
Tether’s new dividend mechanism for XAUT allows shareholders to receive tokenized gold payouts, expanding blockchain utility in commodity investment and corporate distribution models.
Tether has introduced a dividend mechanism for Tether Gold (XAUT), enabling shareholders to receive tokenized gold instead of cash. Elemental Royalty, a public gold company partly owned by Tether, will pay approximately $0.12 per share quarterly from 2025, marking the first use of XAUT for corporate dividends. XAUT has a market capitalization of $2.55 billion, tying gold ownership to blockchain-based royalties and offering investors exposure to gold prices through digital settlement.