2025 was the year tokenized gold moved from concept to conviction.

For Matrixdock, it was the year our flagship product, XAUm, matured into a globally recognized, institutional-grade gold asset that is trusted by users, integrated across ecosystems, and with our technology validated at the sovereign level.

As markets navigated heightened geopolitical complexity, persistent macro uncertainty, shifting interest-rate expectations, and growing demand for capital-efficient, verifiable reserves, gold once again proved its relevance, rallying by nearly 70%, driven by demand. What changed in 2025 was how gold could be owned, transferred, verified, and deployed.

From Physical Gold to Financial Infrastructure

XAUm was designed with a simple but uncompromising principle:
real gold, real ownership, real verification.

Each XAUm token represents one troy ounce of 99.99% pure, LBMA-accredited physical gold, securely vaulted and independently audited. But XAUm was never intended to be a digital wrapper around a static commodity.

In 2025, XAUm evolved into something more meaningful:
a programmable, interoperable, and verifiable gold asset, capable of functioning across centralized platforms and decentralized finance.

Gold did not need reinvention, it needed better rails.

Multi-Chain by Design, Institutional by Nature

In 2025, XAUm expanded decisively across leading blockchain ecosystems, reflecting Matrixdock’s belief that liquid RWAs must be multi-chain.

XAUm is live across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Sui, Plume, Tron, and HashKey, with additional chains integrated or in progress. This multi-chain strategy ensures:

• Broad accessibility for users and builders

• Deep liquidity across ecosystems

• Resilience through infrastructure diversification

Liquidity with Integrity

Across chains, XAUm reached tens of millions of dollars in investment-grade gold minted on-chain, supported by growing secondary-market liquidity and expanding use cases. But beyond the numbers, the real achievement was democratizing access to 99.99% purity gold.

XAUm liquidity developed organically through:

• Long-term holders seeking transparent gold exposure

• DeFi protocols integrating gold as a base collateral asset

• Institutional users prioritizing asset integrity and redemption clarity

Gold That Works: XAUm in DeFi

One of the most important shifts in 2025 was the growing acceptance that gold does not need to be idle.

While XAUm itself is a non-yield-bearing asset, its on-chain form enables holders to deploy gold into decentralized financial strategies, including liquidity provisioning, lending, and structured use cases without compromising ownership of the underlying metal.

This distinction matters.

Rather than financial engineering layered onto derivatives, XAUm enables spot gold utility, allowing market participants to enhance capital efficiency while retaining the defensive properties gold is known for.

Sovereign Validation: A Defining Milestone

2025 marked a historic turning point, not just for Matrixdock, but for the entire RWA sector.

Matrixdock became one of the very few tokenization technology providers globally to support a sovereign-level gold initiative, working alongside Bhutan’s Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) on the launch of TER, a sovereign gold-backed digital token.

This milestone carried profound implications:

• It validated tokenized gold as a national-scale financial infrastructure

• It demonstrated that on-chain gold can meet sovereign requirements for security, transparency, and trust

• It marked the transition of RWA tokenization from enterprise products to sovereign-level adoption

For Matrixdock, this moment affirmed that XAUm’s tokenization architecture was not only market-ready, but nation-ready.

Bitcoin, Gold, and the New Asset Paradigm

Another defining theme of 2025 was the reframing of gold and Bitcoin, not as competitors, but as complements.

As governments and institutions reassessed reserve strategies, conversations shifted toward hybrid asset frameworks, combining the neutrality of gold with the programmability of digital assets and the scarcity narrative of Bitcoin.

Matrixdock has consistently advocated this dual-asset perspective. XAUm’s development throughout 2025 reflected a broader belief:
The future of wealth preservation will be built on interoperable, verifiable reserves.

Gold’s role in that system is no longer static, it is dynamic, transparent, and increasingly on-chain.

From Product Leadership to Industry Stewardship

By the end of 2025, XAUm had become widely recognized as a benchmark for institutional-grade real-world asset tokenization. Beyond product development, Matrixdock has taken an active role in shaping the broader RWA ecosystem through industry advocacy, education, and thought leadership across financial institutions, academia, and the precious metals sector.

This leadership has been formally recognized through contributions to leading industry bodies and platforms:

• February 2025 – Contributed research and market insights to the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), supporting institutional understanding of tokenized assets within the global monetary and financial system.

• April 2025 – Co-authored a comprehensive research report with the Tokenized Asset Coalition, advancing best practices and technical frameworks for commodity tokenization.

• July 2025 – Co-developed a university-level education curriculum focused on digital assets and tokenization, contributing to the next generation of financial and blockchain talent.

• December 2025 – Contributed thought leadership to Crucible, the official industry publication of the Singapore Bullion Market Association, examining how tokenization is modernising the precious metals market.

In a year when the RWA narrative accelerated rapidly, XAUm stood out not only for its future-ready, institutionally aligned product design, but also for Matrixdock’s commitment to responsible industry building—helping set standards, educate stakeholders, and support the sustainable growth of tokenized real-world assets.

Closing Reflection

Gold has always been trusted because it endures.

In 2025, XAUm proved that gold can endure and evolve on blockchains.

From vaults to blockchains, from institutions to sovereigns, from storage to utility, XAUm’s journey this year marked a quiet but decisive shift in how the world thinks about gold in the digital age.

This was not just a strong year for Matrixdock. It was a meaningful year for gold on-chain.