NEWS: Bulla awarded Arbitrum DAO grant to launch PYUSD liquidity pool to settle freight finance onchain
We're thrilled to announce that Bulla Network has been awarded a grant from Arbitrum DAO’s Orbit-track Crypto Cities initiative to bring more real-world business onchain, validating our mission to build and grow the credit infrastructure that connects business finance to onchain liquidity.
What this grant enables
With this grant, Bulla Network will deploy a dedicated PYUSD stablecoin liquidity pool on Arbitrum to tokenize and finance freight invoices for the North American trucking and supply chain industry.
Bulla serves as the onchain credit protocol layer that tokenizes verified trucking invoices on delivered freight and connects them to stablecoin liquidity pools for financing.
For carriers, that means same-day payment on completed loads instead of waiting 30 to 180 days — or surrendering 30% or more of their revenues to traditional factoring companies.To date, Bulla has tokenized and financed more than $5M of invoices with 0% default rate.
Arbitrum is the perfect fit
Arbitrum is the natural home for this solution. As Ethereum's leading Layer 2 by TVL, it provides the speed, low transaction costs, and composability that real-world trade finance demands. The Crypto Cities program specifically supports projects that root onchain activity in real economic life — exactly what Bulla offers.
The $2.5 trillion global trade finance gap isn't a crypto problem. It's a plumbing problem: slow settlement, opaque processes, extractive intermediaries, and no transparency between counterparties. Arbitrum's infrastructure makes it possible to replace that plumbing with something open, fast, and verifiable.
What Bulla brings to the Arbitrum ecosystem
Bulla Network is an onchain credit protocol — infrastructure for tokenizing, managing, and financing business obligations onchain. Our existing protocol has been live across multiple chains, with a track record of real invoice creation, payment, and settlement by businesses operating natively in Web3.
This grant marks our first dedicated trade finance deployment on Arbitrum, and the first liquidity pool purpose-built for freight invoice factoring on any Arbitrum Orbit chain. What that means in practice:
- Transparency: Every invoice, funding event, and repayment is recorded immutably onchain — no black boxes, no reconciliation delays
- Speed: Settlement in hours, not weeks
- Cost: 90% cost reduction compared to traditional factoring, enabled by stablecoin rails and onchain automation
- Real economic activity: Every dollar of liquidity in the pool is backed by a verified freight invoice — not crypto speculation
Real businesses. Real invoices. Real yield.
The North American trucking industry moves $2T in freight annually. Up to 70% of carriers are small operators who complete a load, generate an invoice, and then wait months to get paid — or pay dearly to stay liquid. Bulla is helping to change that by bringing this $3 trillion invoice factoring market onchain, one verified freight invoice at a time.
This is what Arbitrum DAO's Crypto Cities program was built for: connecting DeFi infrastructure to the businesses and communities that need it most.
We're grateful to Arbitrum DAO for this recognition and excited to build what's next.
Learn more about Bulla Network at bulla.network and follow us on X for updates on the pool launch: @BullaNetwork.