Learn how Dai and PAX Gold differ in their key features, market performance, and community adoption, so you can decide which cryptocurrency is best for your investment strategy.
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MakerDAO is an emblematic project of decentralized finance (DeFi) on Ethereum. The protocol is designed to issue and manage DAI, a decentralized stablecoin pegged to the US dollar. This is done through a combination of mechanisms, including a system that allows users to deposit collateral assets in order to borrow a certain amount of DAI. MakerDAO also has MKR, a governance token used to vote on various aspects of the protocol, including risk management strategies or the tokens accepted as collateral.
PAX Gold (PAXG) is an asset-backed token where one token should represent one fine troy ounce of a London Good Delivery gold bar, stored in professional vault facilities. Anyone who owns PAXG has ownership rights to that gold under the custody of Paxos Trust Company. Since PAXG represents physical gold, its value is tied directly to the real-time market value of that physical gold.
PAXG gives customers the benefits of actual physical ownership of specific gold bars with the speed and mobility of a digital asset. Customers are able to have fractional ownership of physical bars. On the Paxos platform, customers can convert their tokens to allocated gold, unallocated gold, or fiat currency (and vice versa) quickly and efficiently, reducing their exposure to settlement risk. PAXG is also available for trading on Paxos’ itBit exchange. PAXG will also be available on other crypto-asset exchanges, wallets, lending platforms and elsewhere within the crypto ecosystem.
At any time, PAXG holders can lookup the serial number, value and physical characteristics of their vaulted gold just by entering their Ethereum wallet address on the PAXG lookup tool on Paxos.com/paxgold.