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Metacask to auction off rare 1988 cask, worth millions, from The Macallan Distillery
Metacask launches Trakr, the spirits industry’s first end-to-end inventory management solution
About Metacask
Founded in 2021, Metacask is the premier marketplace for the sale of spirits casks and bottles. The platform is powered by the CasperLabs blockchain and modernizes the sale and ownership of casks and bottles through the use of NFTs attached to the physical product. These NFTs serve as a digital title of deed, with complete transparency – not just in ownership and provenance, but also for the purposes of price discovery. Launched in 2022, Metacask’s Trakr is the first fully-integrated inventory management, asset tracking, and marketing solution, available to the spirits industry. Built on secure blockchain and smart IoT technology, Trakr lets brands and producers track, document and report on the lifecycle of every product - from grain to bottle. Metacask is backed by exceptional security and KYC identity verification standards provided by Civic, giving a new generation of digital asset investors, brokers, and whisky aficionados a modern mechanism to safely and securely hold spirits-backed NFTs.
Leadership
Nimantha Siriwardana is the Co-Founder and CTO of Metacask, the marketplace for spirits-backed NFTs. Nim has over 20 years of experience in delivering technology solutions. Prior to co-founding Metacask, he served as the CTO of GSR and has worked across various financial services companies, including Goldman Sachs and Source Capital AG. Nim has a master of engineering degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Southampton.
Stuart is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metacask and the Co-Founder and Managing Director of VCL Vintners. He has a background in both law and commodities trading and he has driven innovation in the whisky cask and alcohol investment space for over 11 years. As Managing Director and with £100m in investor assets, Stuart is one of London’s youngest and most driven entrepreneurs.
