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New incentives are live in the PAXG Market. $100,000 in USDG borrow rewards will be distributed over the next 3 months, in collaboration with @SteakhouseFi and @global_dollar. Borrow USDG against PAXG to earn boosted rewards and access gold-backed credit on Kamino.
THE BLOCK: Paxos Labs launched PAXGy, a new token backed by PAX Gold (PAXG) designed to increase in value in gold terms rather than dollars. The reserves backing PAXGy are deployed through institutional gold-lending markets, with the resulting yield increasing the amount of PAXG each token represents over time. PAXGy is available through OKX and onchain platforms including X Layer, Uniswap, 0x and EtherFi.
Uniswap is the number one venue onchain for tokenized gold It's why @PaxosLabs chose Uniswap as the liquidity layer for their new launch Deep markets from day one
NEW: @PaxosLabs, has launched PAXGy, a gold-backed token built on $1.8B+ PAX Gold (PAXG) issued by @Paxos that accrues in gold terms. PAXGy is powered by CCIP as its exclusive cross-chain infra & Chainlink Price Feeds for reliable onchain pricing to enable adoption across DeFi.
NEW: The UK's FCA, Treasury and Bank of England are exploring whether to exempt tokenized gold from certain fund rules, per the FT.
NEW: The UK's FCA will outline potential reforms for tokenized gold on Monday, according to the Financial Times. The financial regulator is expected to say that it is considering a regime that could include exemptions from the CIS & AIF investment fund regulations for certain tokenized gold products.
New Listings $PAXG and $ZHIPU are now live with up to 10x leverage Launch your own perp DEX with 130+ markets: http://dex.orderly.network/en?utm_source=oex&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rwa
Gold-backed credit is now live on Kamino. Introducing the PAXG Market, curated by @SteakhouseFi. Supply $PAXG, the tokenized gold asset issued by @Paxos, as collateral and borrow USDG.
What's actually backing the dollar you settle in? Most traders never ask... until the depeg, or the spread that quietly eats their PnL. On Arcus, every market settles in USDG: regulated, redeemable at par. @PaxosLabs makes it free to move in and out. https://arcus.xyz/blog/one-dollar-every-market-arcus-partners-with-paxos-labs-on-usdg
Interactive Brokers, the Fourth-Largest U.S. Brokerage, Adds Nine Crypto Tokens and Two-Way Stablecoin Transfers Interactive Brokers has added trading support for nine tokens through zerohash: AAVE, APT, CC, LDO, MON, NEAR, XPL, PAXG and UNI. The fourth-largest U.S. brokerage has also added AAVE, UNI and PAXG through Paxos. In addition, the platform has launched two-way stablecoin transfers, allowing clients to automatically convert U.S. dollars held in their IBKR accounts into USDC, PYUSD or RLUSD and send the funds to external wallets. Eligible clients can also transfer supported digital assets between IBKR and custodial or non-custodial wallets.
LayerZero Partner Pulse Welcome to the second edition of LayerZero's Partner Pulse, our recurring series highlighting our ecosystem partners and the novel work they are doing. This month, we’re highlighting updates across stablecoins, Gold onchain, tokenized stocks, and more. Teams across the industry are choosing custom, secure cross-chain infrastructure to power global liquidity and asset movement as they continue to see growth across users and ecosystems. PYUSD0 is Now Live on Kite AI PayPal’s stablecoin, PYUSD0, is now available on Kite AI, bringing an additional settlement layer for the agentic economy. PAXG is Now Live on Solana Paxos’s PAXG is now trade-able on Solana. The only OCC-regulated gold token are now available for trading on one of crypto's most active networks. USDT0 Stablecoin Hit $100B in Value Transferred Across 6.5M wallets and in 525 days, USDT0 is the fastest growing project in history to reach $100B in value transferred between networks. KorDA is Bringing Gold Onchain Korea Gold Exchange Digital Asset, backed by ITCEN, announced it is utilizing LayerZero’s OFT Standard to enable a single unified asset across blockchains when it launches KGLD, one of Asia’s first tokenized gold digital assets. Ondo Adds 173 New Tokenized Stocks and ETFs With the latest addition of 173 new tokenized stocks and ETFs covering some of the hottest sectors and trends, Ondo now has 430+ tokenized stocks and ETFs that users can trade 24/7/365. Vatreni Went Live on Solana The official token of the Croatian Football Federation went live on Solana via the LayerZero OFT Standard. Vatreni is a loyalty and fan engagement token for the Croatian Football Federation. SpaceX IPO Went Live on Ondo Global Markets on Day 1 SpaceX IPO, the largest IPO in history, went live on NASDAQ and on the same day was live onchain via Ondo Global Markets. Bridging to Rayls Public Chain is Live Rayls integrates LayerZero to bridge assets to their Public Chain and give their users access to broader cross-chain liquidity. Cardano Implements LayerZero to Connect to All of Crypto Cardano connects directly to the wider crypto economy via LayerZero. The largest interoperability deployment in Cardano history creating a path for 800 tokens to natively expand to Cardano ecosystem. This is the beginning of a phased roll out. Allium Releases the First Interoperability Dashboard Allium launched the first Interoperability Dashboard with LayerZero. For the first time you can compare data, messages, market share, and more across the leading interoperability protocols in one place. Canza Brings USDT0 to Visa Cards in Africa Canza Finance is partnering with Arbitrum, and Tevau to build an end-to-end USDT0 deposit and Visa card-spend infrastructure for cross-border commerce in emerging African markets. Utilizing LayerZero’s OFT Standard to bridge USDT to USDT0 and help maintain liquidity across networks. 0x Goes Cross-Chain 0x launched their Cross-Chain API which enables users a smoother cross-chain trade experience and a reliable payment flow. This API allows projects to social and copy trade, multi-chain swaps, onchain yield optimization and more.
Liquidity for PAXG is live on Meteora. Launched through @sunrisedefi, PAX Gold brings gold exposure onchain, with Backpack Securities as the issuer. Meteora provides the liquidity layer for the next generation of onchain markets. Full details below.
BREAKING: $PAXG from @Paxos is now live on Solana via @sunrisedefi
Gold is moving onchain faster than any other hard asset. Tokenized commodities now hold roughly $7.1 billion, almost entirely gold-backed, up more than 300% over the past fifteen months. Two tokens lead the category. Paxos Gold and Tether Gold together make up over 95% of all onchain commodity value, with gold spot trading volume topping $90 billion in Q1 alone. The appeal is structural. Programmable gold settles instantly, moves across borders without intermediaries, and serves as collateral the moment it is held. Injective supports tokenized commodity markets, giving traders onchain exposure to gold, silver, oil and other real-world assets through a single financial layer. The oldest store of value is becoming one of the newest onchain primitives.
South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Upbit will list PEAQ, LIT, KMNO, MORPHO, GRAM, LDO, PAXG, OSMO, and AMP in its BTC and USDT markets, with trading scheduled to begin at 15:00 local time on June 19.
NEW: Paxos wins SEC approval to clear U.S. stocks on blockchain
'First and only': Paxos secures SEC registration as clearing and settlement agency https://t.co/ijUcLtLPvT
$CHIP, $MNT, and $PAXG are now available to trade on Robinhood Legend.
Tokenized Gold Q1 Spot Volume Tops 2025 Total According to CoinGecko data, tokenized gold products recorded $90.7 billion in spot trading volume in the first quarter of 2026, surpassing the total spot trading volume of $84.6 billion for the full year of 2025. The tokenized gold market is primarily led by PAXG and XAUT. https://x.com/coingecko/status/2053716785061413187?s=20
BNB, HYPE, PAXG, and USDT are now eligible as collateral for perpetual futures trading on Coinbase. More collateral options means greater flexibility and capital efficiency for traders managing positions across the market. $BNB $HYPE $PAXG $USDT
Whale 0x24B1 just withdrew 3,477 $PAXG($15.68M) from #OKX. https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0x24B12457d3a68ECa9Daca48F0628276592bEbCDD
Tokenized gold only makes up 0.075% of the investment gold market today. If it reaches gold ETF penetration levels (~7%), that's a near US ~$400B category. Ddi you know that tokenized gold is already the 2nd largest RWA on-chain to date? At the time of writing, PAXG & XAUT spot volume is up 17x and 53x year-on-year. New yield products are turning it from a store of value into a productive asset. Full breakdown in our "State of Tokenized Gold" @animocaresearch report 👇
🚨 GoPlus Security Alert: A user lost approximately $53K worth of PAXG after signing a malicious #Approve transaction, allowing the phishing attacker to transfer the funds. Victim Address: 0x073B9767C6cC34E289692B973Da6b2312562eC0C Phishing Addresses: 0xAfb2423F447D3e16931164C9970B9741aAb1723E 0x6fE314fD4CF845f35fc461eD98e2FB8d9356B566 0xf1A50bbebA19a85dB20432c6c201aa89604dfd2B 0x1b4e4AC5f5E2eDf843F79123c52C3a2589AC1589 🛡 #GoPlus Security Tips: Remember the #GoPlus “Four Don’ts” Anti-Phishing Principle — Don’t click, don’t install, don’t sign, don’t transfer: -Don’t click unknown links -Don’t install software from unverified sources -Don’t sign unclear wallet transactions -Don’t transfer funds to unverified addresses Install the GoPlus Security plugin to block phishing links, risky signatures, approvals, and transactions in real time 👉 https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/GoPlus
🚨 GoPlus Security Alert: A user lost approximately $53K worth of PAXG after signing a malicious #Approve transaction, allowing the phishing attacker to transfer the funds. Victim Address: 0x073B9767C6cC34E289692B973Da6b2312562eC0C Phishing Addresses: 0xAfb2423F447D3e16931164C9970B9741aAb1723E 0x6fE314fD4CF845f35fc461eD98e2FB8d9356B566 0xf1A50bbebA19a85dB20432c6c201aa89604dfd2B 0x1b4e4AC5f5E2eDf843F79123c52C3a2589AC1589 🛡 #GoPlus Security Tips: Remember the #GoPlus “Four Don’ts” Anti-Phishing Principle — Don’t click, don’t install, don’t sign, don’t transfer: Don’t click unknown links Don’t install software from unverified sources Don’t sign unclear wallet transactions Don’t transfer funds to unverified addresses Install the GoPlus Security plugin to block phishing links, risky signatures, approvals, and transactions in real time 👉 https://chromewebstore.google.com/search/GoPlus
A wallet(0x1C70) that had been inactive for 5 months just spent 1M $USDC to buy $PAXG and $XAUT in the past 5 hours. The wallet still holds 4M $USDC and may buy more. https://t.co/Qg4JjsLKrB
Whale 0x6Afa, who bought 1,343 $PAXG($7.08M) at an average price of $5,269 a month ago, has started selling to take profits. In the past 6 hours, he sold 500 $PAXG($2.74M) at an average price of $5,480 and still holds 843 $PAXG($4.55M). Profit: $217K https://t.co/pwJkfD5RZs
Designing Proof of Reserves for Tokenized Gold When you buy Bitcoin, the asset exists natively on-chain. Its supply is verifiable, its custody is provable, and its full history is publicly auditable. When you buy a real world asset like tokenized gold, the token lives on-chain, but the gold does not. It sits in a vault, managed by a custodian, documented through paper records and serial numbers. The chain confirms you own the token, but it cannot confirm that the gold exists. Proof of Reserves (PoR) is the mechanism designed to close that gap. And as tokenized gold scales into a multi-billion dollar market, getting PoR right is no longer optional. It is a security and compliance requirement. The Trust Problem with Tokenized Gold Tokenized gold surpassed $4.5 billion in market cap in late 2025 as spot prices climbed past $4,500 per ounce. Central bank demand, de-dollarization trends, and growing institutional appetite for on-chain commodity exposure are all accelerating adoption. But every buyer of tokenized gold is making a bet that goes beyond the price of gold. They are betting that the issuer actually purchased the gold, that a custodian is holding it securely, that no one has pledged it as collateral or encumbered it with third-party claims, and that the redemption mechanism linking the token back to the physical metal works as described. None of these things are visible on a chain explorer. Warehouse receipt fraud, rehypothecation of stored metals, and custodial failures have plagued traditional gold markets for decades. Tokenization does not eliminate these risks. It just moves them off-screen. And from a security standpoint, that creates a new attack surface: one where the vulnerability is not in the smart contract code, but in the gap between what the token represents and what actually exists in the physical world. What PoR Actually Needs to Verify for Gold Most people think of Proof of Reserves as a simple balance check. For native crypto assets, that is roughly accurate. For tokenized gold, the verification scope has to be much wider. Physical existence. Does the gold actually exist? This is the most fundamental question, and the one that on-chain data simply cannot answer. Verification means reviewing custodial records, bar lists with serial numbers, and assay certificates that confirm weight and purity. More advanced implementations use IoT-enabled tracking or physical spot-checks of individual bars. Without this layer, buyers are placing trust in a document rather than in verified fact. Supply reconciliation. Token supply is transparent on-chain. Gold reserves are tracked off-chain. PoR bridges the two by confirming that the number of tokens in circulation matches the quantity of gold the custodian holds. Any mismatch, even a small one, is a red flag that warrants immediate investigation. Legal review. Gold sitting in a vault can be pledged as loan collateral, subjected to liens, or claimed by creditors in insolvency proceedings. A PoR that counts bars without checking their legal status provides incomplete assurance. Proper verification includes a review of custody agreements to confirm the gold is held solely for the benefit of token holders and is not exposed to the issuer's own liabilities. Redemption integrity. The connection between a gold token and physical gold is only as credible as the ability to actually redeem one for the other. PoR should verify that, when tokens are burned, a corresponding quantity of gold leaves the vault, and that the issuer's redemption process works as documented. If the redemption pathway breaks down, the token's peg to gold becomes a claim with no enforcement mechanism. Emerging Regulatory Requirements for PoR Regulators are paying close attention to tokenized real world assets. The EU's MiCA framework is imposing reserve, transparency, and licensing requirements on asset-backed tokens. Dubai's VARA framework requires similar rigor. Hong Kong's SFC has introduced its own set of compliance expectations for digital asset custody and issuance. In each of these jurisdictions, the ability to prove that reserves are real, sufficient, and properly segregated is moving from best practice to legal obligation. From a security perspective, PoR for gold-backed tokens also needs to account for risks that do not exist in purely digital asset verification. Custodial key management is one example. If the issuer's operational security is compromised, tokens could be minted without a corresponding gold purchase, inflating supply and diluting every existing holder. Smart contract audits catch logic errors in minting and burning functions, but they cannot detect whether the off-chain process that triggers those functions is itself secure. PoR fills that gap by independently confirming the outcome: that what is on-chain matches what is in the vault. There is also the question of counterparty risk across the custodial chain. A typical gold-backed token involves a token issuer, a vault operator, an insurance provider, and sometimes a logistics firm handling physical transfers. Each handoff introduces a point of failure. A thorough PoR engagement examines the full chain of custody, not just the final tally of bars in a vault. Why Gold PoR Is Structurally Harder Than Crypto PoR For a crypto exchange, Proof of Reserves verifies that digital assets on a set of blockchain addresses match digital liabilities in a Merkle tree. Both sides of the equation are natively digital and cryptographically provable. Gold is different. The liability side (tokens) is on-chain and transparent. The asset side (physical gold) is off-chain and opaque. This asymmetry means gold PoR requires verification that extends beyond cryptographic proofs into physical auditing, legal review, and custodial due diligence. The consequences of weak PoR are also more severe for gold. If a crypto exchange runs a fractional reserve, on-chain analytics and unusual withdrawal patterns can surface warning signs quickly. If a gold token issuer is running a fractional reserve, there is no blockchain-native signal. The gold either exists in the vault or it does not. Without an independent PoR, there is no way for buyers to know. What Users Should Look For For anyone holding or evaluating tokenized gold, PoR quality should be a primary decision factor. Look for independent third-party verification, not self-reported reserves. Expect a regular cadence, quarterly at minimum, not annual or event-driven. Evaluate the scope. A PoR that only checks token supply without verifying physical custody, legal encumbrances, and redemption pathways is not complete. And make sure the results are publicly accessible. Verification that cannot be reviewed by the broader market loses most of its value. As tokenized gold evolves from an early-stage crypto product into a serious vehicle for commodity exposure, the infrastructure supporting it must evolve too. Proof of Reserves sits at the center of that infrastructure. It is what connects the transparency of blockchain with the reality of a gold bar in a vault, and it is what gives buyers, regulators, and institutions the confidence that the asset behind the token is actually there. Learn more about CertiK provides Proof of Reserves audits at certik.com.
Wintermute launches institutional tokenized gold trading, expects market to reach $15 billion in 2026 https://www.theblock.co/post/390042/wintermute-launches-institutional-tokenized-gold-trading-expects-market-to-reach-15-billion-in-2026?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
A newly created wallet, 0x5356, bridged 5,424 $ETH($10.64M) through NEAR Intents to buy gold. So far, it has spent 800 $ETH($1.57M) to buy 311 $PAXG. https://t.co/uNqUmL1KqQ
The total market capitalization of tokenized gold has surpassed $6 billion, with an increase of more than $2 billion since the beginning of this year. Among them, Tether Gold (XAUT) and Paxos Gold (PAXG) together account for approximately 96.7% of the market share. Tokenized gold has locked up more than 1.2 million ounces of physical gold. https://dune.com/gateresearch/tokenized-gold
Whales are buying gold! Newly created wallets 0x83F9 and 0xd9596 (likely the same whale) withdrew 986 $PAXG($5M) from #Binance 9 hours ago. 0x5687 spent 2.42M $USDT to buy 478 $XAUT at $5,065 today. 0x0AcC spent 1.85M $USDC to buy 275.2 $XAUT($1.38M) and 90 $PAXG ($456K) after 8 months of inactivity. https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0x83F959326696088a90d5DD990BFC170933452C3D https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0xd9596B95e9fFa18De980e191A612aC3936B33166 https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0x56877D4F7A20FFAC44bB69afBa74B0a6e97b4e90 https://intel.arkm.com/explorer/address/0x0AcC1A0d900C10f92722AF3b7fb4eBF7CD80E76C
Erik Voorhees(@ErikVoorhees), the early #Bitcoin supporter and founder of ShapeShift, appears to be buying gold. He created 9 new wallets and spent 6.81M $USDC to buy 1,382 $PAXG at an average price of $4,926. https://t.co/uyFsVrPEiQ https://t.co/8CvvzAkxnV
Whales are buying gold. 0x2788 withdrew 1,500 $XAUT($7.58M) from #OKX 2 hours ago. 0x4E3c withdrew 931.33 $PAXG($4.75M) from #Binance 4 hours ago. 0xDea3 bought 732.8 $PAXG($3.74M) 1 hour ago. https://t.co/qJ6krFEk9o https://t.co/vG4ilPIR9j https://t.co/wDzfNwjYh5
$PAXG is now available to trade on Robinhood Crypto.
Our US Perpetual-Style Futures suite is growing. New assets coming soon to Coinbase Derivatives… → PAX Gold $PAXG → Zcash $ZEC → 1k Pepe $PEPE → Aave $AAVE → ONDO $ONDO → Ethena $ENA → NEAR Protocol $NEAR Making more markets more accessible for traders.
Our PAXG-USD trading pair is in full-trading mode on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced. Limit, market and stop orders are all now available.
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