Crypto-friendly DBS Financial institution has introduced that it’ll start providing tokenized gold buying and selling for retail prospects within the second half of 2026.
DBS mentioned it plans to listing the product, known as DBS Bodily Gold Token, on its Digibank platform and can be contemplating making it out there on the DBS Digital Change (DDEx), which is tailor-made for accredited buyers and establishments.
The financial institution will tokenize, challenge, distribute and handle bodily gold tokens fully in-house, backed by dependable bank-grade infrastructure. Every token is backed by one gram of bodily gold, which DBS shops in a devoted vault in Singapore, the financial institution mentioned in an announcement.
This transfer builds on the rising development in the direction of blockchain-based variations of real-world property (RWA). The scale of bodily gold holdings within the portfolios of DBS’ excessive internet value shoppers has greater than doubled up to now three years.
In 2025, DBS tokenized structured bonds on Ethereum and listed Franklin Templeton’s tokenized cash market fund token, sgBENJI, alongside Ripple’s RLUSD dollar-pegged stablecoin.
“Whereas our retail buyers had been in a position to buy gold funds, entry to bodily gold was primarily solely out there to institutional and accredited buyers,” mentioned James Tan, head of funding merchandise and advisory at DBS. “DBS has been providing bodily gold investing to high-net-worth shoppers since 2013 and is now leveraging tokenization to increase entry and allow extra retail shoppers to put money into gold in a safe and significant means.”
