Kurt Hemecker

Opinions my own. Tokenizing gold with DGLD® // prev Minaprotocol, Diem/Libra, PayPal.

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Key gold events for the week:

Mon - ISM Manufacturing PMI
Tue - Euro-area May CPI
Wed - Fed Beige Book + ISM Services
Wed -Australia Q1 GDP
Wed -ADP Employment
Fri - US Nonfarm Payrolls

Inflation's still hot (PCE 3.8% y/y).

The Fed tightening question won't quit.

[DGLD - Digital Gold Token @DGLD_Official]

A token will never beat this.

Beautiful, physical, creative design and 100 years of history.

The Swissmint 100 Years 100-Franc Vreneli coin has been nominated in the Best Gold Coin category for the 2026 Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards.

Basically the Hall of Fame of numismatics.

Designed by the talented Chiara Principe in collaboration with Swissmint and @MKSPAMP.

One day, soon, we'll have our very own commemorative coin too.

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What do you actually own when you own tokenized gold?

@khem takes that question to Geneva on June 2, on stage with @hashdex's Bruno Caratori at @allnews_ch's Alternative Investments Insights.

The panel asks whether digital assets are finally ready for institutional portfolios.

tl;dr - YES.

Join us !

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Don't take our word for it.

Central Banks on their gold reserves.

From @GOLDCOUNCIL 2025 CB survey.

[Crypto Valley @thecryptovalley]

Gold has been sound money for 5,000 years. Tokenization is how it enters the next era.

@rbriffod (CBO, GTSA, an MKS PAMP Company) workshop this morning: Sound Money on Digital Rails: The Return of Gold as Tokenized RWA.

📅 May 28, Zug

Workshop access requires a General Ticket. No ticket, no entry.

🎟 General Ticket: https://t.co/Hl8rFI0byn
📋 Register: https://t.co/K6AfY8X0kO
🌐 https://t.co/NdMDl1AwZP

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1/ This week’s reading list: The thesis is playing out.

Bitcoin was called “digital gold” long before tokenized gold took off.

A strong week for the RWA / tokenized gold narrative.

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9/ And a little self-promotion to cap it off.

An article by @khem for @allnews_ch.

In 🇫🇷

https://t.co/ENHRsUG8t2

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@a16zcrypto Gold accounts for more than 90% of the commodities category.

[Kurt Hemecker @khem]

@MacroMate8 @buffalu__ Could not have said that better myself! :)
I think you are spot-on about Asia.

[Kurt Hemecker @khem]

Tokenized assets crossed $34B last month. 10x in under two years.

Inside the commodities slice, gold is basically the whole thing. $5B out of $5.1B. Silver, oil, ag, rounding errors.

Which makes sense. Gold's globally standardized, doesn't spoil, and people already trade paper claims on it. Smallest possible leap to put it onchain. Bitcoin's been "digital gold" for a decade, so the demand was already sitting there.

The part of a16z's piece I keep coming back to is the composability gap. Only ~5% of tokenized bonds are actually deployed in DeFi. Precious metals look similar. Most of what we call tokenization right now is really just digitization. Records onchain, not building blocks.

That's where we are. Infrastructure's in place, assets are there, and the shift from "put it onchain" to "make it composable" is the next leg. Slow at first, then probably very, very fast.

Every major forecast (McKinsey, BCG, Ark, Standard Chartered) implies ~100x growth from here. They disagree on scope, not direction. Trend's your friend.

Getting from digital receipt to programmable finance is a different problem than getting the asset onchain. That's the hard part, and it's starting now. Read the full report from @a16zcrypto here
https://t.co/duv7zm9fIZ

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as debasement fears grow

the sound money movement rises

gold is back

but now, it's tokenized:

transferable, programmable, 24/7 tradable

[Kurt Hemecker @khem]

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day to everyone celebrating the most expensive "add extra cheese" in human history.

Quick math: 10,000 BTC for two pizzas, worth about $41 at the time. $41 of gold back then = roughly 0.034 oz, worth about $153 today. The same 10,000 BTC? About $770 million.

Tiny difference. Rounding error. Very normal lunch.

Had Laszlo paid in gold, today he'd have… about enough for more pizza. Had he kept the Bitcoin, he'd have enough to buy Papa John's, rename it "Proof of Sauce," and tip the driver in generational wealth.

Gold is less volatile, sure. It doesn't moon, crash, or fork. That's not a bug. That's the feature.

Tokenized gold. For people who like digital assets but also like sleeping at night.

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@jpickett713 A panel : “Capital Markets 2030: Tokenization, RWAs, and the Future of On-Chain Treasury.”

@khem will join @bnbhargava of G-20 Group, @FraFabracci of @tether, and Daniel Coheur of @ApexGlobalGroup for a panel moderated by @lornah111 of @partnerspenrose.

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It seems like everybody agrees these days...

"Tokenization is taking over."

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Platinum price supported by a three-month supply of above-ground stock
https://t.co/xTjF2Bo4CA

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Week-ends are for reading.

This week's is intense: RWAs, tokenization, DeFi, stablecoins, yield and macro stuff.

This is the last cold week-end of the year wets the outdoors (let's hope).

Nothing else to do than read.

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Voltaire was not that candid.

[Kurt Hemecker @khem]

@DGLD_Official @thecryptovalley @bnbhargava @tether Looking forward to it!

[Kurt Hemecker @khem]

ICYMI: CoinGecko published its RWA Report 2026 last week.

The tokenized gold data stood out: $90.7B in Q1 spot volume, already ahead of all 2025.

Gold onchain is becoming one of the clearest RWA use cases.

This is the direction we’ve been building toward at DGLD (@DGLD_Official)

https://t.co/ixycxYJWpT

[Kurt Hemecker @khem]

@DGLD_Official @thecryptovalley @rbriffod @antoine_svc Looking forward to it!