WHAT INVESTORS NEED TO KNOW?
- nGRND enables the monetisation of verified known Resources of in-ground gold without mining it, empowering new sustainable ownership of gold and a multiple value opportunity framework
- The company has already exceeded its 2029 Resource mineral ounce targets while only just emerging from stealth mode
- Institutional, professional and retail access to investment in, and ownership of gold is delivered through tokenisation of the in-situ gold as an RWA by a VARA regulated and licensed issuer, Tokinvest
- Resource owners receive materially higher value than traditional in-situ gold transactions
- ESG and Carbon Programmes, originated by CarbonPlanet for nGRND Inc. create independent, recurring revenue streams in addition to the goods
- nGRND Inc enables the dual value potential from the high growth potential of two uncorrelated commodity assets – gold and carbon
A STRUCTURAL SHIFT IN HOW GOLD IS MONETISED SUSTAINABLY
As gold prices continue to break historical levels, investors are increasingly focused on where sustainable value creation will occur across the gold ecosystem. Traditional mining remains capital intensive, slow to commercialise, and constrained by permitting and intense environmental pressures.
nGRND is advancing and empowering a new sustainable and multi value potential alternative approach. Rather than extracting gold, the company acquires from site owners the long-term rights to known verified in-ground gold Resources and empowers their monetisation independently through a regulated VARA issuer. Tokinvest tokenises the gold as a fully backed RWA nGRND Gold Token through their rigorous processes and financial infrastructure, monetising its value immediately but leaving the gold in place, in the ground and retaining its attributes such as a store of value.
CEO Professor Lisa Wilson summarises the this succinctly:
“Gold is gold. Whether it is above ground or in the ground, it has the same properties as a store of value. We have created a way to monetise it without destroying the land or waiting decades to build a mine.”
UNLOCKING VALUE FROM STRANDED GOLD ASSETS
Globally, billions of ounces of gold are classified as mineral Resources that currently cannot advance to production due to economic unviability such as cost, timelines, or environmental constraints. For junior developers, these assets often remain stranded and unable to be fully monetised on balance sheets.
nGRND offers an alternative monetisation pathway. Resource owners receive higher per-ounce value than conventional in-situ sales, while retaining land ownership and avoiding many headaches like long development timelines and costly environmental difficulties. Capital can be redirected toward exploration to further increase gold Resource classification and balance sheet strength, and shareholder returns instead of dilution or debt.
This approach transforms geological potential into near-term financial optionality.
REGULATED TOKENISATION WITH INSTITUTIONAL REACH
A defining feature of nGRND’s strategy is segregated and regulatory architecture. The company sponsors the generation of a real-world asset (RWA) nGRND Gold Token by an independent entity regulated and licensed by the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority in the UAE. Each nGRND Gold Token must be fully backed by verified ounces of in-ground gold that are under long-term control by nRGND Inc. Site Programes, before the issuer can release, sell or allocate the tokens from the Token Generation Event escrow pool.
This digitised structure positions tokenised gold within a framework very familiar to institutions that are already active in gold ETFs and digital gold commodity products.
According to Professor Wilson, demand has materialised early:
“Before we even exited stealth mode, we executed a signed letter of intent with a Resource owner, and our pipeline already exceeds our 2029 Resource ounce targets and we’ve just publicly entered the market.”
A PARALLEL REVENUE ENGINE THROUGH ESG AND CARBON
Avoided mining, enables nGRND Inc to sponsor alternative land-use programmes that will generate carbon credits and revenue independent of gold price movements. These carbon credit origination and environmental restoration initiatives and projects will be originated and developed by CarbonPlanet for nGRND Inc. and the assets verified by third parties.
Carbon assets are increasingly viewed as a distinct, uncorrelated asset class, with institutional adoption accelerating as their potential is viewed as an investment grade asset with significant predicted growth returns that are quite apart from other obvious opportunities as climate compliance requirements expand. For investors, these distributed revenues are additional to the growth from gold exposure. It offers a dual commodity growth and new revenue distribution opportunity.
WHY THIS MODEL IS GAINING ATTENTION
nGRND sits at the intersection of several converging forces: sustained demand for gold as a store of value, an environment that expects regulatory clarity for real-world assets, institutional adoption of tokenisation and digital assets, and rising pressure for mining to separate resource value from environmental impact.
nGRND positions itself as a mining alternative: the largest resource company that doesn’t mine!
THE OUTLOOK
With verified mineral Resource assets under long term control, regulated independent token issuance in place, clear pathways for ESG andCarbon Origination, and growing interest from both resource owners and capital markets, nGRND is advancing a model that challenges how gold has been monetised for centuries. For investors seeking differentiated exposure to gold with a clear commercialisation pathway and additional distributed value from ESG and Carbon investment grade assets, this interview highlights a company approaching a meaningful and profound inflection point.