AgriDex Worldwide, the Solana-based Actual World Belongings (RWA) platform behind the Loam digital funds and treasury optimization platform, has introduced a strategic partnership with Tradeflow Capital Administration, marking a major step ahead in deploying institutional capital in Kenya’s vibrant agricultural sector and different key regional and African markets.
The collaboration is designed to strengthen entry to structured commerce finance and trendy fee infrastructure for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya and throughout Africa. By combining Tradeflow’s experience in commerce finance with Agridex’s Loam digital settlement platform, the partnership accelerates the stream of working capital to SMEs, reduces transaction prices and forex friction, improves transparency by means of close to real-time visibility of funds, and addresses a long-standing hole in commerce finance accessibility throughout rising markets.
On the centre of this initiative is Loam, Agridex’s proprietary funds and treasury infrastructure, purpose-built to transfer capital effectively throughout markets the place legacy banking rails are sluggish, costly, or inaccessible. Loam delivers near-instant settlement with transaction prices beneath 0.2%, in contrast to conventional cross-border funds that always price greater than 3% and take a number of working days to full. By lowering friction on the funds layer, Loam permits capital to attain companies quicker, with larger certainty and transparency.
Commenting on the partnership, Henry Duckworth, Founder and CEO of Agridex, mentioned:
“Loam was constructed to resolve actual fee and settlement challenges in rising markets. Tradeflow’s adoption of Loam as a core conduit for capital deployment demonstrates how trendy fee rails can unlock scale, effectivity, and resilience in African commerce finance.”
Beneath the partnership, Tradeflow Capital Administration will use Loam because the foundational infrastructure for deploying structured commerce finance capital into agricultural and commodity worth chains throughout Africa. Having turned over $5 billion in SME commerce transactions since inception, Tradeflow brings deep experience in asset-backed, data-driven financing fashions and real-time provide chain danger mitigation, enabling capital to be deployed in a disciplined and scalable method.
The Agridex–Tradeflow partnership will initially give attention to commodity trades and structured financing deployments throughout precedence African markets utilizing Loam to ship
- quicker settlement,
- decrease prices, and
- larger certainty of fee.
The initiative additionally aligns with broader efforts to strengthen Africa’s monetary infrastructure.
Imara Group, a long-standing investor and advisor in African monetary providers, has supported the event of institutional-grade fee and capital market infrastructure throughout the continent, investing over $400 million over the previous 20 years. Its work has centered on increasing entry to finance, enabling digital funds, and supporting platforms – together with Agridex’s Loam – that underpin commerce, employment, and financial progress.
As demand for environment friendly commerce finance and cross-border fee options continues to develop, partnerships that mix capital, know-how, and native market experience are anticipated to play an more and more essential function in supporting Africa’s commerce and financial improvement.
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