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The Aurum Foundation names Nick Patel as its RWA Relationship Advisor as real-world tokenized assets gain momentum.
Summary
- Aurum Foundation appoints Nick Patel as RWA Relationship Advisor to lead its Real-World Asset strategy.
- Nick Patel brings expertise in commodities, financials, and tokenized gold, aimed at increasing Aurum’s exposure to metals, emeralds, and other real-world liquid assets.
- Aurum combines tangible assets with decentralized funds, an efficient AI-driven infrastructure and fractional ownership models to make it accessible to investors.
The Aurum Foundation has appointed Nick Patel as its RWA Relationship Advisor to lead its Real-World Asset strategy. This comes at a time when interest in real world assets (RWAs) is growing steadily.
According to data from DeFiLlama, the value of RWA in public blockchains has reached $23.6 billion in 2026, a 66% increase from $14.1 billion at the beginning of the year.
Nick has built his career working at the intersection of property, finance, and, most recently, digital asset infrastructure. He has spent the past several years in gold trading and has built businesses related to supply, mining, and branded gold systems. He brings over a decade of experience in financial markets, working in stock exchanges, equity trading, commodity trading, and cross-border investing.
He was appointed to expand Aurum’s RWA strategy and strengthen relationships in global asset markets. The foundation has positioned itself around crypto products, AI-driven financial infrastructure, and innovative ways to connect financial assets separated from physical assets such as gold and other assets.
According to Aurum CEO Bryan Benson, Nick’s appointment is part of the foundation’s broader effort to combine tangible value with the accessibility and production potential of decentralized systems, as it focuses on expanding its investment approach to include partial exposure to metals, emeralds, and other real-world liquids, not just gold.
With over two decades of experience in the financial markets, Nick has worked in various departments, including equity trading, equity trading, commodity trading, and cross-border investing.
He is also the founder of Bank of Bullion in Dubai, a business focused on the supply chain of precious metals, including procurement, refining, storage, and trading. He also leads Clinq DMCC and Clinq.Gold, a business focused on digitizing gold ownership through blockchain infrastructure and shared access.
These businesses focus on connecting the production of physical gold and trading through a digital financial channel. These companies gave Nick the knowledge he needed to navigate an era where blockchain firms are increasingly exploring commodities, currencies, and other off-chain values beyond traditional crypto assets.
Aurum’s long-term goal is to build DeFi earning opportunities around assets that are seen as stable stores of value. Gold sits naturally in that narrative. It is common, respected worldwide, and widely used as a hedge in traditional markets.
Patel said he looks forward to helping connect traditional assets with new financial opportunities and building partnerships across the industry.
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