By Jamie Hyland, MiningIR
MIAMI, Florida — September 18, 2026 — After seven years of development, NatGold Digital presented its vision for transforming verified, in-ground gold resources into a new financial asset at a company event held in Miami on Friday.
The event featured NatGold founder Anthony Wile, Chief Executive Officer Andrés Fernández and Executive Chairman Mark Radke, who discussed the company’s development, leadership team, revenue model and plans for expanding the NatGold ecosystem.
For Wile, NatGold represents the latest chapter in a career spent examining alternative monetary systems and the relationship between gold, markets and financial freedom. Nearly 20 years ago, he published High Alert: How the Internet and the Global Power Elite Are Causing a Financial Hurricane—and How to Profit From It. His work explored weaknesses in the conventional financial system and the potential for technology to produce new financial alternatives.
At the Miami event, Wile described NatGold as the culmination of seven years of research, planning and development. He explained that the model was created to unlock the monetary value of gold while eliminating the need to physically extract it.
“We’re not here to compete with gold,” Wile has written. “We don’t need to extract gold from the earth to give it value.”
That principle is at the centre of NatGold’s patent-pending model. The company assigns digital value to independently verified gold resources that remain underground. Each NATG token is designed to represent one troy ounce of certified in-ground gold within a participating deposit, with transactions recorded through blockchain technology.
“The logic is simple, powerful and timely,” Wile said when announcing the company’s leadership transition after more than six years of building NatGold.
CEO Andrés Fernández outlined the company’s operating model and its plans to build liquidity around NATG. NatGold can earn revenue through a 15% market-liquidity fee on tokens sold by participating resource owners and through the sale of tokens allocated directly to the company.
Executive Chairman Mark Radke also addressed attendees, emphasizing governance and the institutional framework supporting the platform. Before a deposit can be tokenized, its resources and mineral rights must undergo technical, legal and compliance review.
NatGold’s first certified resources are the Cahuilla Gold Project in California and the Friday Gold Mine in Idaho. Together, they have supported the minting of 106,800 NATG tokens.ESG principles are a central part of the business model. Leaving gold underground avoids the land disturbance, tailings, water consumption, carbon emissions and reclamation obligations associated with conventional mining. NatGold estimates that each token avoids approximately 1.144 tonnes of carbon-dioxide-equivalent emissions.
The model also directs 5% of each minting event to a contingency fund and 2% to a social-giveback program, creating environmental and community safeguards within the token structure.“We are providing investors a pure way to invest in gold that doesn’t cause you to have to sacrifice your values, your ethics or your morality,” Wile previously said. “We’re all looking to have a cleaner and healthier planet.”
Friday’s event marked a major milestone for a financial model seven years in the making—one designed to turn environmental preservation into a measurable source of value.
