tag, not repeated in the body. Also, images should stay in their places. Adding humor, sarcasm, and emojis is required. First, I’ll start with the title. The original title is “Tokenized Gold Soars as Metal Hits Record Highs.” To make it clickbait and Sedaris-style, maybe something like “Gold’s Going Digital, and It’s as Confusing as a Tax Audit 🧾✨” which is under 100 characters and adds humor. Next, the body. The original text is factual, so I need to inject Sedaris’s voice. For example, the first paragraph: instead of straightforward reporting, add a sarcastic remark about gold turning into a “glittery crypto smoothie.” Use emojis like 💻💰 to keep it light. In the section about Tether’s XAUT0, maybe mock the complexity with a joke about “blockchain bingo” and the name XAUT0 sounding like a robot sneeze. Emojis like 🤖💸 would fit here. The quote from USDT0 can be introduced with a snarky comment about corporate jargon. The part about 7,300 tokens circulating could be compared to Monopoly money with a wink. Alex Tapscott’s quote can be paraphrased with a humorous analogy about gold being the “Brad Pitt of investments.” When discussing PAX Gold and Tether Gold’s gains, liken their growth to a “yard sale” but with more charts. The image caption could be a joke about the chart looking like a “rollercoaster” with emojis. Mentioning SEC Chair Paul Atkins, maybe quip about regulators finally noticing the trend, and end with a sarcastic note on transparency. Throughout, ensure all images are retained, avoid tags, no colors, and keep the HTML structure. Check for humor and sarcasm in each paragraph, sprinkle relevant emojis, and make sure the title is in and not as a header. Need to maintain the original data but present it with Sedaris’s signature wit and a slightly tongue-in-cheek tone.End of Thought (14.24s) Gold’s Going Digital, and It’s as Confusing as a Tax Audit 🧾✨

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Gold-linked digital assets are skyrocketing faster than my aunt’s blood pressure when she hears the word “NFT.” The shiny stuff’s now $4,370 per ounce, so naturally, Wall Street’s like, “Let’s slap a blockchain on it and call it ‘innovation.’”

Turns out, investors love the idea of owning gold without, you know, actually owning gold. It’s like buying a gym membership for your wallet-feels responsible, but you never use it. Tokenized gold promises stability, transparency, and “easy transfer,” which is code for “we’ll handle the pesky physics of atoms for you.”

Tether Launches XAUT0: Because Why Should Bitcoin Have All the Fun?

The tokenized gold market’s ballooned to $3.4 billion this year-up from “meh” to “hold my beer” levels. Tether, ever the party crasher, rolled out XAUT0, a gold token that’s basically a digital IOU for a sliver of a gold bar guarded by a vault so audited it’s basically a CPA’s dream. 🏛️🔐

Launched October 15 on Solana’s “Legacy Mesh” (sounds like a skincare product), XAUT0 now lives on the blockchain, where it mingles with USDT and other crypto-bling. Each token represents a “fraction of a troy ounce” of gold, which is fancy talk for “not enough to impress anyone at a dinner party.”

“The Legacy Mesh and XAUt0 are live on @solana.

The largest stablecoin and the most trusted store of value, enabling internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications on one of the largest blockchains in the world.

Your USDT and XAUt, now on Solana.”

– USDT0 (@USDT0_to) October 15, 2025 (probably written by a robot who’s never seen actual gold)

Over 7,300 XAUT0 tokens are circulating, processing $25 billion in “bridge volume.” Not sure what that means, but it sounds important. 🤷♂️💸

“Gold-backed tokens are the Beyoncé of tokenized assets-unstoppable and always late to the party,” said Alex Tapscott, CEO of CMCC Global Capital Markets, probably while sipping a $20 smoothie.

Daily trading in tokenized gold now tops $600 million, which is roughly the GDP of a small island nation. Coincidence? You decide.

Surging Prices and Existential Crises

Analysts say tokenized gold is the love child of traditional finance and digital chaos. Unlike physical gold, which requires storage and existential dread, these tokens “settle instantly.” Just like Venmo, but with more jargon. 💬📊

“Gold has a 5,000-year track record as a store of value,” claimed Alex Melikhov of BrettonWoods Labs. “Tokenization brings that reliability into a verifiable digital format.”

– Said no one ever to a goldbug, but here we are.

PAX Gold (PAXG) and Tether Gold (XAUT) are up 65% and 63% YoY, respectively. Combined, they’re worth $3.0 billion, which could buy you roughly 680,000 average American homes-or one Jeff Bezos yacht. 🏡🛥️

Average daily trading for PAXG doubled to $300 million. Institutions love it because nothing says “sophisticated” like owning digital gold instead of, say, actual art or a functional healthcare plan. 🖼️🏥

Even regulators are tiptoeing in. SEC Chair Paul Atkins declared, “If it can be tokenized, it should be tokenized,” which sounds like a dad trying to sound hip at a middle school dance. 🕺🕺

Transparency? Still a “priority,” which in bureaucratic speak means “we’ll get to it after lunch.”

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