Could 2026 Usher in Increased Trading of Tokenized Copper?
With gold and silver repeatedly setting new all-time highs, investor interest is also spilling over into smaller-scale industrial metals such as copper. Blockchain infrastructure may act as the conduit for this shift, allowing capital to flow into the digital asset space via commodity tokenization. A number of signals point to copper potentially following a price trajectory similar to silver’s recent surge, raising the prospect that tokenized copper markets could expand rapidly in 2026. Projections from Toto Finance show that global copper consumption could climb to approximately 42 million metric tons by 2040. At the same time, the red metal’s supply is expected to reach its high point around the end of this decade before entering a…