Global trade still operates as if it were 1995 📄
4 billion commercial documents still move every day!
$IOTA trade-native digital infrastructure and commercial settlement narratives expose one of the largest inefficiencies in the global economy.
Every cross-border shipment passes through exporters, importers, banks, ports, customs authorities, insurers, and logistics providers.
Each step generates documents.
Invoices. Bills of lading. Certificates. Licenses.
Most of this still happens manually.
This fragmentation slows down settlement, increases costs, and forces companies to rely on trust between disconnected systems instead of shared data.
The problem is not regulation.
Frameworks like MLETR already allow for digital commercial documents.
The problem is infrastructure.
Trade needs identity, documents, and data to move together across borders with a single source of truth.
IOTA was built exactly for that.
By digitizing commercial documents and anchoring verification at creation, information can travel with goods instead of being verified country by country.
When commercial data becomes native, settlement accelerates, fraud decreases, and financing becomes accessible.
This is why the digitization of trade is becoming one of the strongest real-world use cases for blockchain.
An infrastructure where global trade can truly operate.
