Tether Gold Just Rewrote How Companies Pay Dividends
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Tether Gold (XAU₮) powers the world’s first tokenized gold dividend by a public company. Here’s what Elemental Royalty’s move means for crypto and gold markets. Tether Gold just made history. On February 17, 2026, Tether announced that Elemental Royalty Corporation would offer shareholders dividends payable in XAU₮. No gold company has done this before. Not one. According to @tether on X, Tether Gold (XAU₮) has enabled the first-ever gold dividend distribution by any publicly listed gold company globally. The post confirmed Elemental Royalty Corporation as the company behind the milestone, giving shareholders a new choice in how they collect returns. The Gold Company That Did What No One Else Would Elemental Royalty Corporation is a publicly traded gold royalty firm. Shareholders now have the option to elect dividends denominated in XAU₮ instead of traditional cash. Each XAU₮ token holds one troy fine ounce of physical gold. The token runs on both Ethereum as an ERC-20 and on the TRON blockchain as TRC20. The allocated gold tied to each token carries a unique serial number, confirmed purity, and verified weight. It’s redeemable in physical gold. So shareholders aren’t getting a paper promise, they’re getting a blockchain-confirmed claim on real, vaulted gold. This isn’t just a crypto story. It’s a corporate finance story. Gold royalty companies have long sat between miners and investors, collecting royalties and passing value back as dividends. Now that the pipeline runs through blockchain rails. You might also like: 65% of CEX Stablecoins Sit on Binance, Says CryptoQuant Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, addressed the significance directly. As stated in the official Tether announcement, Ardoino noted that gold has always been among the most trusted stores of value, yet fitting it into modern financial distribution has been difficult. Using XAU₮ for shareholder dividends, he said, changes that dynamic…
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