Solana News: AgriDex Leverages Stripe to Lower Agri-Trade Costs with Stablecoin Payments

• AgriDex partnered with Bridge to make cross-border agricultural payments faster.
• The platform allows agricultural businesses to complete transactions without needing to hold cryptocurrency directly.

AgriDex, a real-world asset (RWA) marketplace on the Solana blockchain, has partnered with the stablecoin platform Bridge to streamline payments for agricultural goods. This integration with Bridge means that farmers can now conduct their transactions using Circle’s USDC stablecoin and get rid of the problems that come with the traditional banking system.

The AgriDex-Bridge partnership is a unique attempt that aims at enhancing the accessibility of buyers and sellers to a convenient and efficient way of conducting business in agriculture commodities.

Through the application of blockchain technology, AgriDex connects the end-users to exchange payments in local currencies without necessarily requiring the users to hold cryptocurrencies. This simplified payment method also reduces transaction charges, which are a typical 2-4% across traditional banking systems, to as little as 0.5%, thus increasing profitability for the agricultural producers who engage in international trade.

AgriDex CEO and co-founder Henry Duckworth, an expert in global commodities trading with a background in Zimbabwe, foresees this partnership as a key solution to the problem of limited access for SMEs in the agricultural sector around the world. “The collaboration with Bridge reflects the potential of stablecoins to address real-world economic challenges,” 

Bridge Acquisition Signals Growing Stablecoin Adoption

AgriDex’s partnership also highlights the general development of the increased usage of stablecoins in the modern world’s financial markets. Stripe’s recent $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge is indicative of a rising corporate interest in the use of stablecoins as a cost-efficient means of payment in certain emerging markets. 

USDC and other stablecoins offer a solution to expensive conventional banking, and Bridge has become a gateway for companies interested in simple cross-border transactions. The CEO of Circle, Jeremy Allaire, believes that the stablecoin market has the potential to reach multiple trillions in the next ten years, becoming more provocatively embedded into the global financial infrastructure.

Through the AgriDex platform, producers are able to find a convenient and efficient way of listing, executing and settling trades. Every single trade goes through the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) with information about the particular trade thus making it secure and easy to trace. This added layer of digital verification not only increases the confidence in the system but also makes AgriDex a pioneer in the secure and transparent agricultural trade.

Solana Sees Renewed Growth 

In related news, Solana (SOL) is currently trading near $180, a level that the token has not been able to break through for almost three months now, while on-chain and derivatives data point to further gains. On October 26, the Solana network’s TVL reached 42.5 million SOL for the first time since September 2022. Some of the projects that have notably contributed to this growth include Jupiter, Raydium and Sanctum, DeFi projects which recorded a rise in their deposits in the last 30 days by 13%, 18%, and 17% respectively. 

These inflows show that there is a high demand for DeFi services on the Solana network, which has boosted the network’s TVL. At the time of this writing, Solana stands as the second largest blockchain network in terms of liquid TVL, outpacing BNB chain and almost on par with Ethereum.