{"id":30133,"date":"2025-06-04T09:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30133"},"modified":"2025-06-04T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T09:47:04","slug":"standard-chartered-backed-zodia-custody-starts-safekeeping-tokenized-emeralds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30133","title":{"rendered":"Standard Chartered-Backed Zodia Custody Starts Safekeeping Tokenized Emeralds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2024\/06\/19\/national-australia-banks-venture-arm-invests-in-crypto-focused-zodia-custody\">Zodia Custody<\/a>, the crypto custodian backed by big banks like Standard Chartered and SBI, will handle the safekeeping of tokenized emeralds, through a partnership with GEMx, a Swiss fintech company that specializes in blockchain-based co-ownership of the precious stones.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership allows access to the gemstone market through the EmGemX token, a way for institutional investors to receive fractional ownership in a diversified portfolio of high-quality emeralds, according to a press release on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The tokenization of real world assets (RWAs) is bringing the blockchain world closer to traditional finance. In this case, physical emeralds, which have seen an average annual appreciation of around 9%, are stored in vaults and subject to regular, independent appraisals, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPartnering with Zodia Custody is a major milestone in our mission to bring institutional trust and stability to the gemstone investment market,\u201d said Paul Poltner, CEO and co-founder of GEMx.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With GEMx, we\u2019ve built a framework that delivers real-world value through digital innovation that is secure, auditable, and has been historically inflation-resistant,\u201d Poltner said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zodia Custody, the crypto custodian backed by big banks like Standard Chartered and SBI, will handle the safekeeping of tokenized emeralds, through a partnership with GEMx, a Swiss fintech company that specializes in blockchain-based co-ownership of the precious stones. The partnership allows access to the gemstone market through the EmGemX token, a way for institutional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-30133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}