According to online reports, US gold IRA service provider SmartGold announced a partnership with tokenization platform Chintai to link approximately US$1.6 billion in treasury gold. This cooperation will tokenize gold and link it to autonomous retirement accounts (IRAs), allowing investors to enter the DeFi space while maintaining tax benefits on retirement accounts. SmartGold focuses on autonomous individual retirement accounts (IRAs) backed by physical gold. Traditionally, these assets have been static, stored in vaults, relying only on value appreciation over time. By partnering with Chintai for tokenization, SmartGold provides retired savers with a way to release liquidity without having to sell gold or trigger a tax event.