Tokenized commodities look beyond gold as lending and oil open new markets
News Source : CoinDesk
News Summary
- Paxos Labs, Theo and Energy Substantiation execs see growth coming from putting physical assets to work.
- Tokenized commodities’ market capitalization reached $5.55 billion at the end of March 2026.
- Gold-backed tokens from Paxos and Tether accounted for almost 90% of that growth.
- It could be worth tens of billions within five years and more than $100 billion within a decade, says Theo CEO Iggy Ioppe, who expects tokenization to become part of ordinary commodity settlement and financing.
The big proposition is access, cofounder Bhau Kotecha told CoinDesk in an interview. Gold lending has historically required scale and relationships unavailable to many investors, he said.
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