Photonics Gold:
Unleashing Gold Liquidity, Empowering Token Holders
Transforming Large-scale Metal Reserves Through Tokenization
An ecosystem where large-scale metal reserves like gold mines become liquid and accessible to a wider audience, facilitated by blockchain technology and Chainlink's oracle service.
About the Photonics Gold Token
Price Exposure
Holding Photonics' tokens means owning an overcollateralized gold derivative, giving you secure exposure to the price of gold.
Token
PHTG tokens represent an interest in Photonics' underlying assets under management. Photonics holds gold reserves in a trust. The PHTG token is deployed on the Polygon blockchain, and whitelisted, meaning only wallets that pass our KYC process can hold or trade it.
Gold Peg
Our gold reserves are tokenized at a one-to-one ratio, so that one token is equivalent to one ounce of gold.
The Problem
Illiquidity of Gold Reserves
Illiquidity in large-scale gold reserves: precious metal investments face inherent challenges. Extracting resources like these from their sites is expensive, and impacts the environment. Not to mention the cost and logistics of storing gold in a vault or taking delivery of it, which often leads to undesirable price discounts.
Logistical Costs of Bullion Reserves
Storing gold in a vault for backing purposes is costly, and creates problems associated with taking delivery or selling the physical asset.
The Solution
Tokenization
Photonics' token, PHTG, gains value from its DCF gold reserve(s) through our smart contracts' relationship with a trust, who underwrites the combined DCF gold reserve(s) asset as a Wyoming LLC, tokenizing its equity securities, as the (“Issuer”), a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Wyoming, and has made a bond offering, through a Private Placement offering under SEC Regulation D, Rule 506(c), and Regulation S for non-US investors. This offering is for $6,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount, 8.00%, Asset-Backed (GNMA or Equivalent) Corporate Bonds, Series 2024-1 due 2034 (the “Bonds”), which will maintain the combined DCF gold reserves and maintain the liquidity depth of the Uniswap Liquidity Pool.
Gold-Ounce-Price Peg
Through both the proportion of the initial supply mint, and the liquidity pool where PHTG is listed, a peg is maintained between the price of PHTG and the per-ounce price of gold.
Benefits
Minimized Liquidity Discount
By tokenizing your large assets, you bypass the disadvantages of the typical liquidity discount associated with big sales.
Redemption Mechanism
Instead of dealing with a redemption process where you must take delivery of physical gold, a liquidity pool allows you to sell this combination of the two for ETH or stablecoins.
Overcollateralization
The amounts of actual gold value under management is many times higher than the total token supply. Since the gold reserves in the mine have been appraised with a discounted cash flow (DCF) at a 90% rate, PHTG is heavily overcollateralized.
AUM Value Revenue Share
1% of the value of the assets under management by Photonics Gold (our gold reserves) is dispensed as ETH to all token holders. This is done proportionally, based on what percentage of the total circulating supply you hold, and is dispensed on a monthly basis.
Onboarding Tokenholders
Your avenue to buying PHTG tokens is the liquidity pool on Uniswap, a decentralized exchange where we have listed the Photonics Labs Gold Token.
Crypto Onramping
Your journey begins with converting your capital to POL or Wrapped ETH on the Polygon network. This can most easily be done through a centralized cryptocurrency exchange. But if you're already holding crypto, it can be bridged over to polygon, depending on which network it's on.
Bridging to Polygon
If your centralized exchange supports the polygon network, this step does not apply. But if that's not the case, and you're already holding crypto, it could be bridged over to polygon, depending on which network it's on. The Photonics Gold Team can assist you with this process.
Connecting to Uniswap
The trading pair (also called the liquidity pool) is available both through the Uniswap exchange interface on their website, and the dashboard on this website. In both cases, you will need to connect your ethereum/polygon wallet to the interface. This is how you login to the interface and send tokens.
Swapping Tokens
You may buy PHTG tokens through this interface, without a counterparty or 'sell order'. The counterpartie(s) in this case are a combination of the liquidity pool itself and any previous transactors.
Awaiting Unlock
Your PHTG tokens will be locked in your walled after receipt, by the PHTG smart contract due to the vesting schedule. But starting from the time your wallet first receives PHTG, a timer starts, which unlocks 0.25% of the first amount recieved, per month, until it runs out of tokens to unlock. For example: if you bought 1,000 tokens from the LP and later bought another 25, the smart contract would unlock 2.5 of your tokens per month, until the full 1,025 had been freed up.
Receiving the 1% AUM Revenue
These dispersions take place as OTC transactions, and are usually paid in ETH.
Frequently asked questions
How exactly does tokenization work?
Tokenization involves transforming the value of an asset into a format that can be represented digitally. With PHTG, assets are converted into security tokens that represent equivalent ownership stakes.
What is the criteria for asset tokenization?
If you are interested in tokenizing gold reserves, please get into contact with us.
What are the risks involved?
Like any investment, tokenization involves risks, such as market volatility influencing token value. However, PHTG mitigates these risks with a robust bond guarantee system backed by a fund of tokens, ensuring smooth operations and securing investor interests.
What is a white-listed investor?
A white-listed investor is a verified investor who has completed industry-standard Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures, which helps prevent fraud and ensures compliance with regulations.
What happens if the value of the tokenized asset drops significantly?
The value of a token is linked to the ounce price of gold. If the value of gold drops significantly, PHTG would likely reflect that decrease. If the price drop is because of a "de-peg," the price of the token moving too far away from the gold price, Photonics Gold would automatically trade the pair using our cash-on-hand, to bring it back into sync.
How does vesting work?
When you receive minted tokens from the protocol, they will have a lock timer on them, which prevents you from transferring out of your wallet. You can still earn revenue from them during this time, you just can't transfer them. As the timer ticks down, they will progressively unlock for normal use, and you'll be able to trade with them on the LP.
What is the legal standing of owning tokens?
Photonics Gold's tokens represent equity ownership in the company, held by a licensed Trust Company as a fiduciary on behalf of token holders. Therefore, token holders have legal rights akin to shareholders, such as voting rights and revenuedistribution rights.
What is the taxation situation for profits earned through holding or selling tokens?
As with most investments, profits from holding or selling tokens are likely to be subject to tax laws. The exact tax implications depend on jurisdiction and individual circumstances. With Photonics Gold's system, tax events may be deferred until users withdraw their dividends (though this will be dependent on local laws), giving token holders control over the timing of their tax obligations.
How liquid are the tokens?
Photonics Gold's model aims to increase the liquidity of tokens by funding liquidity pools on popular exchanges. Since there is an incentive to hold PHTG: the revenue distribution, this incentivizes activity on those pairs also. These conditions ensure a liquid market for Photonics Gold.
What is the technical infrastructure supporting the tokenization and trading process?
Photonics Gold deployed PHTG as an ERC-20 token on the Polygon blockchain, renowned for its robustness and security. The platform ensures compliance through an address whitelist, and dividends are managed and allocated through smart contracts. The tokens are listed on Uniswap, the largest decentralized exchange currently in operation on Polygon.