Sweetbridge is a blockchain-based economic framework that transforms supply chain and logistics collaboration through a fast, fair and flexible value exchange that unleashes working capital for the benefit of all participants. The Sweetbridge economy is a trusted, transparent digital economy that co-exists with existing national economies. Sweetbridge’s blockchain protocols harmonize the rules for market-access, property-rights protection, and compensation for individuals and companies, across existing national economies and boundaries. Thus, Sweetbridge enables both existing and new forms of global trade and settlement.