In the current market environment, “Real-World Assets” (RWA, real-world assets) are rapidly rising.As Trump is confirmed to be the next president of the United States, he has begun to advocate and attach importance to crypto assets. Traditional financial giants such as Citigroup, BlackRock, Fidelity and JP Morgan Chase have also stepped in.RWA narratives have seen the second-largest growth so far this year, up 117%, behind only Meme, according to Dune Analytics. RWA has not only become one of the important narratives of the bull market, but has also become a bridge linking the crypto market with mainstream finance, introducing traditional funds into the crypto market. RWA has many different types of tokenization (both tangible and intangible assets) such as commercial real estate, bonds, cars, and almost any asset that stores value can be tokenized.
There are a wide variety of gold products available for purchase, and there are generally three traditional ways to invest in gold: buying physical gold, investing in gold ETFs, and buying shares in gold mining companies. Of course, each approach has its pros and cons, such as the storage issues of physical gold, the management fees and indirect ownership issues of gold ETFs, and the dependence of gold mining company shares on the company’s performance. These factors often make it cumbersome for people who want to buy, hold and sell gold.
STAU successfully introduced gold into the world of WEB 3.
What is the STAU Project?
The STAU project is initiated by the globally renowned gold institution, Starry Gold Group. It aims to promote the tokenization of gold through Web3 technology, creating a secure, compliant, and highly liquid digital gold investment and trading market. STAU converts traditional gold value into digital assets, integrating DeFi mechanisms to provide diversified financial products and investment strategies, including digital gold staking and loans.
Starry Gold Group, with its strengths in gold reserve management, trading networks, and risk control, provides a solid foundation for the STAU project, ensuring platform stability and credibility. Through STAU’s three-token system, investors can efficiently and cost-effectively diversify their portfolios. By lowering user entry barriers and enhancing market liquidity and trading efficiency, STAU overcomes the limitations of traditional gold markets, opening a new field for global users in digital gold investment.
1. Why STAU?
2. In the context of rapid changes in the global financial market, gold, as a traditional stable asset, is undergoing a new digital transformation. The STAU project emerges to create a bridge between traditional gold and digital assets, leveraging Starry Gold Group’s extensive experience in the gold industry and utilizing Web3 technology to serve global users. Here are four key reasons to choose STAU:
Open up New Market Opportunities
The STAU project injects vitality into the traditional gold market, helping traditional gold investors seamlessly enter the booming Web3 space and share in the benefits brought by tokenization. Users can participate in liquidity pools or gold investments within the STAU ecosystem, enjoying stable returns from gold and earning additional rewards through staking, trading, and platform activities.
STAU simplifies the process of purchasing and storing gold through tokenization, allowing users to invest without purchasing physical gold bars. It supports transactions in multiple currencies and stablecoins, lowering the entry barrier. For users who are not fully integrated into traditional financial systems (such as regions without bank accounts), STAU provides a convenient and efficient way to invest in gold, helping users globally participate in the gold market.
STAU simplifies the gold purchase and storage process through gold tokenization. It can be invested without purchasing a whole piece of physical gold. It supports multiple currencies and stable currency transactions, lowering the threshold for participation. For user groups that have not been fully integrated into the traditional financial system (such as areas without bank accounts), STAU provides a convenient and efficient gold investment method to help global users easily participate in the gold market.
– Enhance Trading Transparency
The STAU project offers users stable assets pegged to gold through tokenization, creating a direct link between digital assets and physical gold to ensure asset stability and value preservation. By converting CHOS into S-Point, users can purchase physical gold on the Starry Gold platform, simplifying the process of converting digital assets into physical assets.
The project is based on the Polygon blockchain, providing an efficient, low-fee trading environment that supports the global liquidity of STAU and CHOS tokens. The transparency of smart contracts and their self-executing nature further enhances the security and fairness of gold transactions.
– Offer Diversified Product Features
The STAU project not only supports traditional gold investments but also allows for gold assets to be used as collateral for DeFi or CeFi trading, improving the liquidity of gold assets. Additionally, STAU supports NFTs and token conversions, offering investors more diverse application scenarios and investment strategies.
– Provide Professional Operations and Regulatory Compliance
STAU is initiated and supported by Starry Gold Group, an authoritative institution with years of experience in the gold industry, including precious metal manufacturing, gold mining, and sales. With its deep industry background and operational expertise, Starry Gold ensures the stability and professionalism of the STAU project.
At the same time, STAU strictly adheres to global and local financial regulatory requirements, undergoing regular reserve audits to ensure each CHOS token is fully backed by physical gold, offering users transparent and reliable investment protection.
STAU is not just a digital revolution in the gold market but also a bridge between traditional and future finance, providing global users with a stable, secure, and promising investment option. Choosing STAU means embracing the new era of the gold market!
– STAU Token Ecosystem
The STAU project aligns with the revolutionary leap of RWA tokenization, combining the reliability of blockchain technology with the eternal value of gold. It integrates three tokens (CHOS, STAU, and S-Point) to establish an efficient ecosystem. CHOS is a digital asset pegged to the value of 1 gram of gold, reflecting both the stability of gold and the liquidity of digital assets. It can be exchanged for S-Point on the Starry Gold platform to purchase physical gold. STAU is the functional token within the ecosystem, supporting liquidity, governance participation, and CHOS conversion, giving users an important role in the ecosystem’s development and decision-making.
– CHOS Token
CHOS is a digital asset pegged to the value of 1 gram of gold, designed to provide users with the stability of holding gold in digital form. As a digital asset, CHOS offers higher liquidity and accessibility.
1.Represents the value of gold:CHOS allows users to hold gold’s stable value in a digital format, addressing the liquidity and high transaction costs of traditional gold trading.
2.Purchase of physical gold:Users can exchange CHOS for S-Point on the Starry Gold platform, and then use S-Point to purchase physical gold.
– STAU Token
STAU is the governance token of the STAU ecosystem, primarily used to facilitate liquidity and support governance participation. As a liquidity tool, STAU can be exchanged for CHOS, allowing users to trade and participate in various activities within the ecosystem.
Liquidity support and trading facilitation:STAU provides liquidity, enabling users to conveniently exchange STAU for CHOS and participate in trades and operations on the platform.
Governance function:STAU holders participate in the platform’s governance decisions, driving improvements and the development of the ecosystem.
S-Point – The Token for Purchasing Physical Gold
S-Point is the point system within the Starry Gold platform, specifically used for purchasing physical gold. S-Point is pegged to the US Dollar, ensuring accurate value when users purchase gold.
1.Converting digital assets into physical assets:Users can exchange CHOS for S-Point and then use S-Point to purchase physical gold on the Starry Gold platform.
2.Purchasing physical gold:Users can use S-Point to buy gold at reasonable prices on the Starry Gold platform, providing a convenient and secure way to convert digital assets into actual gold ownership.
– Gold Purchase Process
The token structure of the STAU project is carefully designed to allow users to smoothly convert digital assets into physical gold. The transaction process is as follows:
1.Exchange STAU for CHOS:Users first exchange STAU for CHOS to obtain a digital asset pegged to the value of gold.
2.Exchange CHOS for S-Point:Next, users can exchange CHOS for S-Point, ensuring the value of their purchase is accurate when using S-Point, which is pegged to the US Dollar.
3.Use S-Point to Purchase Physical Gold:Finally, users can use S-Point on the Starry Gold platform to purchase physical gold at discounted prices, converting their digital assets into actual gold assets.
– Exchange Purchase Process
Users can register and complete verification on BitMart (bitmart.com), deposit USDT, purchase STAU tokens, exchange them for CHOS, and then convert them to S-Point. Finally, they can use S-Point to purchase products on the Starry Gold marketplace (starrygold.com).
4、What is the Starry Gold Platform?
The Starry Gold platform is an online platform built on the Polygon blockchain mainnet, supporting both Web and App interfaces. Leveraging the strong distribution capabilities of Starry Gold Group, the platform initially offers a variety of precious metal products. In the future, services will expand to include staking systems, a gold market, mortgage systems, and digital asset funds/options, among others.
5、DEFI Diversified Product Features and Strategies
STAU aims to develop a secure and comprehensive tokenized ecosystem, with a focus on continuously expanding and diversifying financial products based on Web3 technology. Below are some of the upcoming product features:
– Liquidity Provision
A DeFi liquidity pool will be created by depositing STAU tokens and CHOS to increase market liquidity. Users can earn profits by providing assets and receive automated rewards through smart contracts.
– Mortgage Loans
The DeFi lending product suite will be expanded, allowing users to pledge CHOS as collateral, with options for both floating and fixed interest rates. This will offer stable loans backed by gold-supported assets, providing users with favorable loan terms.
– Staking and Deposits
STAU holders can stake assets to participate in ecosystem activities, while also earning interest by depositing CHOS, taking advantage of gold-backed deposit products. The platform features a well-designed staking mechanism to minimize the risk of fund losses caused by fluctuations in the gold market.
– Insurance Products
Based on STAU and CHOS, DeFi insurance products will be developed to protect user assets and enhance risk management capabilities, thereby improving system stability.
6.Target Audience
STAU leverages the strong resources of its group and market, developing diverse application scenarios with broad market appeal.
– Professional Institutions
Professional institutions require STAU tokens backed by gold to meet liquidity, scalability, transparency, and auditability standards. STAU tokens comply with regulatory and reporting requirements while reducing counterparty risks associated with gold reserves, making them an efficient and reliable solution.
– Corporate CFOs
STAU tokens provide CFOs with an innovative alternative to traditional gold investment. The tokens offer high security, eliminating the need for physical gold management, and avoiding storage, insurance, and management fees, making them an economical and convenient option.
– Fund Managers
Fund managers can use STAU tokens as an economical and efficient alternative to gold-backed structured funds. These tokens combine the advantages of financial gold products with the security of physical gold, offering liquidity, accurate gold price tracking, and the ability to convert into investment-grade gold.
– Retail Investors
Retail investors value the convenience, security, and flexibility of STAU tokens, while also appreciating the benefits of other products within the ecosystem. Especially for Web3 community users, STAU provides a simplified and trustworthy investment avenue.
– Brokers and Liquidity Providers
STAU tokens fill the gap in the retail investor gold product market for brokers. Unlike traditional gold spot, futures, or CFD products, these tokens are backed by physical gold, have lower transaction and maintenance costs, and offer the unique advantages of digital gold.
7.The Institution Behind STAU—Starry Gold Group
Starry Gold Group is composed of a professional team with deep experience in precious metal manufacturing, sales, gold mining technology, blockchain technology, financial services, and the precious metals market. The company holds 11 patents, including 5 patents for gold mining technology and 6 patents for laser jewelry manufacturing, along with 48 design patents.
StarryCHO, the founder of Starry Gold Group, established the joint venture in 2020 with over 20 years of experience in the precious metals industry. During its operation, Starry focused on R&D, inventing six patents for precious metal manufacturing and registering five patents for gold mining. The company has received multiple honors, including the “INNO-Biz” certification from the Small and Medium Business Administration and the “Technological Innovation” Minister Award in 2023.
Starry Gold’s gold jewelry products are also widely recognized in international markets. The group has subsidiaries in South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan, and plans to expand further to the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia, the UAE, the EU, and Southeast Asia. Notably, in October 2022, the company’s products successfully launched at Costco’s South Korea branch and are now supplied to 19 Costco stores. Starry Group achieved significant commercial success by establishing 26 franchise stores in South Korea. As of June 2024, Starry Gold Group achieved sales of 48.5 billion KRW and won a $10 million export award during Korea’s 2024 Trade Day event.
As a globally competitive company with a core focus on gold business, Starry Gold Group sources gold directly from global markets, ensuring efficient distribution and stable supply chain management. This global network and distribution capability not only enhance its gold business market coverage but also provide important support for the STAU ecosystem, enabling the provision of reliable physical gold products and gold-backed digital assets, further strengthening the stability and attractiveness of the ecosystem.
8.Roadmap and Plan
Q3 2024
Initiate STAU project research
Conduct market and technical research on gold business tokenization
Q4 2024
Execute business plan and prepare whitepaper
Plan for the Starry Gold platform
Develop and test Polygon smart contracts
Launch governance token exchange
Q1 2025
Launch gold products
Participate in gold reserve reporting
Establish partnerships with quality brands and merchants
Iterate development of Starry Gold platform
Q2 2025
Launch DEFI functionality for gold products
Expand partnerships with quality brands and merchants
Continue iterative development of Starry Gold platform
Q3 2025
Launch additional exchanges
Develop independent wallet
Develop DEFI functionality for staking and lending
Q4 2025
Launch Starry Gold 2.0 version
Initiate DAO governance
Develop powerful APIs to integrate STAU into gold-backed digital asset banking platforms
Collaborate with financial institutions to create gold-backed savings accounts and investment products
Starting in 2026
Establish strategic alliances with global leading banks and financial institutions to expand influence and adoption of STAU products
Conclusion
The development of the RWA track not only introduces more liquidity to traditional financial markets, but also becomes a pioneer in the popularization of crypto assets. As a pioneer in the RWA track in Asia, STAU has launched the gold token STAU, which provides high-standard high-quality assets for the crypto market and also contributes to the development of the global RWA ecosystem.
Disclaimer: The information provided in this press release is not a solicitation for investment, nor is it intended as investment advice, financial advice, or trading advice. It is strongly recommended you practice due diligence, including consultation with a professional financial advisor, before investing in or trading cryptocurrency and securities.
