Trilitech, a London-based development company focused on the Tezos ecosystem, on Monday launched Metals.io, a new platform for trading tokenized commodities including uranium and gold, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph.
The platform expands the commodity push that Trilitech and the broader Tezos ecosystem started with Uranium.io, a retail-focused uranium marketplace that launched in December 2024 on Etherlink, Tezos’ Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible layer 2.
At launch, Metals.io will offer xU3O8 tokenized uranium, tokenized gold, and Noemon Tech’s RARE token. Uranium.io describes xU3O8 as a tokenized physical uranium product, while RareTech Materials describes RARE as a basket of strategic metals.
According to the press release, the launch responds to growing investor interest in strategic materials related to industrial uses and demand for artificial intelligence-related infrastructure. That logic reflects the tone behind Uranium.io’s 2024 debut, which Tezos framed around uranium’s role in powering nuclear power and supporting rising AI-related electricity demand.
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Metals.io aims to reduce investment barriers to uranium trading, which was previously reserved for institutional investors. The new platform is built on the same underlying technology as uranium.io, launched by Tezos in December 2024.
“One of the tenets behind launching that platform was to level the playing field by making a previously inaccessible critical asset widely available to all investors,” Ben Elvidge, head of commercial applications at Trilitech, told Cointelegraph.
Elvidge said approximately 9,000 retail investors have purchased the tokenized uranium product since the platform’s launch.
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