Aurelion Becomes First NASDAQ-Listed Tether Gold Treasury Company
Aurelion Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company trading under the ticker AURE, announced on May 6 that it holds Tether Gold (XAU₮) as its primary treasury reserve asset, positioning itself as the first publicly listed U.S. company to do so. The company published its disclosure via PR Newswire.
No other NASDAQ-listed firm has publicly filed a comparable Tether Gold treasury claim.
What Aurelion Is Doing
Aurelion’s PR Newswire release describes the company as centering its entire corporate treasury strategy on XAU₮, the gold-backed token issued by Tether. The company provides no specific quantity of XAU₮ held in the public-facing summary.
The filing frames the move as a strategic differentiation, separating Aurelion from the larger field of cryptocurrency treasury companies that hold Bitcoin (BTC) or Ethereum (ETH).
Tether Gold is a token in which each unit represents one troy ounce of physical gold held in reserve. Tether, the company that also issues Tether (USDT), the world’s largest stablecoin by circulation, backs XAU₮ with gold bars stored in Switzerland.
The token runs on both the Ethereum (ETH) and Tron (TRX) blockchains.
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Background
Corporate cryptocurrency treasury adoption accelerated sharply after MicroStrategy (MSTR) began purchasing Bitcoin (BTC) in August 2020. Dozens of smaller public companies followed with BTC-first treasury strategies.
A wave of ETH treasury announcements followed in early 2026, with Bitmine Immersion Technologies and Eightco Holdings among the companies accumulating Ethereum. Aurelion’s XAU₮ pivot represents a distinct variation on that trend, routing public-market treasury exposure through a tokenized commodity rather than a native cryptocurrency.
The Aurelion announcement arrives as a separate entity, Aurise Foundation, also disclosed plans to build a gold-backed yield protocol called XAUE on top of Tether Gold.
That project is separate from Aurelion’s treasury disclosure and is aimed at institutional decentralized finance rather than public-company balance sheets.
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What to Watch
Aurelion has not disclosed the dollar value of its XAU₮ position or the purchase timeline. Investors will be watching for a formal SEC filing that quantifies the holdings.
The broader question is whether other micro-cap NASDAQ companies follow with gold-token treasury allocations, particularly as spot gold prices remain elevated above $3,200 per ounce. A confirmed institutional custody arrangement for the XAU₮ holdings would substantially validate the treasury claim.
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