Gold & Crypto FAQs
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Where is my gold stored?
VAULTALP stores its client’s gold in the vaults of Malca-Amit in Geneva Freeport, Zurich Airport, New York Foreign Trade Zone, Hong Kong Airport, and Singapore Freeport. Malca-Amit is a professional vaulting company with a global network of offices, and offers ultra-secure, fully insured storage for the metals that VAULTALP is holding for its clients.
Crypto assets are stored in the cold storage vaults of Crypto Finance AG in Zurich. Crypto Finance uses the highest grade hardware security modules to ensure private keys are physically and digitally secured.
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Are the gold / crypto assets held in my name?
VAULTALP is a Swiss company and is under the jurisdiction of Swiss law. All client assets held in storage will remain property of the client as per the storage contract and will not appear on the VAULTALP balance sheet in accordance with the Swiss laws on bailment defined in Article 472 of the Swiss Code of Obligations. Ultimately this means that you have full ownership of the assets, not VAULTALP. This offers absolute security for our clients.
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Is my gold segregated, allocated, or unallocated?
All gold stored with VAULTALP is fully segregated. This means that each individual gold bar serial number is recorded and registered as belonging to your individual client account and is stored separately from other client’s gold. For reference many companies offer gold storage services using allocated gold, whereby the client has the right of ownership to a certain quantity of gold held by the company, but it may only exist as part of a bar that is co-owned by many other clients. As such this poses inherent risks when and if delivery should be required. Unallocated gold simply gives the client title to a certain quantity of gold held by the company but it may or may not exist in physical form, you simply become a creditor of the company. As such this poses significant counter-party risk.
Based on the above it is clear that segregated gold storage is the preeminent method of wealth preservation.
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How do I create an account and start trading?
VAULTALP has developed a very straightforward onboarding process that requires minimal effort. We will require the usual personal details, as well as proof of address, and a few forms to be completed in order to identify the beneficial owner. The whole process doesn’t take long. Simply get in touch to get started.
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Which coins does VAULTALP support?
At this point in time we support BTC, ETH, and XRP. We can offer sales, storage and exchange for any of these coins against gold at unbeatable market prices.
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Can I buy gold with crypto with VAULTALP?
Yes, we offer a direct exchange that enables you to buy physically segregated gold bars with crypto.
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Can I buy and store gold with VAULTALP?
Yes, we offer a complete service that enables you to buy physical gold bars and store them in fully segregated accounts in strategic global locations.
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Do you offer family office crypto services?
Yes, as a fully regulated Swiss company we are in a perfect position to assist family offices who wish to invest in crypto.
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Can I buy gold in Switzerland with VAULTALP?
Yes, you can buy physical gold bars that can be stored in our state of the art vault, or alternatively take delivery of your bars via insured transport.
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Can I buy cryptocurrency in Switzerland with VAULTALP?
Yes, we offer a range of coins for sale. In addition we offer crypto cold storage services for all of our clients.
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Can I buy gold bars from VAULTALP?
Yes, we source our physical gold bars directly from the refineries here in Switzerland, ensuring they are all LBMA approved.
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Is it easy to buy gold bars in Switzerland?
The process is very straightforward. To onboard you as a customer we need a standard form completing, and some ID.
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Does VAULTALP have a Swiss gold safe?
We have an ultra secure alpine vault that houses our clients gold. It is fully insured.
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Does VAULTALP offer crypto cold storage?
VAULTALP offers its customers access to ulta secure crypto cold storage. With bank level security and fully offline hardware, external attacks are unable to access your assets.
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Does VAULTALP offer cold wallet storage?
Yes we offer offline cold storage for our clients crypto assets. With fully air-gapped offline hardware, we offer institutional grade security for our clients.
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Can I buy physical gold from VAULTALP?
Yes, we only sell physical gold. If you buy paper gold on an exchange you are not the owner of a physical gold bar. Owning fully segregated physical gold bars offers ultimate protection.
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Can I store gold in Switzerland?
Yes, we offer Swiss gold storage for all our clients. Your gold bars are held in our ultra secure alpine vault with full insurance.
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What is the gold price in Switzerland?
We offer our clients a live gold price based on the spot market. We have access to the largest refineries in the world based in Switzerland. Our rates beat the competition.
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Does VAULTALP offer crypto trading?
Yes, you can trade BTC, ETH, XRP against a variety of currencies and gold also.
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Does VAULTALP offer Bitcoin trading?
Yes you can trade bitcoin with us, as well as other coins like ETH and XRP and gold too.
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Does VAULTALP operate a crypto exchange?
We do operate a crypto exchange but as we target HNWI and institutional investors we offer an OTC service where we can provide a more personal service for our clients.
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What cryptocurrencies can I trade?
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, USDC, and gold also.
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Will I have my own crypto wallet with VAULTALP?
Yes we provide all our clients with their own fully segregated wallet address for crypto cold storage.
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Does VAULTALP offer a gold investment service?
Yes you can buy physical gold bars and store them in strategic global locations with VAULTALP?
