Precious Metals Data Provider Kitco to Issue Gold-Backed Stablecoin

Kitco, a Canada-based provider of news and data on gold and other precious metals, is getting into the stablecoin game.

Kitco Gold (KGLD) will be fully backed by physical gold held in Kitco’s DirectReserve vaults and will track the real-time market value of the yellow metal, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk on Wednesday.

Precious Metals Data Provider Kitco to Issue Gold-Backed Stablecoin