On Thursday (January 23), Tether launched a new product called Tether Gold (XAUt), which is a crypto token -- available as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum blockchain and as a TRC20 token on the TRON blockchain -- representing "ownership of one troy fine ounce of physical gold on a specific gold bar" held in a Swiss vault.
According to Tether, XAUt "can be transferred to any on-chain address from the purchasers’ Tether wallet." Also, apparently,
Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Tether, had this to say:
There is growing demand for digital exposure to physical gold, making the launch of Tether Gold a timely innovation in the crypto ecosystem. Tether Gold provides the combined benefits of both physical and digital assets, removing the drawbacks of holding gold in more traditional ways, such as high storage costs and restricted access.
Tether Gold is a cryptoasset issued/sold by TG Commodities Limited (a UK company incorporated in December 1998). Each XAUt token represents "one troy fine ounce of gold on a London Good Delivery gold bar" and may be "fractionalized up to six decimal places (i.e. in increments as small as 0.000001 troy fine ounce)."
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