The oldest market.
Now open to everyone.
Commodities have priced the real economy for five thousand years. Retail has been locked out for most of them. Arcane is how that changes.
Democratize
the real economy.
Stocks got fractional shares in 2019. Crypto was born fractional. Real estate, art, and private credit have all had their retail moments. Commodities — the asset class that literally underpins civilization — never did.
Our job is straightforward: make every commodity, from a gram of gold to a barrel of oil, as easy to own as a share of a public company. Transparently. Compliantly. With the physical actually there, not a synthetic shadow of it.
The 22-year-old with $200 and a hypothesis about copper. The saver who wants gold without a dealer markup. The builder pricing a supply chain. The institution that wants programmable exposure without a futures desk. All of them.
We're not a derivatives exchange. We're not a brokerage. We're not a DeFi protocol dressed up in a marketing site. We're a regulated issuer of commodity-backed payment instruments — with real metal, real oil, and real grain behind every token.
Stablecoin legislation, tokenization standards, institutional-grade custody, and on-chain proof-of-reserve finally arrived in the same decade. A product like this wasn't legally or technically possible five years ago. It is now.
— Our thesis —
"The commodities market is worth twenty trillion dollars. Less than one percent of it is accessible to anyone who doesn't already work in finance. We think that ratio is wrong."
Four rules
we don't break.
A platform that custodies real assets for real people should behave like it. These are the non-negotiables we built the company around.
No synthetics. No derivatives wrapped as assets. No "tracks the price of" fine print. Every unit you hold is backed one-to-one by the commodity itself, in a bonded warehouse, serialized and attested on-chain.
A gram of gold. A tenth of a barrel. A kilo of wheat. If the market trades it, we fractionalize it. The default minimum on Arcane is one unit of whatever that commodity's smallest division is — usually under a dollar.
Reserves verified monthly by an independent PCAOB-registered auditor. Proof of reserve published on-chain via oracle. If our books don't match our physical inventory, you'll see it before we do.
Licensed issuer. Registered money services business. Full KYC and sanctions screening. Bankruptcy-remote custody. We chose the harder, slower path because retail investors deserve the same legal protections institutions have had for a century.
The way we think about this.
Most financial products are built for the top of the market and then rebranded downward. Arcane is built the other way around. The retail experience comes first; everything else is a consequence of getting that right.
If a product, fee, or disclosure needs a glossary, it's not built for the person we're trying to reach. Plain numbers, plain English, plain receipts.
We'd rather be right and slow than fast and wrong. Custody decisions, auditor selection, and regulatory posture are made for the next decade, not the next sprint.
The smartest investors we know aren't at hedge funds. They're people who read annual reports for fun. Our product reflects that assumption at every level.
Every token is redeemable for the underlying, somewhere. Most holders never will. That option existing is what makes this different from every synthetic product that came before.
Where we sit
in the world.
Physical reserves may be held by our company or third-party institutional custodians including Brinks, Loomis, and Malca-Amit across LBMA vaults, and licensed terminal partners. Monthly reserve attestations are produced by an independent PCAOB-registered accounting firm and cryptographically anchored on-chain.
We work with partners in compliance, custody, sourcing, and engineering across North America, Europe, and Asia. Services are not offered in all jurisdictions.
Arcane tokens are commodity-backed payment instruments, not securities, not deposits, and not investment advice. Commodity prices fluctuate. Past performance is not an indicator of future returns. Please review our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and risk disclosures before using the platform.
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