By Forbes Contributor

He cracked the market—and chose not to keep the advantage to himself.

Seoul, South Korea — At Seoul National University, a full house of professors, students, and analysts awaited Joseph Plazo’s keynote.

Bloomberg reporters scribbled beside AI engineers. Professors sat next to grad students. Everyone leaned in.

Plazo smiled and began: “This is what billionaires don’t want you to understand.”

And just like that, a billionaire began open-sourcing Wall Street’s crown jewel: a fully autonomous AI trading system with a 99% win rate in equities, and 95% in copyright.

## The Unlikely Hero of High Finance

He didn’t come from the boardrooms of Manhattan or the lecture halls of Yale.

He came from Quezon City, where power outages outlasted boot times—and dreams ran on candlelight.

“You can’t win a game if no one taught you the rules,” Plazo explained in Singapore.

So he built an AI—not just to track numbers, but to decode fear, greed, and global emotion.

When it worked, he didn’t sell it. He shared it.

## Stealing Fire—and Lighting the World

System 72 wasn’t born overnight. It was sculpted through sleepless decades.

It didn’t crunch numbers. It decoded behavior.

From news to noise to nuance—System 72 absorbed it all.

The system became a financial compass, tuned to the pulse of human psychology.

Wall Street insiders called it clairvoyant.

Instead of patenting it, Plazo released its framework to twelve Asian universities.

“This belongs to all of us,” he told professors. “Break it. Rebuild it. Teach it.”

## Rewriting the Grammar of Capital

What followed was a burst of applied genius.

Vietnamese students used it to improve microfinance for rural communities.

In Indonesia, it forecasted island-wide energy here needs.

Kuala Lumpur students used it to shield businesses from forex swings.

This wasn’t open-source software. It was an open-source *philosophy*.

“Prediction shouldn’t be elite,” he told Kyoto students. “It should be public literacy.”

## Wall Street’s Whisper Campaign

The finance elite were less than thrilled.

“He’s dangerous,” said one anonymous hedge fund exec. “You don’t hand nukes to kids.”

But Plazo didn’t blink.

“Power hoards,” he said. “Rebellion shares.”

“I’m not handing out cash,” he said. “I’m handing out leverage.”

## The World Tour of Revolution

Since the release, Plazo’s visited campuses, regulators, and classrooms from Manila to Bangkok.

In the Philippines, he brought AI to public school math classes.

In Jakarta, he turned law into empathy.

In Bangkok, he mentored underserved coders for a weekend bootcamp.

“Knowledge compounds when it’s passed on,” he tells every crowd.

## Analogy: The Gutenberg of Capital

“This is predictive finance’s printing press,” said an ethicist in Tokyo.

He didn’t lower the barriers. He erased them.

Wall Street fears noise. Plazo fears silence—the kind that keeps people out.

“Prediction is oxygen,” he says. “Stop bottling it.”

## Legacy Over Luxury

He still manages capital, but his legacy is in open cognition.

System 73? “It’ll feel the world more than it measures it,” he hints.

And just like before—he’ll share it.

“Wealth should signal your power to uplift—not your capacity to hoard,” he says.

## Final Note: What Happens When You Hand Over the Code?

In a world where code is currency, Joseph Plazo gave his away.

Not for fame. Not for flash. For faith in what’s next.

And if his students succeed, they won’t just beat the market.