2.2 The Current Landscape

Gold mining remains one of the most profitable and essential economic sectors worldwide. With intrinsic value recognized for millennia, gold continues to serve as a store of value, a protective asset, and a strategic industrial input. In times of global uncertainty, its role becomes even more pronounced.

However, the sector still suffers from historical inefficiencies, lack of transparency, and significant entry barriers. Small miners, who represent a significant portion of global production in various regions, face technical, environmental, and financial limitations that compromise their operations and make them easy targets for exploitative intermediaries or lead them to abandon high-potential areas due to lack of capital and technical support.

At the same time, traditional investors have limited access to real opportunities in mining — whether due to high initial costs, regulatory complexity, operational risks, or lack of liquidity in physical assets. There is a gap between the productive potential of mines and the ability to capitalize on this value in a modern, transparent, and scalable way.

On the other hand, blockchain is transforming entire sectors with transparency, decentralization, liquidity, and smart governance. Even so, its direct application to physical assets like gold is still incipient and, in many cases, poorly implemented.