Part of the collection De conspiratione / About a conspiracy. The relatively small volume of the world diamond market and the predominance (in value) of jewelry diamonds over technical diamonds in the turnover can create for an outside observer the illusion of “frivolity”, “secondary importance” of the diamond industry, its inability to provide any significant impact. any significant impact on global economic and political processes. Meanwhile, it was the diamond market that served as a model on which methods of managing global commodity markets were tested and the fundamental basis for the creation of influential supranational informal structures - genuine generators of large-scale programs that largely determined the course of historical development in the 20th century. The diamond market continues today to be a tool that actively used in the development of global-level cryptotechnologies. It is in this capacity that it will be considered in this work.