Kinesis Gold KAU
Rank #124 by market capTokenized commodity
Tokenized commodity
A token backed by a physical commodity held by an issuer. Its value depends on that issuer actually holding it.
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CM Profile: Kinesis Gold
Cryptominium Profile. What we have established, measured and written about KAU, and what we have not.
- Established
- One contract is matched to this coin, on Ethereum.
- Its kind: tokenized commodity.
- Measured
- Its price, recorded by us every day since 9 August 2026.
- Written, with sources
Read from our own records when this page was made. It describes what we know, and is not a view on whether to hold KAU. How each part is worked out
What changed
Week to 3 November- Price down 2.9% since 27 October.
- Circulating supply down 31.3% in 30 days, as CoinGecko reports it.
From our own measurements only, each against the month before. We do not say why a price moves. How this is worked out · Every coin this week
What Kinesis Gold is
Kinesis gold (KAU) is a gold-backed cryptocurrency launched by Kinesis, a trading and digital-asset platform. Each KAU token is backed by one gram of investment-grade gold bullion held in insured, audited vaults. The ERC-20 version of KAU is issued by KMS Labs S.A., a company incorporated in Panama, and represents a 1:1 claim on native Kinesis KAU, which is itself issued by Kinesis Cayman on the Kinesis blockchain (a Stellar fork) and backed 1:1 by physical gold stored with ABX's vault partners.
Holding KAU is meant to function like holding physical gold with the transfer properties of a cryptocurrency. Gold underlying the token can be redeemed, and KAU can be spent directly through the Kinesis Virtual Card, which converts holdings into local currency at point of sale. Holders also receive a monthly yield paid in KAU, drawn from a 15% share of Kinesis' transaction fee revenue earned across the platform. ERC-20 KAU holders can move their tokens to the Kinesis platform to access this yield distribution and the card, with redemption into native KAU and physical gold subject to KMS Labs' terms and compliance checks.
KAU is not a free-floating cryptocurrency: its price tracks the gold market, not supply and demand for the token itself, so it inherits gold's volatility even if it avoids crypto-market volatility. The yield is not a protocol-fixed interest rate — it is a variable share of a private company's fee revenue, which can rise, fall, or be altered. Redemption for gold is gated by a third party's terms and onboarding requirements, not executed trustlessly on-chain. The ERC-20 token tracked here is a claim on reserves held by KMS Labs rather than a direct bullion holding, and it is deployed on a single chain, Ethereum, meaning its availability depends on that bridge and issuer remaining operational. CoinGecko classifies it among tokenized commodities and real-world assets; it is a custodial, revenue-sharing instrument, not a decentralized one.
What Kinesis Gold can do
Gold held in a Kinesis account, or in a wallet linked to one, earns a monthly yield paid in gold. Kinesis says the yield comes from a 15% share of its transaction fee revenue, split among holders, and that it varies from month to month.
Source: Kinesis: holder's yield · checked 2 October 2026
Kinesis says KAU is backed 1:1 by allocated physical gold in third-party vaults, audited every six months. The token on Ethereum is a claim on Kinesis KAU held by KMS Labs: redeeming it requires onboarding with KMS Labs, after which physical redemption may be made through Kinesis Cayman.
Source: Kinesis: gold (KAU) · checked 2 October 2026
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Where KAU lives
On Ethereum, Base and BNB Chain, GoPlus's analysis of each contract is read weekly: whether it has a function to block addresses or pause transfers, and whether an owner holds it. That is GoPlus's reading, not ours. Where a token exists on several chains, one copy's settings say nothing about the original coin.
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Price change
Kinesis Gold data synced 2m ago from CoinGecko. Figures shown in USD. This page is market information, not financial advice — and nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell KAU.