The exchange green coffee never had
A bonded, verified and financeable marketplace for specialty green coffee, built in the Dubai free zone.
The coffee trade still runs on dated rails
The trade runs on inbox and WhatsApp
Offers, samples, contracts and compliance move on email, spreadsheets and paper - slowly, and out of sight.
Producers wait to be paid
Ship first, then wait 30 to 90 days or more, carrying the risk and the financing cost in between.
The Gulf gap
The fastest-growing specialty coffee region in the world has no regulated trading hub of its own, so trade routes through Europe by default.
From origin lot to settled trade
- 1
Register and list
Verified sellers list their lots with full origin and quality detail. A new lot is not yet available to trade.
- 2
Bond and passport
The coffee is received into an approved DMCC warehouse, graded and re-cupped on arrival, and issued its digital passport.
- 3
Marketplace
Verified buyers discover, sample and reserve from bonded stock. Sellers manage their lots and enquiries in one place.
- 4
Trade and settle
Payment is held, then released on warehouse confirmation. Ownership and funds move together, and neither side is left short.
Payment and ownership only ever change hands once the coffee is in bonded custody and confirmed.
Every lot, verified before it trades
Bonded custody
Received, graded and held in an approved DMCC warehouse, backed bag-for-bag.
Digital passport
One tamper-evident record per lot, keeping what is claimed and what is verified clearly apart.
Verified title
The warehouse warrant stands as the document of title, transferable and recognised by lenders.
Everything around the trade, in one place
A trade needs more than a marketplace. xchange connects members to vetted providers of financing, compliance, quality, logistics and insurance - and stays neutral, so you choose what you use.
Every lot, bonded and confirmed
Coffee is received, graded and held at an approved DMCC warehouse in Dubai. Nothing settles until the warehouse confirms the coffee is there and the quality matches the passport.
Three forces meet in Dubai
The fastest-growing market
The GCC is the world's fastest-growing specialty coffee region, and it has no regulated trading hub of its own.
Infrastructure to build on
Rated bonded custody and a commodity title registry already operate in the Dubai free zone.
A regulatory framework that exists
Dubai's virtual-assets framework already gives digitally-represented commodity ownership a licensed path, proven on gold and diamonds.
Honest about what is built
We say which is which, everywhere.
Built and demonstrable today
- Verified lots with digital passports
- The full trade flow, end to end
- A live activity ledger
- A verified network of Gulf buyers
Designed, and being put in place
- Working-capital financing
- Full title issuance
- The forward layer above the trade
Built by an operator who knows this trade from both ends
Robert Jones has spent more than twenty years in the GCC coffee trade, with direct origin relationships across Tanzania, Ethiopia, Colombia and Brazil, and a verified network of Gulf roasters and buyers. xchange is the hub he always wished existed, built from a clear view of where the trade breaks and what it takes to fix it.
Robert Jones, Founder
Ready to trade in the open?
Book a demo and see the full journey - list a lot, have it verified, and settle a trade on warehouse confirmation.
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