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Agridex Raises $5 Million to Expand Agricultural Tokenization on Solana

In a recent funding initiative, the Solana-based Agridex project secured $5 million in a pre-seed round aimed at enhancing the tokenization of agricultural commodities. The funding, led by Endeavour Ventures, included contributions from African Crops Limited and Oldenburg Vineyards.

Agridex Attracts $5 Million to Develop Solana-Powered Agricultural Marketplace

Agridex‘s platform, which operates on the Solana blockchain, enables the purchase and secure tokenization of various crops, ensuring transactions are verifiable through non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that record censorship-resistant transaction details. This development comes as part of a broader trend within the crypto and blockchain sector to tokenize real-world assets (RWAs).

The Agridex platform aims to facilitate direct trade between farmers and buyers, providing an end-to-end supply chain solution that promotes transparency and traceability from origin to delivery. It includes features like supplier compliance control, quality checks, and transportation tracking, which are geared toward enhancing the efficiency of agricultural trade.

Additionally, Agridex offers trade finance lending at competitive rates to support increased orders and smooth financial flows within the trade cycle. The RWA Solana marketplace aims to bring the $2.7 trillion agriculture industry onchain. “We’re thrilled to announce the successful closure of our pre-seed funding round,” Agridex wrote on the social media platform X on Thursday.

The Agridex team added:

We’ll be using this investment to revolutionize the global agriculture industry with the powerful infrastructure of the Solana network.

AgriDex enters a competitive field alongside blockchain and agriculture ventures such as Agrichain, Vietnam’s TE-FOOD, Origintrail, and Ripe.io. These platforms, many of which utilize distributed ledger technology, enable the tracing of agricultural products from their origin on the farm to their final retail destinations.

What do you think about Agridex raising $5 million to put the agriculture industry onchain? Share your thoughts and opinions about this subject in the comments section below.

Source: Bitcoin

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