OndoFinance to drive the Global adoption... of Real-World Assets Hundreds of trillions of dollars in financial assets exist today. Only a fraction of 1% of them have been tokenized. This imbalance represents one of the largest opportunities in modern finance as capital markets increasingly move on-chain. From Stocks and ETFs to bonds, commodities, and REITs, financial institutions around the world are exploring tokenization as a more efficient way to issue, distribute, and access financial assets. Against this backdrop, we are going into a strategic partnership with Ondo Finance, one of the world's leading issuers of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), to expand access to institutional-grade tokenized financial products across emerging markets. This partnership combines Ondo's leadership in bringing traditional financial assets on-chain and Roqqu's growing distribution network in emerging markets, creating new pathways for investors to participate in the next evolution of global capital markets. At a time when tokenized assets are rapidly emerging as one of the fastest-growing segments of digital finance, both companies share a common belief: the future of finance is tokenized.show more

🚨 WARNING: THE GLOBAL RESERVE SYSTEM IS STARTING TO... BREAK Japan has dumped $71 BILLION in U.S. Treasuries, its biggest sell-off in decades. And it is still sitting on ¥15.3 TRILLION in bond losses. But this is much bigger than Japan. Japan is unloading dollar-denominated assets to defend the yen while its gold holdings sit at an ALL-TIME HIGH. China is doing the same thing. It keeps cutting U.S. Treasury exposure while stacking more gold. Two of the world’s biggest economies are moving in the same direction. → Treasuries OUT → Gold UP → Dollar exposure DOWN THAT IS NOT A SMALL SHIFT. Japan is fighting to save the yen. China is building greater independence from the U.S. dollar. Different reasons - Same result! And if the selling keeps accelerating, the chain reaction gets ugly fast. → More Treasury pressure → Higher bond volatility → More currency intervention → More gold accumulation → Less dependence on the dollar Japan is not trying to crash global markets. It is trying to prevent a bigger crisis at home. But every Treasury sale pushes pressure somewhere else. THIS IS HOW FINANCIAL ORDERS START TO CHANGE. Slowly. Then all at once. WE MAY BE WATCHING THE EARLY STAGES RIGHT NOW!👀show more

🚀 BIG SL8 CEO STREAM – A Grand Event... Celebrating the Company’s & CEO’s Birthday! 🎉 📅 Date: February 10, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10:00 AM UTC 🎂 Our Birthday – Your Gifts! 🎁 This has never been done before! During the stream, every 15 minutes, we will be giving away real silver and gold ounces, gold coins, and even gold bars! Yes, actual gold bars! Plus, SSLX vouchers, gold and silver badges! 🎊 We’re waiting for you! Join this exclusive LIVE stream to celebrate Sl8’s 5th anniversary and the birthday of our CEO, Dmytro Ivanov! 🎙 Stream Agenda: • New Investment Strategies – Learn how to maximize your earnings with Cassator Corp! • A Look Into the Future – Be the first to hear about Sl8’s upcoming plans. • Exclusive Insights from the CEO – Dmytro Ivanov’s personal take on the future of the crypto market and the global economy. ❗️ IMPORTANT: To join the stream and claim your rewards, you MUST fill out the form below: 👉 📢 This is a one-of-a-kind event – don’t miss it! It’s worth rescheduling your plans for! 🚀 *For our Ukrainian users, the stream will take place on February 10, 2025, at 21:00 Kyiv time. Sl8 (Slate) ( Telegram Channel ( Telegram Chat ( CoinMarketCap (SSLX) (show more

Building The On-Chain Cooperative 🟡 Welcome to the dawn... of a new era in the crypto space, where the buzzword "community" is not just a hollow echo but a vibrant force that propels us towards a brighter future. Let's delve into the heart of MODE, the Onchain Cooperative that seeks to redefine the landscape of web3. What does MODE stand for? MODE stands for building an on-chain cooperative focused on sustainable growth and collective prosperity. At its core, MODE is guided by the principles of cooperation, shared incentives, and community-driven development. The goal is to shift from the "fat protocol" mentality where most value accrues to the blockchain/protocol itself, towards an ecosystem where builders, users, and applications can thrive together. What’s MODE's vision and mission in the web3 space? MODE's vision is to return to web3's founding promise - a future that is better for all, not just the individual. A world with aligned incentives that drive growth for everyone involved. A place with opportunities for all, not just the few. The mission is to pioneer the on-chain cooperative - where contributors are rewarded fairly based on the value they provide. Features like Sequencer Fee Sharing distribute a portion of fees to smart contract developers, incentivizing participation. The aim is to encourage collaboration instead of confrontation. Together, the MODE community can deliver new models for cooperation and shared prosperity in web3. Mode Network will solve many problems today in Web3: • Lack of incentives for developers: Developers creating decentralized apps (dApps) currently have few direct economic incentives to create and maintain their projects. Mode provides them with a steady source of income through fee-sharing. • Lack of collaboration: There are few incentives for blockchain projects to compete less and collaborate more for the benefit of the entire ecosystem. Mode's model encourages collaboration by aligning participants economically. • Excessive value accrual at the protocol layer: Mode aims for a more balanced model where the protocol's success is fueled by the success of application developers/builders and the wider community. Growth is a two-way street – "as we grow, you grow". The MODE Pledge 💛 The promise of crypto and blockchain is a brighter future. One that is better for all not just the individual. Where nothing is more important than community. We've strayed from this path. Entering a world of player vs player. Where value is extracted rather than shared. The game is zero sum rather than positive sum. And incentives are aligned with domination, rather than cooperation. Mode is the dawn of a new age. and a return to the promise of what can be. A world with aligned incentives that drive growth for builders, users and projects. A place with opportunities for all, rather than the few. Where we say goodbye to the 'fat protocol', and hello to the onchain cooperative. Join us on our mission to grow together. If this vision for a community-powered web3 ecosystem resonates - where creators are rewarded for their contributions - you can join the MODE on-chain cooperative! Visit Join the discord community Follow Mode 🟡 Together, we can transform web3 into a positive-sum game that unlocks new possibilities for all. Where your growth fuels the growth of others. Let's build the on-chain cooperative!show more

🚨 SOMETHING EXTREMELY BAD IS COMING TOMORROW!! The peace... ended before it even began. What happened this weekend just changed EVERYTHING. Trump and Iran seemingly agreed on Friday to open the Strait of Hormuz. But Iran just made a sharp reversal. They have closed the Strait of Hormuz again and opened fire on 2 commercial tankers. The strait is now officially back under STRICT control of Iran. It means that OIL will spike again very soon. 20% of the world’s oil flows through Hormuz. If the strait stays closed “until victory,” We will see a return to wartime peak prices. This is around $100-$110 per barrel. JUST IMAGINE: $110. If you hold any assets: - Stocks - Crypto - Bonds - Gold or Silver - US dollar YOU MUST READ this post before it’s too late. Here's what happened and how it will affect markets on Monday: This is a direct hit to the Fed. Powell won’t be able to cut rates if energy prices go parabolic again. STICKY inflation turns into PERMANENT inflation. All of Friday’s rally optimism is now a “bull trap.” Indexes will move down as hopes for a quick end to the Gulf conflict have vanished. Investors will flee into cash and gold. Despite its status as “digital gold,” in moments like this, Crypto usually drops first, along with the tech sector (Nasdaq). The reason for that is simple: Liquidity gets drained from risk assets. If escalation begins with direct strikes on Iran in response to the attacks on ships, Bitcoin could dump even lower in panic. The deal, it seems, is not going to happen. Iran is using the strait as its only leverage to force Trump to lift the blockade. Trump, judging by his rhetoric about “blackmail,” has no intention of backing down. MARKET OPEN COULD TURN INTO A REAL BLOODBATH. This sounds SCARY, but I will keep you updated on everything here. When I rotate money, I will post my moves here so my FOLLOWERS can SAVE their money. Follow me and turn NOTIFICATIONS ON, as I will share my strategy soon. Many will regret not following me earlier...show more

Rare Anglo-Saxon Treasures Unearthed In a remarkable discovery that... has thrilled archaeologists and history enthusiasts alike, two metal detectorists have uncovered a pair of exquisite gold and garnet artifacts from the Anglo-Saxon period in southwestern England’s Wiltshire county. Dating back approximately 1,400 years to the 7th century AD, the finds include a stunning gold and garnet raven’s head and an intricately designed gold band or ring. The discovery was made on January 8, 2025, during a metal detecting rally organized by the 9th Region Metal Detecting Group in West Wiltshire. Paul Gould, one of the detectorists, first spotted a flattened gold band inlaid with triangular garnets and studded with tiny gold beads, which he initially mistook for a simple metal object. Shortly afterward, his detecting partner, Chris Phillips, unearthed the star of the show: a decorative raven’s head crafted from gold, featuring a striking garnet eye encircled by white enamel and intricate filigree work outlining the “feathers” with garnets set on a waffle-pattern foil backing. The raven head, weighing around 60 grams as estimated, showcases the advanced metalworking techniques of the era, with tiny gold spheres adding to its detailed plumage. These artifacts are believed to be part of elite jewelry or ceremonial objects, reflecting the high status of their original owners during the Anglo-Saxon period. Ravens held significant symbolic meaning in Germanic and Norse mythology, often associated with wisdom, warfare, darkness, and death, which adds a layer of cultural intrigue to the find. The use of garnets, a popular gemstone in Anglo-Saxon jewelry from the 6th to 8th centuries, further ties these pieces to the artistic traditions of the time. Phillips described the moment of discovery as overwhelming: “It’s unbelievable — I’m a bit emotional.” The finds have been declared treasure under the UK’s Treasure Act, and experts from the British Museum are evaluating them for potential acquisition, highlighting their national significance. #metaldetecting #metaldetectinguk #metaldetectingfinds #detectorists This discovery underscores the valuable role that amateur metal detectorists play in uncovering Britain’s rich archaeological heritage, often in collaboration with professional archaeologists. Similar finds, such as those from the Staffordshire Hoard, have previously revealed the opulence and artistry of Anglo-Saxon England. As analysis continues, these Wiltshire treasures promise to offer new insights into the social and cultural dynamics of 7th-century Britain.show more

Pressure is building in Venezuela. Unlike China, the USA... cannot fully supply Venezuela with the goods it needs. America lacks the production capacity and the supply networks required to support the entire country. The key issue is thay even with American sanctions in place, Venezuela under Maduro was still able to trade with China. They exchanged oil for products, medicines, and other essential goods on a barter basis. After relations with China broke down, inflation exploded. It reached 649.5 percent by March 2026. The International Monetary Fund expects it to go above 682 percent by the end of the year. Right now Venezuelas oil money is being sent to a special account controlled by the US Treasury. Remember that the United States has also essentially seized Venezuelas gold reserves. These moves are speeding up the collapse of the national currency. The situation is spiraling out of control.show more