1. @FoundershipHQ has wrapped up XDC 0xCamp Season 6, selecting six standout projects. Check them out! ⬇️

2. In an exclusive interview with @GenfinityIO, Saloi Benbaha, Head of XDC Network Enterprise Alliance at @TradeFinex, discusses blockchain adoption in #tradefinance, #tokenization, and more.

3. The @brincvc XDC Launch Program is a virtual accelerator aimed at onboarding quality builders & projects onto the #XDCNetwork. 🏗️

The program offers support, mentorship, and more, with up to $100,000 in funding for the selected project!

XDC Weekly July 14th - July 20th, 2024

1. @XDC_Australia has partnered with Brisbane-based DigiChain Innovations to launch Australia's first MLETR-compliant Document Generation blockchain service.

This collaboration aims to make international trade faster, cheaper, & more efficient.

https://x.com/SeanoftheWoke/status/1809359585976938875

2. @XDCTradeNetwork has completed its first pre-shipment financing transaction using an electronic Promissory Note (ePN), significantly reducing transaction times from several days to just a few hours.

3. In an interview with @GenfinityIO, Nils Behling, Founder & COO of @Tradeteq, highlighted the partnerships with #XDC & @Securitize.

This collaboration brought regulatory-compliant treasuries for the U.S. market, USTY, backed by a Blackrock-managed #ETF.

https://x.com/XDCNetwork_News/status/1809662369024684396

XDC Weekly June 30th - July 6th, 2024

Engaging with XDC provides access to cutting-edge financial tools and places investors at the forefront of the trade finance revolution

That’s how large the global trade finance market is projected to grow by 2031—nearly double its 2022 valuation. 

Despite its exciting growth projections, trade finance is expensive, opaque, and boring. But bring the market and its financial instruments on-chain, and suddenly we have something worth discussing alongside other topics vital to anyone passionate about the future of finance.

To ensure you’re well-versed in this subtopic of RWAs — one of the sexiest, most discussed crypto sectors among Web3-natives and TradFi institutions like BlackRock alike — this comprehensive investor’s guide will explore the growing trade finance RWA niche, show how blockchain integration serves as the best medicine for the problems trade finance faces, and explain how optimized blockchains like XDC Network offer industry-leading opportunities.

The RWA solution to a surging $50 billion industry

Global Trade Finance and the XDC Network

This is a follow up to a previous article that I published titled, “Global Trade Finance and the Blockchain”. I aim to build upon my previous article and focus on the role that the XDC Network is playing in Global Trade Finance.

This post focuses on content from Gary Gensler in his MIT course on Blockchain and Money, you can watch a video of his lecture at this link:

Trade Finance & Supply Chain — MIT 15.S12 Blockchain and Money, Fall 2018, Gary Gensler

That last link is a lecture from Gary Gensler recorded during a course on Blockchain he taught at MIT in 2018. This lecture is focused on blockchain application in global trade finance and he puts up a slide (that I have reproduced below) that simplifies the workflow I covered in my blog post on Blockchain and Global Trade Finance.