Have you tried STRATO Odds yet?

Since yesterday’s testnet launch, we’ve already seen plenty of useful testing and feedback. Now we want to hear what you think.

Explore the markets. Trade YES or NO on gold and silver. Tell us what works, what doesn’t, and what you want to see next.

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Roughly forty thousand dollars of liquidity. Over a million dollars of volume. And that was just last week.

STRATO's native tokens are expanding their reach, building a market for tokenized gold and silver to act as money again:

"We have a combined roughly forty thousand dollars of liquidity for USDST against USDC and USDT, the biggest stablecoins. It's done over a million of volume so far. It's been a couple weeks.

And had we tried to do that, you can barely do it with a V2 pool. No one would ever route to it."

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Every financial institution on earth is under attack right now. Your bank included.

DeFi feels more vulnerable than it is because everything is transparent and on-chain. They can't hide the attacks (maybe that transparency is actually good).

The solution for DeFi lies in open source security, according to ＠vic4wong:

"So every financial institution in the world, whether or not they're a huge bank or whether or not a DeFi protocol, faces lots of pressure from outside hacks. And AI has brought that cost effectively to zero. That's happening to every institution.

And we worked with a bunch of big banks. I won't name them, but we worked with a bunch of big banks. We were talking honestly about this kind of security problems happening all the time.

But with a big bank, those are mostly hidden. When something bad happens, they're mostly hidden. Whereas in the DeFi world, it's transparent. Everyone sees it happening, even as the protocols are dealing with it themselves.

So I think, and the question is, if you look at open source security, that's the way to get to more secure systems over time."

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It's called quantum computing because it seems to exist as both a threat and not a threat at the same time.

But ＠vic4wong has a hot take: it might also be the trigger for flippening.

Victor: "But the question I've always had is: why hasn't the flippening happened? So if this is the truth, there's way more economic activity on Ethereum than Bitcoin. In fact, it can't exist on Bitcoin. So why hasn't this happened?

Part of my answer right now is network effects and inertia. But I will go on the record and have a prediction that what could cause the flippening in the future is quantum.

And the reason it could cause it is that we've been having lots of conversations with various people about the rate of quantum and how quickly it could affect breaking various encryption algorithms.

I have said this before, but I do fundamentally believe that I think culturally Ethereum has a better culture in order to adapt to a big change like that than, say, something like Bitcoin. Like, for example, the Ethereum Foundation, Vitalik, they've been working on quantum-resistant encryption already.

And whether it's three years out or ten years out, I'm not going to make a prediction on that. But I think that is something that could move that very, very quickly."

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STRATO's Hard Money Weekly Digest | August 7th
This week's HardFi news in just 2 minutes

🏅 Gold: up +6.6%
🥈 Silver: up +11.0%

Both gold and silver had their best weeks of 2026!

1. Gold had its best week since January, and silver its best since February
   Gold traded above $4,300 for the first time since mid-June, with December futures printing as high as $4,411.70 on Friday morning. Silver cleared $64. Across the week, the two metals added roughly $2.2 trillion in combined market value.

2. China bought more gold in July than in any month since 2023
   The People's Bank of China added 640,000 ounces, about 19.9 tonnes, in the last month, taking official reserves to 76,080,000 ounces, or 2,366 tonnes. That is the 21st consecutive month of buying and 60 tonnes added so far this year.

Monthly Chinese purchases of gold have climbed since February, from 30,000 ounces to 640,000, while gold's trading range fell from $4,332-5,589 in January to $3,992-4,168 in July. They buy more when it gets cheaper. BMO's analysts think that pace puts China past US holdings inside five years.

1. Real-world assets tripled inside DeFi while the rest of it shrank
   CoinShares and Token Terminal published a joint report Thursday: deposits of tokenized real-world assets into lending platforms and decentralized exchanges went from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion over the past year, while total DeFi deposits fell about 15%. Spot volume in tokenized assets rose 220% as crypto-native volume dropped roughly 70%. Gold holds the largest share of that tokenized spot volume.

2. A million people now hold tokenized stock
   As of Friday, https://t.co/NB1ZiPLxlQ counts 1,020,510 tokenized equity holders, up 33% in eight days and up from 58,999 a year ago. Total on-chain RWA holders reached 1,622,570, with equities at 62.8% of them and commodities second at 256,264. Equities got the distribution first because a share is easy to wrap and easy to explain. The gap between those two numbers is the opportunity, not the verdict.

3. Tokenized gold and silver became margin
   On Wednesday, Ondo Finance made GLDon and SLVon eligible as collateral for perpetual futures on Ondo Perps for traders outside the United States, alongside the tokenized S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 exposure it already accepted. Metal that used to sit still now backs a position while it sits. Someone has to accept an asset as collateral before it does any work.

4. BlackRock built tokenized cash for stablecoin issuers
   Monday brought BSTBL, an on-chain share class of a Treasury liquidity fund with BNY Mellon as transfer agent, and BRSRV, a multi-chain fund with Securitize built for daily dividend reinvestment. Both are designed to qualify as eligible reserve assets for permitted US payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act. A filing to extend BRSRV to Solana went in the same day.

5. Korea started buying its own gold
   The Bank of Korea said Monday it will buy domestically refined gold from LS MnM, with Korea Zinc expected to supply as well, its first physical purchases since 2013. It is also weighing storage at home rather than at the Bank of England.

It was a good week for gold and silver, and RWAs hit some key milestones. Remember: tokenization is inevitable.

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