The Trust Infrastructure for Global Commodity Trade.
In commodity trade, you find out who you were really dealing with after the money, the time, or the commission is already gone.CTRS360 is building the trust infrastructure that changes that — proving who introduced whom, who holds authority, and who can be relied upon, before the deal moves. Verified once. On the record. Portable everywhere.
FOUNDING CHARTER WINDOW OPEN · STANDARD V1.0 IN DRAFTING WITH THE FOUNDING COHORT
The commodity world runs on trust.
Trust without a record is just a risk.
Everyone in the chain is exposed to a different loss. The record protects each of them differently.
"I made the introduction. The deal closed around me."
Commission bypass is the oldest move in the trade. CTRS360 records who introduced whom, when, on which deal — in a tamper-evident, timestamped, append-only record built to serve as forensic evidence. If it's on the record, you can't be quietly written out of it.
"My mandate is real. It competes against ten that aren't."
Fake mandates flood every corridor and devalue genuine ones. A verified, authenticated mandate on the record separates you from every pretender claiming the same seller — before the counterparty's first question, not after their last doubt.
"Three weeks of LOIs from a buyer who never existed."
Time is the seller's most expensive loss. A pre-deal screen tells you whether the counterparty is real, solvent-looking, and who they say they are — before your desk burns a month on a ghost.
"Everyone claims to hold product. Nobody can prove it."
Buyers drown in offers from sellers four steps removed from any cargo. Verified counterparties and recorded chains of introduction show you who actually stands behind an offer — and who is just forwarding someone else's paperwork.
From first contact to final settlement — every step, on the record.
The introduction is recorded
A Protected Introduction commits who introduced whom — intermediary, invitee, commodity, value, timestamp — to an append-only record the moment it happens. The introduction can no longer be disputed, forgotten, or quietly rewritten.
The counterparty is screened
A Pre-Deal Fraud Screen checks the counterparty before money or weeks are committed: corporate registry, sanctions exposure, mandate authenticity. And a Document Fraud Check runs AI-powered forgery detection on the paper itself — POFs, bank letters, trade documents — so a convincing fake never becomes a dead deal. You learn who you're dealing with on day one.
The commission is protected
A Verified IMFPA puts every signatory through identity and entity verification before the fee agreement is executed — so the document protecting your commission is signed by people who are who they claim to be.
The deal carries its history
Every verification, introduction, and signature accumulates into a record that travels with the participants — portable trust they carry into the next deal, the next corridor, the next counterparty.
Illustrative examples · fictional parties · field structure shown to scale
Commodity trade is moving from "trust me" to "show me."
For decades, trust ran on relationships, introductions, and a patchwork of emails, PDFs, and WhatsApp messages. That model built global trade — and left it exposed to repeated due diligence, fraud, and transaction risk. Five shifts are now pushing the industry toward verifiable, portable trust.
Verification is becoming mandatory
KYC, beneficial-ownership transparency, and sanctions screening are moving from optional diligence to operational requirement. Participants increasingly must prove who they are, whom they represent, and whether they have authority to act.
Trust is becoming evidence-based
Buyers want proof of authority. Sellers want proof of capability. Banks want proof of compliance. The market is shifting from "trust me" to "show me" — and informal trust no longer clears the bar.
Trade is going digital — and trust must too
As documentation, exchange, and settlement digitize, the trust layer underneath them has to digitize as well. A portable trust record is what lets verified identity and authority travel alongside the digital deal.
Fraud prevention is now strategic
Forged mandates, unauthorized intermediaries, false proof-of-funds, and duplicated cargo financing have made counterparty risk a board-level concern. The cost of verification is increasingly seen as lower than the cost of a failed transaction.
Trust is becoming a competitive advantage
The market is starting to reward participants who can demonstrate credibility quickly — faster access to opportunities, fewer compliance delays, less repeated due diligence. In a market where deals depend on trust, the ability to prove it efficiently is becoming a measurable business advantage. The direction is clear: trust is becoming infrastructure.
Not just compliance. An evidence ledger for commodity trade — governed like a standard, not sold like software.
SWIFT standardized how banks message each other. GLEIF standardized legal entity identity. The broker layer of commodity trade — the layer where the fraud actually lives — has never had its standard. The strongest trust systems aren't owned by one company; they're shaped by the professionals who use them. That is why CTRS360 is being built with a founding cohort, not behind closed doors. The founding cohort is forming now — and the professionals who join first are the ones who write Standard v1.0.
There's a reason this matters. The last wave of trade-trust platforms — TradeLens, we.trade, Marco Polo, Contour — all shut down. The technology worked; the ownership didn't. Each was controlled by a closed club of banks that treated it as a cost center, and none earned the trust of the people who actually trade. CTRS360 is built the other way: shaped by its participants, governed like a standard.
Your commissions stay yours — and your network stays protected. Introduction fees in commodity trade flow between the parties, the way they always have. CTRS360 never takes a cent of them. What we do is make it safe to introduce: every introduction recorded, every bypass visible, every commission agreement signed by verified people. Bring your network. Introduce freely. Earn what you've always earned — on the record.
What founding members give
Verification in good faith
Every claim contributed to the network reflects a real verification, performed to a professional standard.
A voice in Standard v1.0
Founding membership is not passive. Members help draft the verification standard the network will run on.
Honest dealing
Trust records are a shared resource — never a competitive weapon. Conflicts are disclosed. Claims are honored.
What founding members receive
A founding badge on every record
Founding attribution written into every record a founding member originates — recognition carried in the record itself, not granted again after incorporation.
Protection on every introduction
Every deal a founding member brings through the platform carries a recorded, protected introduction. Nobody gets routed around you.
Lifetime preferred pricing
A fixed fee structure, set at charter ratification, that does not increase as the network grows.
Founder-led onboarding
Your first protected deal is set up with you personally — not a self-serve form. White-glove onboarding while the cohort is small.
Member loyalty program
Grow the network, and the network rewards you: every member you bring who gets verified earns you free verifications, document checks, and deal protections — and builds your standing in the community writing the standard. Never a cut of anyone's deal.
The standard requires a standard of its own.
We never touch your commission
CTRS360 takes no cut of any deal, ever. The commission splits in your IMFPA belong to the parties — we record and protect them. Our revenue is pure infrastructure fees, so our only incentive is that the record is right.
Any rewrite is detectable
Every entry is tamper-evident, timestamped, and append-only — built to serve as forensic evidence. Each record is cryptographically hashed (SHA-256) and chained to the records before it, so any alteration — by anyone, including us — is immediately detectable. That is what makes the record worth trusting.
Verified once, portable everywhere
Your verification belongs to you, not to one deal or one platform. Carry it across borders — Dubai to Rotterdam to Singapore — show it to every counterparty, and stop re-proving who you are every ninety days.
DOCUMENT LIBRARY DRAFTED WITH CORPORATE AND COMMODITY-TRADE COUNSEL · VERIFICATION BUILDING ON INSTITUTIONAL-GRADE KYC INFRASTRUCTURE · DELAWARE C-CORP
Trust should compound.
Today, trust is rebuilt from scratch on every deal. Every buyer re-evaluates every seller. Every seller re-evaluates every buyer. Every intermediary proves their role again. Every mandate is re-verified. Years of introductions, clean transactions, and hard-earned reputation can disappear the moment a new deal begins.
We believe it should work the other way. A verified introduction should stay verifiable. A proven mandate should stay provable. A trusted counterparty shouldn't start from zero every time they enter a new transaction. CTRS360 creates a portable trust record that moves with the participant — verified once, kept on the record, portable everywhere.
Priced per deal. A fraction of what's at stake.
A single bad introduction can cost an intermediary a five-figure commission, months of remediation, and a reputation that doesn't rebuild easily. Every service below costs less than one hour of counsel's time.
Anti-Bypass Introduction Record
Your introduction, on the record before anyone can close around you.
Pre-Deal Fraud Screen
Know who you're dealing with before you commit weeks to a ghost.
Document Fraud Check
AI-powered forgery detection on POFs, bank letters, and trade documents — catch the fake before you act on it.
IMFPA Self-Serve
Lawyer-drafted fee protection with automated identity checks.
Trust Passport
Your verified credential — portable proof of who you are, recognized across every deal, every corridor, every counterparty worldwide.
IMFPA Verified
Full verification of every signatory plus compliance sign-off.
Per-deal protections and per-check verifications are one layer. Membership is the other — tiers from free Explorer to Enterprise, with Deal Rooms, the verified directory, and the community writing the standard. Terms shared on application.
Inside the Deal Room — on the roadmap: as a deal advances, deeper verifications unlock — verified proof of funds, bank checks, tank storage (TSA/TSR) authentication, and dealer due diligence. Founding members get them first.
Want it handled for you? Concierge service — we run the verification and deal setup end-to-end — is available on request. Trading houses and institutions: enterprise verification, recurring-volume retainers, and white-label options exist. Ask us.
Lost time, money, or a commission
to someone who wasn't who they claimed?
We're recording what actually happens in commodity trade — to brokers, sellers, buyers, and mandate holders — before we finalize Standard v1.0. Tell us what happened: a 20-minute call, no pitch, no obligation. The professionals who share their stories first are the first invited into the founding cohort.
Got it — we'll reach out to hear your story.
The standard is being written now.
The founders are the ones who write it.
If it's not recorded, it's not protected.
You're on the list — we'll be in touch.