🎙️ Ep. 785 World Gold Council | The Future of Tokenized Gold (feat. Mike Oswin)

For episode 785 of the BlockHash Podcast, host Brandon Zemp is joined by Mike Oswin, Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation at the World Gold Council, to discuss the future of gold in an increasingly digital financial system. Throughout the episode, Brandon and Mike explore how blockchain technology and tokenization could transform the global gold market, the challenges of connecting physical gold ownership with digital assets, and the importance of transparency, custody, and trust in modernizing gold infrastructure.

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⏳ Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction

(2:05) Who is Mike?

(3:18) How do we make Gold digital?

(7:12) Building trust around digital Gold ownership

(12:19) Can Gold still compete as money in a digital world?

(14:31) Sumsub

(15:17) Does digital Gold need infrastructure?

(17:06) Gold and Agentic AI

(19:04) World Gold Council at Money2020

(20:32) World Gold Council website and contact

🎙 World Gold Council Links:

🔗 Website: https://www.gold.org/ 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeoswin/ 

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-gold-council/home/ 

🔗 Gold as a service: https://www.gold.org/gold-as-a-service 

🔗 Recently published digital gold market research: https://www.gold.org/goldhub/research/digital-gold-market-report 

📢 Disclaimer:

None of our content constitutes, nor is intended to act as financial advice. It’s important to always do your own research and due diligence before making any investment decision. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk.