Physical Gold-Backed Tokens

Buying Gold-Backed Tokens

Gold-backed tokens are a controversial investment with many physical metals buyers – and indeed until summer 2022, they were a sub-category within the precious metals market that Bullion.Directory has always been reluctant to list.

We’ve been reluctant not because we’re Luddites or anti-crypto, but because it’s a new (mostly unregulated) market within which there’s a fairly low barrier to entry for creating new tokens.

Indeed, new gold-backed tokens have appeared and disappeared with alarming regularity. Between investigating the category in 2018 and adding it in 2022 – of the 30 gold tokens we were originally going to list, 17 have closed down, ceased trading or simply vanished from the web – domains dropped and once-buzzing social media accounts abandoned.

But now the market has matured. The scam artists, the dreamers and the wishful thinkers have been removed leaving a handful of very strong players – players with significant market backing and in some cases support from the biggest names in the precious metals industry.

So finally, after the initial hype, the rush – and the fear of missing out that made and lost fortunes – gold tokens have at last started to deliver on their initial promise behind all those initial offerings.

Gold can now be bought, sold and exchanged in moments with full traceability and clear chain of custody, combining the best of what physical metals can offer with cutting-edge technology.

Now that’s not to say all of these tokens will still be around in another few years, but those with the best backing and the strongest market connections could well be the future of gold trading.

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