Trade platform · criticalminerals.market
Buy. Ship. Settle.
Only the right party opens the file.
A factory can buy the metals inside an EV motor, see that the tonne (load) can ship this week, lock the money in escrow until it arrives — and the shipper never sees the SWIFT payments. Critical Minerals.Market is the permissioned marketplace and the vault. We are the agency, not a principal.
Periodic table
Critical minerals, listed as elements.
Every listed element can be posted or requested. Listed contracts can be matched into escrow. The tape is what actually traded. Open the table.
The stack
Five rails. One ticket.
Price, freight and banks already exist. The stack does not. A match without a vault is still a PDF.
01 Markets
Buy and sell into escrow
A match is not a payment. It opens a ticket: spec, Incoterm, identity of both sides, and the escrow instrument that will hold the cash.
02 Manifests
Ship with a file
Vessel or air waybill, container, seal, warrant, assay and chain of custody. Carrier APIs write the file. Escrow reads it before release.
03 Escrow
Identity, then money, then docs
LEI and UBO must clear before funds sit. Clean documents must clear before funds leave. Dual control on every release. The house is agent, not principal.
04 Treasury
Banks that can hold it
Segregated client-money accounts at nominated correspondents. SWIFT MT103, MT202 and MT700. House operating cash is a different book.
05 Vault
Who sees what, where, when
Default deny. KYB, assay, eBL, SWIFT — each pinned to a region, unlocked by ticket state, logged every open. The match is the ticket. The graph is the moat.
Moat under scrutiny
Software is copyable. The installed permission graph is not.
Software is copyable. A correspondent sitting on our instruction file is not. Do not take “banks plus trust” to an investment committee. Take this.
From the first live ticket
Switching cost
Four parties per tonne — buyer, seller, carrier, bank — each with a dashboard. Moving house means re-KYB, re-pinning objects, re-signing dual control, re-mapping SWIFT. 12–18 months of operational pain per logo.
Path A only
Regulatory wall
Client money, a named Chair, dual-control, ISO, AML. A clone can ship the matrix. It cannot hold the cash until Singapore says so. That is not a feature. It is eighteen months.
After ~30 paying members
Network
Lots attract buyers. Buyers attract lots. Do not underwrite this at fourteen logos. Underwrite the sales motion that gets us there.
After volume
Executed tape
Fastmarkets prints a rumour. We print a fill. Valuable only once the board is dense. Series B story, not seed.
Not a moat: The website, the periodic table, the preview ACL. “Banks as partners” before a correspondent letter exists. First-mover in an empty category. Empty categories die. A bank will not hold money on a chat thread. A mine will not re-file KYB for a clone once eight live tickets sit in our vault. Time-to-copy the company — not the demo — is the Chair, the correspondent, and thirty seats.
Agency
Match a tonne.
Two members. One escrow ticket. Six dashboards. The house never owns the mineral.
Build
Lock offtake. Keep the spread.
Pre-order the refined tonne. Buy the raw. Toll it. Three deeds, one waterfall.
Raise
Intel in. Series A out.
X, Grok and WhatsApp into an NDA. The hub is Open.Raise — not a crowd round.
Why this company exists
“Can it ship Tuesday?” is the product.
Most tonnes still move on chat, PDF contracts and paper bills. There is still no trusted place to buy a tonne, see if it can leave port, park the money, and open only the files that role is allowed to see.
The house is the venue, the manifest clerk, the escrow agent, the vault, and the payment router. It does not mine, refine or offtake as principal. Members may. That is the Build fork.
