tether

Another important development has emerged in the crypto industry. Leading company Tether has announced that it is making its Tether Gold (XAU₮) more useful. For this purpose, the company has partnered with the crypto lending platform Ledn.
After this update, users will not only be able to buy and hold XAU₮, but in the future they will also be able to use it as collateral to obtain loans. That is, if someone has tokenized gold, they can get Stablecoins against it without selling it.

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