Interview with Rod Askarov
summary
Claims to put real-world trade on chain: the TradeLeaf platform matches buyers and sellers, uses digital assets as collateral, routes deals to competing liquidity providers and enforces on-chain smart-contracted escrows. Metrics: 500 brokers across 50 countries, $600 million in volume last year, investors earning ~1%/month, and an asserted $1.7 trillion funding gap for small-business trade finance. Product wins an AIBC startup prize and is live, but scaling to the full gap remains the stated challenge.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Solving the funding gap
- 1:36The platform user journey
- 3:08Revenue and market impact
- 4:33Overcoming trade challenges
- 6:04Advice for entrepreneurs
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