MetaMetals

MetaMetals
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Industry	Precious metal production and processing
Founded 📆	2022
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🌐 Website	https://metametals.com/
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MetaMetals (a brand of Ardor Strategy GmbH) is a platform that specializes in the production and refinement of precious metals^[1]. This applies in particular to metals of the platinum group. These metals are extremely rare, have a wide range of industrial applications and are often subject to their own pricing mechanisms. Many platinum group metals (PGMs)^[2] were only available as investment products to a limited extent, especially not for the retail market - MetaMetals is changing this.

Another aspect of MetaMetals is the crystallization process and the refinement of the precious metals. During this process, certain precious metals from the platinum group, such as osmium, are processed into crystals. These are then offered as osmium crystals^[3] or used in jewellery from the luxury segment.

MetaMetals also enables the integration of precious metals as ‘real world assets’ on the blockchain. This goes beyond the provision of a physical precious metal - digitalisation and integration into blockchain technology in the company's own ‘MetaMetals Pro’ trading platform has created an opportunity for digital trading of the assets on offer. This can bring advantages for investors, for example in terms of storage, tradability and transparent pricing.

Production and processing of platinum metals (osmium, platinum, rhodium, iridium, palladium, ruthenium) as well as gold and silver[edit]

MetaMetals focuses on the production and processing of platinum metals. These include:

Osmium
Platinum
Rhodium
Iridium
Palladium
and Ruthenium.

These precious metals are offered either as bars^[4] or crystals in the integrated online shop. Whether a platinum metal is offered as a bar or crystal depends largely on the chemical properties of the metal and whether it can be crystallized at the current time. This also includes safety-related issues in relation to the processing of platinum metals such as iridium, rhodium or osmium^[5]. Depending on the metal, these ingots are either sintered or cast.

MetaMetals also produces and sells gold and silver in bar form.

Precious metal jewellery production[edit]

Another area of MetaMetals is the production of jewellery in the luxury segment. Platinum metals such as osmium are processed into jewellery, partly in-house and partly in cooperation with other jewellery manufacturers. This also applies to traditional precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum.

Pro platform: integration of blockchain technology for trading precious metals[edit]

On the separate MetaMetals Pro platform, physically deposited precious metals can be traded in the form of NFTs. In these cases, the metals are held in custody by MetaMetals after purchase, but can be sent to the current owner in physical form at any time if required.

The ability to trade the assets digitally is independent of the physical purchase of the precious metals and is available as an option.

Blog and precious metal price data[edit]

One focus is on providing quality information articles on the precious metals on offer. These include gold, silver, platinum, iridium, osmium, rhodium, ruthenium and palladium. Market data is used depending on availability. If no market data is available, as is the case for some metals in the platinum group such as osmium^[6], other data is used to illustrate prices.