World Gold Council report estimates the digital-gold market at $45–55bln.
Digital gold converts verified physical gold into tradable digital standard
units to support tokenization, custodial products and collateral, without
constraints of bar form or storage location. A five-year baseline scenario
projects roughly 27% annualised growth to $160–170bln by 2031. The physical gold
investment market is about $13tln; digital forms (vault-based digital gold and
tokenized gold) currently represent under 1% of that market. Tokenized-gold
cumulative spot trading volume in Q1 2026 reached $90bln, exceeding full-year
2025 volume.
