10 stories mentioning it. Newest first.
The metals that traded like AI-infrastructure proxies for the first half of the year have now given back every basis point of YTD gains, with gold off 25% from its $5,600 peak and silver cut nearly…
Seasonality data going back to the 1960s puts the average midterm-year bottom in early July, and the bull-market support band near $3,800 has not been tagged since 2023.
Comparing 2026 against 2022 and 2018 puts the drawdown right at the average for prior midterm years, and the window for a low lines up between July and October.
Gold is trading around $4,000 an ounce after a roughly 28% drawdown from its early-2026 peak, and on average the metal…
Backed 1:1 sounds reassuring. But tokenized gold is a chain of claims, not a bar in your hand, and the failure modes live in the seams.
Tether is rolling out a Visa card that rewards holders in XAUT, its tokenized gold token, marking one of the first…
The ratio has topped its 200-day moving average for the first meaningful time since September 2020 — the same setup that historically preceded bitcoin's 2021 vertical phase by weeks to months.
Commodity perps are a strategic beachhead for Coinbase Derivatives, signalling intent to apply the perp engine beyond crypto while the US books quietly work toward 24/7 trading.
The bitcoin-to-gold ratio just jumped 3% in a day while gold fell 20% from its January peak — a cross-asset rotation that historically marks the first breath of a crypto rebound, not the last.
Gold tokens like PAXG and XAUT track metal prices with no yield. T-bill tokens like BUIDL and OUSG pass through ~4-5% yield but add custodial and KYC layers. They're different tools, not rivals.
WuBlockchain
Benjamin Cowen
TheBlock
CoinDesk