{"id":547246,"date":"2026-01-26T19:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/golds-digital-rally-mirrors-increasing-stress-on-us-dollar\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T19:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:53:29","slug":"golds-digital-rally-mirrors-increasing-stress-on-us-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/26\/golds-digital-rally-mirrors-increasing-stress-on-us-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold\u2019s digital rally mirrors increasing stress on US dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YmZiMjctM2IwNy03YjQwLThiMmEtYjkyZGY1NzA3MWU4LmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Gold\u2019s digital rally mirrors increasing stress on US dollar\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tether\u2019s XAUt tokenized gold now accounts for more than half of the gold-backed stablecoin market as the US dollar weakens amid renewed safe-haven demand.<\/p>\n<p>The market for tokenized gold is expanding in step with rising demand for physical bullion, highlighting a broader shift toward traditional safe-haven assets as geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainty push investors away from the US dollar.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">On Monday, Tether said its Tether Gold (XAUt) now represents more than half of the entire gold-backed stablecoin market, with a total value exceeding $2.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Tether disclosed that 520,089 XAUt tokens were in circulation at the end of the fourth quarter, with <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/tether-gold-xaut-market-cap-gold-rally-2025\">each token backed one-for-one<\/a> by physical gold held in reserve.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/gold-digital-rally-mirrors-rising-stress-dollar\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tether\u2019s XAUt tokenized gold now accounts for more than half of the gold-backed stablecoin market as the US dollar weakens amid renewed safe-haven demand. The market for tokenized gold is expanding in step with rising demand for physical bullion, highlighting a broader shift toward traditional safe-haven assets as geopolitical tensions and trade uncertainty push investors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-547246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}