RE: VGOLD-CORE30 Apr 2026 21:34
It isn't that it can't work, it can in theory. But in practice I don't see how it does. A secondary market is vital for this to succeed and I don't see how that is achieved with it only being listed on Vlrm markets.
For all the talk of attracting IIs by giving them "free" VGOLD-CORE tokens well those tokens need to be paid for by someone and the IIs will want to convert them to cash at some point. If I am an institutional investor on the secondary market why would I sign up to Vlrm markets to buy VGOLD-CORE when I can buy tether gold on multiple major established exchanges? Tether gold is tradable on multiple major exchanges, VGOLD-CORE is not. Tether gold is backed by gold already out of the ground and that can be converted for actual gold bullion when a certain threshold is met, VGOLD-CORE is backed by gold that is still in the ground yet they both trade at the same price. What is it about VGOLD -CORE that is attractive to an II that they cannot get from tether gold?
Without the liquidity of a secondary market IIs will not buy in the initial offering. If they do because they are being given many millions in "free" tokens then when the gold is out the ground and they are wanting to sell the tokens QGP will need to sell that gold and pay out those "free" tokens from their own profit. That's on top of having to pay VLRM many many millions in the freezer tokens given to them. Without the huge uptake in an initial offering then the funding is not in place to mine the gold and the whole operation folds.