CommodityLow Volatility

Trade Synthetic XAU

Gold exposure on-chain, with no vault and nothing to deliver.

Trading Hours

24/7

Collateral

cUSDC

Holding cost

No funding rate

Chain

Solana

About Gold

Gold does something most assets in a crypto portfolio don't: it often rises on the days everything else falls. That is the entire case for holding it. Synthetic exposure gets you the price without a vault, a delivery schedule or a custodian, and the token is usable as collateral like anything else on Solana.

How to trade XAU here

1

Mint L/S Tokens

Deposit stablecoins to receive paired XAU-L and XAU-S tokens.

2

Pick a side

Sell the leg you don't want. Keep L to be long, S to be short.

3

Take it elsewhere

Post it as collateral on a lending market, or trade it on any Solana DEX.

When you can trade it

24/7 on Continuum (vs. COMEX limited hours)

Gold never really sleeps: London sets a benchmark price twice a day, Asian demand shows up while New York is dark, and every geopolitical shock over a weekend arrives as a Monday gap. COMEX hours are a formality rather than the market.

What people do with XAU

Inflation hedge
Portfolio diversification
Flight to safety trades

The two legs

XAU-L (Long Token)

Rises when Gold does. Hold it as long as you like: there is no funding and no carry on the long leg.

XAU-S (Short Token)

Rises when Gold falls, which is what makes it a hedge. The short leg carries a volatility decay, so it is not free to hold.

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The XAU book is live. Long and short quotes, at whatever hour suits you.