{"id":349899,"date":"2025-11-13T17:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=349899"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:52:25","slug":"digital-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/digital-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: SEBI has cautioned the public about rising investments in unregulated digital gold amid a surge in gold prices and online promotions.<\/p>\n<h2>About Digital Gold<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_349900\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349900\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-349900\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Source-ET-2.jpg?resize=300%2C222&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Digital Gold\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Source-ET-2.jpg?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Source-ET-2.jpg?resize=768%2C569&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Source-ET-2.jpg?w=882&amp;ssl=1 882w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; ET<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Digital gold refers to <strong>buying and owning gold electronically<\/strong> without physically holding the metal.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Technology used :<\/strong> Digital gold is <strong>created using blockchain technology,<\/strong> which enables online buying, selling, and storing of gold.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>value moves in line with physical gold prices.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits:<\/strong> Digital gold offers easy online access, small investment amounts, quick selling in emergencies, removal of storage hassles, and later conversion into coins, bars, or jewellery.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Risks:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It operates outside Sebi\u2019s regulatory purview.<\/li>\n<li>It is neither a security nor regulated commodity derivative, carries counterparty and operational risks, offers no investor-protection mechanisms, and<\/li>\n<li>It depends on platforms or jewellers where default risk remains.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>SEBI&#8217;s Advisory to Investors<\/strong>: Investors should prefer gold investment options such as gold ETFs, exchange-traded commodity derivatives, EGRs, Sovereign Gold Bonds, or products available through Sebi-registered intermediaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: SEBI has cautioned the public about rising investments in unregulated digital gold amid a surge in gold prices and online promotions. About Digital Gold Digital gold refers to buying and owning gold electronically without physically holding the metal. Technology used : Digital gold is created using blockchain technology, which enables online buying, selling, and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/digital-gold\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digital Gold<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-349899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}