Bybit Launches Yield On $3B XAUT Tokenized Gold
Bybit now pays yield on XAUT, the $3B Tether Gold token that earned nothing before. Here is how the gold yield works and where DeFi already offers it.
Bybit now pays yield on XAUT, the $3B Tether Gold token that earned nothing before. Here is how the gold yield works and where DeFi already offers it.
Wintermute opened an OTC desk for Pax Gold and Tether Gold as on-chain gold volume hit $126B, beating five major gold ETFs. Here is the wallet angle.
Ether.fi is routing $100M into Plume to launch its Liquid RWA vault, paying a variable 7.25% on stablecoins backed by BlackRock and Fidelity ETFs.
Bitwise’s USCC fund crossed $120M as collateral on Aave Horizon, paying a 5% yield through a crypto basis strategy. Here is the retail DeFi angle.
Silver perps hit $1B daily on Hyperliquid and tokenized gold now pays yield. A $1k wallet can trade metals on-chain or earn through Theo’s thGOLD.
Aave V3 on Mantle pulled $290M in deposits and doubled DeFi TVL to $543M. Any wallet can supply for incentive yield at $0.01 fees, no KYC required.
BlackRock’s BUIDL fund holds $3.1B AUM but only $18.9M cycles through Morpho, Pendle, and Aave. The DeFi loop stack that compounds tokenized Treasury yield.
Ondo Finance’s OUSG product crossed $500M as the tokenized RWA market passed $2B. Short-duration Treasury yield beats Aave USDC by up to 250 basis points.
Coinbase reported $305M Q1 2026 stablecoin revenue from a 3.5% USDC reward the GENIUS Act did not catch. The OCC’s rebuttable presumption rule now targets it.
BlackRock’s BUIDL crossed $1.7B AUM as it expanded to Solana, the seventh chain. The tokenized money market fund holds 34% of the tokenized US Treasury market.