A planned second phase for GoldPool: tokenised gold holdings that can be bought, sold, and transferred continuously — turning a fixed-term pool position into a liquid asset.
Today, investing in a GoldPool pool means committing capital for the pool's term. Your money funds a specific parcel of GoldBod-licensed ASM gold, and returns are realised when that gold is assayed, smelted, and resold. It works — but your capital is not accessible until the pool completes.
The Exchange would change that. Each investor's gold holding would be represented as a token backed 1:1 by audited vault reserves. Rather than waiting for a pool to close, a holder could sell part of a position at any time to another participant, at a transparent price referenced to the XAU/USD spot rate.
The gold itself does not move. What changes is who owns it — and how quickly that ownership can transfer. Fractional units would also lower the entry point below the current $50 tier, since a buyer would no longer need to fund a whole pool allocation.
Both models are backed by the same physical gold and the same GoldBod-licensed procurement chain. The difference is liquidity and how the platform earns.
| Pool Investment — Live Today | Gold Exchange — Phase 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry point | $50 Entry · $500 Standard · $5,000 Premium tiers | Fractional — sub-$50 units, priced per gram |
| Liquidity | Capital committed until the pool completes its cycle | Continuous — sell part of a holding at any time |
| Pricing | Return realised at resale, after assay and smelting | Continuous mark-to-market against XAU/USD spot |
| What you hold | A share of a specific, identified pool | A transferable token backed 1:1 by vault reserves |
| Platform earns | 2% platform fee · $12/month vaulting | Transaction fee · bid-ask spread · custody fee |
| Regulatory basis | SEC Crowdfunding Guidelines 2024 · GoldBod Act 1140 | Requires VASP Act 1154 classification — unresolved |
| Status | Operating | Concept — not offered |
Five steps, from deposit to withdrawal. The sandbox at the end of this page lets you run the whole sequence with simulated funds.
Stated plainly, because investors ask. Two of these three streams operate today; the spread only becomes relevant if the Exchange launches.
The Exchange is not blocked by engineering. It is blocked by legal classification. Ghana's virtual asset regime is new, and a gold-backed transferable token has no settled treatment under it. We will not launch ahead of that clarity.
Run the full deposit → tokenise → trade → withdraw sequence with simulated funds. No account, no real money.
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