‼️ $75B crypto scam king extradited to China

Chen Zhi was extradited from Cambodia to China after authorities linked him to roughly $75B in crypto scams and related fraud over the past 5–10 years.

US law enforcement seized 126 properties and about $15B in BTC. Part of the funds were converted into Monero, while some members of the network fled abroad and avoided arrest.

Chen controlled scam operations at scale, ran thousands of social media accounts, and expanded into luxury goods through his holding company Prince Group, including control over parts of the Cuban cigar trade.

Chinese authorities released arrest footage and are treating the case as a major crackdown on crypto-enabled crime.

📈 Extreme debt cycles and gold’s role

Periods of extreme debt have historically coincided with rising geopolitical tension. That pattern has repeated across major global turning points.

If deglobalization is structural rather than temporary, portfolio construction shifts with it. Politically neutral hard assets move from tactical exposure to core allocation.

⚡️ Trump: People are loving what's happening... Cuba is going to fall too.

This is what $1,000,000 will actually be worth in 30 years:

➡️ At 2% inflation → $552,000
➡️ At 3% inflation → $412,000
➡️ At 4% inflation → $308,000
➡️ At 5% inflation → $231,000

Sitting on cash isn't saving.

You're just losing it in slow motion.

The only way to avoid this is to make your money work harder than you do.

Oil pumped nearly 30% intraday and erased the entire move in the same day.

One of the most violent single-day reversals the market has seen in decades.

⚡️ Crypto Watchlist for the week

➡️ $AAVE - AAVE's proposal to launch Aave V4 on Ethereum just went live

➡️ $ASTER - Aster Chain mainnet launch is expected to happen this month

➡️ $ZEC $RUNE - Thorchain will add support for Zcash native swaps soon

➡️ $KAT - Katana TGE will happen on March 18

➡️ $EGLD - MultiversX will launch SuperNova, its biggest upgrade since mainnet launch today

➡️ $ZRO - $52M worth of ZRO (5.64% of its circ. supply) will be unlocked on March 20

➡️ AI coins - NVIDIA GTC, the biggest annual AI conference, starts today

➡️ $MNT - Mantle State of Mind, a livestream covering Mantle's recent milestones and its roadmap, is scheduled for March 17

➡️ $AEVO - Aevo will announce its upcoming product launches today

➡️ Macro events - FOMC interest rate decision will be released on March 18

⚡️ JUST IN: Mastercard to acquire stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8B

🚀 Pentagon Demonstrates AI System for Planning Strikes

The U.S. Department of Defense showed Project Maven, an AI system developed with Palantir that helps plan military strikes.

A military operator designates a target, after which the system analyzes available options and suggests the most effective way to eliminate it.

The mission is then sent into the command system where the strike can be tracked in real time.

The idea is to speed up battlefield decisions and move advanced AI directly into combat operations.

The future of warfare is starting to look very different.