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Tether Debuts 'Scudo' Unit to Simplify XAUT Micro-Transactions

Rising gold prices pushed Tether to offer cleaner fractional pricing for everyday XAUT transfers.

Overview

  • Tether introduced Scudo as a new unit of account equal to one‑thousandth of a troy ounce, or 0.001 XAUT.
  • Users can send and receive whole or fractional Scudo amounts to avoid long decimal figures in small-value gold transfers.
  • Tether says backend support is live, with phased integrations to wallets and trading platforms to follow without changing existing balances.
  • The company states Scudo transactions will be converted automatically to gold-weight equivalents and do not alter XAUT’s underlying structure.
  • Tether compares Scudo to Bitcoin’s satoshi and says XAUT remains the largest gold-backed token by market size and liquidity, with tokenized gold near $4.3 billion.