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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…
Roughly 154 metric tons of bullion backing USDT and XAUT moves from passive reserve to active credit, with Ledn's gold-backed loans settling in USDT and exposing holders to one issuer across both…
Dollar strength into year-end will likely drag gold another 2-4 weeks, but the central-bank bid and policy-print expectations say the bull cycle's structural, not finished.
Tether is rolling out a Visa card that rewards holders in XAUT, its tokenized gold token, marking one of the first…
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.
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.
The call frames the next 6-8 weeks as a dollar-driven retest of trendline support, with the 2018 and 2022 late-summer lows cited as the structural roadmap.
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.
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.
CoinMarketCap's top-100 snapshot at 15:00 UTC on 05 Aug shows a clear split between 04 Aug and 05 Aug: hard-money…
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 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.
Open USD lands with BlackRock, Visa and Stripe behind it. Circle takes a 16% hit. Behind the launch, USDC mints and burns keep telling the real story.
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