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Since 2023, the price of gold has more than doubled, turning people\u2019s spare jewelry or heirlooms into valuable assets\u2014in many cases without them even fully realizing it.<\/p>\n
At the current spot price of $4,500 an ounce, anything above 18 karats is suddenly of substantial value. Pieces bought by one\u2019s parents and grandparents in the 60s and 70s when an ounce of gold was worth between $35 and $200 per ounce could be close to ten grand at current prices.<\/p>\n
Indian-American entrepreneur Sidhi Singhvi, who\u2019s career has involved working across a variety of financial markets, including investment grade jewelry, recently co-created a unique-in-the-world fintech platform called Unvault<\/a> that allows people to create a portfolio out of their jewelry that they can track and observe as if they were looking at stocks or bonds.<\/p>\n \u201cUnvault is a way to understand the value of your jewelry that is locked in drawers and completely out of your thoughts,\u201d Singhvi told GNN\u2019s Andy Corbley in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s your first line of defense to understand a little bit about the asset you own. We put it in a portfolio for you, so think about a Robinhood for your jewelry, where you can see the value of it change with the values on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n Users upload photos of their jewelry to Unvault, which then uses artificial intelligence to inspect the piece and generate a valuation, which will then be plugged into the user\u2019s portfolio, allowing them to see its market value when they want, or just make it easy to include in a household audit.<\/p>\n \u201cI always found it strange that gold, which is a huge asset class and an asset class that\u2019s owned by half the houses in the US, doesn\u2019t benefit from the infrastructure we have for Bitcoin, for example,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n As December 2025 turned into January 2026, the price of gold and particularly silver went \u201cparabolic\u201d as the investment phrase goes, rising almost vertically to $5,600, and picking up considerable public interest along the way which Singhvi noted.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe this is gold\u2019s shining moment, not only with what\u2019s reflected in the pricing but also in the sentiment that we see: that customers are more and more aware of gold pricing, in the daily movements of gold, they\u2019re into tracking, they want to know the value of what they own, and I think that\u2019s a very good moment for us and something like Unvault.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/credit-supplied-by-Unvault-1024x575.jpg\")
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