Our Mission & Story

Bridging Physical Trade & Cryptographic Trust

Meet the team behind CargoTrust, building on Arc to connect agricultural cooperatives directly with global buyers.

Why we are building CargoTrust

In late 2025, our team visited coffee cooperatives in eastern Africa. We observed firsthand the complex, paper-driven process farmers go through to export their harvests. Even after premium coffee passed extensive laboratory moisture and quality evaluations, the cooperative had to wait weeks for bank letters of credit to clear, causing cash-flow gaps that delayed worker payments.

We realized that by combining on-chain asset tokenization, immutable quality verification signatures, and decentralized stablecoin escrows, we could build a settlement flow that executes instantly, costs pennies, and removes counterparty risk.

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Our vision is a human-first, frictionless B2B commerce network. Farmers get paid immediately upon crop verification, and importers get absolute cryptographic security that they are buying exactly what was tested in the laboratory.

The Founding Team

Eric Parra

Founder & Blockchain Architect

Ex-Supply Chain consultant. Focused on bringing decentralized finance tools to real-world agricultural trade.

Geneva, Switzerland

Elena Rostova

Lead Full-Stack & IoT Lead

IoT engineer and hardware hacker. Designed CargoPilot telemetry nodes and built the Next.js/Viem interface.

Berlin, Germany

Samuel Kiprop

Operations & Grower Relations

Former coffee cooperative lead in East Africa. Bridging the gap between agricultural producers and CargoTrust developers.

Nairobi, Kenya

Built for the Circle Commerce Stack Challenge

CargoTrust represents a functional prototype demonstrating how stablecoins (USDC) and compliance-native registries can be integrated into high-speed blockchain ecosystems like Arc to automate supply chains.

🚀 MVP Phase v1.0