US EditionTether CEO aims to allocate up to 15% of its portfolio to gold
- This year, Paxos Gold drew more than $248 million of fresh capital through January, backed by physical gold held in LBMA vaults in London, DefiLlama data shows.
- Amid a blistering gold run, gold surged through January, crossing $5,300 per ounce and rising 22%, while bitcoin slid over 10% in a year, shifting some crypto investors toward tokenized gold.
- CoinGecko reports the tokenized-gold market has topped 5.5 billion, with PAXG's market cap exceeding $2.2 billion after inflows, reflecting token mechanics and market scale.
- Regulators and auditors will watch as greater physical ownership via tokens raises custody concerns, while concentrated holdings invite scrutiny for tokenized gold providers and custody and audit firms.
- Longer term, analysts say if corporate treasuries and major banks scale allocations, balance-sheet driven demand could raise practical price floors and cement gold as a routine treasury asset.
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Tether’s Gold Ambition: How a Stablecoin Giant Is Trying to Act Like a “Gold Central Bank”
Key Points Tether says it added about 27 metric tons of gold in the last quarter of 2025, accelerating a buying spree that resembles an institutional program. Its gold footprint has two layers: XAUt tokens backed by bars and a much larger gold reserve position valued around $24 billion as prices climbed. With about $186–$187 […]
The cryptocurrency giant Tether wants to become the world's largest gold central bank. ...
The purchases reported by the crypto group Tether are so extensive that experts attribute an influence to the company in the gold prize rally. But how much and where does he buy - and why does he just store it in atomic bunkers?
Tether Outbuys Most Central Banks in Gold Bunker Buildup
Tether, the company behind the largest stablecoin by market cap, is amassing a huge pile of gold bullion in a former Swiss nuclear bunker. The “James Bond kind of place,” as its CEO, Paolo Ardoino, described the storage facility to Bloomberg, houses a gold collection of more than 140 tons. With gold’s ongoing rally, that’s about $24 billion worth. The crypto company bought at least 70 tons of gold last year, Bloomberg calculated, or more than wa…
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