We turn warehouse receipts and physical supply into transparent, liquid, programmable assets on Arbitrum — starting with cocoa, built for any commodity and any geography.
MVP deployed on Arbitrum Sepolia · Pilot-ready
Flow · Ghanaian Cocoa
Vertical Slice
Receipt → Token → Escrow → Settlement
Network
Arbitrum Sepolia
Our Vision
AkuaLabs is building the rails to turn real-world commodities — starting with Ghanaian cocoa, expanding to South American coffee, soybeans, and more — into transparent, liquid, programmable assets that connect local warehouses to global liquidity.
Standardized on-chain primitives where 1 ton of cocoa equals 1 verifiable, auditable, tradable unit — backed by warehouse receipts and real inventory.
Connect cooperatives, warehouses, and local actors directly into Arbitrum's DeFi and stablecoin rails, reducing FX leakage and unlocking new hedging and financing channels.
Replace paper-based opacity, middleman risk, and double-pledging with provable, on-chain collateral and end-to-end auditability for regulators, banks, and foundations.
What We're Building
AkuaLabs is the research, engineering, and protocol lab that turns warehouse receipts, on-chain escrow, and liquidity rails into a coherent product stack for tokenized commodities.
Tokenized tons, receipts, escrow.
A live MVP on Arbitrum Sepolia where cocoa tons are represented as on-chain tokens backed by warehouse receipts, governed by escrow, and monitored end-to-end.
Orbit-based rails for commodities.
An Arbitrum-first stack, evolving into an Orbit L3 chain optimized for institutional commodity flows, programmable vaults, and compliance-aware settlement.
Research lab + AI rails.
AkuaLabs pairs protocol engineering with research, policy, and AI infrastructure grounded in Ghanaian commodity markets and beyond.
CRE Integration
The Akua Commodities Market integrates Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) for decentralized, real-time monitoring of all escrow and warehouse receipt events. The escrow-flow workflow automatically detects on-chain activity and streams structured event data to our frontend dashboard — enabling instant visibility into transactions, confirmations, and settlements without centralized infrastructure.
The escrow-flow workflow is production-ready and monitoring all CommodityEscrow and WarehouseReceiptRegistry events. Runtime validation, HTTP-aware error handling, and webhook security are fully implemented.
Status: Awaiting CRE deployment access (early access program). Networks: Arbitrum Sepolia (staging) and Arbitrum One (production).
24-Month Roadmap
AkuaLabs is sequencing product, infra, and research so that real-world commodities can plug into Arbitrum liquidity today and a dedicated Akua L3 tomorrow.
Built. Shipping. Piloting.
Contracts are deployed on Arbitrum Sepolia with a vertical slice already functioning: warehouse receipt issuance, tokenization, escrow funding, and settlement through the Akua Commodities Market UI.
The Akua Commodities Market MVP includes contracts for CocoaTon, WarehouseReceiptRegistry, CommodityEscrow, ReserveManager, MessageEmitter, and BalanceReader, orchestrated through Chainlink CRE for workflow automation and monitoring.
The frontend supports buyer, seller, and warehouse personas to issue digital receipts, create deals, fund escrow, and trigger settlement and release — all wired directly to on-chain data.
AkuaLabs is now moving from MVP into structured pilots and institutional conversations, with a focus on Ghanaian cocoa supply chains as the first production track.
For Governments, Banks & Foundations
AkuaLabs works with commodity boards, government agencies, and regulated institutions to design pilots that are technically sound, policy-aware, and impact-driven.
Turn paper warehouse receipts and silo inventory into structured, on-chain collateral that can be monitored, audited, and financed.
Give regulators, central banks, and funds line-of-sight into the assets backing commodity-linked exposures and credit.
Bridge local commodity flows into Arbitrum’s DeFi and stablecoin rails for hedging, credit enhancement, and impact capital.
We work with commodity boards, government agencies, development banks, impact funds, and large cooperatives to design fit-for-purpose market rails.
Non-profit and foundation structures help separate research, education, and policy work from commercial deployments.
For Builders & Protocol Teams
AkuaLabs is opening up standards and test environments so DeFi teams, infrastructure providers, and builders can integrate commodity-backed assets natively.
Access smart contract interfaces, reference UIs, and example flows for integrating commodities into lending markets, structured products, and on-chain treasuries.
We're curating an early group of builders who want to ship real-world commodity use cases on Arbitrum and the future Akua L3 — from collateralized lending to hedging products.
You bring protocol expertise; we bring commodity rails, data, and policy context.
Global Reach, Starting in Ghana
Ghana is one of the world's leading cocoa exporters and is deeply exposed to commodity price swings, FX constraints, and opaque middleman structures. Farmers and cooperatives carry this volatility while remaining far from global liquidity.
AkuaLabs is building infrastructure that improves pricing power for producers, reduces fraud and double-pledging of receipts, and makes collateral legible to both local and global capital.
The same rails that work for Ghanaian cocoa are designed to extend globally — with South America (coffee, soybeans, beef, sugar) in our near-term roadmap and a framework that adapts to local governance and regulatory contexts across any geography.
Get In Touch
Whether you're an institution, cooperative, builder, or impact fund — we'd love to hear from you. Share your interest and we'll schedule a call to explore how AkuaLabs can help.
Call to Action
If you're a government, cooperative, bank, fund, or protocol team, AkuaLabs is ready to explore pilots, research collaborations, and infrastructure partnerships around tokenized commodities.