For sellers
Reach buyers who are actually buying
Producers, traders and exporters spend most of their working time proving they are genuine to people who turn out not to be. Verification is done once here, and it travels with you into every order on the platform.
Five ways a seller loses money in this market
Most of these cost you before a single kilogram moves — which is exactly why they are worth closing at the start rather than the end.
Buyers who were never buying
A letter of intent arrives, forwarded four times, from a buyer nobody can reach directly. You spend six weeks and a documentation budget finding out there was no principal at the end of it.
Demand here is posted by companies that completed business verification before they could post anything — incorporation, ownership and control, beneficial owners, sanctions screening. You are responding to a buyer, not to a rumour of one.
Proving you are real, over and over
Every new counterparty starts from zero. The same company file, the same licences, the same explanation of your ownership structure, sent again to someone who will still treat you as unproven.
Verification is done once. Your status, country and time on the platform are visible to every verified buyer, and your representatives carry credentials that prove they act for you. You stop re-establishing your existence at the start of each conversation.
Carrying every cost before you see anything
Documentation, export duty, assay, insurance, transport — the seller funds all of it up front, and routinely ships against nothing more than a promise. When the buyer disappears, the loss is entirely yours.
Where the parties settle on-chain, you can see the buyer's wallet funded and verified against the chain — not asserted in an email, not a scanned SWIFT of uncertain origin — before you commit the first cost of shipping. Where you settle by letter of credit or transfer, that is arranged with your banks as usual, and the instrument goes into the order record like any other document.
Being asked for paperwork you did not know they wanted
Requirements differ by buyer, by corridor and by jurisdiction. A document nobody mentioned turns out to be the one holding up clearance, and it surfaces at the airport rather than in the negotiation.
Buyers request documents on the order, in writing, with the reason attached — so what they need is a visible list rather than an assumption. Anything you have already filed is there for them to read, and nothing you upload can be lost in a mailbox.
Disputes about what was in the parcel
The assay decides the commercial outcome, and it is where trades break down — a buyer reporting a purity the seller does not recognise, with no independent record of what left.
Assay certificates, weigh-in footage and photographs are filed against the order, by the party who holds them, before and after shipment. An independent laboratory can be engaged by mutual agreement, sees the physical facts and not your commercial terms, and reports into the same record both of you read.
What you post
A Soft Corporate Offer describing what you hold, in the terms this market uses.
- What you hold, and how much
- Commodity and quantity in kilograms — one-off, or recurring across a stated number of periods if you produce steadily.
- Purity or grade
- Stated honestly, because it is the commercial question. Doré is unrefined by definition, and buyers price the assay, not the optimism.
- Origin and route
- Where the material comes from and where you can deliver. Origin is a gap when unstated on a supply listing, and buyers read it that way.
- Price basis
- A discount to a named benchmark, or an absolute figure. The discount is a term of the deal; the cash figure is agreed between you on the SPA.
- Expiry
- Supply that has been sold should not keep attracting offers. Set the date it leaves the board.
- Your existing SCO
- Attach the signed PDF and the platform reads the terms out of it to fill the form. The attachment stays private to your company.
Or answer somebody else's requirement
You do not have to wait to be found. Buyers publish what they need, and an offer against a live requirement reaches a desk that is already looking.
Offer against a published requirement
Buyers post what they want; you answer with your terms and a validity date. You are competing on the deal, not on whether anyone believes you exist.
A decline is not the end
If a buyer declines, they can give a reason — and you can come back with a different offer on the same requirement. Nothing about the exchange is one-shot.
Withdraw while it is still open
Positions move. An unanswered offer can be taken off the table before the buyer responds, rather than hanging over you at a price you no longer want.
Your terms are yours
The platform carries no price feed and quotes nothing on your behalf. It records the basis you offered and shows it to the buyer exactly as you stated it.
Build something that compounds
In a market where every conversation restarts from suspicion, the most valuable thing a seller can own is evidence of having performed before — held somewhere it cannot be lost when a contact changes job.
- Performance becomes visible
- Completed orders, documents filed, confirmations given — the evidence that you did what you said accumulates on your company rather than in the memory of one buyer's trader.
- The network is an asset
- Connections make you findable. Buyers filter the board for companies they or their counterparties already know, and a second-degree link is a warm introduction rather than a cold one.
- Your people carry proof
- A representative's credential is checkable by anyone, on a phone, at a mine site or a meeting — showing who they are, which company they act for, and whether it is verified.
- A correction is not an accusation
- Uploaded the wrong file? Replace it. The new version is current, the old one stays on the record, and the sequence shows a correction rather than something suspicious.
Questions sellers ask
- Do I have to publish my supply to everyone?
- No. You can post to the public board, or send it privately to named connections only. A private intent never appears publicly, and only the companies you chose can reach it.
- Can an agent post on my behalf?
- Yes, under a mandate you grant and can revoke, which states exactly what they may do — introduce, negotiate, or negotiate and sign. Anything posted in your name says an agent posted it.
- What if I can only supply part of a requirement?
- Answer it anyway. Large requirements are routinely filled from more than one producer, and each fill becomes its own order with its own record and its own counterparty.
- Who sees the documents I upload?
- The buyer on that order, and nobody else. Not other sellers, not other buyers, not companies you are not trading with. An engaged laboratory or carrier sees only the physical facts of its own job.
- Do you take a commission on what I sell?
- No. Nelum charges a company subscription and takes no percentage of any trade — we are not a broker and not a party to your transaction.
- What happens when the trade is finished?
- Both parties confirm it. The order completes only when both have, and the record stays assembled afterwards for the retention periods anti-money-laundering law requires.
Post what you hold
Register, complete verification once, and put your supply in front of buyers who have been checked as thoroughly as you have.