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OCBC, Lion Global Investors, DigiFT

OCBC and its asset management arm, Lion Global Investors, together with digital asset exchange DigiFT, have launched the OCBC-LionGlobal Physical Gold Fund Token. 

This is, OCBC said in a statement, Southeast Asia’s first tokenized physical gold fund available on a public blockchain. GOLDX will be issued on both the Ethereum and Solana blockchains.

The tokenized form of such a fund comes at a time when gold, given its traditional safe-haven status, is seen as profiting from geopolitical volatility and sticky inflation in a number of major economies, such as the US.

Through the DigiFT platform, institutional investors – including banks, hedge funds and asset managers, as well as corporate accredited investors â€“ will be able to subscribe to the GOLDX token using stablecoins or fiat currencies. The GOLDX token will then be delivered directly to investors’ blockchain wallets and can subsequently be redeemed for stablecoin or fiat currencies.

All three organisations (OCBC, Lion Global Investors and DigiFT) are licensed and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

The underlying fund has $669.4 million ($525.9 million) in assets under management as at 16 April 2026, four months after its launch.

OCBC originated and led the structuring of the GOLDX token’s issuance, shaping the product architecture and commercial framework. The bank worked with DigiFT to enable the tokenization and digital distribution of the GOLDX token, while Lion Global Investors provided the investment framework and governance of the Underlying Fund.