A partnership between decentralized finance (DeFi) platform MELD and Tingo Network, Nigeria\u2019s largest mobile network, is going to lead to the launch of a new gold-backed stablecoin on top of the Cardano network.<\/p>\n
According to City A.M., during its crypto summit chairman Ken Olling announced the partnership, which will also include Ubuntu Tribe, an ethical crypto company that tokenizes natural resources.<\/p>\n
During the summit Olling said:<\/p>\n
Our goal here is simplicity and clarity. Gold will be stored in a vault, tokenized and then fractionalised and divided so we can sell it.<\/p>\n
Per his words it\u2019s a simple but powerful idea because \u201cyou can count it.\u201d The executive pointed to gold\u2019s stable value as proof a tokenized version of the precious metal would be good. As part of the partnership, City A.M. reports, Tingo\u2019s nine million users will gain access to MELD\u2019s crypto services through their phones.<\/p>\n
MELD a decentralized finance banking protocol that allows users to lend and borrow their cryptoassets and fiat currencies, and stake their MELD tokens. It\u2019s built on top of the Cardano blockchain, which only recently introduced smart contracts to its network.<\/p>\n
There are notably other gold-backed stablecoins in circulation on top of other blockchains. In March of last year Tether Gold (XAU) became the leading gold-backed crypto by market capitalization,\u00a0 but it has since been surpassed by Paxos Gold (PAXG).<\/p>\n
As recently reported, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has revealed he believes the infrastructure on the cryptocurrency\u2019s blockchain will be good enough to \u201crun a nation-state\u201d in the future as he sees Cardano offering a solution to many of the governance issues that affect the world today.<\/p>\n