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🟪 Trade finance might not be sexy, but it’s blockchain’s key to success

Dune’s Arrakis Freman and Shogun’s bustling markets of feudal Japan would have benefited from blockchain to solve their trading woes

March 24, 2024

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Trade finance might not be sexy, but it’s blockchain’s key to success

Dune’s Arrakis Freman and Shogun’s bustling markets of feudal Japan would have benefited from blockchain to solve their trading woes. Read More

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