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A glowing cyan document has reached a lit hexagonal platform while a line of gold coins waits behind gates on a parallel rail

Japan’s eBL law is finally scheduled. The next bottleneck is the money.

Two weeks ago we wrote that Japan’s electronic bill of lading law was not unwritten, only unscheduled. The text had been finished…

Sep 29, 20262026年9月29日5 min read約5分

A tall brightly lit neon-cyan gateway standing empty on a dark reflective grid floor behind a hard glowing line, with a dense crowd of warm gold slabs halted at that line and the whole flow of them passing instead through a small narrow cyan side archway at the right.

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The letter of credit is refused two times in three. It almost never fails to pay.

Progress in digital trade is usually measured by adoption. How many carriers issue electronic bills of lading, how many jurisdictions have enacted…

Sep 16, 20262026年9月16日10 min read約10分

A finished slab of warm gold light resting on a brightly lit neon-cyan hexagonal platform on a dark reflective grid floor, with a rail of cyan light running from it toward a long row of tall dark archways that are all unlit and sealed.

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Japan’s eBL law isn’t unwritten. It’s unscheduled.

The standard explanation for why trade still runs on paper is legal uncertainty. Nobody is quite sure whether an electronic bill of…

Sep 14, 20262026年9月14日7 min read約7分

A single large glossy cyan disc on a dark reflective grid sending dozens of thin bridges of cyan light toward a dense field of small hexagonal platforms, each sealed under its own warm gold dome, the bridges completing only into the few domes that have opened and scattering into sparks against the rest

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Circle paid $400M for the last mile. The last mile is a licence.

For three years the stablecoin argument has been about the coin. Which chain, which issuer, which reserve, which regulator. The implicit promise…

Sep 9, 20262026年9月9日6 min read約6分

A vast calm river of glowing cyan light crossing a dark reflective grid floor, forced at each end through a narrow warm gold gate far smaller than the channel itself, sparks flying where the light compresses at the two apertures

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Japan’s yen stablecoin has no transfer cap. The on-ramp does.

Japan is usually described as the jurisdiction that got stablecoins right. It legislated early, it defined electronic payment instruments properly, and it…

Sep 7, 20262026年9月7日6 min read約6分

A translucent cyan slab riding a bright cyan rail that runs cleanly past hexagonal platforms into the distance, while a parallel stream of warm gold light breaks off at a squared edge and spills into empty darkness on a dark reflective grid floor

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The eBL can finally cross platforms. It still can’t release the money.

For three years the electronic bill of lading had one agreed diagnosis: walled gardens. Every platform issued documents only its own members…

Sep 4, 20262026年9月4日7 min read約7分

Abstract 3D render: a gold ring of light has travelled along a rail from one lit platform to another, while a stack of translucent data slabs stays locked to the first platform and its rail stops short in mid-air.

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The promise moved from the bank to the buyer. The credit file didn’t move.

For eighty years, the answer to “will I actually get paid?” belonged to a bank. Under UCP 600, a documentary credit is…

Sep 1, 20262026年9月1日6 min read約6分

Four slender neon-cyan robotic arms working precisely on one small glowing cyan slab on a plinth in a pool of light, while a far larger river of warm gold cubes streams past across a dark grid floor into the distance, entirely unlit and untouched

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Everyone is digitising the paperwork. Most of world trade doesn’t have any.

Almost every digital trade project of the last decade has been aimed at a document. The bill of lading, the letter of…

Aug 26, 20262026年8月26日7 min read約7分

Nine tall neon-cyan archways standing open in a row on a dark reflective grid floor, with a single thin stream of warm gold blocks passing through one archway while far larger drifts of gold blocks lie heaped on the floor in front of the others, never passing through

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Your company is eBL-ready. Your next shipment will still be paper.

Two numbers, from two different surveys, describe the same industry in the same period. In December 2024 the FIT Alliance — the…

Aug 24, 20262026年8月24日7 min read約7分

Abstract 3D render: about thirty small glowing cyan nodes on a dark grid floor tangled with luminous filaments, all being redirected toward one larger gold hexagonal platform whose own threads fade out before reaching the outer nodes

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Thirty organisations touch one shipment. The industry’s fix was to add a thirty-first.

Some years ago Maersk Line did something the industry still quotes and still misreads: it followed one refrigerated container of avocados from…

Aug 21, 20262026年8月21日7 min read約7分

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