- Metals.io has launched in the Tezos ecosystem with tokenized uranium, gold and strategic metals available from day one.
- The new app builds on the earlier uranium.io model and pushes Tezos further into the real-world asset trade.
Tezos is pushing further into the real-world asset trade with the launch of Metals.io, a new platform focused on tokenized exposure to precious and rare earth metals.
The move follows the ecosystem’s earlier work on tokenized uranium ownership and signals a broader commodities play. This time, the focus is not limited to one niche market. Metals.io is designed to open access to a wider basket of assets that are usually harder to reach for ordinary investors, especially through familiar onchain rails.
From tokenized uranium to a wider metals market
The launch gives the Tezos ecosystem a more expansive RWA footprint. After using tokenization to bring uranium onchain, developer teams are now targeting metals tied to both traditional store-of-value demand and industrial supply chains. That includes precious metals, but also materials linked to advanced manufacturing, energy infrastructure and the tech sector.
Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos, framed the shift in fairly direct terms, saying commodity markets are global and essential but still “fragmented and layered with intermediaries.” He added that tokenization helps streamline ownership and transfer at scale, particularly as energy and critical materials become more economically sensitive.
Tezos leans deeper into the RWA trade
What stands out here is the timing. Tokenized Treasury products have dominated much of the recent RWA conversation in crypto, but metals bring a different angle. They are more cyclical, more politically exposed in some cases, and often tied to real industrial bottlenecks.
That seems to be part of the pitch. Dimitrios Kavvathas, founder of Noemon Tech, said rising innovation in AI and adjacent sectors is already feeding through into stronger demand for critical materials. In his words, Metals.io shows that “the future of RWA investing is taking place on Tezos.”
For Tezos, this is less about adding another tokenized product and more about building out a commodity lane inside its broader onchain economy.
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