One of the main factors driving the expansion of real-world assets is tokenized gold. The market capitalization of tokenized gold increased by 177% in 2025, from approximately $1.6 billion to $4.4 billion, and accounted for nearly 25% of net inflows into the RWA industry.
As demand for verifiable, asset-backed securities that can travel across digital rails increases, the volume of tokenized gold transactions reached approximately $178 billion. This scale raises auditability, custody norms, and redemption clarity from product features to due diligence obligations for wealth platforms and asset managers.
The Raging Bull Awards, which will take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on February 13, 2026, have Ubuntu Tribe as a gold sponsor. Now in their third decade, the awards honor managers of collective investment plans in both risk-adjusted and performance-based categories.
For South African investors coping with ongoing inflation and rand instability, gold continues to be a default hedge. Ubuntu Tribe directly presents digital, physically backed gold to fund managers and allocators, the audience that determines how local capital flows into long-term repositories of value, by supporting the Raging Bull Awards.
The goal of Ubuntu Tribe’s founding was to increase access to assets that can increase wealth through controlled digital ownership. Although purchasing gold has never been easy, it is one of the most universally trusted stores of value. For many years, cross-border friction, high minimums, and complex custody arrangements have prevented smaller investors from participating. The physical gold underpinning each holding is kept in insured, audited vaults in strategic locations across the world, and ownership begins at milligram units. Ubuntu Tribe eliminates these obstacles.
Its main product, GIFT Gold, permits fractional ownership at small amounts. One GIFT (Gold International Fungible Token) is equivalent to one milligram, which is a digital certificate of ownership backed 1:1 by real gold. Held in insured, audited vaults in Stuttgart, Copenhagen, Dubai, and Zurich, the gold is 999.5 pure and complies with LBMA standards.
A live proof-of-reserves display and a track-and-trace layer that supports backing and provenance review are two ways that the solution incorporates verification. Reserve and audit records are available to the general public.
As tokenized gold develops, purchasers are sifting through goods based on verifiable features including audited reserves, open custody chains, and enforceable redemption terms. Holders of GIFT Gold can exchange tokens for actual gold starting at 10 grams, and reputable logistics partners will handle guaranteed delivery.
In addition to holding, GIFT Gold facilitates cross-border transfers, remittances, savings, and inflation protection, as well as over-the-counter (OTC) or higher-value transactions where paperwork and settlement certainty are important.
Mamadou Kwidjim Toure, the founder and CEO of Ubuntu Tribe, will be leading the group’s attendance at the Raging Bull Awards. In order to increase access to international capital in Africa, he established Ubuntu Group in 2015. Later, he created Ubuntu Tribe, which uses regulated tokenized assets to convert tangible value into inclusive digital ownership.
Forbes has listed Toure as one of Africa’s Top 10 Most Influential Men. He has managed transactions totaling over $25 billion in African mining, technology, and infrastructure over his more than 20 years of expertise at firms including IBM, KPMG, and BNP Paribas. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Harvard Kennedy School graduate.
According to Toure, “gold has always been a trust asset, and trust is the core of finance.” “The expectation of proof is evolving. Transparency in delivery, custody, and backing is something that investors are demanding more and more. Even for tiny denominations, controlled, digital gold ownership makes such verification simpler to get.
Ubuntu Tribe will work with South Africa’s investment sector on custody, audits, redemption procedures, and delivery assurance for digital gold through its sponsorship of the Raging Bull Awards.
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