A gold-backed cryptocurrency is a speculative digital asset whose value is backed up by the equivalent price in gold. Each gold-backed cryptocurrency defines a single token as having an equivalent worth of certain grams or troy ounces of gold, implying that this equivalent should be present in the company's or a trusted custodian's reserves/vaults as physical collateralized assets.

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