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XDC Decompiled: Tokenizing the $15T Trade Finance Stack Behind the meter of every container shipped across an ocean sits an absurd amount of paper. Invoice copies stamped, scanned, faxed, re-keyed.
The global trade finance pipe moves roughly $15 trillion a year, and most of it still settles on a tech stack that would be familiar to a banker in 1985 — multi-party PDFs, opaque correspondent rails, and a 3-to-7 day reconciliation tail.
XDC Network's latest move is a direct shot at that legacy stack, and the engineering choices behind it are more interesting than the press release lets on.
The actual problem, in systems terms Trade finance is a coordination problem dressed up as a credit problem.
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