ORO Labs, a tokenised gold protocol built on Solana, has raised $1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round to turn gold into a liquid, composable, and income-generating asset.
For centuries, gold has been the world’s most trusted store of value—but it has remained largely underutilised in modern financial markets. ORO aims to change this by transforming gold from a passive holding into a yield-generating financial instrument.
The funding round was led by 468 Capital, with backing from Fasset and angel investors from top Solana projects, including Phantom, Jupiter, Helium, Squads, Sanctum, Anza Labs, Perena, Bonk, and Forma, among others.
“Gold shouldn’t just sit idle—it should generate wealth,” said Usman Saleem, Co-Founder & CEO of ORO. “With ORO, gold isn’t just something you hold—it’s something you can earn with, borrow against, and trade seamlessly across markets.”
Traditional gold ownership locks capital without enabling yield generation or liquidity. ORO changes that by offering users the ability to earn real yield, unlock liquidity by borrowing against their holdings, and trade gold-backed assets with instant settlement—all powered by Solana’s high-speed, low-cost infrastructure.
The launch comes amid historic shifts in global finance, with central banks accumulating gold as a neutral reserve asset and growing demand for digital, borderless financial products.
ORO is strategically establishing itself in the UAE, which facilitates over $100 billion in annual gold transactions. This positioning allows ORO to leverage the region’s gold liquidity, regulatory clarity, and trade networks to offer users a secure, transparent, and scalable way to access tokenised gold globally.
In a major step toward regulatory collaboration, ORO recently signed an MOU at ADGM in the presence of HE Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade, and HE Dr Jörg Kukies, Germany’s Minister of Finance. This agreement underscores ORO’s commitment to expanding tokenised gold adoption across the UAE and beyond.
Additionally, ORO is partnering with Fasset to drive adoption across the UAE, Malaysia, Bahrain, Indonesia, and Turkey. Later this year, ORO will launch on Own, Fasset’s Layer 2 network, further expanding its reach.
With fresh funding, ORO will expand its product offerings, enhance integrations across decentralised and traditional finance, and roll out new financial applications to improve gold’s liquidity, composability, and yield opportunities for global investors.
