The LME is exploring tokenizing metal in its Hong Kong warehouses so it can be used as collateral.
Only off-warrant metal qualifies. Metal on warrant is excluded, because a warrant is a title document and that metal already has one.
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Dubai is building a 24-carat gold walkway, due before the end of the year in the new Gold District in Deira.
Gold you walk on rather than gold in a vault.
Still unpublished: how much metal, how thick, where it came from, who refined it.
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Switzerland shipped 165.2 tonnes of gold in September, the most in 19 months.
126.2 of it went to the UK. The largest monthly shipment to Britain since at least 2012.
China took 12.7. India took 3.1.
That is not buying. That is inventory moving into vaults.
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Malaysia is building its first 99.99% gold refinery.
TANAKA and MEP Enviro will recover gold from Penang's chip and electronics waste, refine it locally and send it back to the production line. Operations start in 2029.
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In 2022 the US Mint sold 15 ounces of silver for every ounce of American Eagle gold.
This year it is 87 to 1.
Americans did not leave the metals market. They moved inside it. Where they moved, and why Britain went the other way:
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Gold slipped 0.44% to $4,122/oz on Oct 20. Housing starts fell 5.2%, but oil near $100 keeps inflation at 3.7%.
For physical buyers, spot is only half the price. The premium is the other half.
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Digital gold is growing fast. Tokenized gold traded $90B in Q1 2026, more than all of 2025.
It’s still under 1% of a ~$13T physical market.
The hard part isn’t the token. It’s proving the metal behind it.
New on Summit Insights:
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Bolivia has ended three years of state control over gold exports. No certificates needed, and the central bank has stopped buying.
The paper trail on the dollars improved. The paper trail on the metal did not. Most Bolivian gold is informally mined.
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Asia Broadband posted a record $9.3M in Q3 gold and silver production revenue.
What the release leaves out: ounces, purity, Good Delivery status, or who bought the metal.
Revenue shows supply entering the market. Provenance shows what reaches buyers.
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Ethiopia just opened its first gold refinery. $50M, state majority owned, built to refine and certify gold from across the region without it leaving Africa.
The real question for buyers: provenance. Origin, assay standards and bar marks will decide what these bars are worth.
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Tokenized gold did $90.7B in spot trading in Q1 2026. More than all of 2025.
Almost all of it is one design: a claim on metal sitting in a vault.
An Indonesian miner is now trying something else, a token tied to a share of actual mine output.
Two different instruments. The difference is what you can verify.
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London has tried this before. The LME launched gold futures in 2017 and closed them in 2022.
ICE is trying again: daily contracts on the 100oz bar format, plus silver, platinum and palladium.
Price transparency is welcome. A futures claim still isn't a bar in your name.
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Mexico mines about 1 in 5 ounces of the world's silver.
July output came in 2.3% below last year.
Spot is one number. What a buyer pays is another.
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Central banks nearly doubled gold's share of their reserves in
three years. 14% to almost 25%.
The Bundesbank's reason: bonds can be frozen. Bars cannot.
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