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Bullion World | Volume 2 | Issue 07 | July 2022

           The Vaultex Exchange is the world’s   What are the various financial
           first institutional grade and entirely   instruments you trade, and what
           cloud-based digital exchange with   is the share of precious metals     What is Security Token
           comprehensive capabilities and the   in volumes and values? How               Offering?
           potential to act as an asset-agnostic   depth is the liquidity in precious   Tokens backed by a
           full-service exchange, secondary   metals?                              security, such as equities,
           marketplace, clearinghouse, and   We will begin test trading in August   debt, and commodity-based
           broker-dealer time. The Company   and go live in September 2022 with     securities, such as gold
           is targeting a spot market launch in   spot gold.  We expect a modest   bonds, gold streams, gold
           September 2022, followed by a soft   volume at launch but see the       royalties, etc.  Vaultex will
           launch with select trading partners in   potential for considerable growth   be a secondary market
           July and August 2022.                                                    for such products once
                                             over time.  At launch, we expect
           The Vaultex Exchange operates     to have the following contracts on      regulatory approval is
           similarly to a traditional spot   exchange:                              achieved and Vaultex is
           exchange. However, it focuses     •   Spot 1kg bar gold                  granted the Recognized
           its technology on tokenizing real-                                      Market Operator license.
                                             •   Carbon neutral spot 1kg bar
           world assets with reputable support   gold (bundled with 15 tons CO2
           partners around industry-proven      offset credits)
           technology incorporated in an AAA-  •   Another product TBD
           rated jurisdiction.

           Moreover, at Vaultex, tokenized
           gold is 100% backed by physical
           gold supplied by SBMA members
           that will be stored in Brinks Co.
           vaults or with other qualified bullion
           custodians in Singapore. Market
           participants are reassured of the
           security of their investments as they
           are offered the choice to redeem
           physical gold at their will.  Vaultex will
           not make spreads on trades but will
           only charge a minimal maker/taker
           basis points fee and pass-through
           allocated gold carry costs.
           Vaultex, in partnership with Air
           Carbon Exchange, is launching
           a carbon-neutral gold contract,
           where 1 kilobar of gold is bundled
           with 15 tons of CORSIA-compliant
           carbon offset credits into a single
           agreement.  If the underlying 1
           kilobar is redeemed as physical
           metal by a market participant, the
           associated 15 tons of carbon offset
           credits are liquidated as a cash
           settlement to the redeemer.






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