{"id":92303,"date":"2025-12-17T11:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=92303"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:48:24","slug":"market-capitalisation-of-gold-backed-stablecoins-surpasses-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/market-capitalisation-of-gold-backed-stablecoins-surpasses-4-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Market Cap of Gold-Backed Stablecoins Surpasses $4 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The market value of gold-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-stablecoins\">stablecoins<\/a> has exceeded $4 billion. Since the beginning of 2025, this figure has nearly tripled from $1.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblock.co\/data\/stablecoins\/non-fiat-pegged\/total-gold-backed-stablecoin-marketcap\/embed\" title=\"Total Gold-backed Stablecoin Market Cap\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The segment leader is Tether&#8217;s XAUT, with a market capitalisation of approximately $2.2 billion, accounting for 50% of the entire gold-backed stablecoin market. Paxos Gold (PAXG) holds the second position with a figure of $1.5 billion. Together, these protocols control nearly 90% of the sector.<\/p>\n<p>Interest in tokenised metals is fuelled by the dynamics of gold prices. In 2025, gold prices rose by about 66%. Investors use blockchain tools to access traditional safe-haven assets without converting to fiat. These tokens allow ownership of shares in physical bars stored in vaults.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gold and Bitcoin<\/h2>\n<p>In 2025, gold solidified its status as the primary safe-haven asset. In the fourth quarter, its price surpassed $4,000 per ounce, with an overall increase of 63%. In this regard, the precious metal outperformed Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>The key feature of this rally was growth despite tight financial conditions. The US Federal Reserve only began lowering rates in September, yet the market supported a structural shift in demand.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/js\/telegram-widget.js?22\" data-telegram-post=\"forklog\/45496\" data-width=\"100%\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The main driver of growth was the actions of central banks. Over ten months, the official sector <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gold.org\/goldhub\/gold-focus\/2025\/12\/central-bank-gold-statistics-central-banks-ramp-gold-buying-october\">acquired<\/a> 254 tonnes of gold, with the National Bank of Poland leading the way by purchasing 83 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, there was an inflow of funds into exchange-traded funds (<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-etf\">ETF<\/a>). In the first half of the year, gold ETF holdings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gold.org\/goldhub\/research\/gold-etfs-holdings-and-flows\/2025\/12\">increased<\/a> by 397 tonnes, reaching a record 3,932 tonnes by November.<br \/>The first cryptocurrency had a strong start thanks to spot exchange-traded funds. Assets under management (AUM) in Bitcoin instruments rose from $120 billion in January to a peak of $152 billion in July.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the second half of the year, the trend reversed: AUM fell to $114 billion amid profit-taking and a slowdown in new capital inflows.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-b2a9bca1962bc830-1174426368577718-1024x313.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2025-12-17 103602\" class=\"wp-image-271889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-b2a9bca1962bc830-1174426368577718-1024x313.png 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-b2a9bca1962bc830-1174426368577718-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-b2a9bca1962bc830-1174426368577718-768x235.png 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-b2a9bca1962bc830-1174426368577718-1536x470.png 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-b2a9bca1962bc830-1174426368577718.png 1723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/sosovalue.com\/assets\/etf\/Total_Crypto_Spot_ETF_Fund_Flow?page=usBTC\">SoSoValue<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By the end of September, Tether&#8217;s reserves <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/tethers-gold-reserves-match-those-of-south-korea-greece-and-hungary\">reached 116 tonnes<\/a>, comparable to the reserves of South Korea, Hungary, or Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The market value of gold-backed stablecoins has exceeded $4 billion. Since the beginning of 2025, this figure has nearly tripled from $1.3 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Gold-backed stablecoins' market value surpasses $4 billion, tripling since early 2025.","creation_source":"ai_translated","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,536,807],"class_list":["post-92303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-gold","tag-stablecoins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"197","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Gold-backed stablecoins' market value surpasses $4 billion, tripling since early 2025.","is_update":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92310,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92303\/revisions\/92310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}