According to Paolo Ardoino, Scudo is a 1/1000 XAUT ounce denomination designed to improve user experience for transfers, payments, and pricing, source: Paolo Ardoino on X, Jan 6, 2026. All upcoming Tether WDK based wallets will integrate the Scudo denomination, source: Paolo Ardoino on X, Jan 6, 2026. Tether Gold specified that 1 Scudo equals 1/1000 of an XAUT ounce and aims to make XAUT easier to use, track, and transact in smaller amounts, source: Tether Gold on X, Jan 6, 2026. Ardoino compared Scudo to sats for Bitcoin (BTC) to standardize micro-denominations for on-chain gold, source: Paolo Ardoino on X, Jan 6, 2026.

According to @paoloardoino, Tether Gold is introducing Scudo as a 1/1000 XAUT (gold ounce) unit to improve XAUT transfers, payments, and pricing, and all upcoming Tether WDK-based wallets will integrate the Scudo denomination, with a comparison to Bitcoin sats as context. According to @tethergold, 1 Scudo equals 1/1000 of an XAUT and is designed to make Tether Gold easier to use, track, and transact, providing a practical way to send and receive smaller amounts. For traders, these updates enable finer pricing granularity and smaller transfer sizing for XAUT on-chain activity as stated by @paoloardoino and @tethergold.

According to Paolo Ardoino, Tether introduced Scudo as an on-chain unit equal to one thousandth of an XAUT ounce of gold, defining Scudo as 0.001 troy ounce within the Tether Gold framework (source: https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/2008541912060547496; source: https://tether.io/news/tether-introduces-scudo-redefining-fractional-gold-ownership-onchain/). Tether stated that Scudo is meant to redefine fractional gold ownership on-chain, providing a standardized denomination for the Tether Gold ecosystem that traders can reference for settlement and pricing workflows (source: https://tether.io/news/tether-introduces-scudo-redefining-fractional-gold-ownership-onchain/). For trading calculations, the specification implies 1 XAUT equals 1000 Scudo and Scudo pricing is mechanically derived from XAUT by a 1 to 1000 ratio, enabling direct conversion of XAUT price quotes into Scudo terms (source: https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/2008541912060547496; source: https://tether.io/news/tether-introduces-scudo-redefining-fractional-gold-ownership-onchain/). The announcement was published on January 6, 2026 via Ardoino’s X post and Tether’s newsroom, setting the reference parameters for market integrations and quoting conventions (source: https://twitter.com/paoloardoino/status/2008541912060547496; source: https://tether.io/news/tether-introduces-scudo-redefining-fractional-gold-ownership-onchain/).