A parts manufacturer in Ohio ships $500K in components to an auto distributor in the UK. Payment comes in 90 days. These are standard B2B terms.
But the manufacturer needs cash now. Payroll doesn't wait 90 days.
Someone fronts the $500K. In return, they earn a fee. The loan is short-term, backed by the invoice and goods that already shipped.
Banks have done this for a long time. Default rates on short-term trade credit sit around 0.02%. Low risk, short duration.
Banks charge 8-15% annualized. They've had this entire market to themselves.
$2.5 trillion in demand goes unfunded every year (ADB, 2025). Banks reject over 40% of SME applications. The deals aren't bad. The compliance overhead just doesn't justify smaller tickets.
This is where KUSD comes in.
Depositors will be able to mint KUSD with stablecoins and stake for sKUSD. The stablecoins backing KUSD get deployed as short-term credit to verified borrowers against receivables they already hold.
When the invoice clears, principal plus fee flows back to sKUSD holders.
The fee on that credit is the reward. It comes from a business getting paid early on an invoice that was already owed to them.
Nothing is being printed. Nobody needs to stay leveraged. No funding rate needs to hold.
Backing is verified through @chainlink Proof of Reserve. On-chain, continuous, automated.
Every KUSD is verifiably backed by real receivables. Not a quarterly PDF. Not a trust-me. Verifiable by anyone, anytime.
One more thing. This market doesn't compress the way DeFi pools do. More capital in a DeFi pool means lower rewards per dollar. Same pie, more people.
With trade receivables, more capital means more invoices get funded. The deal flow scales with the capital. $10 trillion a year in addressable market.