On March 23, XAUT set a record for daily trading volume on Binance’s perpetual futures market—$6.4 billion in a single day—rising to fifth place among all of the exchange’s perpetual pairs. The growth has been staggering: at the end of 2025, gold was trading at just a few million.
A number of analysts accuse gold of competing with Bitcoin for capital. But the tokenization of the precious metal directly increases the overall liquidity of the crypto market.
Every new XAUT is a real physical asset, recorded on the blockchain and available 24/7. This is not competition—it is a new layer of liquidity for the crypto market.
At the same time, the crypto market offers something found nowhere else: you can actually pay with gold. Payment infrastructure operators—Cryptomus, NOWPayments, CoinGate, Plisio—are seeing a rise in requests for XAUT and PAXG in B2B transactions. Businesses accept stablecoins and, through the same gateways, convert them into tokenized gold as a reserve asset.
In the 21st century, gold is not only the most sought-after market asset. It is a full-fledged DeFi and CeFi tool for the industry.
