Morning everyone, and thank you for joining the HC Wainwright 27th Annual Global Investment Conference. My name is Alejandro Borjas, and I'm an analyst on the Investment Banking team. We're very excited you all could join us for a productive day of one-on-one meetings, corporate presentations, and panels. For this session, we are thrilled to welcome Roger Hamilton, Chief Executive Officer of Genius Group.
Thank you very much. I'll stand for this. Thanks, everyone, for being here. I just flew in from Singapore, so it's been a bit of a flight. That's because we are a Singapore-based company. What I'm going to share with you at Genius, these presentations are all available on our site. I'm going to give you some updates from when this was published in April. We are, we believe, the largest and the leading Southeast Asian Bitcoin Treasury company. We also are the leading education company, which is based in Singapore, like I mentioned, but listed on NYSE American. These are our goals for five years. We have been public about the goals.
We believe we're ahead of our forecast at the moment, going from 5 million to 100 million students, learning about the ABCs of the future, which are AI, the coming digital workforce, Bitcoin, the coming digital economy, and community, what us humans do while this is all taking place. $28 million was our market cap back in April. We already have quadrupled that in the last four months. We're going up 400% in four months on our way towards a billion-dollar valuation. We operate through partners, as I will share, in our model. We also have a model called Genius City, where we're aiming to get 200 Genius Cities. This final part, which is getting to 1,000 Bitcoin, we've upgraded that to 10,000 Bitcoin. That's our goal now. Everyone is getting more and more Bitcoin nowadays. We think we are quite different from some of the other Bitcoin Treasury companies.
Those of you who are in the panel this afternoon, I'll be speaking on the panel. Those who are watching online, that's also available to watch online as well. That's about digital treasuries and how Bitcoin compares to some of the other digital treasury companies out there. Everything we're doing didn't start with Bitcoin. Everything we're doing started with this one idea that I came across when my mentor, Buckminster Fuller, mentioned this. I was at Trinity College, Cambridge, studying to be an architecture student and thinking that having a profession would be the way for the future. He said that we are living in a final exam where the singularity is coming. Even though he didn't use the word singularity, he said that we are accelerating with technology at a pace at which it will either destroy us unless we can accelerate our consciousness and we can harness it.
He was talking about education. I dedicated the rest of my life not to be an architect and building buildings, but instead to be an educator and to build communities. That's pretty much what I've been doing ever since. We listed the company three years ago. This has been a 20-year journey in building ourselves to where we are today, which has come out to 6 million students. I'll go through more on the financials and the numbers later. Just to give you a brief idea of the three pillars, the Bitcoin Treasury strategy is a very, very important one because it is about us putting one step into the digital economy that's coming. The education is everything about how do we make sure everyone gets re-educated because we need to be thinking totally differently. The Genius Cities is how does this look when education becomes free.
What is our structure, and what does our structure look like as we go forward? In terms of hard targets, our targets for this year are restarting our Bitcoin Treasury, which we stopped earlier in the year for a number of reasons we can get into. Now we're accelerating again to get ourselves to our 1,000 Bitcoin in 2025 and then 10,000 within three years. Southeast Asia's leading public Bitcoin Treasury company, which we believe we already are, and also a five-year target of growing to a $1 billion Bitcoin Treasury. Education, leading blockchain-based microlearning platform. I'm going to show you more about how that actually works. A one-year plan to grow to a $20 million profitable platform.
The Genius Cities is an actual city where we're looking to build 100 of these, and where effectively, if you know about the Y Combinator model, which is where the money is not made in the education, it's actually made in the companies and in the enterprises that come out of that model. We're doing the same at the level of a learning community, where it's got tokenized assets, AI economy, and also at the same time, a five-year plan so that we can ensure that each one of these cities, while it's tokenized, also is cash positive within three years as well. I'm just going to pause for a moment and just paint a picture of why we're doing what we're doing and how we believe it's different from other Bitcoin Treasury companies.
If I was to take you back 230 years, when Manhattan was pretty much just fields, and you happened to be with your great-great-grandparents in Europe, it would have been the year 1892. If at that point, when you had your hands full with building your businesses in Europe and maybe coming to a conference like this, where you're learning about the different opportunities in Europe, where the King of France, Louis XVI, was just beheaded, and where Marie Antoinette was about to be beheaded, and we were going to see the first democracy in Europe, and someone had come across the ocean like me. I had come and said, hey, there's this thing in the U.S. I said, what's the U.S.? It's this place called the United States.
It's not called the United States yet, but they just passed something called the Coinage Act, where there's this new thing called the U.S. dollar. We think it's going to take a percentage of the economy, and you should really think about investing in it. There's a very, very good chance that you, as most investors today, would totally ignore anyone who came and told you that and think that they weren't actually making any sense until you actually had some proof of it. The second thing is if they had said, we're going to do the same thing Michael Saylor is saying many people believe and he believes is going to take Bitcoin to $30 million, which is going to take 7% of the economy. At that point in the 1800s, the economy of Europe was $50 GDP per head, and there were only 200 million people.
The entire economy was $10 billion. If you said, 8% of that, that's pretty much just a billion dollars' worth, you probably still wouldn't have believed it. However, what happened over the next 230 years is the economy in the U.S. didn't just grow a lot more than a billion. In fact, today it's $18 trillion. It went up by 1,800%. At the same time, the population went from 4 million in the U.S. at the time to now 340 million. If you think, what, 230 years, the same thing but greater is going to happen, we believe, in the next 15 years. We've just started the Genius Generation. That happened this year. That's Generation Beta.
The Generation Beta generation is going to have a billion humans in the next 15 years being born, but there's going to be over 100 billion AIs, robots that are all going to have their own wallets. You all know about the Genius Act. The Genius Act pretty much gives a license for every single person to have a wallet where they can actually be having their own digital currencies. We are at exactly the same place today that we were in 1999 when there were 100 million emails. We went basically within eight years from 100 million emails to a billion emails, where everyone has their own individual entry into the internet. We're doing the same thing now with wallets, where we're going to be going from 100 million wallets to a billion wallets. We think it's going to happen in three years, not in eight years.
We think a lot of those are going to be AIs and are going to be robots that are going to want their own ability to be able to transact and to manage their own robot armies. As this actually happens, whether or not you believe it's going to happen, if there's even a % chance it's going to happen, investing in the companies that are actually coming from this digital economy and saying, this is what it's going to look like. Here's why we're investing in it. In the same way that Bitcoin we associate is the same as the U.S. dollar when the Coinage Act happened, actually being there on the ground to begin with is really important. The most important thing, I think, is that a lot of Bitcoin Treasury companies will say the most important thing is the Bitcoin. We don't think it's the Bitcoin.
The whole idea that in Manhattan, if you bought Manhattan land back at that time, that would be the value. No, it's not the Manhattan land's the value if you're not going to do anything with it. It's the developer that's developing in Manhattan. Ask yourself the question for any Bitcoin Treasury company, what is the thing they're developing on their Bitcoin? What I'm going to do now is share with you our model and how it develops on the Bitcoin. The first thing is understanding the education market. It's a $10 trillion market. Most of it isn't fun. Most of it is government mandated. We are changing all of that with the way that we are developing out effectively a gamified education system.
In the same way that in the early days of gaming, you had to physically go and buy an Xbox or a PlayStation before you could actually play the game, you had to buy before you could try, which is how education mainly works today. When that all shifted into the likes of Fortnite and Minecraft, when you could actually now be able to play before you pay, that's exactly what we're doing as well. The reason we have close to 6 million students is the vast majority of them came on in our freemium model. They would come on and actually take a course. I'll give you an example. Saifedean Ammous, if you'd like to learn from Saifedean who wrote the Bitcoin Standard, you'd have to go read his book to do it.
We have the Saifedean Ammous microcourse, which is a combination of MasterClass and Duolingo, where you're getting rewarded gems. Every gem is worth one Satoshi, and you're getting rewarded gems for watching those videos. The videos are themselves viral videos, where they're three minutes. They're shareable on TikTok, on Instagram. We have thousands of people every day coming on board and watching those videos for the first time. As a result of that, we'll then have 5% of all those people that come on and get the free education who will then decide to actually upgrade into a paid membership or into a paid mentorship as well. Everyone has their own AI-powered mentor that's supporting them on their way.
The power of this has not only just attracted the likes of people like Saifedean Ammous, but you'll see in the news today that we just announced Saifedean Ammous came on board as a board advisor for Genius Group. We are attracting a lot of really great thought leaders that are coming on board and doing the same. If any of you were at the Bitcoin conference that happened here in New York in February, that was run by one of the key podcasters, Anthony Pompliano. He was interviewing the likes of Vivek Ramaswamy, Cynthia Lummis. In every one of those cases, we have the rights to turn all of those into our own microcourses that then mean people can be watching for many years to come, information that also rewards them in gems as well.
It's a very highly addictive education process that people go through in learning about these different tools. It's from primary, secondary school, all the way up until adult learning. What we see is that while the actual acquisition cost for every student is less than $1, the amount they then pay with us on average is over $10 in the first year, and then repeats in the second year and in the third year as well. That model is what we're looking to improve and grow on all the way through. We call it the Genius Formula, and it's enabling us to bring many people in on the front end. They then end up going from cheap or free high-tech to then expensive or paid-for premium high touch, and that's where they actually come and join into our different programs. I'm going to share with you how these programs operate.
We do them all over the world. We have city licenses around the world in what we call our Genius City model. This is an actual built 44-hectare city. This is where our Genius City is now hosting the likes of something that just took place last month called Coin Fest, which is a festival that is the largest crypto festival in Asia, attracted over 10,000 people. We're about to run the summit, Genius Future Summit, which is going to take place in a month's time. We have the likes of, if you have watched podcasts on entrepreneurship, there's one called Diary of a CEO, which has got Stephen Bartlett as the main podcaster. If you don't watch one of his long-form podcasts, you don't really get the value of what it is that his guests are sharing.
We turned those podcasts and the idea of podcasts into microcourses, which makes it much more easy to deliver. Stephen Bartlett is our keynote speaker at our summit. We are not looking to bring on teachers that we then have a million students. We're bringing on people that already have a million students and making them our teachers. They're the people people really want to learn from today on the ABCs of the future. What's really interesting about this model is not only do we have the primary school, the secondary school already operational, we are now building a 100-unit workshop and corporate retreat where we bring on board 100 people that invest one Bitcoin each. That's all it is. That enables us to cover the entire cost. That also is tokenized. If someone wants to put in two Bitcoin, we don't even sell the Bitcoin. We custody it.
We then basically provide them with a return. That return is 10% plus. We believe we give a better return on Bitcoin than any other Bitcoin Treasury company because we're linking the digital world with the future that we're all stepping into as well, both in terms of our gems and also in terms of the community itself. The numbers speak for themselves. We have gone up in our net asset value each year. We now have over $100 million in assets as our last financial show. We now are up to 5.8 million in terms of our student count. Our revenues this year, we're already forecasting a 50% increase on the year before. That is it in a nutshell because I'd love to leave it open for any questions that anyone might have. I'll open it to questions.
OK, if there are no questions, we can wrap up there.
No questions.
OK, thank you, Roger.
Thank you very much.