Stablecoin issuing company Tether (CRYPTO: USDT) launched a new platform Monday that will allow the creation of gold-backed stablecoins pegged to the U.S. Dollar. What Happened: The new token minting platform called Alloy By Tether will help create tokens that use Tether Gold (CRYPTO: XAUt) as collateral, as opposed to the cash and cash equivalents used for backing USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalization. For the curious, XAUt is a tokenized version of gold, providing blockchain users ownership of real physical gold. The first “Tethered Asset” to be produced using this co…