The World Gold Council, in collaboration with Boston Consulting Group, released a white paper proposing a "Gold-as-a-Service" model aimed at addressing fragmentation in the digital gold ecosystem. The white paper points out that current products such as ETFs and tokenized gold lack interoperability, which limits trust and market adoption. The proposed shared infrastructure aims to standardize custodial, issuance, and redemption processes, thereby unlocking new use cases for retail investors, including lending, collateralization, and payments.