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nGRND empowers opportunities for gold resources that may not be currently economically or environmentally viable

Tortola, British Virgin Islands: 2nd March 2026, nGRND Inc. (“nGRND” or the “Company”), a BVI based land management and sustainability company, is proud to announce the launch of its Site Programmes for gold producers, developers and exploration companies who have known Mineral Resources of gold on both greenfield and brownfield sites. The Site Programmes enable high-value monetisation initiatives for select properties including Canada, the USA, Australia, the EU, South Africa and South America that have verified in-ground gold.

nGRND purchases, through definitive agreements, a percentage of the verified gold resources from site owners and focuses its efforts on keeping the gold, in-situ, and remaining in-ground for those properties that may not be currently environmentally or economically viable to extract because of permitting, inaccessibility, quantity, geological characteristics, time, high capital needs, or retirement. The nGRND Site Programmes empower further monetisation and additional long-term site attribution from avoided mining and alternative sustainable land use opportunities forming a second stream of value and distributions for both the site owner and investors while keeping the title of the property with the site owner.

nGRND has begun working with properties to create new and innovative revenue, that is not royalties nor streaming or with a payback requirement, and that is non-dilutive to the capital structure, allowing site owners to capitalise their companies without additional public and / or private raises. In addition, the revenue generating components of the definitive agreements become a long-term asset on the balance sheet generating revenue from previously untapped natural wealth. These programmes provide working capital for further exploration of the properties and other sites to upgrade resources, company initiatives; normal course issuer bids, pay special dividends, empower value and deliver potential ROI to their investors.

As of the end of February 2026, less than 60 days into the Company’s programme, nGRND already has over 400,000 classified ounces of gold resources under initial agreements to be made available for tokenisation with the Issuer with Site Programmes in Canada and the USA, and with significant verified ounces of in-ground gold in the acquisition pipeline with additional opportunities forthcoming.

Under an independent agreement, separate and apart from the Site Programmes, nGRND provides the purchased classified in-ground gold to a jurisdictionally licensed Virtual Asset Services Provider (VASP) regulated by the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) in Dubai to tokenise and fully back all nGRND Gold Token, Real-World Asset commodity tokens. Beyond any value increase in gold itself, investors in the nGRND Gold Token, as well as site owners, are entitled to receive additional value and distributions from alternative land use Carbon and ESG Programme origination revenues through the nGRND Loyalty Rewards Programme, creating a dual yield opportunity for investors.

“nGRND’s innovative and world leading model and Site Programmes create long-term dual-yield commodity value for all stakeholders in the gold industry by empowering the monetisation and fully capitalised growth of natural and sustainable wealth initiatives,” said Professor Lisa Wilson, CEO of nGRND Inc. “Our programmes and the nGRND Gold Token investment opportunity democratise the ability to access gold, and benefit from the natural wealth and its stackable value for a far broader base of investors and generations on a global basis, simply, easily and with digitised trust and auditability.

nGRND team members will be at PDAC Toronto March 1 – 4, 2026, and available for site owners and investors. To arrange a meeting, please email: [email protected]

About nGRND Inc.

nGRND Inc. is a land management and sustainability company that supports verified gold discovery and enables its monetisation by keeping it in the ground for property owners and investors. Avoided mining addresses the critical need to transition to a low-carbon and more sustainable climate positive economy and additional long-term alternative land use empowers monetisation opportunities through origination of sustainability and other ESG programmes.

nGRND’s vision is to be the world’s biggest resource company that doesn’t mine.

nGRND empowers and responsibly connects investors to a world that appreciates the sustainable use of the Earth’s natural resources. It enables the secure digitisation of in-ground gold into a climate positive, fully backed Real World Asset commodity, transforming and creating a store of value of gold resources without environmental extraction.

nGRND advocates for investors looking for the sustainable use of the Earth’s natural resources by providing an avenue to verified in-ground gold that offers the stability of gold without the vast environmental damages associated with mining. nGRND also utilises carbon credit origination and other ESG socio-economic stackable value programmes, which provide a dual yield opportunity to access products leading to resource ownership that promotes ethical stewardship, transparency and inclusive participation in sustainable climate positive natural wealth.

Every RWA nGRND Gold Token equals one ounce of verified climate positive in-ground gold, initially priced at 10% of the spot price of gold at the Token Generation Event (TGE).

nGRND allows verified gold mineral resources to remain in-ground providing revenue for property owners that may be facing a currently uneconomical or environmentally difficult pathway to extraction, helping to mitigate risks such as geological uncertainty, cost of extraction, and regulatory and environmental exposure, while still supporting their further exploration and prospecting abilities.

Through its partners, nGRND also explores and implements alternative land use Carbon and ESG Programme feasibility origination engagement agreements and multiple methodology projects, which will pay net distributions to property owners and to nGRND Gold Token holders, through our Loyalty Rewards Programme.

nGRND is building an ecosystem of climate positive long-term value by changing habits and reducing the socioeconomic and environmental damage of gold mining. Every ounce of gold that remains in-ground saves almost 800kgs of emitted CO₂ into the atmosphere. This means by 2030, nGRND can achieve the elimination of at least 3 times the total CO₂ emitted for the entire global gold supply chain from avoided mining.

nGRND empowers the sustainable ownership of natural wealth.

The future of sustainable investment starts with us.

For more information, please visit nGRND.com, or contact us at [email protected]

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Robert Penington

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What if the world’s vast in-ground konwn gold Mineral Resources could generate value without ever being extracted? For centuries, that question had no answer. Now it does.

nGRND Inc. has developed an entirely new resource ownership model where they purchase the verified in-situ gold and keep it permanently in the ground. The verified gold is provided to a licensed issuer who generates, issues and sells regulated digital Tokens backed by real ounces as a Real World Asset commodity. The Q2 2026 launch will reshape how institutional investors can access these assets but also provider a broader base of investor accessibility.

Context: The stranded asset challenge

Approximately 6 billion ounces of known gold mineral resources exist globally, with a significant portion held by Canadian junior developers and exploration companies. These aren’t speculative deposits; they’re verified resources classified by geological surveys.

The challenge? Most haven’t been taken to the next step of resource evaluation to be considered more probable of geological, environmental or economic viability to extract under current conditions. Capital constraints, rising extraction costs, environmental permitting challenges, and ESG pressure have effectively stranded these assets.

For junior mining companies, this creates an extremely difficult situation: valuable resources on the books with no viable path to production. For the broader market, it represents trillions of dollars in gold that traditional mining economics cannot unlock.

Inside the Breakthrough

nGRND’s business model is deceptively straightforward: purchase these stranded resources through definitive arrangements with land management rights for a minimum 30-year terms – where they can further monetise the alternative land use.  Keep the gold in the ground. Have the gold tokenised as a regulated real world digital asset that represents one ounce of verified gold per token.

The nGRND Gold Token will be generated, issued and sold by a licensed Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) regulated under Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) providing institutional-grade legitimacy for a fundamentally new asset class. This is NOT a cryptocurrency hoping for adoption; it’s a fully regulated real-world asset with tangible verified backing.

CEO Professor Lisa Wilson brings deep mining industry credibility to the model. Having worked with major producers throughout her career, Lisa recognised that extraction isn’t necessary to overcome the challenges of mine development and for value creation when you can tokenise verified resources and eliminate socioeconomic and environmental destruction.

“We go out to that global market, and we acquire rights to sites and purchase the known, verified mineral resources of in-situ, in-ground gold,” Professor Wilson explained. “Our role is to obtain those assets from those mining companies and take over those sites for alternative land use for a minimum of 30 years.”

The company also independently sponsors the alternative land use development for Carbon and ESG Programmes that originate projects through independent partners like CarbonPlanet and Foresteam. By preventing socioeconomic and environmental destruction from avoided mining, nGRND creates opportunities for a second revenue stream and a dual yield for the Token from monetised sustainable alternative land uses.

What This Means for Investors: Massive Addressable Market

Access to billions of ounces of known gold resources that are currently stranded and illiquid, representing a market opportunity traditional mining cannot efficiently monetise.

ESG Compliance Without Compromise

Full gold exposure with a climate and socioeconomic positive impact, no extraction costs, no permitting delays, no ongoing environmental management bonds, and no operational risks associated with traditional mining. 

Dual Yield Streams

The nGRND Gold Token is fully backed by the spot gold price appreciation (currently above USD$5,000 per ounce with Wall Street forecasting prices toward $6,100 by 2030, plus the additional distributions from co-benefits of exponential growth in carnon assets from nGRND’s avoided mining and other alternative land use sustainability programmes

Regulatory Framework Established

Full compliance through Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority provides institutional-grade legitimacy for tokenised hard assets.

First Mover Advantage

Creating a new dual yield Real World Asset commodity class ahead of competitors maximising the significant partnerships and entities the team bring to the table from a mining, technology, financial, sustainability and regulatory point of view.  The ecosystem is built and engaged.

Partnership Potential with Tier 1 Producers

Major mining companies hold land with marginal resources that may be retired or on brownfield sites that are also currently not environmentally or economically viable to take to extraction. This establishes further strategic collaboration opportunities.

The Competitive Edge

Legacy gold ownership requires either physical possession with storage, transport and security costs and risks, or mining company equity exposure with operational and extraction risks. nGRND eliminates both while maintaining direct gold price correlation with a dual yield from natural wealth.

What traditional miners cannot easily replicate is the economic model itself. For junior developers with stranded resources, nGRND offers monetisation without the decade-long, capital-intensive journey from exploration to production.

For Tier 1 producers holding marginal resources, the value proposition includes eliminating environmental liabilities and operational headaches while maintaining shareholder value through tokenised ownership rather than physical extraction.

The company’s approach keeps all token issuance and carbon and ESG origination at arm’s length through independent regulated bodies. This structure prevents conflicts of interest while ensuring credibility with institutional capital.

Professor Wilson emphasised the collaborative rather than competitive dynamic: “If I’m a Tier 1, it makes absolute sense to go, well actually, we could do the same thing as junior developers. We would lose our headaches. We wouldn’t have to worry about environmental protection of the land. Instead of just monetising the gold that’s in the ground, we can do other stuff like further exploration.”

Broader Market Implications

Three powerful trends converge to create optimal timing for nGRND’s model:

Gold at Historic Highs

With prices above $5,000 per ounce and bullish forecasts extending toward $6,100 or higher by 2030, investor demand for gold exposure has never been stronger. Central banks have been acquiring gold at 50% greater rates than ever before

Blockchain Infrastructure Maturing

Tokenised Real-World Assets have moved from innovation to institutional-grade, with regulatory frameworks like Dubai’s VARA providing legitimate oversight expected by institutional and other investors.

ESG Mandates Intensifying

Institutional investors face mounting pressure for sustainable investments. Retail and professional investors expect sustainable alignment not only because it’s good for the planet – but because it returns high growth. Traditional gold mining’s socioeconomic impact and environmental footprint increasingly troubles ESG-focused capital allocators and mining regulators.

Traditional gold ETFs, Gold Tokens and digitally transacted physical gold holdings already demonstrate investor appetite for non-operational gold exposure. nGRND extends this concept while solving the environmental problem that makes traditional mining increasingly untenable.

The junior mining sector holds vast resources that may currently not reach production due to capital constraints, rising extraction costs, and environmental permitting challenges. nGRND offers these companies an exit strategy that monetises assets at a significantly higher return than currently being offered – without requiring production.

Expert Perspective

“If it’s classified as a mineral resource, it hasn’t been evaluated to be currently environmentally or economically viable to get it out of the ground. That vast majority of gold sits with junior developers and is, in essence, really a stranded asset.” Professor Lisa Wilson, CEO of nGRND Inc.

“Institutional investors are already playing in this digital space, they’re already putting money into ETFs, and they’re purchasing physical gold tokens such as HSBC Gold Token. To me, it makes no logical sense to say, why wouldn’t I invest in in-ground gold?” Professor Lisa Wilson, CEO of nGRND Inc.

“If we’ve got 50% more gold sitting in vaults that we’re either wearing or storing—we’re not using it, we’re just using it as a store of value to back assets—why do we need to keep digging it up?” Professor Lisa Wilson, CEO of nGRND Inc.

The Path Forward

Professor Wilson projects the company could achieve unicorn status with a USD$1 billion valuation within nine months of the Q2 2026 nGRND Gold Token launch. With gold’s finite supply and growing institutional demand for sustainable hard assets, the scale potential extends beyond junior resources to partnerships with major producers seeking to monetise marginal assets.

The regulatory approval environment and issuer is secured. Several site properties are secured with a further significant pipeline of gold under discussion.  The ESG and Carbon Programmes are structured through independent verification. The market opportunity is quantified at 6 billion ounces of stranded resources.

What remains is the Token Generation Event execution and to excite investor appetite for a category-defining commodity proposition that challenges a centuries-old assumption about gold ownership.

nGRND Inc. isn’t improving mining. It’s making mining unnecessary for value creation of stranded assets. The company has identified a fundamental inefficiency in global resource markets and built infrastructure to unlock it.

For investors seeking exposure to gold’s price appreciation while demanding ESG compliance, nGRND offers a solution that didn’t exist six months ago. The Q2 2026 launch will test whether the market agrees that extraction isn’t required for value creation for verified in-ground resources  and that a new model can command premium valuations with a dual yield from natural wealth.

Disclosure
 nGRND Inc. is a client of AGORACOM Internet Relations Corp.

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