Abu Dhabi’s Metra Group Appears at Trump Crypto Summit, Highlighting Gold Digitalization
-The global monetary system is moving towards digitalization and multipolar restructuring, with the on-chaining of physical assets becoming a mainstream direction in digital finance.
Miami, April 28, 2026 – Metra Group Limited, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Metra Group”), announced that their CEO Brandon Dong, from Abu Dhabi, led a team to attend the world's top crypto ecosystem summit hosted by US President Trump at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. In addition to directly listening to President Trump's important speech on virtual and electronic currency and economy, they also met with Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, ARK Investment Founder Cathie Wood, legendary investor Tim Draper, and Chairman of South Korea Upbit Cryptocurrency Exchange and other global leaders took the same stage to discuss the future integration of digital assets and physical value.
This summit fostered a top-level industry consensus that digital assets have entered an era backed by physical assets, with gold being the globally recognized ultimate anchor of value. During the round table discussions, Brandon Dong proposed a path for the digital, compliant, institutionalized, and globalized development of gold, which has become a core reference solution in the field of physical asset tokenization.
Leveraging its deep collaboration with the UAE's national gold digital finance strategy, Metra Group has gained national-level strategic support and ecosystem empowerment, becoming a core market-oriented platform for the UAE's construction of a global gold digital center.
Deeply involved in the digital infrastructure of the UAE's gold supply chain, refining, and custody system, and jointly building world-leading compliance standards. To help build a digital gold pricing system and promote the UAE as a global digital gold pricing hub. Launching a national-level pilot program for the tokenization of gold assets to serve cross-border settlement and trade finance. Participate in the establishment of a regional digital finance innovation framework and promote the inclusion of gold digital assets in the top-level financial development blueprint.
Based on the UAE's core position in global gold trading, Metra Group has proposed three strategic directions: to lead the construction of a global digital gold pricing system; to create an integrated digital financial ecosystem encompassing spot gold, derivatives, and structured products; and to promote blockchain gold as a core global financial infrastructure.
Metra Group's gold coin is strictly pegged to physical gold and leverages blockchain technology to achieve divisibility, transferability, and programmability, covering cross-border settlement, collateralized financing, asset management, and DeFi scenarios. The platform establishes a transparent and verifiable closed loop for the entire process of minting, custody, auditing, redemption, and destruction, achieving institutional-grade security standards.
Brandon Dong stated at the summit: Metra Gold Coin breaks through the value bottlenecks of traditional stablecoins and crypto assets, constructing a dual value system of tool attributes and investment attributes. It combines the advantages of efficient cross-border trade settlement capabilities with anti-inflation and cross-cycle hard asset advantages, achieving a deep integration of gold stability and digital asset liquidity.
In terms of capital deployment, Meta Group has reached a strategic merger and acquisition agreement with Nasdaq-listed ATIF Holdings Limited (ZBAI) to build a three-in-one ecosystem of "physical gold + digital finance + global capital market", promote the listing of gold digital assets on the public market, and introduce long-term capital from global institutions.
Following the summit, Brandon Dong will lead a team to engage in cooperation negotiations with top global financial institutions and precious metals giants, focusing on key areas such as digital gold settlement, institutional liquidity, and collateralized credit systems, to accelerate the establishment of a digital gold financial network covering the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
Metra Group stated that, under the leadership of Brandon Dong, the group will drive the digitalization of gold into a new global financial infrastructure through a dual approach of compliance and technology, helping gold coins become the core carrier of the next generation of global value circulation and leading the development of the digital gold era.
About Metra Group Headquartered in Abu Dhabi, Metra Group is the core market-oriented platform of the UAE’s national gold digital finance strategy. The group is dedicated to the digitalization of gold assets through blockchain technology, offering end-to-end solutions spanning supply chain, custody, tokenization, cross-border settlement, and DeFi. Metra Group is driving the evolution of gold from a traditional reserve asset into the next generation of global financial infrastructure.
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