The Northern Miner, global mining news since 1915, has published a video interview with Toto Finance Founder and Chairman Monty Metzger, recorded at Mining Forum Americas 2026 in Colorado Springs. In conversation with Western Editor Henry Lazenby, Metzger set out how Toto Finance aims to help miners raise capital by selling digital claims on copper before it leaves the ground. Read the article on The Northern Miner.
Capital before production, supply before it is scarce
The interview covers the idea at the center of Toto Finance's mine-to-market platform and of Metzger's new book, Tokenization: Capital for Humanity. Toto Finance, a US-based company, is developing digital claims on refined copper held in US warehouses and on future mine production.
For miners, the proposition is access to capital ahead of production, without the long wait that traditional project finance requires. For buyers building data centers and other infrastructure, it is a way to secure future copper supply. Metzger also explained why technology investors who fund industrial projects expect the speed they are used to in digital markets:
"They don't like to wait 30 days for a settlement of a trade. They don't want paper trails and DocuSigns and sending around."
Watch the interview
What comes next
The Northern Miner's assessment is the right one: the model now has to prove itself in practice, by raising money for miners before production starts and by making sure buyers receive their copper on time. That is Toto Finance's focus, starting with CuTT: Tokenized Copper for US industrial buyers and investors.
Read our earlier reports from Mining Forum Americas: the keynote announcement and Can Tokenization Solve Mining's Capital Crisis?