Since 2023, the price of gold has more than doubled, turning people’s spare jewelry or heirlooms into valuable assets—in many cases without them even fully realizing it.
At the current spot price of $4,500 an ounce, anything above 18 karats is suddenly of substantial value. Pieces bought by one’s 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.
Indian-American entrepreneur Sidhi Singhvi, who’s 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 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.
“Unvault is a way to understand the value of your jewelry that is locked in drawers and completely out of your thoughts,” Singhvi told GNN’s Andy Corbley in a telephone interview.
“It’s 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.”
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’s portfolio, allowing them to see its market value when they want, or just make it easy to include in a household audit.
“I always found it strange that gold, which is a huge asset class and an asset class that’s owned by half the houses in the US, doesn’t benefit from the infrastructure we have for Bitcoin, for example,” she said.
As December 2025 turned into January 2026, the price of gold and particularly silver went “parabolic” as the investment phrase goes, rising almost vertically to $5,600, and picking up considerable public interest along the way which Singhvi noted.
“I believe this is gold’s shining moment, not only with what’s 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’re into tracking, they want to know the value of what they own, and I think that’s a very good moment for us and something like Unvault.”
With 4.9 out of 5 stars on Trust Pilot, including 165 five-star reviews, Unvault is rapidly gaining in popularity. Along with gold, it also offers valuations of silver and gemstones.
Users report receiving substantially higher valuations for their unwanted jewelry than at pawnshops or even neighborhood jewelers that work in the resale market.
Maria from San Francisco wrote that Unvault valued her grandmother’s jewelry at $8,000, and though she didn’t choose to sell, it convinced her to take out an insurance policy on it.
Others love that they can watch the price go up and down based on movements in the market and sell their pieces without taking the risk of negotiating with a dishonest or unscrupulous merchant.
“If you want to sell to us, you can sell to us,” Singhvi said, acknowledging that it’s not a guarantee that local buyers would agree with an Unvault valuation.
“It’s okay if the jewelers or the pawnbrokers don’t want to use it, we didn’t build it for them. We built it for people who have jewelry and who have no idea, and who don’t want to go to a pawnshop or a jeweler and get paid $100 for their piece that could be worth thousands. We built it for them to get some answers quickly, from their home, from their couch even.”
JP Morgan’s price forecast for gold this year is $6,300 per ounce, implying both that there could be another 30% to run, and no better time to look through the jewelry box and revisit old pieces that may have lost their shine.
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