From November 2 to 5, 2026, Toto Finance took part in AIBC World in Rome, held at Fiera Roma together with SiGMA World as one combined summit for AI, blockchain, fintech and gaming with around 30,000 delegates, 1,000 exhibitors and 300 speakers. Toto Finance exhibited in the AIBC Hall, CEO Steven Gaertner spoke on the main-stage panel on RWA liquidity and pitched in the AIBC Startup Pitch final, and Founder and Chairman Monty Metzger met Tim Draper and Charlie Lee, the creator and founder of Litecoin.
Copper. Tokenized. In the AIBC Hall
The Toto Finance booth carried one message: Copper. Tokenized. Over four days our team held many conversations with producers, investors, industrial buyers and builders, and one message came up again and again: the world is ready for real commodities on-chain. Visitors could also pick up a free chapter of Monty Metzger's book, Tokenization: Capital for Humanity.
On the main stage: the liquidity problem RWA keeps avoiding
Steven Gaertner joined the AIBC main-stage panel "Tokenized Everything, Traded by Nobody: The Liquidity Problem RWA Keeps Avoiding", moderated by Adam Miller of MIDAO, with Heslin Kim of Zenith and Joseph El Am of PRYPCO.
His point was simple. Tokenizing an asset is the easy part; liquidity comes from assets the market already wants, priced against established benchmarks and connected to real buyers. That is why Toto Finance starts with copper: a metal with exchange-standard grades, transparent pricing and industrial demand from data centers, power grids and electrification. CuTT: Tokenized Copper is designed so that industrial buyers can purchase physical copper online and digital asset investors can trade the same metal on-chain, two sides of one market.
AIBC Startup Pitch finalist
Toto Finance was selected as one of the six finalists of the AIBC Startup Pitch, the competition for startups in crypto, blockchain, Web3 and AI, and the only finalist focused on real-world asset tokenization. Steven Gaertner presented Toto Finance live on stage to the judging panel of investors and industry specialists, following his finalist pitch at the Draper-backed UTXO Pitch Night in Singapore.
Monty Metzger and Tim Draper on copper, AI and tokenization
Monty Metzger met venture investor Tim Draper, founder of Draper Associates, to discuss commodity tokenization. Their conversation turned to the growth of AI and what it means for copper: every data center needs power, cabling, transformers and cooling, and copper sits at the center of all of them. Metzger set out how tokenized commodity trading can help address the copper crunch by connecting producers, buyers and capital faster, from verified supply to settlement. Our research feature The Copper Crunch explains the numbers behind it.
Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee at the Toto Finance Booth
Charlie Lee, the computer scientist who created Litecoin, visited the Toto Finance booth. Lee launched Litecoin in October 2011 as a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency built for faster and cheaper everyday payments, often described as the silver to Bitcoin's gold. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's and a master's degree in computer science, he worked as a software engineer at Google and was Director of Engineering at Coinbase before leaving in 2017 to focus on Litecoin. Today he serves as a director of the non-profit Litecoin Foundation, which promotes Litecoin's adoption and development.
Monty Metzger and Steven Gaertner then met with Charlie Lee and the Litecoin Foundation to discuss potential collaboration: how Toto Finance could bring new real-world assets and new total value locked (TVL) to the Litecoin ecosystem, specifically by bringing CuTT, our tokenized copper, on-chain to LitVM. LitVM is Litecoin's EVM-compatible, zero-knowledge Layer 2, built to bring smart contracts, decentralized finance and tokenized real-world assets to the Litecoin ecosystem. The discussions are at an early stage; any collaboration will be announced separately.
From Rome to what comes next
AIBC World brought together the builders, investors and industry leaders shaping the next stage of digital finance, and for Toto Finance the week confirmed the direction: real commodities, starting with copper, connected to digital markets. Thank you to the AIBC and SiGMA teams, our fellow panelists and everyone who visited our booth.
Interested in tokenized copper for your company, fund or ecosystem? Contact Toto Finance.