When gold isn’t good enough: 3 crypto companies say they’ve figured out how to generate yield on the $4.6 billion ‘tokenized gold’ market

The price of gold has gone up 85.56% in the past 12 months—it currently sits at over $5,100 on the Comex continuous contract—so if you bought some a year ago, you are probably pretty happy.

But if you are a jewelry maker or retailer who needs to buy gold repeatedly as part of your manufacturing operations, you’ve got a logistical headache. You can wait until all your current inventory has been sold and then use that cash to buy more gold for new products. But that takes time, and while...