Notices

Operating perimeter.

The selected launch model is a permissioned bilateral bulletin board and workflow technology provider. Production transaction functions remain blocked until qualified counsel and the required providers approve the rulebook and lifecycle.

Selected role

Critical.Minerals displays non-binding indications from admitted corporate principals and supports bilateral evidence workflows. It does not match, execute, arrange, recommend or form trades. The preview operates at criticalminerals.market; the illustrative tape sits at criticalminerals.today. Desk mail: desk@criticalminerals.market.

What this is not

Not an exchange or other regulated venue, broker, agent, principal, payment institution, escrow agent, custodian, trustee, FX dealer, carrier, warehouse, lender or eBL registry. No retail, anonymous or pseudonymous participation is permitted.

Funds and title

Critical.Minerals does not receive, hold, control, transmit or release funds or title. The principals appoint regulated banks or an independent escrow provider and a legally recognised electronic-title provider. Platform records, events and hashes are evidence only and do not transfer title or create settlement finality.

Eligible pilot

The proposed pilot is limited to admitted corporate principals in the UK, Australia and EEA, on individually approved physical-shipment corridors. Retail clients, pooled vehicles, financial products and all unapproved jurisdictions are excluded. Every incorporation, owner, bank, origin, route, end user, commodity and currency must pass the approved corridor matrix.

Binding point and finality

A listing or contact request is non-binding. A trade exists only when the principals separately execute their bilateral sale contract. That contract and the controlling providers determine cancellation, title, payment and finality; the platform cannot create, amend, cancel, settle or adjudicate the trade.

Privacy

Proposed production hosting and primary backups remain in the UK/EEA. The controller, processors, transfer mechanism and category-level retention schedule must be approved before identity data is collected. The proposed transaction-record baseline is the relationship plus seven years, subject to counsel and regulatory requirements.

Implementation gate

No live buy, sell, match, fund, escrow, release, SWIFT, title-transfer or settlement function may ship until the operating entity and jurisdictions are selected, the licence matrix and providers are confirmed, and qualified counsel approves the member rulebook, bilateral contract template and transaction lifecycle. The full implementation baseline is maintained in docs/legal-operating-model.md.