The crypto industry used to store Bitcoin in Swiss vaults. Now one firm is using vaults to hold gold instead

Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, is storing gold in a Cold War-era nuclear bunker in Switzerland. The company is stockpiling more than a ton of the precious metal every week in the Swiss mountains to back its gold-pegged XAUT Token—an attention-grabbing security measure once employed by a Bitcoin firm from crypto’s early days. Tether currently owns an estimated $24 billion in gold, the most of any holder outside of governments, central banks, and major ETFs. As a new Fortune magazine featu ...