Falcon Finance is widening its real-world asset strategy once again — this time by bringing tokenized gold into its staking ecosystem. The protocol has introduced a new XAUT Vault, giving users a way to earn structured yield while keeping full exposure to one of humanity’s most time-tested stores of value. It’s another sign of how quickly real-world assets are being absorbed into on-chain liquidity systems.
Falcon Rolls Out Its XAUT Yield Vault
In a reveal shared with Bitcoin.com News, Falcon confirmed that users can now stake Tether Gold (XAUT) for a 180-day period and earn between 3% and 5% APR, distributed weekly in USDf, the platform’s synthetic dollar stablecoin.
With XAUT joining other supported assets like ESPORTS, VELVET and the governance token FF, Falcon underscored that its long-term plan remains focused on non-inflationary, asset-backed reward structures, rather than the high-emissions models many protocols still rely on.
“Gold has been a trusted form of collateral for centuries,” said Artem Tolkachev, Falcon’s Head of RWA. He noted that this vault simplifies yield generation for users by removing the need to actively manage collateral. The idea is to design strategies that fit different types of investors, not just yield chasers.
Tokenized gold is quickly becoming a major RWA category. Together, Tether’s XAUT and Paxos’s PAXG now represent more than $3 billion in market value, based on data from rwa.xyz. Falcon’s vault setup aims to mirror fixed-income–style predictability — providing steady USDf payouts without inflating supply through extra token minting.
Falcon’s Bigger RWA Vision Comes Into Focus
This launch sits within Falcon’s growing roadmap for regulated real-world assets.
The platform already incorporates tokenized equities, government debt, corporate credit instruments and now gold into its global collateral framework. Just recently, Falcon expanded USDf backing by adding Mexican government bonds, further diversifying its balance sheet.
The introduction of gold highlights how fast RWA innovation is accelerating. Whether these experiments become permanent pillars of decentralized finance or fade like other short-lived crypto narratives is still uncertain. What is clear is that competition in this sector is heating up. Protocols are racing to position themselves at the front of what could be the next long-lasting yield trend.
For now, interest is rising, developers are building, and demand is slowly catching fire — the kind of early-stage conditions that often shape the future of entire market segments.
