World Gold Council latest report: The digital gold market has reached a scale of US$45 billion to US$55 billion.

PANews October 20 news: The World Gold Council has released the "Digital Gold Market Opportunity Report." The report shows that the digital gold market is currently valued at $45 billion to $55 billion. Digital gold converts responsibly sourced physical gold into tradable digital "standard gold units," used to support a range of products and services such as tokenization, vaulted gold, and collateral, without being constrained by the properties of physical bars or their storage locations. The report's five-year baseline scenario forecast shows that the digital gold market will grow at an average annual rate of about 27%, reaching a market size of $160 billion to $170 billion by 2031. The report notes that the physical gold investment market is worth about $13 trillion, but digital gold, including vaulted digital gold and tokenized gold, currently accounts for less than 1% of the global physical gold market. Cumulative spot trading volume of tokenized gold reached $90 billion in the first quarter of 2026, exceeding the trading volume for all of 2025.