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# How Global Gold Bars Fit Into the Ecosystem

**Global Gold Bars serve as eligible underlying collateral for:**

* USG issuance
* liquidity formation in protocol-enabled markets
* collateral use in third-party or protocol-governed financial applications
* Cross-jurisdiction price discovery

They are the foundational physical asset referenced by multiple protocol components and market participants