Present and verify letters of credit, guarantees, and financing documents on-chain, with payment released automatically the moment documents comply. A 5-day paper process compresses to same-day, and duplicate-document fraud becomes detectable.
Turn the most paper-intensive process in banking into an on-chain document and settlement flow.
01.
Digitize the LC dossier. The Trade Finance Documents module presents every document type on-chain, replacing physical dossiers couriered between banks.
02.
End manual examination. Presented documents are checked against the credit terms automatically, so both banks confirm compliance in hours instead of days.
03.
Pay on match. The Escrow and Conditional Settlement module releases payment the instant documents comply, so the exporter is paid the same day.
04.
Kill double financing. Each document's digest is anchored, so the same invoice or bill of lading financed twice across banks is detected instantly.
05.
Bind every party. The Document Signing module captures each bank's and party's signature on-chain, replacing wet-ink endorsements.
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Coordinate issuing and advising banks. All banks in the LC share one record, so there is no back-and-forth over which version of a document is authoritative.
Follow a single letter of credit from issuance through document presentation to same-day payment.
08:30:00
[SYS] Issuing LC for textile export order...
08:30:01
[CMD] issueLC { lc: "LC_5521", amount: 480000, tenor: 90 }
08:30:01
[AUTH] Notifying advising bank and beneficiary...
08:30:02
[OK] LC_5521 anchored and advised.
Cerulea decomposes trade finance into modular contracts. Each layer issues the credit, presents documents, verifies compliance, and settles without couriered paper or unilateral document control.
Digital trade finance is a horizontal capability. Here is how different actors put the on-chain document flow to work.
Examine and settle letters of credit against one shared document set, cutting a 5-day paper process to same-day while eliminating duplicate financing fraud.
Key Asset Types
Present shipping and trade documents on-chain and get paid the same day documents comply, replacing a week of courier and correspondence with an instant flow.
Key Asset Types
Attach guarantees to a verifiable document trail, so a claim rests on anchored evidence rather than a reconstruction of paper records.
Key Asset Types
Whether you are bridging a bank's trade finance system or connecting corporates directly, Cerulea routes both into one shared trade finance record.
For banks on legacy trade finance platforms. SWIFT and internal document events are translated into signed on-chain LC transitions through the API gateway automatically.
Trade Finance System
Bank Platform
Cerulea API Gateway
Document Hashing & Signing
Cerulea Private Chain
Trade Finance Ledger
For exporters and importers on a portal. A corporate wallet signs each document presentation and routes it directly to the shared LC contract.
Corporate Portal
Exporter / Importer
Trade Validators
Compliance Consensus
Cerulea Ledger
Shared Document Record
Building a digital trade finance network with on-chain documents, automated compliance checking, conditional settlement, and duplicate-fraud detection from scratch requires trade finance engineers and long multi-bank integration. Calculate your exact deployment speed using Cerulea.
Traditional Deployment
Solidity Coding & Audits
~ 14 Months
Visual Compilation
WASM Logical Artifacts
~ 5 Weeks
The legacy timeline reflects trade finance integration benchmarks. Building on-chain document handling, automated compliance examination, conditional settlement, and duplicate-fraud detection across multiple banks takes a baseline of 9 months. Building the same architecture on Cerulea takes a baseline of 2 weeks, because Cerulea Studio visually translates your document and settlement rules into pre-audited WebAssembly binaries and provisions the trade finance ledger and settlement layer instantly.