Datavault AI has completed its acquisition of NYIAX, adding institutional-grade exchange technology, blockchain settlement infrastructure and intellectual property to its digital and real-world asset tokenization platform.
Datavault AI and NYIAX have worked together since entering a licensing and marketing agreement in March 2025.
Under full ownership, NYIAX will become a core component of Datavault AI’s tokenization infrastructure, helping support assets from origination and valuation through tokenization, commercialization and exchange.
Founded in 2017, NYIAX built a contract-management exchange intended to bring financial-market-style trading, matching and settlement technology to traditionally fragmented asset classes.
Its first major application was advertising, where NYIAX built infrastructure to standardize and trade guaranteed media inventory as forward contracts.
NYIAX’s infrastructure combines institutional matching and order-management technology with blockchain settlement.
The company also brings four issued U.S. patents covering electronic trading, matching, transfer, settlement and lifecycle management for variable and contract-based inventories, with another patent application filed.
Datavault AI expects the technology to support specialized exchanges spanning tokenized critical minerals and commodities, political advertising and data, athlete name, image and likeness assets, healthcare data, enterprise data, intellectual property and media rights.
NYIAX also acquired Collective Audience in August 2025, adding AI advisory, media, marketing, audience-development and commercialization capabilities.
The combined platform now spans data origination, AI-driven valuation, tokenization, exchange infrastructure, commercialization and compliance.
Datavault AI believes integrating those capabilities will allow it to launch and support specialized markets for emerging categories of digital and real-world assets.
KEY QUOTES:
“The closing of the NYIAX transaction marks a transformative milestone for 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.”
“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.”
Nathaniel T. Bradley, CEO Of Datavault AI
“Markets are not created when assets are digitized. Markets are created when assets can be trusted, valued, exchanged, and discovered under a transparent, common framework.”
“Together, our team is laser-focused on execution, as we build a foundation for specialized exchanges where tokenized digital and real-world assets can move from concept to valuation, from valuation to exchange, and ultimately into scalable institutional markets, globally and responsibly.”
Teri Gallo, CEO Of NYIAX
