À medida que o preço do ouro está prestes a romper seu pico de abril, o tamanho do mercado de tokens criptográficos lastreados no metal precioso já atingiu novos máximos históricos.
A capitalização de mercado total do ouro tokenizado atingiu US$ 2,57 bilhões, CoinGecko data shows, as the two leading offerings, Tether’s XAUT and Paxos’ PAXG tokens, saw sizable inflows recently. Both tokens’s are designed to track the price of gold and are backed by physical bars held in vaults.
XAUT (XAUT), issued by the firm that’s behind the USDT stablecoin, saw a $437 million jump in its supply to a record $1.3 billion, per CoinGecko. Tether’s Treasury minted 129,000 tokens in early August on the Ethereum network, blockchain data by Etherscan shows.
PAXG (PAXG), the gold-backed token of U.S.-based stablecoin firm Paxos, swelled to a record market size of $983 million, DefiLlama data shows. That’s been fueled by $141.5 million net inflows into the token since June.
Gold currently traded at around $3,470, just shy of the April 22 peak hit amidst the tariff tantrum.
The precious metal, which is widely considered as a safe haven asset during times of uncertainty, has been resurging lately, driven by a steepening U.S. Treasury yield curve.
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