Kinesis
Ethereum
Each KAU is backed by one gram of fine gold, fully allocated and insured across Kinesis' global vaulting network. Kinesis shares transaction-fee revenue with holders and minters, adding a usage-based yield component atop the metal.
Gram-denominated vaulted gold with usage-based yield sharing.
Prism analyst note
KAU's gram denomination and fee-sharing 'yield on gold' set it apart from the pure-storage tokens, at the cost of platform dependence: liquidity concentrates on Kinesis' own exchange rather than open DEXs. Suits savers who want spendable, yield-touched bullion; less suited to DeFi composability or institutional block trading.
Generated from issuer disclosures and reviewed against the sources listed below. Not investment advice.
Structure & compliance
- Underlying
- Fine gold, 1g per token, fully allocated
- Legal structure
- Allocated bullion title; Kinesis monetary system rules
- Jurisdiction
- Cayman Islands
- Custodian
- Kinesis vault network (ABX infrastructure), fully insured
- Administrator
- Kinesis
- Oracle / NAV source
- Kinesis exchange pricing vs. spot
- Reserve information
- Bi-annual third-party bullion audits; fully allocated and insured.
- Transfer restrictions
- KYC required on the Kinesis platform.
- Investor eligibility
- Retail investors (KYC)
- KYC required
- Yes
- Minimum investment
- $50.00
- Launched
- Nov 1, 2019
Reserve verification
This issuer pays an independent oracle network to attest its reserves on-chain, the strongest form of reserve evidence in tokenized RWA.
Chainlink KAU Reserves: read the feed yourself →Contracts & on-chain data
Addresses shown only where independently confirmed against explorers and issuer documentation. Holder and transfer analytics are available via the linked explorers. 100K+
Documents & disclosures
Frequently asked
Where does the yield come from?+
A share of Kinesis network transaction fees is distributed monthly to holders, usage-based, not lending-based.
