by Jake ClaverXDC Trade Network, Paperless Trade Week, and ESCAP: taking the paper out of global trade
Here the focus is XDC Trade Network, Paperless Trade Week, and ESCAP, which move trade paperwork onto digital rails. It names real organizations and documents, so the claim can be checked.
The Paperwork Layer
This material links the ecosystem to trade documents and paperless-commerce standards. The primary source is the UN ESCAP Paperless Trade Week 2025, with supporting material from the UN Indico event page and the UN ESCAP-hosted XDC Trade Network presentation PDF.
Why Trade Finance Matters For XDC
For the XDC Network ecosystem, this matters because trade finance needs trusted records and interoperable workflows, giving distributed-ledger systems a practical role beyond speculation. The broader research trail also includes the XDC Trade Network site, the GLEIF/ICC DSI key trade documents report PDF, and the World Economic Forum trade-finance/XDC article.
The Trade Finance Screenshot
