Why Did a $330 Million Gold Token Suddenly Jump 110% on CoinGecko?

Kinesis Gold (KAU), a token backed by physical gold, appeared to surge more than 110% on CoinGecko on Monday.

The move looked dramatic. KAU briefly showed a 24-hour low near $66 before returning to around $140. Yet gold itself had not moved anywhere close to that amount.

The most likely explanation is a market data problem linked to Kinesis' own dollar stablecoin, C1USD.

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CoinGecko showed C1USD trading close to $1 while also recording a 24-hour low near $0.48. That created an apparent gain of more than 100% for the stablecoin.

The same pattern appeared in KAU.

One KAU represents one gram of gold. At current gold prices, a value close to $140 is reasonable. A price near $66 would imply that the token had suddenly lost more than half its value, even though the underlying gold had not.

The connection appears to come from the KAU/C1USD trading pair on the Kinesis exchange.