Tether Gold Holdings Rise 9.5% as Price Falls
Tether Gold (XAUt)
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Eugene Serbin
bitcoinethereumnews.com reports that Tether Gold (XAU₮) holdings increased by 9.5% during the second quarter of 2026. This growth occurred while the price of gold dropped 14.1% over the same period. By the end of Q2, the tokens represented 707,747.139 fine troy ounces of physical gold.
Each token is fully backed 1:1 by physical gold stored in Swiss vaults. The total market value of these reserves stood at $2.837 billion as of June 30, 2026. Investors bought 53,225 additional XAU₮ tokens during the quarter.
This added 1.66 tonnes of gold to token holders’ ownership. Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, stated that customers continued to accumulate XAU₮ despite the sharpest quarterly correction in 13 years. Tether acquired 27.1 tonnes of gold in the first half of 2026. The company announced plans to wind down its Alloy platform by September 17, 2026.
How the market reacted
Whalio's own Binance spot order flow for XAUt, measured when this story was written up on 3 September 2026. Not the outlet's figures.
XAUt is currently trading at $4,384.96 on Binance spot markets. Short-term buying pressure is evident, with buy ratios of 54.9% over the last hour and 56.4% over the last four hours. This contrasts with a 42.4% buy ratio over the past 24 hours, indicating that recent activity is more bullish than the daily average. Positive volume deltas of $26,577 and $155,078 in the 1h and 4h windows suggest active accumulation in the immediate term. However, the 24-hour volume delta of -$5,972,964 and a CVD of -$6,358,161 show that net selling has dominated the broader daily timeframe. The market has seen net buying for only 8 of the last 24 hours.
The latest daily buy ratio of 64.6% sits at the 98th percentile of the last 204 days, against a median of 48.5% - among the strongest buying days it has had.
Was that an ordinary day?
The same Binance spot measurements for XAUt, averaged over the days leading up to the story.
The current trading activity follows a week where the average buy ratio was 47.9%. Today's 24-hour buy ratio of 42.4% is 5.4 percentage points lower than that weekly average. Trading volume is currently 1.50 times the average level, indicating heightened activity compared to typical days. Over the preceding eight days, the price changed by -4.9%. The total volume delta for that week was -$12,492,327, showing sustained outflow pressure leading into this period.