Brief
- The Trio and Swarm markets launched token gold bars on Bitcoin via the Ordinal Protocol.
- The tokens are negotiated like the other ordinals, but the redemption requires KYC thanks to the swarm compliance process.
- The project follows the trio management for Runestone and Spartacus, which published the Afghan chain war newspapers.
The gold bars landed on Bitcoin. A new token project registers the serial numbers of physical ingots stored in a secure safe directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, allowing people to buy and exchange the rights of real gold.
Trio, a bitcoin native market created by Ordinalsbot, is behind the tokenized gold offer. The company announced on Monday that it has teamed up with Swarm markets to launch the Gold On Bitcoin collection, using the NFT type ordinal protocol to attach metadata from gold bars stored in a brinks jump in London.
“Each golden bar in Brinks has a serial number,” said ordinalsbot co-founder Brian Laughn Decrypt. “All you really have to do is attach this serial number to a digital asset – in this case, an ordinal. It is cooked in metadata. And that’s it: you now have a token version of gold.”
How it works:
You start by registering 1 or more 1 oz of gold bars 💎
Trio write the active ingredients on the Bitcoin blockchain, then with the help of @Swarmmarkets & @Brinks Your gold bar is stored in a safe 🏦
After that, you can exchange your ordinal on our market! pic.twitter.com/lu4uqt6hyy
– Trio (@trio_xyz) August 25, 2025
Each token, explained Laughn, is linked to the current price of a single ounce of gold. The tokens can be exchanged like any other ordinary active, but the repurchase of physical bars requires verification of your client in the swarm. KYC is necessary because physical gold is a regulated asset, and its transfer must comply with the anti-white and verification of identity. Once KYC is finished, the gold bars can then be sent to their owner.
“This is the reality of active active worlds,” he said. “They exist in the real world, so real laws apply.”
Ordinalsbot launched Trio in December. The platform supports ordinal trading as well as the pieces even Bitcoin in runes and standards of BRC-20 token.
The notable ordinary collections include Runestone, which is linked to the meme of dog on Bitcoin, and Project Spartacus, which published the American military documents known known as Afghan War Newspapers on the original blockchain.
The launch occurs while tokenized gold appears as one of the most active corners of the active world market in the real world. By transforming vaulted ingots into negotiable digital tokens, the projects aim to merge the reliability of gold with the accessibility of crypto tokens trading.
Ethereum tokens like Tether Gold (XAUT) and Pax Gold (PAXG) already represent billions in value on the chain. Real active protocols – including those that offer tokenized gold – welcome more than 26 billion dollars of total value, according to Rwa.xyz data.
Laughn said that the launch of Bitcoin gold tokens was a deliberate choice, pointing its long -standing reputation of “digital gold”.
The project begins small. Until now, only six gold bars in a single ounce have been tokenized so far, said Laughn, but more can be struck if the request increases. Hope, he said, is to establish a standard for the way gold is registered via computers so that other guards can adopt the same format.
Laughlan said that the attraction of tokenized gold on Bitcoin could be as symbolic as practical.
“There is something poetic to put real gold on Bitcoin,” said Laughn.
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