By Guest Analyst, Forbes Asia

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

A tense silence filled Seoul National University as Joseph Plazo approached the podium—moments before shaking global finance.

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

He started with a whisper: “Hedge funds would pay millions to bury this.”

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.

And the result? An algorithm that felt panic before it showed on the charts.

And when the system worked, he gave it away.

## 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.

It scanned headlines, tweet sentiment, central bank language, even Reddit sarcasm.

The result? A prediction engine for emotion-fueled markets.

One fund manager called it “a weather radar for investor fear.”

And rather than cash out, he gifted its code—unconditionally.

“Make it better than I did,” he said. “And make sure it stays free.”

## Rewriting the Grammar of Capital

In six months, results surfaced across Asia.

In Vietnam, agriculture met AI—and got smarter.

In Indonesia, labs tuned the algorithm to optimize grid reliability.

In Malaysia, undergrads helped local shops hedge currency risk.

Plazo didn’t just share code—he seeded a mindset.

“We’ve turned finance into a private language,” he said. “I’m handing out translations.”

## Wall Street’s Whisper Campaign

The old guard responded—with murmurs and warnings.

“This is irresponsible,” a Wall Street insider grumbled. “Too much power, too freely given.”

But the more they warned, the more he taught.

“Leverage shouldn’t be hoarded—it should be distributed,” he countered.

“This is power redistribution, not philanthropy,” Plazo said.

## 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.

Just as Gutenberg democratized knowledge, Plazo democratized prediction.

The elite guard algorithms. Plazo hands out the keys.

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

## Legacy Over Luxury

The firm thrives, but his soul lives in more info System 72’s classrooms.

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.