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🌏 Every mineral tells a story. #CriticalMinerals generate signals: timing, quality, availability. 📊 Without trust, costs rise and cleaner production slips away. #VerifiedData powers a proven loop: 🔄 Verified data flows 🔄 Lower tariffs 🔄 Reinvestment into cleaner production 🔄 Greener, predictable operationss 🌱 Trusted signals support planning, #CBAM compliance, and stronger supply chains. A verified value chain is a stronger value chain. Learn more in our latest blog post: demia.net/blog/value-cha… #SustainableIndustry #CleanProduction #ValueChains #IndustrialTrust

Most decisions don’t wait for perfect information. They happen in the gap between signal and certainty. In our latest blog, reflecting on the latest The Future of Trust conversation with @obermattj, Managing Partner at @SocialLeverage, one theme comes through clearly: data is everywhere, but confidence is earned. Whether in markets, venture, or operations, the edge isn’t access. It’s judgment under pressure, and knowing what actually holds up when tested. A few signals from the discussion: 🔍 Strong signals aren’t the same as trustworthy ones 🧠 Speed is increasing, but judgment remains the constraint 🤝 Trust compounds through consistency, not titles ⚠️ Difficult conversations early create better outcomes 📊 More data doesn’t remove uncertainty, it reshapes it As AI accelerates execution and information becomes easier to generate, the real question shifts. Not “do you have data?” but “can you stand behind it?” If you’re building, investing, or making decisions where the stakes are real, this one is worth your time. Link to the full piece in the comments 👇

This week’s Material Evidence looks past the headlines and into a harder reality. 🔍 Markets are moving fast. Policy is accelerating. Capital is deploying at scale. 📈 But the systems used to verify what is actually being produced, delivered, and stored are not keeping up. When supply chains are built on assumptions instead of continuously validated data, risk doesn’t disappear. It compounds quietly, then shows up all at once. ⚠️ That gap is where decisions start to drift from reality, and where resilience is tested. If you want to understand what is really driving risk, pricing, and execution across critical minerals this week, this edition breaks it down. Subscribe to receive Material Evidence via email every week in the comments. 👇

Most mistakes in high-stakes decisions don’t come from a lack of data, but from trusting the wrong signals. 📊 In the latest episode of The Future of Trust 🎙️, @obermattj, Managing Partner of @SocialLeverage, shares what it looks like when everything appears to be working: metrics, models, conviction – yet something underneath does not hold. From @Bloomberg to global alternative data and high-conviction investing, Matt has seen how easily precision can be mistaken for truth, and how costly that becomes over time. 💸 This conversation is about navigating signals, people, and decisions in a world with more data and less certainty. ⚖️ 🔗 Links to the full episode in the comments What do you rely on when the data looks right, but something feels off? Let us know! 👇

Direct lithium extraction (DLE) is moving from pilot projects to real industrial deployment. 🏗️ But scaling lithium supply is not only a technology challenge. It is increasingly a data challenge. 🏭 As new DLE projects launch across geothermal systems, salar brines, and oilfield water, the question is becoming clearer: Can operators prove performance with verifiable reservoir data, stable process monitoring, and transparent material balances? This week’s edition of Material Evidence looks at how DLE is evolving, where deployment is accelerating, and why credible operational data may determine which lithium projects truly scale. 🔍 Find the link to subscribe to receive Material Evidence in your inbox every week in the comments. ⬇️

Where does a founder’s relationship with trust begin? For Oscar Hedaya, founder of The Space Safe, it started long before building a company. Early financial instability taught him a lesson that stayed with him for life: when certainty disappears, your reputation becomes your real currency. 💰 That mindset shaped how he thinks about security, entrepreneurship, and product design. In our latest The Future of Trust blog, Oscar shares why trust should never rely on promises alone, and why the systems we build should make integrity visible: 💬 Reputation compounds over time 🔐 Security should create visibility, not blind trust 🚫 True ownership means no hidden back doors ⚙️ Systems strengthen trust when they make behavior verifiable The details of Oscar’s story are unique, but the lesson is becoming universal: trust is stronger when it is supported by infrastructure. Link to the full blog from our latest Future of Trust episode in the comments below 👇

🌍 We're proud to share that Demia recently graduated from the @UNDP SDG Blockchain Accelerator Programme. Over 12 weeks, we worked with @UNDP, @UNOPS, UNSD, and national partners including @DANE_Colombia to pilot a new model for verifiable SDG reporting. Today, much of SDG progress is reported through fragmented data systems. Our pilot explored a different approach: using Earth Observation, AI, and blockchain within Demia’s Zero-Trust Data Fabric to create traceable, auditable SDG indicators. 🌱 The goal is simple but powerful: move from reporting progress to proving it. The project focused on indicators including sustainable urbanization and land degradation, demonstrating how data pipelines can become transparent, repeatable, and verifiable across institutions. 📊 For Demia, this work reflects our broader mission: to secure data at the source, enable verification, and turn trusted information into actionable proof of impact. The accelerator may be complete, but the work continues. We are excited to help build the trust infrastructure for verifiable development outcomes. 🌐 If you are working on SDG data, sustainability reporting, or impact verification, we would love to connect.

February revealed something important across the minerals sector. 🌏 Policy momentum is accelerating. Governments are strengthening mineral alliances, prioritizing major projects, and expanding industrial strategies around processing and supply security. At the same time, operators are shifting focus toward precision extraction, productivity gains, and operational monitoring. 📊 Yet the real constraint remains unchanged: turning strategy into stable, verifiable supply. In this month’s Material Evidence, we unpack the signals behind the headlines, from emerging mining technologies and portfolio restructuring to the midstream bottlenecks that still determine whether supply ambitions become reality. Because in the next phase of the minerals economy, performance will not be judged by announcements, but by evidence. 🔬 Subscribe to receive the full edition via email. Link in the comments 👇

🔐 Security is easy to market. Integrity is harder to live. In the last episode of The Future of Trust, our founder and CEO @Mat_Yarger sits down with Oscar Hedaya, founder of The Space Safe, for a conversation grounded in a simple tension: some believe trust is given. Others believe it must be earned. 🤝 Oscar began working at twelve and, by fifteen, took a business owner to court over unpaid wages. No safety net. Just his name and his word. As he says, when you grow up without money, your name becomes your currency. That belief now shapes how he builds. He refuses to create backdoor access. He designs for misuse, not best-case behavior. And he treats reputation as something you earn slowly and defend over decades. ⏳ This episode is not about product features. It's about encoding values into infrastructure and building systems that don't ask for blind trust, but prove they deserve it. What do you think?🤔 Should infrastructure ask for trust, or demonstrate why it deserves it? Let us know in the comments! Find the links to the full episode below 👇

Can operational execution keep pace with strategic momentum? In this week’s edition of Material Evidence, we examine how policy acceleration and cross-border coordination are converging around industrial capacity, processing control, and long-term supply resilience. Check it out to learn more about: 🌏 Razorback granted Major Project Status in Australia 🎯 Renewed U.S. processing strategy focus 🤝 South Korea–Brazil minerals partnership 🏛️ Mexico tightening resource positioning 💰 Brazil launching a $40M mining innovation fund Coordination is accelerating. Verification discipline is becoming the differentiator. If you work across mining, processing, capital, or policy, this is signal you’ll want early. Subscription link in the comments to get Material Evidence in your inbox each week 👇

In the blog post on our last The Future of Trust episode, Richard Savoie, co-founder of Adiona, shares what most teams learn too late: Trust is not a feature. It’s a design requirement. 💡 From life-critical medical devices to AI-driven logistics, Richard has built systems where “mostly right” isn’t good enough. A route can be mathematically perfect and still be ignored. An AI model can be powerful and still create doubt. 🤖 🤔 Check out our new blog post to learn: 🔹 Why trust must be calibrated to consequence 🔹 Why speed is part of credibility 🔹 Why more AI often means more question marks 🔹 Why autonomy will stall without verification In complex systems, optimization is valuable. Proof is foundational. That’s the future we’re building toward at Demia: secure data at the source, traceable decisions, and performance you can actually stand behind. Link to the blog post in the comments 👇

Trust rarely breaks all at once. It erodes quietly. 🤫 A number that feels off. A recommendation that doesn’t match reality. A system that may be correct, yet still gets ignored. In the latest episode of The Future of Trust, @Mat_Yarger speaks with Richard Savoie, founding CEO of Adiona and a systems builder who has worked across healthcare, logistics, and transportation, on how trust is earned in the systems guiding real-world decisions. Richard began in regulated medical devices, where data has lineage and accountability is clear. 🩺 Today, he builds digital twins of logistics networks that don’t just analyze performance, but recommend action, from fleet routing to electrification strategies. That’s where trust becomes tangible. If operators don’t believe the data, they stop listening. If they can’t explain the decision, they override it. In this episode, we explore: 🔎 Why enterprise systems struggle to earn the trust we give tools like Google Maps 🏥 What healthcare regulation teaches us about responsibility and data integrity 🚚 How automation and AI are reshaping logistics infrastructure 🤖 The human threshold where trust either forms or fails As AI and autonomous systems move into everyday operations, the real question isn’t just whether they work. It’s whether people trust them enough to act. What makes you trust a system’s recommendation? Let us know in the comments! 💬 Links to the full episode below 👇

The headlines say supply is scaling. 📈 The data tells a more precise story. Across copper, nickel, iron ore, and lithium, control mechanisms are expanding, yet the decisive layer remains downstream. ⚙️ Processing capacity. 🔄 Conversion economics. 📊 Sustained throughput. This week, we look at the signals beneath the strategy and what they mean for operators, refiners, and buyers. Resilience is not how much you extract, but what you can consistently prove. Material Evidence drops weekly 📩 Subscribe via the link in the comments. 👇

♻️ Recycling is not replacing mining. It’s becoming a geopolitical hedge. This edition of Material Evidence unpacks the real technology behind critical mineral recycling and recovery: 🏗️ Hydrometallurgical extraction ⚙️ Engineered sorbents 📊 Real-time composition monitoring 🔍 Mass-balance traceability As refining concentration persists and export controls tighten, recycled supply is gaining strategic weight. But without auditable data, recycled-content and lifecycle claims create new integrity risk. We analyze the ministerial coordination shift, policy acceleration, and what must happen for recycling to scale beyond pilot projects. Material Evidence drops weekly. Subscription link in the comments to get it in your inbox 👇 #MaterialEvidence #MineralsRecycling #CriticalMinerals #StrategicRecycling @IEA

🌱 ➡️ 💰 When climate ambition meets capital, trust is where things break or scale. Our latest blog post, based on the newest episode of The Future of Trust, features a powerful conversation with Amy McCrae Kessler, Founder and CEO of @FacetPower, on why climate finance struggles not with interest, but with credibility. Amy doesn’t frame climate as a single asset class or technology, but as a system. 🌎 One where incentives, risk, communities, ecosystems, and time horizons must actually align for capital to move with confidence. Amy shows that trust isn’t earned through storytelling, but through structure, governance, and verifiable performance. This post looks at: 🌳 How giving nature a formal stake reshapes capital structures 🌿 Why climate must be built as ecosystems, not isolated assets 💡 What it means to engineer trust by design What emerges is a practical view of how climate, capital, and nature can align at scale, and why verified performance is becoming the backbone of durable climate markets. Link to the full blog post in the comments 👇

When meaningful work starts to resonate beyond your own walls, it’s a powerful signal you’re building something that matters. 🌟 We're beyond proud to share that both #Demia and our CEO & founder @Mat_Yarger have been officially shortlisted in the @Startup_Awards North America regional competition – a celebration of innovation, impact, and ecosystem leadership across the region. 🌎 The shortlist recognizes both the leadership behind Demia and our role in shaping trusted climate infrastructure: 🏆 Founder of the Year: @Mat_Yarger, recognized for building with conviction, clarity, and a long-term view of what trusted systems can unlock. 🌿 Greentech Startup of the Year: Demia, recognized for turning verified data into the infrastructure that enables credible climate and resource markets. @Startup_Awards is the world’s largest independent startup ecosystem competition, uniting founders, investors, governments, and ecosystem builders from around the world to discover and empower high-growth and innovative entrepreneurs and spotlight the ideas shaping our shared future. 🇲🇹 This year’s Global Grand Finale takes place May 7–8 in Valletta, Malta, as part of the EU-Startups Summit, bringing together founders, investors, and ecosystem stakeholders from 100+ countries for the most globally diverse edition yet. We’d be honored to have your support. 👉 Vote for Demia and for Mat in the comments below. #GlobalStartupAwards #GSApv2025 #GSAregions #GSAcommunity

January didn’t just move markets. It clarified who is actually in control. Our January 2026 Critical Minerals Month-in-Review tracks a structural shift underway across Allied Nations supply chains. Policy has moved beyond incentives and into enforcement. Processing and inventory are no longer background issues. 🏗️ They are the leverage. This edition looks at what really mattered last month: 🌐 Why governments are redesigning trade frameworks and reserves to actively shape supply ⚠️ How refining and midstream capacity have become the true bottlenecks, regardless of resource quality 🔍 Where “secure supply” claims are breaking down without verifiable throughput, conversion capacity, and disclosure ✅ How operators are shifting from ESG narratives to evidence-based governance and delivery Integrity risk is concentrating wherever security claims outpace operational reality. The next winners will be the ones designing for verification, not storytelling. Subscription link in the comments 👇

Where in your career have you chosen mission over profit, speed, or comfort? Or what problem do you wish more people would step up and take responsibility for, even if it’s hard? I’ve had the chance to speak with Amy McCrae Kessler many times over the past year, and this conversation on The Future of Trust brought it all together. Amy is someone who chooses mission first. Every. Single. Day. She talks about helping stand up the @ambiogascouncil in this clip. What she doesn’t say out loud, but what comes through clearly, is how hard that work actually was. Building trust across competitors. Aligning policy, capital, and incentives. Choosing to organize an industry instead of optimizing for a single company. That theme runs through the entire episode. We talked about her early volunteer work with orphaned #orangutans in Borneo. Her time in environmental law. Helping found the American Biogas Council and US Biochar Coalition (USBC). Walking away from paths that didn’t align. And what it really takes to turn fragmented climate ideas into durable infrastructure, from biogas to biochar to integrated energy systems. That integrity is why we’re planning to work together through @_Demia and @FacetPower to support project developers with #trusted data, #financing pathways, and development tools, especially in regions like Africa, where the need is real, and the margin for error is small. If you care about how climate markets actually get built, how #trust is earned across systems, or what hashtag#leadership looks like when it’s inconvenient, this episode is worth your time. Drop your thoughts in the comments.

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Climate progress accelerates when risk is visible, data is credible, and incentives align. 🌱📈 On today’s episode of The Future of Trust, our founder & CEO @Mat_Yarger sit down with Amy McCrae Kessler, Co-Founder and CEO of @FacetPower, a leading voice in next-generation climate infrastructure. 🌍 In this episode: 🔹 Why climate capital still struggles to deploy 🔹 Environmental harm as a measurable financial risk 🔹 Traceability and life cycle analysis as trust infrastructure 🔹 What it takes to move carbon removal beyond pilots to scale What does a climate project need to prove before you would trust it at scale? Let us know in the comments! 🎧 Full episode link in the replies 👇

The ore hasn’t changed. The rules have. 🗞️ This week’s Material Evidence looks at how critical mineral markets are being reshaped by policy, not price. From U.S. rare earth investments that treat refining as a security asset, to ownership risk slowing deals in Australia, the pattern is clear: without sovereign backing and proven downstream pathways, execution breaks down. 📉 Inside this edition: 🏗️ Why processing is now the binding constraint 💰 How government capital is accelerating or blocking projects ⚠️ Where governance risk is raising the cost of capital 📊 The gap between announced capacity and real throughput Subscribe to receive Material Evidence in your inbox and stay ahead of the signals shaping critical mineral supply chains: mailchi.mp/demia.net/20pg…