Research Publications

Independent research on the infrastructure
of global trade

Monaco Trade Forum's Innovation Lab publishes a numbered series of original research into emerging technology, infrastructure and practice across global trade, commodities and trade finance — ahead of, and alongside, the Forum's convening programme.

Many of the questions discussed at Monaco Trade Forum cannot be answered during a conference session; Research Publications exist to examine them in greater depth, using publicly documented evidence rather than opinion.

Work published here is independent research, not a commercial offering of Monaco Trade Forum. Where a study examines a proposed mechanism or prototype, that status — and what remains unvalidated — is stated plainly on its page.

Research Publications
The series, in order of publication
001
Trade Finance Market validation phase
Don't believe our research. Verify the mechanism yourself.
Publication 001 — Cryptographic Supplier Attestations for Tier 2 and Tier 3 Supplier Verification in Trade Finance
Five minutes. One verification challenge. Zero trust required. Explore whether financing-critical supplier facts can be verified without disclosing commercially sensitive supply chain relationships — generate a real, cryptographically signed attestation from your own input, verify it, then try to break it. No account, no sales call. Includes the underlying research and an open register of what is validated versus still hypothesis.
Open CHRISOV — Independent Verification Lab →
002
Forthcoming
A future publication in the Innovation Lab's research series will appear here.
003
Forthcoming
A future publication in the Innovation Lab's research series will appear here.

The Innovation Lab is Monaco Trade Forum's research arm, examining questions the Forum's programme raises in more depth — including where technology and market structure intersect with commodities, trade finance and supply chains. Each initiative that reaches a stage worth sharing is published here as a numbered entry in the Research Publications series. The Forum convenes conversations. The Innovation Lab documents evidence.