Datavault AI Announces Proposed Partnership With Patriot Strategic Metals To Build Tokenized Strategic Minerals Finance And Settlement Platform
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Datavault AI Inc. ("Datavault AI" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:DVLT), a provider of data monetization, credentialing, digital engagement, and real-world asset ("RWA") tokenization technologies, today announced a proposed strategic partnership with Patriot Strategic Metals LLC ("PSM") to jointly develop the Strategic Materials Acquisition Platform ("SMAP"), an institutional digital infrastructure platform designed to support the financing, tokenization, settlement, and lifecycle management of strategic mineral assets (the "Strategic Partnership").
The proposed Strategic Partnership is expected to combine PSM’s integrated strategic metals platform, including mining interests, long-term offtake agreements, refining, strategic inventories, commodity trading, and supply-chain operations, with Datavault AI’s patented RWA tokenization technology, AI-enabled digital infrastructure, blockchain-based settlement capabilities, and enterprise software platform. The companies believe the partnership will establish a framework for connecting physical strategic mineral assets with institutional digital financial infrastructure to support industries including artificial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturing, defense, robotics, advanced manufacturing, energy systems, and critical infrastructure.
Building Digital Infrastructure for Strategic Minerals
Global demand for critical minerals continues to accelerate as governments and industry invest in AI infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing, defense modernization, electrification, robotics, data centers, and resilient domestic supply chains.
The SMAP is intended to integrate:
- RWA tokenization
- Commodity-backed institutional trade finance
- Digital escrow infrastructure
- Institutional digital settlement
- Smart-contract automation
- Digital commodity registries
- Supply-chain financing
- Secondary-market infrastructure for eligible commodity-backed assets
The platform is designed to transform qualifying physical strategic mineral inventories into institutionally financeable digital assets while improving transparency, collateral efficiency, capital velocity, and operational efficiency throughout the commodity value chain.
Expanding Datavault AI’s Platform Opportunity
The Strategic Partnership would support PSM’s broader procurement platform, which, as described in PSM’s corporate information, includes an arranged revolving procurement facility of up to $20 billion (illustrative of arranged capacity and subject to definitive agreements, financing availability, and other applicable conditions; structured as a revolving procurement funding source rather than a single funding commitment). The facility is intended to support the acquisition, storage, transportation, certification, insurance, and distribution of eligible strategic minerals.
As procurement activity develops through the platform, Datavault AI’s technology is intended to support:
- RWA tokenization
- Digital settlement
- Institutional trade finance
- Compliance automation
- Digital escrow workflows
- Enterprise platform services
This framework creates the potential for recurring technology licensing, platform, and transaction-based revenues, subject to commercial deployment, financing availability, definitive agreements, and applicable regulatory requirements.
Phase I Platform Development
Subject to financing availability, execution of definitive agreements, board approvals, and applicable regulatory requirements, the proposed Strategic Partnership contemplates an initial Phase I platform development program of up to $700 million supporting institutional trade finance, digital settlement, technology integration, compliance, and platform deployment.
Within the contemplated Phase I framework, up to approximately $62 million is allocated for Datavault AI-related technology integration, licensing of digital RWA infrastructure, platform development, and implementation activities.
Multiple Long-Term Revenue Opportunities
The proposed Strategic Partnership is intended to create diversified recurring revenue opportunities through multiple institutional platform services, including:
- RWA tokenization services
- Institutional trade finance enablement
- Digital settlement services
- Digital escrow services
- Platform licensing
- Smart-contract infrastructure
- Enterprise data services
- Compliance and workflow automation
- Marketplace transaction infrastructure, where permitted by applicable regulations
The Strategic Partnership is expected to establish a framework under which, unless otherwise agreed for a specific transaction or special purpose vehicle, Datavault AI would participate in 25% of net distributable platform profits, creating the potential for recurring long-term revenue as commercial deployment expands.
Creating a New Strategic Metals Infrastructure Platform
The companies intend to integrate the strategic metals value chain into a unified institutional operating platform connecting:
- Strategic mining ownership
- Long-term offtake agreements
- Refining and advanced processing
- Certified strategic inventories
- Institutional trade finance
- RWA infrastructure
- Digital settlement
- Institutional capital markets
The companies believe this integrated model has the potential to improve financing efficiency, increase inventory liquidity, reduce settlement friction, and enhance transparency across the critical minerals ecosystem.