Hello harryb. Thank you for your question.
Let me picture some example.
For instance, let’s take trade data, which serve as the backbone for the trade finance workflow: the approval and matching of data found in trade documents such as invoices can be a trigger for events that follow, such as the transfer of ownership or execution of a payment. By facilitating easy access to data and end-to-end transparency of the entire value chain, crypto technologies can facilitate an improved exchange of trade information. The real-time visibility of events along a supply chain means that financing triggers can be identified sooner, which means that funds can be released faster. Also credit ratings and risk assessment procedures could benefit from a better availability and auditability of trade data. Abstracting from trade data, with a blockchain based trading platform in place and a cryptocurrency properly designed for the purpose, it would be possible to build a value ecosystem, with features to support applications that third parties could build and that are yet unimagined: Ethereum ecosystem docet. Some of the most imaginable use cases which could stem from a value ecosystem for trade finance include, for instance, supply chain digital tracking, a blockchain-based Digital Thread for Additive Manufacturing (DTAM) underpinning all the transactions occurring throughout the digital and physical life cycle for additive manufacturing and trade finance solutions based on IoT-generated data.