A New Golden Age: Imagining The Future of Digital Gold

The value of gold as an asset has never been clearer,  yet the gold industry finds itself at a fascinating crossroads. The advent of new technologies, including blockchain, decentralised finance (DeFi) and cryptocurrency is having a transformational effect on the financial markets that gold operates in. A new age of easily accessible, yield-bearing digital assets puts traditional assets under the spotlight, potentially disrupting their financial status. But at the same time, these innovations create previously unimaginable opportunities for gold to thrive as the ultimate physical and digital asset.

The results could be game-changing for the gold industry, increasing trust in gold markets, and recreating the metal as a fungible and highly liquid digital asset capable of powering the financial markets of the future. Our "gold" paper creates a vision of how digitalisation could re-orientate the gold industry in the years ahead. With insight from a dozen leaders and innovators from within the gold industry and across the fields of finance, blockchain and real-world asset (RWA) tokenisation, alongside our experts at The Future Laboratory, we explore the potential future use cases for digital gold. 

The report outlines three broad territories that we believe hold exciting potential, each of which includes four ‘what if...’ scenarios that show what could be possible in future.