{"id":49694,"date":"2025-09-08T08:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/?p=49694"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:31:50","slug":"tether-expands-gold-investments-across-the-supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/tether-expands-gold-investments-across-the-supply-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Tether expands gold investments across the supply chain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The USDT issuer is strengthening its diversification beyond cryptocurrencies: billions in gold reserves in Zurich, a significant stake in a mining company, and additional capital ready for the entire sector, from mining to licensing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reserves in Zurich<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/tether-how-a-few-it-guys-from-the-stablecoin-business-earn-more-than-blackrock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Tether<\/a> has been increasing its exposure to gold for a long time. It holds approximately $8.7 billion in gold bars in vaults in <a href=\"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/despite-uncertainty-record-capital-flows-into-the-crypto-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Zurich<\/a>, which serve as partial backing for the Tether Gold (XAUT) token with a capitalisation of around $1.4 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In 2025, the company invested USD 100 million in Canada&#8217;s Elemental Altus and, after the latest increase, owns nearly 38% of the company. <\/strong>The aim is to strengthen the stability of reserves and reduce dependence on a single type of asset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Negotiations with partners in the sector<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/135fb3dd-2395-4f04-8cc6-7fb0e87cd092\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Financial Times<\/a>, Tether is in talks with miners, investment groups and refineries about entering other links in the gold chain. It plans to deploy approximately $200 million in the sector, building on previous commodity activities, including financing oil trading in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company&#8217;s financial profile remains robust: of its total reserves of USD 162 billion, approximately 80% is in cash, short-term deposits and US government bonds; for the first half of 2025, Tether reported a net profit of USD 5.7 billion. The more than 36% increase in the <a href=\"https:\/\/trader-magazine.com\/news\/china-increases-gold-reserves-as-trade-war-persists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">price of gold <\/a>since the beginning of the year (around $3,600\/ounce) supports this direction, yet management emphasises that diversification across assets is key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USDT issuer is strengthening its diversification beyond cryptocurrencies: billions in gold reserves in Zurich, a significant stake in a mining company, and additional capital ready for the entire sector, from mining to licensing. Reserves in Zurich Tether has been increasing its exposure to gold for a long time. It holds approximately $8.7 billion in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[265,323],"class_list":["post-49694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crypto","tag-gold","tag-tether"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"aioseo_meta":{"seo_title":"Tether Expands Gold Investments #separator_sa #site_title","meta_description":"Tether grows beyond crypto with $8.7B in gold reserves, mining stakes and $200M plans across the gold supply chain for stability and diversification.","focus_keyword":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49702,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49694\/revisions\/49702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-globe.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}