Tether’s Scudo: The Digital Gold Revolution That’s Actually Simple

Forget clunky vaults and paper certificates. Tether just dropped Scudo—a platform that slashes the friction from gold ownership.

The Old Guard's Paper Chase

Traditional gold markets? They're a relic. Physical audits, storage headaches, and settlement delays that would make a snail impatient. Scudo bypasses the entire circus by tokenizing the precious metal on-chain.

One-Click Golden Age

Buy, sell, or transfer fractionalized gold with a wallet swipe. No intermediaries taking their cut, no weeks-long wait for delivery. It's liquidity, meet legacy asset.

Stability in a Volatile World

While crypto markets gyrate, gold's steady heartbeat gets a digital pulse. Scudo positions the age-old safe haven for the algorithmic trading era—because sometimes you need a hedge that's not purely digital.

The real innovation here isn't the tech—it's making a tangible asset as easy to trade as a meme coin. Wall Street's gold desks might need to update their spreadsheets... and their business models.

Tether Scudo Transforms Gold Into Everyday Currency

However, one important issue is still left unaddressed by digital access. The cost of gold is too expensive. In the normal pricing system, one needs small fractions of an ounce of the metal. This takes the FORM of long decimal numbers. This makes the metal unsuitable for spending purposes but rather for saving purposes.

To treat this, Tether created Scudo. It implements a simpler system of account. One scudo is equal to one thousandth of a troy ounce of gold, or XAU₮. This system is based on how fractions made units more practical in the past. A Bitcoin holder can relate this to the Satoshi.

With Scudo, pricing and transferring are now clearer and more convenient. The user can conduct a transaction in the whole or part amount, which does not require complicated mathematical calculations. A product or service can now be valued in Scudo instead of fractional ounces. This plays a key role in ensuring that the gold acts as a means of exchange and a store of value.

Tether also acts as one that adopts the change through the use of its technology LAYER called WDK. This technology allows devs and organizations to create self-custodial wallets for any type and OS. The self-custodial wallets are compatible with XAU₮, stablecoins, and Bitcoin.

XAU₮ Market Expands as Scudo Simplifies Transactions

Scudo doesn’t alter the underlying structure of Tether Gold. XAU₮ is still 100% backed by physical reserves of gold held in secure vaults. The ownership of the underlying asset can still be traced on the blockchain by asset tracking features. The new unit of account will simply be a way of expressing the value of gold differently.

The launch of Scudo is in line with the overall strategy of Tether. It targets the modernization of access to traditional assets through the use of blockchain infrastructure. Through improvements in divisibility, Tether is making gold more integrated into the digital economy.

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