Following two years of pilot testing, a blockchain commerce and financing platform for international agricultural buying and selling has seen its industrial rollout from Swiss developer Cerealia SA.

The launch follows in depth pre-launch trial implementation with corporations from Algeria, Brazil, Dubai, Japan and Ukraine. In November 2018, Cointelegraph reported on the platform’s early use to conduct a pilot transaction of Black Sea wheat from the Russian port metropolis of Novorossiysk. 

Cerealia has told reporters that it has sought to deal with the necessity for a quick buying and selling platform within the international Russian wheat market and to mix this with a extra dependable, clear and technologically refined execution program. CEO Andrei Grigorov mentioned:

“Merchants can now be 100% sure they actually did the commerce, versus conventional over-the-phone brokerage. Immediately, they’ve digitally signed contracts and blockchain-registered data ‘ceaselessly.’”

Because the world’s high wheat producer, transactions within the Russian market additionally embody corn, barley, and different grains and vegetable oil trades. In keeping with Cerealia, transaction volumes within the first week of launch are reaching as much as 20,000 metric tons of grain.

Earlier this fall, world-leading agribusiness corporations from the USA, France, China and the Netherlands launched a three way partnership that will use blockchain expertise to streamline logistics processes within the agricultural sector in Brazil. Between them, the industrial companions concerned transfer round 550 million tons of grains and oilseeds per 12 months.