https://totofinance.com/ The mine-to-market platform for tokenized commodities, starting with copper. Announcements, research and insights from Toto Finance. en https://totofinance.com/newsroom/monty-metzger-keynotes-mining-forum-americas-2026/ https://totofinance.com/newsroom/monty-metzger-keynotes-mining-forum-americas-2026/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 News Toto Finance Founder and Chairman Monty Metzger delivers the keynote Capital for Humanity: Tokenization and the Next Financing Pathway for Mining at Mining Forum Americas 2026 in Colorado Springs on Tuesday, September 29 at 12:25 PM MDT. Livestreamed free and on demand. https://totofinance.com/research/can-copper-be-tokenized/ https://totofinance.com/research/can-copper-be-tokenized/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Commodity Tokenization Yes. LME Grade A copper cathode is standardized, assayed, warehoused under receipt systems and priced on two global exchanges, which is everything a physically backed token needs. The open question is not whether but how: backing, custody, redemption and compliance. https://totofinance.com/research/how-can-blockchain-finance-copper-mines/ https://totofinance.com/research/how-can-blockchain-finance-copper-mines/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mine Financing By representing verified reserves and scheduled production as digital claims that a wide pool of investors and buyers can hold, trade and settle instantly, then converting those claims into physical copper when the metal is delivered. This is mine-to-market financing. https://totofinance.com/research/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-copper-mine/ https://totofinance.com/research/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-copper-mine/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Copper Close to two decades. Mines that began producing between 2020 and 2023 took 17.9 years on average from discovery to first output, up from 12.7 years a decade earlier. Permitting, financing and construction each take longer than they used to. https://totofinance.com/research/what-is-a-copper-offtake-agreement/ https://totofinance.com/research/what-is-a-copper-offtake-agreement/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mine Financing An offtake agreement commits a buyer, often a trader, smelter or industrial consumer, to purchase a defined share of a mine's future output at a price linked to benchmarks. It gives the producer revenue certainty that lenders require, and often comes with a prepayment. https://totofinance.com/research/why-is-there-a-copper-supply-gap/ https://totofinance.com/research/why-is-there-a-copper-supply-gap/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Copper Demand from grids, vehicles and data centers is rising while new mines take close to two decades to build, ore grades fall and capital arrives late. The IEA projects a roughly 25 percent shortfall by 2035 unless investment accelerates. https://totofinance.com/research/copper-and-ai-data-centers/ https://totofinance.com/research/copper-and-ai-data-centers/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Copper Every megawatt of data center capacity needs copper in transformers, busbars, cabling and cooling. The IEA projects data center electricity use will more than double to around 945 TWh by 2030, adding a new source of copper demand on top of grids, vehicles and buildings. https://totofinance.com/research/how-copper-mines-are-financed/ https://totofinance.com/research/how-copper-mines-are-financed/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Mine Financing Copper mines are financed in stages by equity, bank project finance, offtake-linked prepayments, streaming and royalty deals and, once producing, trade finance. Each instrument trades off dilution, leverage, lost upside and time. https://totofinance.com/research/physical-redemption-tokenized-commodities/ https://totofinance.com/research/physical-redemption-tokenized-commodities/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Commodity Tokenization Redemption is the process by which a token holder surrenders tokens and receives the physical commodity. It follows a defined sequence from request to delivery, and it is what anchors a token's value to the metal. https://totofinance.com/research/proof-of-reserves-tokenized-commodities/ https://totofinance.com/research/proof-of-reserves-tokenized-commodities/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Technology Proof of reserves is the ongoing evidence that the commodity backing a token exists in the stated quantity and quality and is legally held for token holders. It combines documents, attestations, audits and on-chain reconciliation. https://totofinance.com/research/tokenized-copper-vs-copper-etfs/ https://totofinance.com/research/tokenized-copper-vs-copper-etfs/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Commodity Tokenization Most copper exchange-traded funds give exposure through futures or mining equities, not metal, and their shares cannot be redeemed for copper. Tokenized copper is a direct, fully paid claim on defined copper that settles on-chain. https://totofinance.com/research/tokenized-copper-vs-copper-futures/ https://totofinance.com/research/tokenized-copper-vs-copper-futures/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Commodity Tokenization Futures are standardized exchange contracts for future delivery, priced against a curve and held on margin. Tokenized copper is a digital claim on defined metal or defined production that settles on-chain. The two serve different purposes. https://totofinance.com/insights/blockchain-is-to-commodity-trading-what-email-was-to-the-letter/ https://totofinance.com/insights/blockchain-is-to-commodity-trading-what-email-was-to-the-letter/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Markets The letter did not disappear when email arrived. It stopped being how most communication happened. Physical commodities will not disappear either. The paper that records who owns them will. https://totofinance.com/insights/the-copper-crunch/ https://totofinance.com/insights/the-copper-crunch/ Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Copper Demand for copper is arriving on a timescale of years. New supply arrives on a timescale of decades. The gap in between is the copper crunch, and it is a financing and infrastructure problem before it is a geology problem. https://totofinance.com/newsroom/from-copper-to-digital-ownership-monty-metzger-to-keynote-at-wyoming-global-technology-summit/ https://totofinance.com/newsroom/from-copper-to-digital-ownership-monty-metzger-to-keynote-at-wyoming-global-technology-summit/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 News At the invitation of Jack Selby of Thiel Capital and the Jackson Hole Technology Partnership, Monty Metzger keynotes the 13th Wyoming Global Technology Summit on September 10 in Jackson Hole, on how digital ownership unlocks commodity markets, from copper and critical minerals to the mine-to-market infrastructure Toto Finance is building.