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- Agrotoken has announced a new collaboration with Polygon to transform agribusiness by tokenizing agricultural commodities.
- Agrotoken selected Polygon for its scalability, which will allow it to offer commercial and business opportunities for its users in agribusiness.
Tokenization is often looked at as a blockchain application for the financial sector, where real-world assets are tokenized to unlock liquidity. However, it spans every sector and several companies are proving that tokenization can open up new opportunities and business models in day-to-day lives. Agrotoken is unlocking the potential of tokenization in agribusiness, and it has now partnered with Polygon to expand its presence.
In its announcement Thursday, Agrotoken said that its partnership with Polygon would “transform agribusiness with agricultural commodity tokenization.”
We’ve collaborated with @0xPolygon to transform agribusiness with agricultural commodity tokenization. pic.twitter.com/aeoeqAQA90
— Agrotoken (@agrotoken) October 17, 2024
Agrotoken is a tech company that blends agriculture and technology. It built the world’s first infrastructure for agricultural commodities tokenization. It transforms agricultural products like grains into tokens that can be easily exchanged for fiat, other goods, or assets for farmers who require efficient financial support.
The company has already facilitated $70 million in transactions, tokenizing three grains: cora, soya, and wheat. It boasts of over 1,000 farmers, 40+ grain holders, and over 250 merchants. Collectively, these ecosystem users have tokenized over 230,000 tons of grains.
By partnering with Polygon, Agrotoken will not offer greater transparency and efficiency with its cost-effective tokenization solutions. With sustainability now a big focus for companies globally, Agrotoken also focuses “to create products that promote best practices for agribusiness and pave the way for a more sustainable industry.”
Polygon x Agorotoken: Tokenising Agribusiness
Polygon has become one of the biggest players in tokenization, a sector that Goldman Sachs says could unlock $16 trillion by the end of the decade. As we reported, the team behind Polygon believes that this application could be a $30 trillion opportunity for the Web3 sector, and already. several players are building tokenization solutions on its scalable network.
This includes Spiko, a money markets infrastructure provider that surpassed $65 million within two months. It also boasts some of traditional finance’s biggest players building solutions on its network, including Hamilton Lane which tokenized a $2.1 billion private equity fund, and Franklin Templeton, the $1.53 trillion asset manager which launched on-chain peer-to-peer transfers for real-world assets.
Agrotoken aspires to join these heavyweights. In its announcement, it stated:
This collaboration will allow us to leverage the scalability of the Polygon PoS network, enhancing our efficient and transparent agricultural ecosystem even further, and opening up new financial, commercial, and business opportunities for agribusiness.
This partnership is just the first step. The Agrotoken team says that in the coming months, it will launch the Natural Resources Chain, its zero-knowledge Layer 2 network that will be built on the Polygon chain development kit (CDK). This will allow the platform to offer better cross-chain interoperability and improve efficiency and security.
Meanwhile, MATIC trades at $0.3673, trading sideways as we head into the weekend, amid a 10% dip in trading volume.
