To the Moon... Literally: Trilitech Tokenizes Gold and Uranium on Tezos

Trilitech has graduated from moon memes to actual mining — well, tokenizing, because apparently printing digital tokens is close enough. The London-based Tezos development shop dropped Metals.io on Monday, a shiny new platform for trading tokenized commodities including uranium and gold, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph.

This is barely Trilitech's second rodeo in the commodities space. The platform expands a commodities push that Trilitech and the broader Tezos ecosystem began with Uranium.io, a retail-facing uranium marketplace that went live in December 2024 on Etherlink, Tezos' Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible layer 2. Someone at Tezos really seems to think atoms are the new bytes.

At launch, Metals.io is set to 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 describe RARE as a basket of strategic metals. For those keeping score at home, that's now three ways to get exposure to shiny and/or radioactive things without ever touching a single bar or rod.

According to the release, the launch responds to growing investor interest in strategic materials tied to industrial use and artificial intelligence-related infrastructure demand. That logic echoes the pitch behind Uranium.io's 2024 debut, which Tezos framed around uranium's role in powering nuclear energy and supporting rising electricity demand tied to AI. Nothing says "AI future" quite like betting on the fuel that powers the datacenters hallucinating your prompts.

Metals.io aims to reduce the investment barriers to uranium trading, which was previously reserved for institutional investors