Atul Khekade

Atul Khekade is Founding Director & Ecosystem Support at XDC Foundation. Actively funding startups that can build on XinFin [XDC] Hybrid Blockchain Network. I led formation of the first production blockchain network (valued at nearly $100M) for a consortium of Indian banks and financial institutions for fraud prevention in Trade Finance industry. This is also the first live production blockchain network in the world that is fully legal and compliant with laws of the land and is actively used in day to day life. SWIFT is currently Piloting on this network. I’m the Co-Founder of TradeFinex Tech Ltd. (A ADGM Regulated Entity part of 37 Regulator driven GFIN) and XinFin Network. TradeFinex platform Is an underlying market infrastructure built for Corporate treasuries, banks/financial institutions/non-bank funders and Fintech originators/brokers to develop trade as an asset class. TradeFinex helps participants originate, digitise, tokenize distribute and settle cross border contracts and trade instruments in a fully decentralised and peer to peer environment. The instruments include receivables, letters of credits, Guarantees, Bonds, Bill of Lading, Warehousing receipts etc. Tokenized Digital fiat currency can be used for settlement.