STRATO: Tokenize Gold with GOLDST and USDST
Summary
STRATO announces the unlock of tokenized physical gold and silver into GOLDST tokens and USDST stablecoins. Members can instantly trade tokenized metals, borrow USDST against holdings, earn yields on STRATO, or use stablecoins in the real world. This turns dormant gold into liquid, productive assets for the community.
Most of the world saves in gold, but most gold holders also just keep it "under their mattress," so to speak.
This is the STRATO unlock:
→ physical gold or silver
→ tokenized
→ instantly tradable
→ borrow $USDST against it
→ use the USDST to earn more on STRATO
→ OR use it in the real world
STRATO turns gold from being something hidden away to gather dust into an asset that can work for you in the market. Be your own gold-backed bank.
That's the magic of $GOLDST + $USDST on https://t.co/sxsrZTh4lW:
"What's special about USDST?"
"To our knowledge — I think I've seen some announcements like this — it is very notable that you can create it against gold and silver.
So if you think about the amount of above-ground gold in the world, it's about thirty trillion. It's less the case in the West, but it's the default savings asset for much of the planet — most of the planet, maybe half. And so people have a lot of it. But the problem with it is it's often like a mattress asset: it's not providing you any real financial inclusion unless you're capable of navigating pretty big institutions who will give you decent to good terms on it — maybe if you want to borrow or trade it and so on.
But your average mattress gold holder — it's just sitting there. It's not doing anything for you from a productivity perspective. So we think it's like a really big unlock.
And we've actually seen that even with folks who have pretty good access to US financial services — they've been excited to tokenize, get instant tradability of those tokens. The tokens can be much more liquid than the gold itself, in the sense that you can move them anywhere. It's still reflective of the underlying gold, but you can move the tokens over the internet and the gold sits somewhere.
And you can get the liquidity out of it from borrowing the stablecoin, too. And by the way, the rates can be extremely, extremely high — we heard recently that if you work with short-term gold lenders in, say, India, the interest rates are as high as twenty-five percent.
So this allows both an easy loan path and much better rates than you can get in a lot of different markets."
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