The Glass Élite is a B2B digital ecosystem where wine industry operators and professional investors can securely trade maturing fine wines using blockchain technology. It goes beyond traceability by integrating NFT/RWA certificates and fintech tools, enabling the creation of certified digital assets of maturing fine wine lots that allow for secure, fast, and transparent international blockchain transactions, and above all, with an underlying asset that does not lose value over time. The platform also incorporates a metaverse for immersive virtual tours of wineries and regions that will be used for gamification activities.
The potential for using blockchain technology to support the real economy is enormous, but the reverse is also true. Our goal is to create a platform that, starting from two opposing problems, namely the lack of cash and access to credit for the wine supply chain, particularly for small excellent producers on the one hand, and the high risk for those operating in the crypto market and investing in NFTs on the other, creates a great opportunity. This opportunity takes the form, on the crypto side, of the possibility of purchasing tokens linked to physical assets that actually exist and are controlled, and on the producer side, the opportunity to access economic resources that would otherwise be inaccessible. All this at absolutely affordable costs.
In the world of high-quality wine, many producers have problems with liquidity and access to credit for their investments, despite the fact that their cellars hold enormous amounts of capital in the form of bottles of wine undergoing maturation that no one can use.
Despite having fine wine aging in their cellars, many quality wine producers struggle with cash flow and obtaining credit for investments.
This is because wine cannot be sold until it has matured, which can take years, EVEN decades.
The problem also affects the supply chain, which often pre-purchases maturing wine to access niche products, but then finds itself with a product that has already been paid for but cannot yet be used and cannot be resold.
At the same time, in the crypto world, many investors want to buy NFTs, but risk losing their capital due to volatility or depreciation.
Our solution is a B2B blockchain platform that creates a new regulated market for “maturing wine,” transforming each batch into a digital contract based on NFT/RWA.
Through The Glass Élite, wineries can monetize the wine that is physically aging in their cellars, accessing an advance and verifiable cash flow without changing their production model, while buyers and investors gain access to certified aging wine, whose provenance is guaranteed on the chain and whose economic value is set to grow over time.
Each NFT represents a specific batch of fine wine as a real-world asset (RWA), linking ownership rights, origin data, and maturation status on the blockchain; This allows for primary purchase, secondary resale, integration with DeFi services, an access point for small crypto investors (through a community called Ethiliko), and transparent cross-border transactions for all professional operators in the wine supply chain.
B2B, Subscription and fees
Want to grow through just grant funding
Start in Italy, then EU,UK CH, Singapore. We want to creat a Global project
170K in 2025 (+25k from google and 58Kfor metaverse from Region Friuli Venezia Giulia)