BTCC Tokenized Gold Trading Volume Hits $5.72B in 2025 as Demand Surges

At the end of the 2025, the yearly tokenized gold trading volume for BTCC, the world’s longest-running cryptocurrency exchange, reached $5.72 billion. This represents a significant increase over the previous year’s total of $5 billion. In the fourth quarter alone, over half of the total volume for the year was accounted for by gold-backed trading products on-chain. This statistic demonstrates a strong increase in demand for these products.

As a result of rising market volatility and the emergence of gold as a macro hedge, BTCC saw its quarterly volumes reach $2.74 billion, which is an increase of 809% compared to the first quarter of 2025.

“The 809% surge from Q1 to Q4 reflects gold’s rally driven by geopolitical tensions and policy uncertainty,” said Marcus Chen, Product Manager at BTCC Exchange. “As gold prices hit record highs, our tokenized products give our users direct access to trade precious metals with cryptocurrency on the BTCC platform.”

The following three USDT-margined perpetual futures contracts related to gold are presently available from BTCC:

• GOLDUSDT: Tracks the spot price of gold and is designed for users seeking direct exposure to price movements.
• PAXGUSDT: Based on Paxos’ NYDFS-regulated PAX Gold token, each unit represents one troy ounce of physical gold.
• XAUTUSDT: Linked to Tether Gold (XAUT), backed by physical gold and transferable on-chain for DeFi use cases.

Within the larger futures trading ecosystem established by BTCC, a substantial change occurred as a result of the increase in gold product activity. According to estimates, gold contributed for around 10.7% of the entire tokenized futures volume on the exchange in 2025, which was $53.1 billion. Compared to other asset classes on the platform, tokenized gold had the most rapid growth, with a growth rate that was approximately eight times higher from the first quarter to the fourth quarter.

Only in the fourth quarter, there was a 130% rise in the volume of gold products compared to the previous quarter. This coincided with the rising interest in real-world asset (RWA) tokenization as well as increases in institutional interest.

“Gold is just the beginning,” added Marcus. “We’re actively working on expanding into other commodities and traditional finance products. With what we’ve built here, BTCC is ready to bring tokenization to a much wider range of assets and make them accessible to traders everywhere.”

The data was first made public in the Growth Report for the fourth quarter of 2025 that was released by BTCC. This report shows changing demand patterns and user adoption trends throughout its worldwide trading platform.