The XDC Weekly is a short weekly video and written description of the previous week's highlights and happenings on XDC Network.

RAZE on XDC
Raze has announced a strategic alliance with the XDC Foundation and is now live on the XDC Network, enabling compliant, USDC-denominated vaults natively on XDC. The integration provides asset owners and issuers with a stablecoin-based framework for tokenization, offering a new destination for USDC liquidity.

https://x.com/XDCFoundation/status/2013975460988805372?s=20

Trade Finance Op-ed
In a Cointelegraph Op-ed, Billy Sebell, Executive Director of the XDC Foundation, outlined why he believes global trade finance represents the largest real-world opportunity for blockchain adoption. The piece explores how digitization, tokenization, and regulatory clarity are converging to modernize a $9T sector, close longstanding financing gaps for SMEs, and enable compliant, onchain trade settlement at scale.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/trade-finance-blockchain-opportunity

Murundi Group Pty Ltd. MoU
XDC Australia & XDC Labs has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Murundi Group Pty Ltd. to deploy blockchain-powered solutions for supply chain traceability and digital trade documentation across the India–Australia trade corridor. The collaboration will pilot MLETR-compliant digital trade documents and trade funding workflows in early 2026, with plans to scale these capabilities globally to improve efficiency, transparency, and access to finance in international trade.

https://x.com/XDCNetwork/status/2014619208391524547?s=20

XDC Weekly January 18, 2026 - January 24, 2026

Trade finance’s financing gap and paper-based inefficiencies create blockchain’s largest opportunity. Tokenized receivables can unlock global liquidity for SMEs.

In just over a decade, blockchain technology has rewritten the rulebook for global finance, bringing transparency, speed and access to financial markets. It has clearly established its worth in digital assets, decentralized finance (DeFi) and cross-border payments, among other effective use cases.

Perhaps the greatest unrealized potential for blockchain lies in one of the world’s most vital sectors: global trade finance.

Read the full Cointelegraph article to learn why trade finance and blockchain are a perfect match.

Trade finance is the biggest opportunity in blockchain

USDC holders gain access to yield-bearing and regulated RWA assets.

Raze Finance launches strategic yield-bearing RWA platform on XDC Network

As USDC stablecoin adoption continues to accelerate, institutional participants face a clear challenge: deploying large-scale stablecoin liquidity into compliant, asset-backed yield opportunities rather than speculative protocols. RAZE on XDC (Raze) addresses this need directly and serves as a critical yield and distribution layer for on-chain capital markets.

The XDC Network already provides institutions with fast finality, low transaction costs, and enterprise-ready reliability. With Raze now fully integrated with XDC Network, USDC holders gain access to a core platform designed to generate real yield from real-world assets. 

Through its Vault-as-a-Service offering, Raze enables asset owners and issuers to launch stablecoin-denominated vaults backed by private credit, structured debt, and commodities —  while removing the complexity of tokenization, compliance, onboarding, and lifecycle management. 

The Raze integration unlocks immediate XDC ecosystem value. 

XDC Network has seen more than $100 million in USDC liquidity move on-chain. That liquidity now has another leading destination to earn yield. Through Raze, asset issuers gain access to global, stablecoin-native capital, while investors benefit from transparent exposure to asset-backed yield on a purpose-built enterprise blockchain.

XDC Foundation developed a strategic alliance with Raze Finance to bring RAZE on XDC to market. Director Matthew Weisenthal provides further insight, stating that “building a liquid on-chain economy through RWA tokenization has long been a focus for XDC Foundation. Through RAZE on XDC, capital market flow will nourish this economy for new and existing XDC ecosystem participants.”

The real assets, real liquidity, and real yield provided through RAZE on XDC are vital components to the further adoption of on-chain trade finance. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have yearned for this type of solution since the dawn of blockchain technology. 

The launch of RAZE on XDC signals compelling progress for the industry.

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In episode 10 of XDC The Stream, hosts Lance Lilly and Dave Marcus speak with André Casterman, who wears many hats, including International Trade and Forfaiting Association Board Member and Head of Fintech. Casterman talks with Lance and Dave about his decades at SWIFT, his eventual move into the trade finance space, both accomplishments and challenges of digitization, and what he foresees in the coming years.