The demand for rare earth and precious metals has intensified, driven on one hand by industrial applications and on the other by investors seeking portfolio diversification amid economic uncertainty.
The U.S. governmentʼs establishment of a U.S. critical mineral reserve has brought further attention to precious metals, which are essential to modern manufacturing and used in everything from smartphones to wind turbines and fighter jets.
Existing options to invest directly in these metals — such as ETFs, managed funds, company stocks, etc. — often have limitations, including regional restrictions, strict trading hours, high entry barriers, and minimum purchase requirements.
Investors are often provided only with indirect exposure and must depend on asset managers or specific platforms, exchanges, or brokerages to invest in each metal.
Metals.io removes those traditional barriers to investing in metals, providing individual investors 24/7 global access to rare earth metals, critical metals, gold, uranium, and more.
Why You Should Invest in Metals With Metals.io
Metals.io offers multiple advantages designed to improve accessibility and portfolio management for metals investments.
Tokenized metals
Metals.io enables direct ownership of physical metals through blockchain-powered tokenization.
Each token acts like a “warehouse receipt,” proving that you have ownership of physical assets stored on your behalf by a trusted provider, while removing many of the limitations of traditional commodity investments, such as high minimum purchase requirements, limited transparency, restricted trading hours, counterparty risk, and high management fees.
Metals.io has zero asset management fees, no minimum purchase requirement, reduced counterparty risk, and is independently audited.
Tokenized metals also offer the advantages of digital assets, including fractional ownership, divisibility, fungibility, and 24/7 global tradability.
A unified metals portfolio:
Metals.io enables investors to manage their metals portfolio within a single, unified view, providing real-time visibility.
Investors also get stronger risk management through simplified tracking and oversight and centralized portfolio management that empowers investors to manage their metals holdings with greater ease and control. Additionally, the platform helps investors discover, understand, and access new metals, supporting broader portfolio diversification.
Strong foundations
Each metal available on Metals.io is powered by industry-leading partners and an experienced team from the world of commodities, blockchain, and finance:
- The Tezos blockchain for efficient, secure transactions
- Curzon Uranium, a uranium trading company that has traded over $1 billion worth of uranium since its inception
- Archax, the UK's first regulated digital securities exchange
- The physical uranium backing xU3O8 is securely stored in a regulated depository operated by Cameco, one of the worldʼs largest uranium providers.
- Noemon Finance, a CySEC-regulated investment firm under MiFID II, for the custody management of strategic metals
- Strategic metals are stored with MetlockGmbH, a specialized, high-security storage provider in the European Union designed for strategic tangible assets
- VNX Commodities, a Liechtenstein-registered Trusted Technology Service Provider, tokenizing LBMA-certified physical gold
Invest directly in metals
Metals.io’s centralized portfolio management empowers individual investors to manage their metals holdings with greater ease and control, and gives them stronger risk management through simplified tracking and oversight.
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