VENEZUELA (TBD) MAY exit the alliance it joined in 1960. A nascent member of Fourth American Empire. OPEC on track to < 30% share of global oil production after UAE exits. In the 1970s, comprised 50% or more of global total. 

"EXPERT" PUNDITS have mostly overlooked the power of tokenization:

DollarCollapse blog warned this month that foreign demand for Treasuries is fading and that USD will lose its safe-haven status once Hormuz resolved

WatcherGuru also declared cataclysmic de-dollarization this year

other personalities promote Au-backed USD or BTC "any day now"

ONE KEY FACT TOWERS above all these:

with potentially a quadrillion+ of USD denominated global derivatives contracts, USD contractual settlement simply can't vanish overnight

a slow, generational grind down is obvious--"they" do have a plan

morphing fiat USD into a modernized $tablecoin unit (not BRICS "Unit")

STABLECOINS MAY become a de facto CBDC but they already ascend to a much broader global cross-border role. PetroCoin could be the first of a series:

one analyst claims that $30T of stablecoin is in circulation (likely half of that)

in 2026, cross-border commerce completed in stablecoin is <10% of that

DXY has retraced 10% from its early-2025 peak (103.5) yet holds at 98

IMF's COFER: USD share of global FX slipped from 73%(2001) to 58% today. 

OIL, GOLD/BASE METALS will be first in line to back "stables" followed by agricultural commodities and other vital "real world" assets (e.g. timber)

ZERO HEDGE cites other important data points:

"Central banks purchased 863 tonnes of gold in 2025 — cooler than 2024's 1,092-tonne grab, but ...2X the 2010–2021 average of 473 tonnes"