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Hard assets. Clear decisions.
Make sense of gold, silver and Bitcoin. Explore the prices, costs and trade-offs behind every way to own.
Physical assets. Traditional markets. On-chain.
The ownership question
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From the research desk
Featured Tokenized
Buy Tether Gold (XAUT) with USDT on an exchange, a DEX or inside a wallet. The official contract to check, what each route really costs, and why Ethereum gas matters on small orders.
6 min read
Selected reading
Tokenized
What Tether's reserve reports show, who checks them, what the XAUT contract lets Tether do, how redemption works, and how XAUT compares with PAXG. Sourced figures, dated.
5 min read
Gold
Gold pays no interest on its own. Here is every real way to earn a yield on gold in 2026 — leasing, bank gold deposits, covered calls, miners, DeFi and XAUT hold-to-earn — with the actual rates and who pays them.
8 min read
A practical starting point
A free ten-chapter PDF on how gold ownership works, from central-bank buying to gold on-chain.