{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Web3 Tech Brief By HackerNoon","title":"Why Institutional Credit Is Moving to Trade Finance Rails","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/9bb1b641\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":607,"description":"\n        This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/why-institutional-credit-is-moving-to-trade-finance-rails.\nXDC Network and Clearpool are building trade finance infrastructure on-chain. Here's what their validator commitments reveal.\nCheck more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3.\n            You can also check exclusive content about #blockchain-infrastructure, #rwa, #trade-finance, #institutional-defi, #tokenization, #private-credit, #private-credit-crypto,  and more.\nThis story was written by: @unusualwriter. Learn more about this writer by checking @unusualwriter's about page,\n            and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.\nRWA tokenization reached $23B in early 2025, dominated by names like BlackRock and JP Morgan on Ethereum and Solana. But trade finance — which handles 80% of global trade and still runs on paper-based systems — remains largely unaddressed. XDC Network, which has been building compliance-focused infrastructure for this specific use case since 2017, counts Deutsche Telekom, SBI Holdings, and UOB among its Masternode Validators. Clearpool, an institutional credit marketplace with $930M+ in originated loans, recently joined that validator set. Whether this positions them to capture a meaningful share of the trade finance gap remains to be seen, but the capital commitments from known institutions are worth noting.\n        \n        ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/eO2Jn0gxT_H9qDuuD0uleszE2n40sbZ-1T2r0zOcj9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxMTY4LzE2ODMz/MTU4ODQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}