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Posted on 01/28/2026 8:56:25 PM PST by delta7
Kitco News) - Investment demand remains the driving force in the gold market as prices surpass $5,000 per ounce. But the marketplace is evolving, with tokenized gold growing in popularity as investors look to protect themselves from monetary uncertainty, geopolitical risk, and declining confidence in traditional financial hedges.
On Monday, the world’s largest gold-backed stablecoin, Tether Gold (XAU₮), published its fourth-quarter performance report, showing that it now accounts for more than half of the entire gold-backed stablecoin market.
In the report, Tether noted that last year the global digital gold market saw its valuation grow to $4 billion, up from $1.3 billion reported at the start of 2025. Specifically, XAU₮ reached a record market capitalization of more than $2.24 billion, and the tokens remain fully backed one-to-one by physical gold.
The company said that as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2025, Tether Gold held 520,089.35 ounces of gold in its reserves. Last year, the company sold 409,271.64 tokens, with 110,871.66 tokens still available.
In late 2025, Tether was also ranked among the top 30 global gold holders, surpassing countries such as Greece, Qatar, and Australia.
During the final quarter of last year, Tether Gold Investments, which includes Tether International Limited and TG Commodities Limited, added approximately 27 metric tons of gold to its fund exposure, exceeding the gold purchases of most individual central banks over the same period.
“Through Tether Gold, we are operating at a scale that now places the Tether Gold Investment Fund alongside sovereign gold holders, and that carries real responsibility,” said Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether. “XAU₮ exists to remove ambiguity at a time when confidence in monetary systems is weakening and it is being put through a pressure test by both institutions and people. Every token represents physically held, vaulted gold that can be verified on-chain, and the market’s growth shows that investors increasingly expect tokenized assets to meet the same standards as national and institutional reserves.”
The company said it expects to see further growth through 2026 as prices push past $5,000 an ounce.
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Keep stacking, every sovereign nation, Central Banks and large sovereign wealth funds are! ....just as forecast.
If their stash gets big enough, some government will step in to “protect” them.
Likewise, stock purchases will be recorded on a blockchain for security, as will vehicle titles, land deeds and so forth.
Voting should be recorded on blockchain, but democraps will fight it like every other election scam they do.
LOL. Too True.
I’m going after the tulips.
If you don’t have it in your hand or at least buried in your back yard, do you really have it?
lol.
‘Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four—
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.’
—Kipling
Do you have the money that’s in your bank account?
My favorite poem.
yes, it’s very strong and brilliantine. it has one of my favorite words in it: wabbling.
No. The bank has it.
But so far, they usually let me have some of it when I want it. Sometime that might change.
2.24 billion is chump change nowdays.
Speaking of gold, how’s that Fort Knox inventory coming?
But if the bank doesn’t have it, FDIC will cover or have the government print up to $250,000 to put into your bank account. No one can print or make gold if it doesn’t already physically exist somewhere. And assuming it does, as in the ground, who is going to mine more (if they can) just to give it to you and make sure you are whole if the gold turns out not to be in some “account”? Your gold better be in your possession or it could just be worth less than that money that the bank is holding.
Those folks who were short the Comex FEB26 Gold futures contract are getting their clocks cleaned as they are forced to bail out pending First Notice Day on Friday January 30th.
That was my primary point originally; I was merely responding to someone else’s pseudo-argument.
Agreed. I was amplifying it.
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