Emeralds tokenized on blockchain value 522%

The dollar, the euro, the Brazilian real, the Mexican peso, gold, silver, American shares... the list of assets tokenized on blockchain is immense, and it's now the turn of emeralds.

Although the emerald market is not as liquid as the gold market, the appreciation of emeralds has totally eclipsed the golden metal. Between 2013 and 2023, the emeralds appreciate in value about 60% while gold grew by only 5%, maintaining its traditional stability.

Now, a Dubai company specializing in emerald mining has decided to tokenize its resources by creating the SEE (Verified Emeralds). Thus providing an easy way for investors to include the gemstone in their diversifications.

Performance and market data

Despite being a novelty, with the token beginning trading in December 2025, VEREM already sees a valorization of 522%, from US$ 13.85 to US$ 86.29 per asset unit.

With 50 million tokens in circulation, the asset has more than 4.3 billion dollars in market capitalization.

At the time of writing, VEREM was traded on the cryptocurrency exchanges MEXC, Weex e BitMart. The token currently has the highest trading volume on MEXC, where traders have moved US$ 1 million in the last 24 hours.

What is VEREM?

VEREM is an RWA (Real-World Assets) project that aims to tokenize real emeralds, by creating a token backed by physical gems that are certified, audited and custodied by external companies.

The project tries to solve a classic problem: valuable physical assets are difficult to fractionate, audit and transfer globally.

By using the BNB Chain blockchain, VEREM transforms this physical asset into a negotiable digital instrument and integrated with DeFi, but still maintaining a direct link to the real thing.

In other words, cryptoassets are similar to stablecoins in the sense that their value is directly linked to their backing in real assets, but they don't have the stability of a fiat currency.

Emeralds, however, are extremely scarce, with global demand and a history of appreciation. Unlike highly inflatable commodities, natural gems have:

• Limited offer
• Complex extraction
• Cultural and historical value
• Consolidated global market

Being based on a real asset also means that the main the critical point is not the blockchain, but trust in custody, auditing and off-chain governance.

Governance and the role of the DAO

To address the issue of governance, the project proposes a structure of Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO, where token holders can participate in decisions related to the project. This includes:

• Strategic direction;
• Operational adjustments;
• Ecosystem evolution.

In practice, as with any DAO, effectiveness depends:

• From distribution of tokens;
• The actual degree of decentralization;
• Transparency of decisions.

For transparency, operations, proposals and decisions are recorded on the blockchain in an immutable way.

Conclusion

O SEE represents a clear market trend: bringing scarce physical assets onto the blockchain, trying to unite real value and digital liquidity.

The proposal is interesting, especially for those following the progress of RWAs. Even so, the success of the project depends much less on the technology itself and much more on execution in the real world.

In an increasingly monitored, inflated and centralized world, it's no surprise that initiatives like this attract attention.

It's up to everyone to do what we've always advocated here: do their own research and make their own decisions.

This post is not an investment recommendation.