Datavault AI Inc. (www.dvlt.ai), an Artificial Intelligence Platform (“AIP”) company providing data monetization, credentialing, digital engagement, real-world asset (“RWA”) tokenization, and spatial audio technologies, has announced the successful closing of its acquisition of NYIAX, Inc. (“NYIAX”), the pioneering contract management exchange and operator of one of the first blockchain-enabled marketplaces for trading guaranteed contractual assets.

The acquisition is expected to add institutional-grade exchange infrastructure, blockchain settlement, and foundational intellectual property to Datavault AI, complementing a platform that takes digital and real-world assets from origination and valuation through tokenization, commercialization, and exchange. The two companies have been working together and integrating capabilities and teams since entering a licensing and marketing agreement in March 2025, a collaboration that will now deepen under full ownership. NYIAX will play a key role in implementing Datavault AI’s tokenization pipeline, with its team, exchange infrastructure, patents, and blockchain settlement capabilities enabling Datavault AI to accelerate the execution of these contracts and scale.

The acquisition lands amid a broader institutional turn toward tokenization: BlackRock launched its BUIDL tokenized money-market fund in March 2024, and Franklin Templeton has operated an on-chain government money fund since 2021, two examples of established financial institutions putting traditional assets on blockchain rails.

“The closing of the NYIAX transaction marks a transformative milestone for Datavault AI,” said Nathaniel T. Bradley, CEO of Datavault AI. “Over the past eighteen months, we have assembled the foundational technologies required to originate, authenticate, value, tokenize, and commercialize digital assets. With NYIAX, we complete a critical infrastructure layer within our ecosystem, positioning us to support the full asset lifecycle from origination through market participation. We believe this creates a powerful foundation for long-term growth as tokenization moves from concept to commercial reality.”

“With NYIAX, Datavault AI owns what we believe to be one of the only integrated platforms where any asset can be originated, valued, tokenized, and exchanged within a single public company ecosystem. That’s powerful. Our tokenization contracts and pipeline now have a wholly-owned, proprietary exchange infrastructure capable of bringing those assets to market.”

Completing the Exchange Layer

Founded in 2017, NYIAX was built to bring the discipline and efficiency of modern financial markets to sectors and asset classes that historically lacked transparent, electronic trading and settlement capabilities. The NYIAX suite is powered by jointly developed intellectual property and exchange technology licensed from a leading global exchange operator.

NYIAX brings clients and partners blockchain innovation alongside institutional-grade matching, order management, and market infrastructure — originally built for regulated securities markets — applied to entirely new asset classes. It first applied this framework to advertising, combining exchange-grade matching technology with blockchain-based settlement to demonstrate that guaranteed media inventory could be standardized, priced, traded, and re-traded as forward contracts — converting traditionally opaque bilateral transactions into transparent, auditable, tradable digital assets and establishing a blueprint for entirely new classes of exchange-traded assets.

At the core of the platform is an asset-agnostic, proprietary infrastructure stack — exchange technology, blockchain settlement rails, and a portfolio of four issued U.S. patents (Nos. 10,607,291; 11,410,236; 11,861,707; and 12,198,193, each entitled “Systems and Methods for Electronic Continuous Trading of Variant Inventories” and issued between 2020 and 2025) covering the electronic trading, matching, transfer, settlement, and lifecycle management of variable and contract-based inventories across multiple markets. Jointly owned with NYIAX’s exchange technology partner, the patents establish a proprietary framework for price discovery, standardized contracting, liquidity formation, and secondary market participation across previously fragmented, complex asset classes.

This is more than a marketplace; it is market infrastructure that can extend well beyond advertising, with applications Datavault AI expects to include the International Elements Exchange (“IEE”) for tokenized critical minerals and commodities; Project Democracy and the American Political Exchange (“APE”) for political advertising and data markets; future athlete NIL marketplaces; healthcare and enterprise data exchanges; and intellectual property and media rights marketplaces, among other bespoke vertical exchanges for tokenized digital and real-world assets. Several of those verticals are themselves young markets: athlete NIL rights have existed only since the NCAA’s 2021 interim policy allowed college athletes to profit from their name, image, and likeness, while critical minerals supply chains have become a policy priority in the U.S. and allied economies.

NYIAX’s August 2025 acquisition of Collective Audience, under Ms. Gallo’s leadership, added an important commercialization engine, expanding its European presence and bringing in-house FinTech marketing expertise, AI advisory, data-driven marketing, and go-to-market capabilities. The company believes few exchange operators combine institutional-grade market infrastructure with this depth of commercialization expertise. With Collective Audience now part of Datavault AI, the Company can pair its exchange technology with B2B audience development, demand generation, and data evaluation capabilities designed to more efficiently connect buyers, sellers, issuers, and institutional participants — helping build the liquidity new exchanges need to launch and scale.

Integration and Strategic Growth

Datavault AI and NYIAX continue to align exchange operations, tokenization infrastructure, AI-driven valuation technologies, and commercialization activities across the combined organization, building on the collaboration already underway since 2025. Together, the Company’s capabilities now span data origination, AI-driven valuation, tokenization, exchange infrastructure, commercialization, and compliance — with in-house audience development and demand-creation capabilities to help populate each exchange as it launches. The result is an integrated platform the Company believes can support a growing portfolio of specialized exchanges across emerging asset categories. For readers tracking execution, the named verticals — from the IEE and APE to future NIL and data exchanges — offer concrete markers for how quickly the pipeline moves from announced blueprint to operating venue.

Mr. Bradley, Brett Moyer, the Company’s CFO, and Ms. Gallo will engage with investors, strategic partners, and industry stakeholders to discuss the acquisition, the integration roadmap, and the long-term opportunities created by combining Datavault AI’s tokenization and valuation capabilities with NYIAX’s exchange infrastructure. As part of the integration process, NYIAX expects to recommend two representatives for consideration by Datavault AI’s Board of Directors, subject to the Company’s customary governance review and approval procedures.