Russian Bank Sber Issues Gold Backed Token
Andrew Mcguire has just revealed on "Live From the Vault" today that "Russia’s Sberbank (bank Sber) issued its first gold-based blockchain asset on (Tuesday) in a game-changing manoeuvre that might instigate further dedollarisation of commodity (that includes oil) trading," - Live from the Vault (my emphasis).
For the last 50 years since Nixon took the USD off of a gold standard in 1971 fiat currencies free to print at will became unstable and unreliable. There was nothing to redeem them for should you lose faith in them - no collateral.
A gold backed Russian token represents a means to hold a tradable asset with huge advantages over unteathered USD. Here is a discription:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-is-a-gold-backed-token-and-how-does-it-work
Maguire explains its potential impact on the imbalance between physical gold and leveraged paper gold trading. Macquire says phsyical gold pricing is going to emerge. Mcguire's technical talk is difficult to listen to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpbsgKLZN2A
Here are a few articles explaining:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/russia-s-largest-bank-issued-gold-backed-digital-financial-assets
https://www.ledgerinsights.com/sberbank-tokenizes-gold-digital-asset-blockchain/