Datavault AI and Patriot Strategic Metals Licenses and Establishes Initial Purchasing Fund of Up To $700m for Datavault AI Technology

Strategic Materials Acquisition Platform on International Elements Exchange to Feature Quantum Encrypted Tokens and Settlement

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Datavault AI Inc. (“Datavault AI” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: DVLT), a provider of data monetization, credentialing, digital engagement, and real-world asset (“RWA”) tokenization technologies, today announced a proposed strategic partnership with Patriot Strategic Metals LLC (“PSM”) to jointly develop the Strategic Materials Acquisition Platform (“SMAP”), an institutional digital infrastructure platform designed to support the financing, tokenization, settlement, and lifecycle management of strategic mineral assets (the “Strategic Partnership”).

The proposed Strategic Partnership is expected to combine PSM’s integrated strategic metals platform, including mining interests, long-term offtake agreements, refining, strategic inventories, commodity trading, and supply-chain operations, with Datavault AI’s patented RWA tokenization technology, AI-enabled digital infrastructure, blockchain-based settlement capabilities, and enterprise software platform. The companies believe the partnership will establish a framework for connecting physical strategic mineral assets with institutional digital financial infrastructure to support industries including artificial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturing, defense, robotics, advanced manufacturing, energy systems, and critical infrastructure.

Building Digital Infrastructure for Strategic Minerals

Global demand for critical minerals continues to accelerate as governments and industry invest in AI infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing, defense modernization, electrification, robotics, data centers, and resilient domestic supply chains.

The SMAP is intended to integrate:

• RWA tokenization
• Commodity-backed institutional trade finance
• Digital escrow infrastructure
• Institutional digital settlement
• Smart-contract automation
• Digital commodity registries
• Supply-chain financing
• Secondary-market infrastructure for eligible commodity-backed assets

The platform is designed to transform qualifying physical strategic mineral inventories into institutionally financeable digital assets while improving transparency, collateral efficiency, capital velocity, and operational efficiency throughout the commodity value chain.

Expanding Datavault AI’s Platform Opportunity

The Strategic Partnership would support PSM’s broader procurement platform, which, as described in PSM’s corporate information, includes an arranged revolving procurement facility of up to $20 billion (illustrative of arranged capacity and subject to definitive agreements, financing availability, and other applicable conditions; structured as a revolving procurement funding source rather than a single funding commitment). The facility is intended to support the acquisition, storage, transportation, certification, insurance, and distribution of eligible strategic minerals.

As procurement activity develops through the platform, Datavault AI’s technology is intended to support:

• RWA tokenization
• Digital settlement
• Institutional trade finance
• Compliance automation
• Digital escrow workflows
• Enterprise platform services

This framework creates the potential for recurring technology licensing, platform, and transaction-based revenues, subject to commercial deployment, financing availability, definitive agreements, and applicable regulatory requirements.

Phase I Platform Development

Subject to financing availability, execution of definitive agreements, board approvals, and applicable regulatory requirements, the proposed Strategic Partnership contemplates an initial Phase I platform development program of up to $700 million supporting institutional trade finance, digital settlement, technology integration, compliance, and platform deployment.

Within the contemplated Phase I framework, up to approximately $62 million is allocated for Datavault AI-related technology integration, licensing of digital RWA infrastructure, platform development, and implementation activities.

Multiple Long-Term Revenue Opportunities

The proposed Strategic Partnership is intended to create diversified recurring revenue opportunities through multiple institutional platform services, including:

• RWA tokenization services
• Institutional trade finance enablement
• Digital settlement services
• Digital escrow services
• Platform licensing
• Smart-contract infrastructure
• Enterprise data services
• Compliance and workflow automation
• Marketplace transaction infrastructure, where permitted by applicable regulations

The Strategic Partnership is expected to establish a framework under which, unless otherwise agreed for a specific transaction or special purpose vehicle, Datavault AI would participate in 25% of net distributable platform profits, creating the potential for recurring long-term revenue as commercial deployment expands.

Creating a New Strategic Metals Infrastructure Platform

The companies intend to integrate the strategic metals value chain into a unified institutional operating platform connecting:

• Strategic mining ownership
• Long-term offtake agreements
• Refining and advanced processing
• Certified strategic inventories
• Institutional trade finance
• RWA infrastructure
• Digital settlement
• Institutional capital markets

The companies believe this integrated model has the potential to improve financing efficiency, increase inventory liquidity, reduce settlement friction, and enhance transparency across the critical minerals ecosystem.

“This strategic partnership brings together physical strategic assets and on our institutional grade cyber secure digital infrastructure,” said Nathaniel T. Bradley, CEO of Datavault AI. “By combining PSM’s critical minerals platform with Datavault AI’s patented RWA technology, we are building a framework to modernize how strategic commodities are financed, settled, and managed.”

“Patriot Strategic Metals was established to build a next-generation strategic metals platform that integrates mining ownership, refining, certified strategic inventories, institutional finance, and digital infrastructure,” said John K. Park, Managing Member of PSM. “Our partnership with Datavault AI provides the technological foundation to modernize the financing and movement of critical minerals through RWA infrastructure, digital settlement, and institutional trade finance. Together, we are creating a scalable platform designed to strengthen resilient supply chains for artificial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturing, defense, energy, and advanced manufacturing while positioning the United States as a leader in strategic metals infrastructure.”

About Datavault AI

Datavault AI™ (NASDAQ:DVLT) is leading the way in AI-driven data experiences, valuation, and monetization of assets in the Web 3.0 environment. The Company’s cloud-based platform provides comprehensive solutions with a collaborative focus in its Acoustic Sciences and Data Sciences divisions.

Datavault AI’s Acoustic Sciences division features WiSA®, ADIO®, and Sumerian® patented technologies and industry-first foundational spatial and multichannel wireless, high-definition sound transmission technologies with intellectual property covering audio timing, synchronization, and multi-channel interference cancellation. The Data Science division leverages the power of Web 3.0 and high-performance computing to provide solutions for experiential data perception, valuation, and secure monetization.

Datavault AI’s platform serves multiple industries, including high-performance computing software licensing for sports & entertainment, events & venues, biotech, education, fintech, real estate, healthcare, energy, and more. The Information Data Exchange® enables Digital Twins and the licensing of name, image, and likeness by securely attaching physical real-world objects to immutable metadata, fostering responsible AI with integrity. The Company’s technology suite is fully customizable and offers AI- and machine-learning-based automation, third-party integration, detailed analytics and data, marketing automation, and advertising monitoring.

The Company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA. For more information, visit www.dvlt.ai. Investor information is available at ir.datavaultsite.com. Technology news and insights are published at dvlt.ai/insights.

About Patriot Strategic Metals LLC

PSM is a Delaware limited liability company focused on rare metals, strategic minerals, physical commodity trade, and RWA infrastructure. PSM is developing an integrated strategic metals platform encompassing procurement, strategic inventories, refining, institutional trade finance, and digital infrastructure to support resilient supply chains for artificial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturing, defense, advanced manufacturing, energy infrastructure, and national security applications.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” (within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, and other securities laws) about Datavault AI Inc. (“Datavault AI,” the “Company,” “us,” “our,” or “we”) and our industry that involve risks and uncertainties. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements because they contain words, such as “may,” “might,” “will,” “shall,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” “intends,” “target,” “projects,” “contemplates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “goal,” “objective,” “seeks,” “likely,” “upcoming” or “continue” or the negative of these words or other similar terms or expressions that concern our expectations, strategy, plans or intentions. The absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Such forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements regarding future events, the expected execution of definitive agreements, the anticipated development, capabilities, and deployment of the SMAP; the expected scope and timing of the proposed Strategic Partnership; the contemplated Phase I platform development program and the related technology-integration allocation; the referenced revolving procurement facility capacity; anticipated platform services and the potential for recurring technology licensing, platform, and transaction-based revenues; the contemplated profit-participation framework; the expected operational, technical, and commercial outcomes of the Company’s commercial strategy; and the projected direction and market impacts of regulatory changes with respect to digital assets, are necessarily based upon estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by the Company and its management, are inherently uncertain.

Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these and other forward-looking statements contained herein.

Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the following: delays or inability to complete due diligence, execute definitive agreements or obtain any necessary approvals and the satisfaction of conditions related to the Strategic Partnership and platform; the availability of financing for the contemplated procurement facility and Phase I platform development program; the parties’ ability to develop, integrate, and deploy the platform and to achieve commercial adoption; the realization of anticipated revenues, profit participation, and platform economics; uncertainties regarding valuation methodologies and third-party figures; changes in market demand for Datavault AI’s services and products; changes in economic, market, or regulatory conditions; risks relating to evolving regulatory frameworks applicable to tokenized assets; risks associated with technological development and integration; and other risks and uncertainties as more fully described in Datavault AI’s filings with the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 and other filings that Datavault AI makes from time to time with the SEC, which are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov, and could cause actual results to vary from expectations. Accordingly, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.

The forward-looking statements made in this press release relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made. Datavault AI undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as required by law.

Datavault AI may not actually achieve the plans, intentions, or expectations disclosed in its forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. Datavault AI’s forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures, or investments it may make.

Neither this announcement nor the Strategic Partnership constitutes an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to purchase any security, digital asset, or investment product.

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