Gold has been incredibly hot in the last two years. Besides continuous purchases by central banks worldwide, more and more ordinary people are starting to pay attention to gold investment. However, after buying gold, most people basically just hold it and wait for prices to rise. But there's actually a new way to use gold: like crypto, it can be put on-chain for collateralized lending and obtaining dollar liquidity. For example, @strato_net specializes in this. STRATO is a Layer 1 platform focused on HardFi (hard asset finance), which has tokenized physical assets like gold and silver and integrated collateralized lending, trading, and savings scenarios. Several data points are worth noting: 1/ Ranked among the top three in active TVL (TVL) in precious metals DeFi, second only to Tether and Paxos according to DefiLlama's relevant category data. 2/ Ecosystem TVL exceeds $40 million, with gold-backed loans totaling nearly $5 million, already generating actual business and protocol revenue. 3/ The team background is also noteworthy. BlockApps, the company behind it, has been involved in Ethereum infrastructure development since 2014, and Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin... Serving as an advisor, the team has raised over $41 million in total funding. Additionally, STRATO, which has garnered significant attention, is about to undergo a TGE (Trust Event Token Offering). The maximum token supply is 100 million, with 55.2% allocated to the community. The previous Community ICO corresponded to approximately $134 million in FDV (Funds Deposit Volume). Personally, I'm quite optimistic about the direction of putting physical assets like gold on-chain, given the huge market demand for gold itself. STRATO already has a certain business foundation; the future depends on whether, after the TGE, it can further expand these assets and financial scenarios.