How Ubuntu Tribe Is Bringing Gold Into the Digital Asset Era

Tokenized gold has become a major growth driver in real-world assets. In 2025, tokenized gold market capitalization rose 177%, from about $1.6 billion to $4.4 billion, and represented roughly 25% of net inflows across the RWA sector. Tokenized gold trading volume reached about $178 billion, as demand rises for verifiable, asset-backed instruments that can move across digital rails. For asset managers and wealth platforms, that scale elevates auditability, custody standards, and redemption clarity from product features to due diligence requirements.

Ubuntu Tribe is serving as a gold sponsor of the Raging Bull Awards, set for February 13, 2026, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The awards, now in their third decade, recognize managers of collective investment schemes across performance and risk-adjusted categories. 

Gold still serves as a default hedge for South African investors dealing with rand volatility and persistent inflation. By sponsoring the Raging Bull Awards, Ubuntu Tribe puts digitized, physically backed gold directly in front of fund managers and allocators — the audience that shapes how local capital flows into long-term stores of value.

Ubuntu Tribe was founded to expand access to wealth-building assets through regulated digitized ownership. Gold is one of the most widely trusted stores of value, yet buying it has never been simple. High minimums, complicated custody arrangements, and cross-border friction have kept smaller investors out for decades. Ubuntu Tribe removes those barriers: ownership starts at milligram units, and the physical gold behind each holding sits in insured, audited vaults in major global locations.

GIFT Gold, its flagship product, allows fractional ownership at low denominations. GIFT (Gold International Fungible Token) is a digital certificate of ownership backed 1:1 by physical gold — one token equals one milligram. The gold is held in insured, audited vaults in Zurich, Copenhagen, Dubai, and Stuttgart, and meets the LBMA standard at 999.5 purity.

Verification is built into the product through a live proof-of-reserves view and a track-and-trace layer supporting backing and provenance review. Reserve and audit documentation is publicly accessible. As tokenized gold matures, buyers are filtering products by what can actually be verified: audited reserves, transparent custody chains, and redemption terms they can enforce. GIFT Gold holders can redeem tokens for physical gold starting at 10 grams, with insured delivery handled through established logistics partners.

Beyond holding, GIFT Gold supports savings and inflation protection, remittances and cross-border transfers, and OTC or higher-value transactions where settlement certainty and documentation matter.

Ubuntu Tribe’s presence at the Raging Bull Awards will be led by founder and CEO Mamadou Kwidjim Toure. In 2015, he founded Ubuntu Group to expand access to global capital in Africa and later developed Ubuntu Tribe to translate real-world value into inclusive digital ownership through regulated tokenized assets.

Toure has been named by Forbes among the Top 10 Most Influential Men in Africa. He has more than two decades of experience across institutions including KPMG, BNP Paribas, and IBM, managing transactions worth more than $25 billion across African infrastructure, mining, and technology. He studied at Harvard Kennedy School and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

“Gold has always been a trust asset, and trust is the foundation of finance,” Toure said. “What is changing is the expectation of proof. Investors increasingly want transparency on backing, custody, and delivery. Digitized, regulated gold ownership makes that verification easier to obtain, even in small denominations.”

Through its Raging Bull Awards sponsorship, Ubuntu Tribe will engage South Africa’s investment industry on custody, audits, redemption mechanics, and delivery assurance for digitized gold.

To learn more about Ubuntu Tribe and GIFT Gold, visit utribe.one and follow company updates through its official channels.