Gold as an RWA: The onchain case for XAUt0

Real-World-Assets (RWAs) are on the rise, bringing new levels of accessibility and everyday use to traditional financial assets. Welcome to the digital age: an age where ownership and opportunity go hand-in-hand and physical assets are valued alongside those that are digital. Whether it’s bonds, real estate, commodities, machinery, or GOLD, there is a home for each asset on the blockchain.

In short, crypto isn’t just for memecoins and Bitcoin. It’s for stablecoins and RWAs, borderless transactions and real world investments. RWAs are the tokenized version of the asset that exists outside of the digital realm. A digital token that represents a physical asset. Ownership of one is ownership of the other.

Which brings us to Digital Gold, also known as Tether Gold ($XAUt0). Physical gold that’s tokenized and available onchain, for you to buy, hold, and sell in seconds. We welcome the oldest and realest asset our world has ever known to the digital age of ownership and opportunity.

Gold in the digital age

Gold has become more accessible in recent decades thanks to a progressive lineup of breakthrough technologies. Let’s take a look back so that we can fully appreciate just how difficult it’s been to get our hands on gold, and how far we’ve come.

Before smart phones, apps, and the internet, it was difficult to buy and hold gold. This was also a time when people were most desperate to own it. But there were a lot of factors to consider, from where to buy it, to where to store it. It required a brokerage account, along with the additional payments for storage fees and upkeep.

Enter Robinhood, which helped democratize financial accessibility and introduce new forms of exposure to buying gold. Their platform enabled the of selling gold related stocks like the SPDR Gold Trust or Barrick Gold. These options did not embody real gold, but they were the closest option at the time.

Then came Revolut, which actually does buy the gold for you on the market, thus removing your need to create and maintain a brokerage account. While further increasing accessibility, this option was still limited, and only a few parties had control over the distribution of gold exposure digitally, meaning they could afford to charge high fees on trades.

And now, at last, we enter the era of onchain finance. Gold on the blockchain as a tokenized Real-World-Asset, from USDt0 via Tether. A new way to distribute gold with less middle men. It’s not just buying stocks, but achieving direct exposure to the world’s oldest, most battle-tested store of value.

The benefits of Digital Gold

XAUt0, the omnichain deployment of Tether Gold, offers you direct exposure to physical gold anywhere onchain. And when you own 1 XAUt0 token, you actually own 1 physical ounce of Troy gold stored in secure Swiss vaults.

This means real-world ownership without the hassle of transportation, brokerage accounts, and storage fees. When you subtract the hassle, the door is opened for a much wider audience of participants to become owners of gold. Digital Gold allows for fractional ownership of XAUt0, meaning smaller investments can be made. You’re not obligated to buy 1 full XAUt0, you can purchase the amount that you can afford, and own it just as you would a larger amount.

Additionally, there is no time restraint or hours of the day that limit one’s access to XAUt0. This borderless form of digital gold is open for 24/7 trading. Pure access to gold, for everyone across the globe.

Digital Gold across chains

Digital Gold is live on Squid. You can swap XAUt0 across supported chains in seconds. More details of our chain support are below:

• Cross-chain swaps are supported on Celo, HyperEVM, Ethereum, Arbitrum, and Avalanche
• Bridging XAUt0 is supported across all chains
• Single chain swaps into XAUt0 are supported on Celo

It’s the digital age, the time for ownership and opportunity. Do more with your Gold as an RWA.