Several ship brokers and steel traders in Asia are already using stablecoin settlement for exactly this purpose, per the Fireblocks State of Stablecoins 2025 report. For trade finance, commodity trading desks, and global supply chain operators, simultaneous settlement eliminates counterparty risk that currently requires expensive letter-of-credit instruments. Delivery-versus-payment (DvP) settlement, where asset transfer and payment occur simultaneously, becomes practical with stablecoins in a way impossible with traditional rails. Smart contracts can encode payment conditions directly, releasing funds upon delivery confirmation, splitting payments across multiple suppliers simultaneously, or automatically converting to local currency upon receipt. Against this backdrop, stablecoins have achieved meaningful penetration faster than most institutional observers anticipated. B2B payments, covering supplier payments, cross-border invoicing, payroll, and wholesale trade, account for $10 trillion of current annual flows and are projected by multiple analysts to become the largest cross-border payment category by 2030. References: payidpokies1