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# Jurisdiction-Specific by Design

Global Gold issues Standard Metal Units on a jurisdiction-specific basis to preserve legal clarity, regulatory alignment, and systemic resilience.

Each jurisdictional unit:

* Is backed by metal titled to a trust or collateral agent within that jurisdiction
* Follows local property, custody, and delivery laws
* Remains segregated from other jurisdictions’ collateral

Examples include:

* USG — United States Gold
* USS — United States Silver

Future jurisdictional units may include:

* EU-based gold and silver units
* Singapore gold and silver units
* Dubai gold and silver units

Jurisdictional separation prevents regulatory contagion, enables compliant expansion market-by-market, and allows global interoperability at the market layer without commingling legal risk.