Bybit has launched a focused campaign to broaden access to gold and silver trading as investor interest in precious metals shows renewed strength. Running through April 30, 2026, the initiative lets eligible users trade a wide range of gold- and silver-related instruments from a single USDT account, a move the exchange says is designed to make exposure to real-world assets simpler and more capital efficient for digital-asset traders.
The platform’s offering under the campaign spans spot and derivatives: spot trading of XAUT/USDT, futures contracts such as XAUTUSDT and PAXGUSDT, the XAUT0 Alpha product, and several traditional finance pairs including XAUUSD, XAUEUR, XAUJPY+, XAUAUD+, XAGUSD and XAGAUD. By collapsing these listings into one unified account, the promotion aims to appeal to traders who want commodity exposure alongside their crypto positions without juggling multiple wallets or custody arrangements.
At the heart of the tokenized-gold story is XAUT, commonly known as Tether Gold. Issued by Tether, XAUT represents fractional ownership of physical gold held in secure vaults and is backed one-to-one by fine gold, allowing investors to move and trade gold on-chain around the clock without the logistics of handling bullion. That tokenized convenience, combined with growing demand for safe-haven assets, has helped boost the popularity of gold tokens on centralized venues.
Bybit Bridges TradFi and DeFi
To cut friction and broaden on-chain access, the platform recently added deposit and withdrawal support for XAUT on the Mantle network, an integration intended to lower transaction costs and improve cross-chain usability for users holding tokenized gold. Bybit has been positioning these kinds of cross-chain options as a way to deepen liquidity for tokenized real-world assets.
The campaign also layers yield opportunities onto ownership: holders of gold tokens can earn on idle balances through the exchange’s Easy Earn products, with the XAUT Flexible Easy Earn product advertising annualized yields of up to 11% APR. For the promotional period, eligible users who execute at least one trade in any supported gold- or silver-related asset may also be entered for a chance to win part of an airdrop pool worth up to 2,000 USDT, subject to the platform’s risk controls and eligibility checks.
This push into precious metals forms part of a broader strategy to bridge digital assets with established commodities markets. The exchange, which serves a global user base and continues to add tokenized instruments to its product roster, says the campaign reflects both market demand for safe-haven exposure and a longer-term plan to make traditional assets more accessible in on-chain form.
Market observers say tokenized gold has become an attractive complement to more familiar crypto holdings as macro uncertainty and rising gold prices push investors to diversify. By making tokenized gold and a selection of FX-style gold and silver pairs tradable from a single account, the platform hopes to capture traders who want to mix bullion-linked strategies with crypto trading tools. Whether the campaign nudges a broader shift of capital into tokenized commodities will depend on execution and how regulators and institutions respond to this growing intersection of TradFi and DeFi.
