Minestarters Roadmap Q2 Update: Testnet, Compliance, and the Bermuda Shift
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We are closing in on the midpoint of the year, and the capital markets for junior mining are highly active, but only for those with access. Direct exposure to individual early stage exploration is a very high risk approach. Institutional digital capital demands better infrastructure, clear regulatory frameworks, and secondary market optionality before deploying funds. We’re building Minestarters to provide that exact architecture. We are sharing our Q2 roadmap update to outline what we achieved in the first quarter and where our operational focus is shifting over the coming months.
Q1 Recap: Discovery and Private Testnet Foundations
The first quarter of 2026 was strictly about laying the foundation. We moved rapidly from conceptual architecture to tangible execution.
We officially launched our website and social channels to begin communicating our thesis to the broader market. Behind the scenes, we assembled a core team that bridges two entirely different industries. Our internal roster now houses deep expertise across traditional mining operations, regulatory compliance, technical blockchain development, and institutional marketing. You cannot build a viable real-world asset product without native experts from both sides of the table. We now have that team fully established.
With the team in place, we successfully deployed our private testnet for the Minestarters MVP. This was a critical milestone. We invited our core community to test the platform, the platform integrations,, and test the user interface of our tokenized pre-extraction mining vaults. The testnet allows us to gather user feedback, identify points of friction in the user interface, and stress test the allocation mechanics before real capital is involved. By interacting with simulated vaults for assets like mining private equities, mining stocks and also commodities such as gold, copper, and uranium, our early users are helping us refine the exact user journey that institutional allocators will eventually experience.
Engaging Top Tier Compliance Partners
Bringing institutional capital on-chain requires airtight legal and technical frameworks. During Q1, we officially engaged our primary legal and security & compliance partners: Walkers and Hacken.
Walkers is one of the premier offshore law firms globally. Their guidance is absolutely critical for our corporate structuring and regulatory alignment. On the technical side, Hacken brings elite smart contract security auditing to the table and deep expertise of compliance in the RWA space and specifically in relation to the requirement of the Bermuda Monetary Authority. We are dealing with tokenized representations of highly valuable intangible assets. Walkers and Hacken gives us the legal and technical baseline required to build a compliant institutional product.
Q2 Updates: The Strategic Shift to Bermuda
As we moved into Q2, our operational focus shifted heavily toward audit and compliance. The most significant update is a major structural pivot regarding our corporate entity.
Initially, we explored using a Swiss Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to house our tokenized assets. Switzerland has a strong regulatory environment for digital assets and there’s a legal path for tokenizing SPV equity, making it a logical starting point. However, as we reviewed options with our legal counsel, we identified a more elegant, efficient and equally robust alternative. We are now officially incorporating a Bermuda Segregated Accounts Company (SAC) to custody the real world assets and issue corresponding vault tokens, and we are incorporating a separate company to operate the platform, manage the vault token secondary market and issue utility tokens. Both of these entities are submitting applications to the Bermuda Monetary Authority for licenses under the Digital Asset Business Act (DABA).
The Bermuda SAC structure is ideal for tokenised RWA vaults . It allows us to legally ring-fence each individual vault. This means the assets and liabilities within a gold exploration vault are entirely separate from the assets in a copper or lithium vault. If one specific vault faces legal or financial challenges, all the other vaults remain completely insulated. This bankruptcy-remote structure is a mandatory requirement for serious asset managers. Bermuda currently provides the clearest, most robust regulatory pathway to achieve this specific corporate architecture.
New Mining Analytics Track and Miner Onboarding
Alongside our legal structuring, our engineering team is actively building out a new Mining Analytics Dashboard. Our investors need to understand exactly what is happening with the underlying assets inside their tokenized vaults. This dashboard will bridge the gap between the physical rock in the ground and the digital token in a wallet. It will track geological progress, projected All-In Sustaining Costs, and feasibility milestones for the pre-extraction projects we onboard. It delivers the constant transparency that traditional junior mining private placements have historically lacked.
Simultaneously, we are deep into the actual miner onboarding process. Our geological team is actively vetting early stage exploration projects. We are applying strict due diligence standards to ensure only projects with viable economic fundamentals make it into our vaults. Rejecting subpar projects is just as important as onboarding good ones, and our strict filtering process remains in full effect.
Looking Ahead: Audits, Mainnet, and Scale
As we round out Q2 and look toward the second half of the year, our technical roadmap becomes heavily focused on rigorous code audits and auditor integrations. We are currently building the reporting tooling that will interface directly with third party auditors. This infrastructure will allow us to continuously verify Net Asset Value and project data, ensuring complete on-chain transparency.
Moving into Q3 and Q4, our focus will shift to the MVP Mainnet launch, and scaling the platform. This upcoming phase will introduce our improved basket signalling features, finalized allocation mechanics, and introduction of the ART Token. The infrastructure is falling into place, our compliance framework is locked in, and we are moving steadily toward mainnet execution. We will continue to keep the community updated as we clear these upcoming milestones.