Trade Settlement Desk
Smart contract settlement for physical commodity cargoes. The documents and the money release in the same moment, so a buyer and a seller who have never worked together can close a deal without either one carrying the risk of going first.
Global trade finance gap, unchanged since 2023
Working counterparty relationships where petroleum clears
From conditions met to cargo settled
No letter of credit and no standby required
The problem
A seller holds proof of product and will not release it. Those documents are worth money on their own, and in the wrong hands they raise finance against a cargo that was never sold, or sell the same parcel twice.
The buyer will not fund a tank extension, a Q88 or proof of funds on a cargo they have not been able to verify. Both positions are reasonable. Neither side can move.
So the deal sits. Weeks pass and a good number of them die there. And a buyer who does commission an inspection at their own cost can watch that clean report walk to a higher bidder and lose the cargo anyway.
ChainLockR removes the requirement to trust the person on the other side of the table. Not by insuring around the risk, but by removing the moment where one party holds everything and the other holds nothing.
What we do
The settlement desk is the flagship and it is where the serious money moves. Everything else runs on the same engine, and each one is a product we already build and deliver rather than a roadmap item.
Smart contract escrow and simultaneous settlement for physical cargoes across crude, refined products, derivatives, foodstuffs and precious metals.
Behaviour analytics, transaction monitoring, politically exposed person screening, suspicious activity reporting, watchlists, case management and identity verification.
Fiat in and Bitcoin out over Lightning, or Bitcoin in and fiat out through the terminal the merchant already owns, with automated hedging against volatility.
Authorised brokers for the first regulated tokenised infrastructure issuance under El Salvador’s Digital Assets Issuance Law.
A multi agent academic tutor built on an institution’s own curriculum, extending into early childhood development and autism support.
Predictive modelling, computer vision, document intelligence, agentic systems and big data engineering, delivered as custom builds.
The network
A funded competitor can hire engineers and stand up a smart contract escrow inside a few months. What they cannot do inside a few months is persuade a seller in Fujairah and a buyer in Singapore to route a sixty five million dollar cargo through a platform neither of them has heard of. We hold working counterparty relationships at all four hubs, built over six years of physical trading.
United States
US crude, refined products and petrochemicals
Europe
The ARA pricing hub for refined products
Middle East
The world’s second largest bunkering hub
Asia Pacific
The Asian products and bunkering benchmark
The group
Parent, brand and the contracting entity.
The technology arm, under the innovation tax regime.
The FinTech arm holding crypto, settlement and trade licensing.
The commercial and sales entity for the Gulf market.
Legal counsel engaged in the United States, El Salvador, Brazil and Paraguay. Banking established in the United States, El Salvador and Brazil.
We onboard you, run one live deal end to end, and you watch a simultaneous release happen for yourself. If it does not convince you, you have lost nothing but the time.
Operating Partner
sdemotte@chainlockr.com
