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# Why Gold Has Not Natively Entered DeFi

While trillions of dollars of value have moved on-chain, gold has remained largely absent due to:

* **Custody risk**: Most DeFi cannot safely interface with physical assets<br>
* **Regulatory ambiguity**: No clear framework for enforceable on-chain ownership<br>
* **Lack of primitives**: No standardized way to represent title, claims, and delivery<br>
* **Absence of global standards**: Fragmented approaches fail at scale

Global Gold exists to solve these foundational blockers — not through wrappers, but through first-principles design.