OCBC Launches Tokenized Gold on Ethereum and Solana

Singapore‘s banking industry made a further leap into blockchain-enabled finance with the release of a tokenized physical gold fund by Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), one of the country‘s largest financial institutions. Launched in partnership with asset management company Lion Global Investors and digital asset exchange DigiFT, the project represents traditional gold investment migrating into the blockchain ecosystem via a new token, GOLDX.

Token is issued on both network, Ethereum and Solana. This is to service different digital assets ecosystem with accessibility, liquidity and interoperability among the different chains.

Bridging Traditional Finance and Blockchain Infrastructure

The GOLDX token is a share in a physical gold fund making it accessible to institutional investors, hedge funds and asset managers to get access to gold without actually taking ownership of the metal. The custody and settlement are replaced by the digitizing of the share on a blockchain.

As per OCBC, investors can subscribe to the fund with fiat currencies or stable coins. The offering thus caters both to the traditional financial participants as well as those who are just entering the digital asset space. Post-trade settlement, the investor receives GOLDX tokens directly in his blockchain wallet.

Kenneth Lai, the head of global markets at OCBC, said the project is part of a larger transformation plan and form of adoption in the regulated banking system for digital assets. “We don‘t see blockchain as a substitute for finance; we are seeing this as an improvement of efficiency and access to markets.”

He said that OCBC is taking a long-term view of tokenization, with its strategy being to link the matured financial ecosystem to the nascent DeFi infrastructure. Hence, there is a commitment to tokenization in the bank‘s core service offering.

Why Tokenized Gold Matters

Gold has remained one of the most popular safe-haven assets used over recent years, given its enduring value during times of economic volatility. However, conventional investment in gold can result in costs and inconveniences related to storage, insurance and physical handling.

Tokenization solves these problems by digitally representing your ownership rights to physical gold an entry is made on a blockchain ledger, thereby enabling the transfer of tokens representing your gold to be transferred instantly and across borders more simply than physically moving the gold.

GOLDX by OCBC will help to bring liquidity and accessibility of gold to a wider audience while upholding the fundamental value proposition. The ability to instantly transfer and trade tokenized gold on the blockchain network has the potential to lower the friction in global commodities markets.

Institutional-Grade Focus

GOLDX is not a retail product to be purchased directly by retail investors, but rather an institutional product. Compared to other tokenized products offered by retail investors, it is actually this broader trend among institutional investors globally that ultimately uses tokenization as a new tool to re-structure traditional asset classes.

Approach of hedge funds, asset Managers and corporate treasuries with a touch of regulated GOLDSX as a bridge asset the TRUST combined with a state of the art blockchain settlement system.

The participation of the regulated exchange DigiFT only adds to this institutional focus. Offering the infrastructure for how tokens backed by real world assets can be issued, traded and held in compliance with regulations.

Growth of Real-World Asset Tokenization

The GOLDX launch will be made at a time where tokenized RWA market is booming. According to the platform rwa.xyz, the whole value of RWA on public blockchains is now greater than $29 billion as of 2026.

This is an increase of over 10% in just 1 month, indicating a growing institutional appetite for blockchain- encodedd versions of familiar financial assets like bonds, property and commodities.

Of course gold also offers a good candidate for tokenisation as it is widely valued, has deep global liquidity markets and has historically been used as a store of value.

Multi-Chain Strategy and Market Implications

Issuing GOLDX on Ethereum and Solana, representing a multi-chains approach, is aligned with such industry trends. Traditionally, although there is a growing market for tokenization on a multi-chain environment,

Ethereum continues to be the dominant network of choice among institutions given its established ecosystem and developer base, while Solana provides lower cost and faster transaction speeds. This would be particularly attractive in a high-frequency trading and settlement environment.

This also increases interoperability and removes reliance on one single chain infrastructure, which is crucial for institutional-level financial products.

A Step Toward Mainstream Tokenized Finance

With OCBC, we see a heavy reliance from the traditional banks in tokenized gold markets as they begin moving blockchain use cases from the edges of finance toward their core offerings. Instead of treating digital assets as an experiment, big institutions are embedding them into regulated investment products.

The launch of GOLDX confirms that tokenization as a concept is beginning to be implemented in a more practically oriented financial format.

With a global demand for transparent, frictionless and programmable financial assets, GOLDX and other similar products could perhaps set the standard for how traditional commodities will look in the financial world of the future.

Conclusion

Then we have A Tokenized gold fund launched by OCBC The first bank to offer tokenized physical gold on the blockchain.

The tokenized gold fund combines physical gold with a digital representation on a blockchain (via either the Ethereum or Solana networks)…paved the way for traditional financial institutions to explore new models for asset ownership and transfer.

Given that the RWA market is growing quickly and the institutional uptake is increasing, tokenized commodities like the GOLDX could be key to the future of world‘s financial infrastructure.