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Q-Commodities · ex. Quantum Gold
Tokenized gold and precious metals, quantum-secure.
Quantum Chain is the infrastructure for licensed issuers to tokenize gold and precious metals — silver, copper, nickel and beyond — with each unit designed to be backed by allocated physical reserves and secured at the protocol layer.
ASSETS
Gold & more
Backing model
Allocated
Cryptography
Post-quantum
Transparency
On-chain proof
The context
Tokenized metals only work if the trust holds.
Tokenized gold and precious metals promise the liquidity of digital assets with the stability of real-world value. But that promise rests entirely on trust: that each token is genuinely backed, that the backing can be verified, and that the security underneath will last. Quantum Chain is the infrastructure that lets licensed issuers deliver on all three — the issuer holds the metal; Quantum Chain provides the technology.
Backing must be verifiable
Standing up quantum-secure, tokenized infrastructure internally demands rare expertise and years of work most institutions can't spare.
Compliance still applies
Tokenizing a commodity does not remove the obligations around it. Eligibility, transfer rules and reporting still need to be enforced.
Stores of value last decades
Precious metals are held for the long term. The cryptography securing a tokenized holding must remain unbroken through the quantum transition.
Multi-asset tokenization
Issue tokenized gold, silver, copper, nickel and other precious and industrial metals from one platform, each represented as a securely issued digital unit.
Allocation transparency tooling
Infrastructure to support proof of allocated backing, giving the issuer the means to evidence that issued tokens correspond to physical metal it holds. The metal itself is held and managed by the issuer.
Compliance & policy controls
Configurable eligibility, transfer rules and screening to support the issuer's regulatory obligations across the jurisdictions it operates in.
Post-quantum security
Tokenized holdings are secured with post-quantum cryptography at the protocol layer, protecting long-held stores of value through the quantum transition.
Capabilities
What Quantum Chain provides.
Infrastructure for licensed issuers to tokenize precious metals with verifiable backing and lasting security. The metal is held by the issuer; Quantum Chain provides the technology layer.
Allocate
The licensed issuer holds and allocates physical metal in line with its requirements, and connects it to the platform for reporting.
Issue
The issuer mints tokenized metal units on a post-quantum secure ledger, under its own governance and controls.
Transfer
Tokens move between eligible parties, with transfer rules, screening and policy controls enforced automatically.
Redeem & prove
Holders redeem against the issuer's allocated metal, while proof-of-allocation reporting remains continuously available.
How it works
From bullion to token.
Four stages, with the licensed issuer holding the metal and carrying the obligations throughout.
Supported metals
Cryptography
Backing
Compliance controls
Governance
Integration
Deployment
Gold, silver, copper, nickel and other precious and industrial metals
ML-KEM
ML-DSA
SLH-DSA
NIST-aligned post-quantum algorithms, with crypto-agility for future schemes.
Allocated physical metal held and managed by the licensed issuer; the platform provides proof-of-allocation tooling, not custody of metal
Configurable eligibility, transfer restrictions and screening to support the issuer's obligations
Permissioned access, role-based controls, and full audit logging
REST & gRPC APIs, ISO 20022 adapters, and connectors for core banking and treasury systems
Cloud, on-premise, or hybrid — within the institution's own security perimeter
Technical specification
Built for institutional integration.
Use cases
Who deploys Q-Assets.
Refiners & issuers
Metal issuers
Refiners and licensed issuers tokenize their allocated metal, opening it to digital distribution with verifiable backing.
Banks
Bullion banks
Banks bring precious-metals products on-chain for settlement and client access, secured at the protocol layer.
Asset managers
Commodity funds
Asset managers offer tokenized metal exposure with the transparency and security institutional investors expect.