Gold and Silver as HardFi Collateral
Summary
In STRATO this announcement explains why gold and silver serve as base collateral for HardFi, noting half the world already saves in them. It highlights trust in precious metals, $30T above-ground gold and only 0.02% tokenized, and why tokenizing metals opens borrowing against existing assets. This matters for early HardFi adoption and community opportunities.
Why gold and silver as the base collateral instead of just more crypto?
Half the world already save using them
They're the most trusted assets in the world
There's $30T in above-ground gold with barely 0.02% tokenized.
There's a lot of need, and it's barely gotten started. We are early in the age of HardFi.
"But of late, we're doing what we've been calling HardFi — basically bringing hard assets, in particular precious metals (gold and silver are the biggest for us), into the DeFi world.
The way we do this: we find that our customers primarily want to borrow against assets they already have. Gold and silver in particular are excellent collateral, in a way that's counter-cyclical with what crypto does."
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