Market Growth & Adoption - Tokenized gold market size has grown 3x since the beginning of 2025 [1] - Tokenized gold could be an effective way to onboard new users into crypto [1] - Many people will move a portion of their physical gold on-chain as advantages become widely known [1] Advantages of Tokenized Gold - Tokenized gold solves almost all problems associated with storing and trading physical gold [1] - Tokenized gold price tracks the global spot price almost perfectly [3] - Tokenized gold offers deep liquidity supported on major CEXs [3] - Tokenized gold eliminates counterfeit risk and physical theft, only wallet/private-key risk remains [3] DeFi Integration - Tokenized gold brings DeFi to the asset class, enabling yield-generating and borrowable collateral [2] - Projects like @Paxos and @Theo_Network are building gold 3.0 to turn it into yield-generating, borrowable collateral [2] - DeFi craves deep, trusted liquidity, and tokenized gold is the perfect candidate [2] Disadvantages of Physical Gold - Domestic gold prices often have huge premiums over the global spot [3] - Physical gold has very high buy/sell spreads [3] - Physical gold has good day-to-day liquidity but heavy slippage [3] - Widespread counterfeit gold exists [3] - Risk of theft or loss exists [3]
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