Create a precious metal asset
Create a gold, silver, platinum, or palladium asset with metal classification, weight-based pricing, custody context, and compliance controls.
Precious metal assets represent a fungible interest in a metal program such as gold, silver, platinum, or palladium. In DALP, the Asset Designer collects the metal classification, weight terms, pricing input, custody context, compliance rules, and initial permissions before the asset is deployed.
Use this guide when the metal program is already defined and you need to create the corresponding asset in DALP.
Before you start
Prepare these values before opening Asset Designer:
| Input | What to prepare |
|---|---|
| Metal classification | Metal type: gold, silver, platinum, or palladium. Add a purity grade when the product needs one. |
| Weight terms | Weight unit: gram, troy ounce, or kilogram. Decide how much metal one token represents. |
| Valuation input | Price currency and current spot price per selected weight unit. DALP derives the token price from weight per token multiplied by spot price per unit. |
| Custody context | Optional vault location and custodian or vault operator name. Use public-safe location detail, such as city or region. |
| Compliance controls | Compliance template or manual compliance modules for holder, minting, transfer, and policy requirements. |
| Initial permissions | Wallets that should receive administration, compliance, supply-management, emergency, or custodian responsibilities at deployment. |
Keep custody records separate
DALP can record and display custody context fields on the asset. Vault operations, inventory reconciliation, insurance, and off-chain audit procedures remain responsibilities of the issuer, custodian, and operating model.
Create the asset
Open the wizard
Open Asset designer from Asset management. The wizard saves in-progress values in the browser session, so you can move between steps without losing the configuration.
Select the real-world asset class
Choose the real-world asset class, then select a published precious metal instrument template. The template determines the deployable asset type, any required token features, and any metadata fields that the wizard must collect.
If a precious metal template is disabled, ask a template administrator to create or register the missing prerequisite token required by the template features.
Enter the asset basics
Enter the asset name, symbol, decimals, and jurisdiction. Use a name and symbol that distinguish the metal program from other issued assets.
Complete metal details
On the details step, fill the fields exposed by the selected template. A precious metal setup can include:
| Field | Use |
|---|---|
| Metal type | Classifies the asset as gold, silver, platinum, or palladium. |
| Purity grade | Optional fineness or purity classification for the metal program. |
| Vault location | Optional city or region-level storage context. |
| Custodian | Optional custodian or vault operator name. |
DALP stores these fields as template metadata for the deployed asset. Use them to keep the asset record aligned with the metal program without exposing private custody files in the public asset record.
Set weight and valuation inputs
On the pricing step, select the weight unit, enter the weight per token, and enter the spot price per unit in the selected price currency.
DALP supports gram, troy ounce, and kilogram as weight units. The token price is derived from the weight per token and spot price per unit, so use consistent units across the metal program.
Configure compliance modules
Select a compliance template or configure the required compliance modules manually. Compliance modules define who can mint, hold, transfer, or redeem the asset according to the selected policy.
If a compliance template is selected, DALP requires the final configuration to include every control declared by that template.
Assign initial permissions
Add the wallets that need operational responsibilities on the new asset. DALP groups initial asset roles into administration, compliance, and operations responsibilities, including supply-management, emergency, and custodian roles where needed.
The creator receives administration permission automatically when the creator wallet is selected.
Review and deploy
Review the summary, confirm the configuration, and authenticate with PIN or OTP wallet verification to deploy the asset.
After deployment
New assets are paused by default. Review the deployed asset, verify the metal metadata and weight terms, then unpause it when the operating approvals are complete.
The asset workspace can show:
- metal type and optional purity grade,
- weight per token and weight unit,
- storage location and custodian when provided,
- supply, holder, transfer, and event views,
- available token actions based on the user’s permissions.
Use Mint assets when the asset is ready for supply issuance, and use Asset detail workspace to inspect holder, metadata, event, and action views.