Tezos Expands RWA Offering with Sub-50ms Metals Trading
Trilitech, a London-based Tezos R&D hub, launched Metals.io on March 30, 2026, significantly expanding the blockchain's real-world asset (RWA) capabilities. The new platform enables investment and trading in tokenized commodities that are essential for the technology sector and the accelerating AI industry. Leveraging Tezos' smart-rollup technology, Metals.io provides traders with near-instant transaction confirmations, boasting a sub-50 millisecond latency that offers a critical advantage in dynamic commodity markets.
At launch, the platform features several key tokenized assets. These include the xU3O8 token for uranium, VNX Gold (VNXAU) which provides digital proof of ownership for physical gold held in a Liechtenstein vault, and the RARE token by Noemon Tech. The RARE token offers investors transparent exposure to a diversified basket of five strategic metals selected for their industrial value, including hafnium, rhenium, indium, neodymium oxide, and praseodymium oxide.
Platform Follows Successful December 2024 Uranium.io Launch
The Metals.io launch builds on the proven model of uranium.io, a platform for tokenized uranium ore concentrate that went live on Tezos' EVM-compatible layer, Etherlink, in December 2024. The uranium.io initiative successfully bridged the multi-billion-dollar traditional commodity market with decentralized finance, earning a 'Best New Product' award at the Benzinga Global Fintech Awards for its innovation. Metals.io leverages this successful framework to facilitate access to other in-demand assets.
The strategic move positions Tezos to capture growing demand for critical materials as the AI revolution intensifies. By tokenizing these assets, the platform simplifies ownership and global transfer, removing traditional market intermediaries and frictions.
Commodity markets are global and indispensable, yet access to them remains fragmented and layered with intermediaries. As the AI revolution accelerates, energy and critical materials are becoming core economic constraints. Tokenization streamlines ownership and transfer of these assets at a global scale.
— Arthur Breitman, Co-founder of Tezos.
