The Mint Admitted to the Cardano Accelerator Program
The Mint is admitted to the spring 2026 cohort
We are proud to share that The Mint has been selected as one of five companies admitted to the Spring 2026 cohort of the Cardano Accelerator Program (CAP).
Following a competitive international selection process, only five ventures were admitted into this cohort. The program is led by the Cardano Foundation and supports commercially viable, compliance-ready infrastructure built on Cardano.
For us, this marks an important milestone.
A Live, Operational Asset
The Mint is the issuer of Greenland Reserve Coin (GNRC), an asset-referenced digital instrument backed 1:1 by independently verified rubies and sapphires sourced from a permanently closed Greenland mine.
GNRC was built with EU MiCA alignment in mind and is already live as a Cardano-native asset.
From the beginning, our focus has been on governance, structural integrity, and transparency before scaling. Being selected for CAP is a meaningful recognition of that disciplined approach.
What This Means in Practice
The ten-week program provides structured technical and strategic support, culminating in a Demo Day presentation to a curated network of investors and ecosystem partners.
For The Mint, participation in CAP is not about launching a new token. GNRC is already operational. Instead, our focus during the program will be to:
• further strengthen and document our technical architecture
• refine liquidity and market structure design
• enhance portability and exchange-agnostic structure
• build a scalable framework for future asset-referenced instruments
You can read more about the Cardano Accelerator Program here:
Building for the Long Term
Tokenization of real-world assets is rapidly evolving from concept to institutional infrastructure.
Our ambition is to contribute to that transition with a model that combines tangible value, regulatory discipline, and open blockchain technology.
The Venture Hub initiative within the Cardano Foundation is designed to support exactly this type of infrastructure-focused development.
Learn more about the Cardano Foundation:
We look forward to sharing updates as the program progresses.
From bedrock to blockchain.
— The Mint