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Gold Moves, Cops Busy

February 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Gold Moves, Cops Busy XAUT +$222M and PAXG +$73M yesterday, both accelerating. USDT hit $183.56B while running 7 blacklist actions on $2.07M. PSI 95, BEDROCK. The stablecoin market is calm. Its largest issuer is not resting.

PSI settles at 95 in BEDROCK — severity 0.04, breadth 5.46, trend nudging upward by 0.46, which is the market's way of saying nothing broke but something is definitely being watched. The real action today is not in the depeg table, where EURS continues its 919 bps performance on $8.61M like a regional theater production nobody asked for, but in two places: tokenized gold and Tether's enforcement desk. XAUT added $222.63M yesterday alone and PAXG added $73.16M, both accelerating into a week already tilted toward hard-asset alternatives, which is either rational portfolio rotation or a quiet vote of no-confidence in fiat-backed stability — probably both. Meanwhile USDT's blacklist operation processed 7 events and $2.07M in 24 hours, including a $581.76K destroy on Ethereum, while USDT itself grew by $950.68M this week to $183.56B; Tether is simultaneously the largest stablecoin and its own most active regulator. CUSD and KAU both resolved depegs today — 276 bps over 3 hours on $111.99M and 220 bps over 5 hours on $417.84M respectively — recoveries clean enough to be unremarkable, which is exactly what a 95 PSI looks like from the inside.

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