M2i Global signs tokenization deal with Aurica, eyes gold-backed digital asset ramp
Key takeaways
- The company will retain 17% of all minted tokens in its corporate treasury as a permanent gold-backed reserve, with the remaining 83% available to qualified investors and decentralized finance liquidity venues.
- M2i will receive the right to purchase up to 30% of Aurica s common equity for $20 million, exercisable for six months.
- "We believe actively tokenized high-grade domestic critical mineral will strengthen national defense supply chains and bypass reliance on foreign sources."
M2i Global signs tokenization deal with Aurica, eyes gold-backed digital asset ramp M2i Global signs tokenization deal with Aurica, eyes gold-backed digital asset ramp Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock Proactive Mon, June 1, 2026 at 8:08 PM GMT+7 2 min read MTWO GC=F M2i Global Inc (OTC:MTWO) said on Monday it had signed a Letter of Intent with Aurica Tokenization Inc, a Nevada-based commodity tokenization company, to develop a physically-backed gold token platform that the companies expect to expand into other strategic minerals.
Under the agreement, Aurica will issue digital tokens backed one-to-one by hallmarked gold, with the company acquiring metal at a 3% discount to prevailing spot prices through supply arrangements currently in advanced negotiations with several gold mining and processing companies.
Aurica plans to begin processing $40 million of hallmarked gold in its first month of operations, scaling by $2.5 million per month until reaching a sustained run rate of $80 million per month in month 17, for cumulative first-year processing of approximately $645 million.