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Key Takeaways Commodity tokenization connects capital directly to constrained physical assets and supply chains.
The real opportunity lies in verification, custody and production-linked financial structures.
Future startups will bridge software, finance and physical infrastructure to unlock efficiency.
For most of the last decade, you could build a very large business without ever thinking about the physical world. Software scaled. Capital was cheap. Supply chains mostly worked.
That’s no longer true.
If you’re building in AI, energy or anything tied to infrastructure, you’ve probably already run into it: the constraint isn’t code — it’s materials. Copper doesn’t move fast enough. Permitting takes too long. Supply chains are tighter than people expected.
And yet, the way we finance and trade those materials hasn’t really evolved.
That’s where commodity tokenization starts to get interesting — not as a crypto narrative, but as a way of connecting capital more directly to physical assets.
So what is commodity tokenization, really?
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