The London Metal Exchange just experienced an outage lasting nearly 2 hours and 30 minutes, blocking trades on zinc and aluminum amid heightened geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. This isn't an isolated case—the CME Group itself suffered a 10-hour interruption last November, and another 2-minute disruption on natural gas in January. Major traditional financial infrastructures are failing, and when they do, it's rarely at the right time.

What's striking is that these incidents occur precisely during periods of high volatility or crisis contexts, exactly when market availability is most critical. For an investor exposed to precious metals, 2 hours and 30 minutes of downtime in a bull market means missed opportunities or unhedged risks.

A question emerges: could the tokenization of precious metals on blockchain, with its 24/7 markets, without a vulnerable central server, represent a serious answer to these structural failures of traditional markets?