Tether Gold Comes to Telegram

Real world assets have arrived on TON, bringing greater utility and broader saving opportunities to the blockchain. The first asset is Gold, which allows users to invest in precious metals via a digital asset backed by physical gold.

Launched by Tether, the creators of the world’s largest stablecoin (USDt), Gold combines the reliability of precious metal investments with the transparency and flexibility of blockchain technology. Each Gold token represents an ounce of actual gold stored in Swiss vaults, of which Tether reportedly holds more than 11 metric tons.

In collaboration with the TON Foundation and The Open Platform, Tether Gold launched on TON using the unified liquidity network USDt0, a pioneer in lightning fast bridging technology which will serve as the inaugural chain for Tether Gold on TON.

This enables users to seamlessly and securely move their Gold tokens between chains, which is particularly beneficial for TON — as it brings additional global liquidity to the blockchain while giving TON users access to tokenized gold markets. For example, Affluent Vault allows users to allocate tokenized gold into automated saving strategies directly inside Telegram.

While Bitcoin is often referred to as “digital gold” because of its scarcity-driven model, Tether Gold on TON represents a digital version of actual gold — physically backed, yet designed for seamless omnichain use. Unlike traditional strategies of holding physical gold, the tokenized version delivers clear advantages for the digital era: 24/7 accessibility, secure storage and infinite divisibility.

Its launch on TON also signals the arrival of real-world assets (RWAs) into the Telegram ecosystem — making gold seamlessly available to hundreds of millions of users and opening new opportunities for payments, savings and DeFi innovation.