What Is Multi-Chain Gold?

Gold has withstood the test of time through countless monetary transformations and geopolitical upheavals. Its reputation as a hedge against uncertainty remains unmatched, a resilience once again proven by its performance in 2025.

Traditionally, investors have accessed gold through physical bullion, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), futures, or mining equities. Each method offers a distinct balance of liquidity, accessibility, and cost. However, all operate within the confines of legacy financial systems.

With the rise of blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi), global financial infrastructure is undergoing a foundational shift. Tokenization, the process of representing real-world assets on blockchain, is transforming how we own, trade, and deploy capital.

As Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, wrote in his 2025 annual letter to investors, “Every asset can be tokenized.” Likewise, Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, noted, “Tokenized assets will benefit everyone as they enable instant settlement and operate around the clock.”

These statements reflect a growing consensus: tokenization is not a passing trend, but a structural upgrade to financial markets.

Among tokenized gold offerings, XAUm stands out as a multi-chain gold token, a next-generation representation of physical gold across multiple blockchain ecosystems.

Each XAUm token is backed 1:1 by investment-grade bullion, securely stored with Brinks and Malca-Amit, and natively deployed across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Sui, Plume, Tron, and HashKey Chain. Cross-chain interoperability powered by Chainlink and LayerZero.

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Why Multi-Chain Matters

In DeFi, users are distributed across a wide spectrum of blockchain networks, each with its own technical strengths, developer communities, and financial utilities. Deploying XAUm across multiple chains broadens accessibility and ensures that gold can serve diverse user needs and applications.

For instance, Ethereum remains one of the most established blockchains, renowned for its robust security and deep institutional adoption. In contrast, BNB Chain offers faster transaction speeds and lower fees, making it one of the most efficient and user-friendly networks. Sui, built on the Move programming language, attracts a new generation of developers focused on scalability and innovation, supported by a vibrant community. Meanwhile, Plume emphasizes interoperability with traditional financial infrastructure and specializes in real-world asset (RWA) development, bridging on-chain finance with legacy systems.

This multi-chain design ensures XAUm is not bound to a single ecosystem. Instead, it can thrive wherever liquidity, innovation, and users exist, expanding inclusive access to tokenized gold while respecting the diversity of blockchain economies.

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Practical Benefits of Gold Tokenization

1. Unlocking Access: Removing Barriers to Physical Gold

Historically, investing in gold required significant resources, secure logistics, vaulting arrangements, and verification of authenticity. These barriers confined ownership to sovereigns, institutions and high-net-worth individuals.

Tokenized gold democratizes access. It converts physical gold into a natively digital asset, accessible via smartphone, transferable in real time, and fully interoperable with Web3 platforms.

For Web3 users, it provides a simple way to hedge in hard assets without leaving the blockchain ecosystem.

For traditional investors, it creates a transparent, cost-efficient bridge between physical assets and Web3 speed.

2. Activating Gold in Blockchain Finance

In its physical form, gold is inert, valuable, but static. On blockchain, gold becomes active capital: programmable, divisible, and mobile.

• Fractional Ownership: Tokenization allows small-sized investments in gold without premiums or resale constraints.

• 24/7 Liquidity: XAUm trades across DeFi platforms, remaining in sync with stablecoins and other crypto assets, outside traditional market hours.

• DeFi Integration: Holders can lend or collateralize XAUm in decentralized protocols, unlocking new sources of revenue and liquidity.

• Automated Accumulation: Smart contracts enable systematic strategies such as automated dollar-cost averaging (DCA) with real-time settlement and smaller entry sizes.

• Portfolio Diversification: Gold’s historically low correlation with high-beta assets, including Bitcoin, enhances portfolio resilience, particularly in volatile macro cycles.

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XAUm: Institutional-Grade Design

Amid the expanding landscape of tokenized gold products, XAUm distinguishes itself through institutional-grade architecture, multi-chain deployment, and enhanced transparency.

Backed by Investment-Grade Gold

• LBMA Refinery Sourcing: XAUm’s gold originates exclusively from LBMA-accredited refineries, ensuring purity, ethical sourcing, and credibility.

• Professional Vaulting: Custodied by Brinks and Malca-Amit, two of the world’s most trusted logistics and storage providers.

Verifiable Proof of Reserve

• Verifiable Transparency: Each XAUm token maps directly to a specific 1kg gold bar held in audited vaults, verifiable in real time via Matrixdock’s Reserve Lookup Tool.

• Third-Party Audits: Reserves undergo semiannual independent audits to ensure full asset backing and integrity.

• Real-Time Verification: Users can connect their wallets to view gold bar serial numbers, weights, and vault locations that back their tokens, bridging on-chain data with on-demand assurance.

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Conclusion: Interoperability as the New Standard

The future of tokenized RWA lies in interoperability, where assets move seamlessly across blockchains, ecosystems, and users. In this new paradigm, interoperability isn’t just a feature, it’s the foundation of liquidity of how real-world assets like gold will power the next generation of global finance.

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Disclaimer: These materials are provided for general informational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice, financial advice, an offer, solicitation, or recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any digital asset, or to engage in any specific investment strategy. You should conduct your own independent research and carefully consider your financial condition, investment objectives, and risk tolerance before making any investment decisions.XAUm and any related products or services are subject to jurisdictional and regulatory restrictions and may not be offered, distributed, or made available in certain jurisdictions (including, without limitation, Hong Kong and Singapore). Each user is solely responsible for ensuring that their access to, holding of, or transactions in XAUm comply with all laws and regulations applicable to them. All information contained herein is subject to change without notice and should not be relied upon as a substitute for independent judgment or professional advice. No representation or warranty, express or implied, is made as to the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information contained herein.