PANAMA CITY, Aug. 10, 2026 — XAUE and ListaDAO have announced the launch of a 60-day slisXAUE Rewards Campaign, providing eligible users with enhanced yield opportunities on tokenized gold through decentralized finance.

The campaign runs from August 10 through October 8, 2026, and offers participants up to 8% combined APY potential. Rewards are structured around a time-weighted holding mechanism designed to incentivize long-term engagement rather than short-term positioning, while broadening the utility of gold-backed digital assets within the on-chain ecosystem.

Yield-Bearing Gold Built for DeFi

XAUE is a yield-bearing protocol layer constructed on top of Tether Gold (XAU₮), the gold-backed token where each unit represents one troy ounce of physical gold held in vaults. By building on XAU₮, XAUE allows tokenized gold—traditionally a passive store-of-value asset—to generate on-chain yield.

Central to the campaign is slisXAUE, a yield-bearing gold token issued by ListaDAO in partnership with XAUE Protocol. Users can deposit XAU₮ through Lista RWA to receive slisXAUE, retaining gold-linked exposure while gaining access to XAUE's yield capabilities through a transferable tokenized position.

How Participation Works

Participation involves three steps: deposit XAU₮ through Lista RWA to mint slisXAUE, hold slisXAUE for the duration of the campaign, and satisfy the final holding and ranking criteria.

Rather than using a single balance snapshot, participant rankings are calculated based on time-weighted average holdings across the full 60-day period, rewarding consistent participation.

At the conclusion of the campaign, addresses meeting a time-weighted average holding of at least 20 slisXAUE and ranking among the top 10 will qualify for rewards. Each qualifying address will receive an additional 5% APY, capped at $1,000 in XAU₮. Combined with slisXAUE's approximately 3% native yield, eligible participants can unlock up to 8% combined APY potential.

Rewards will be distributed automatically following eligibility verification, with no manual claim required.

Expanding Tokenized Gold Utility On-Chain

The initiative reflects XAUE's ongoing effort to expand tokenized gold across DeFi through ecosystem partnerships. Tokenized real-world assets have emerged as one of the faster-growing segments in decentralized finance, with protocols increasingly bringing commodities, treasury bills, and other traditional instruments on-chain. Gold specifically occupies a distinct niche: unlike yield-bearing fiat instruments, it has historically served as an inflation hedge and macroeconomic safe-haven asset, making its integration into DeFi yield strategies a notable intersection of commodity exposure and programmable finance.

By pairing XAUE's yield-bearing gold layer with ListaDAO's real-world asset access and distribution infrastructure, the collaboration aims to make yield-bearing gold more accessible while demonstrating how tokenized gold can serve as a productive, composable on-chain asset.

Through slisXAUE, users maintain gold-linked exposure while accessing supplementary yield opportunities, improving capital efficiency and encouraging sustained on-chain participation. Whether similar campaigns follow—and whether other DeFi protocols adopt comparable yield-bearing commodity structures—will indicate how broadly tokenized gold matures as a DeFi primitive.

The campaign is now live. Users can visit the official campaign page for full eligibility requirements, rules, and participation details.