cotton.xyz Testnet Preview App coming soon

Vision

From ancient crop to open global markets.

For thousands of years, cotton has fed, clothed, and connected civilizations — yet access to fair, global pricing has remained concentrated in hands far from the field. cotton.xyz exists to change that: bringing cotton’s benchmark price and risk tools to growers, cooperatives, and merchants everywhere — on modern rails that never close.

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Mainnet coming soon. Preview uses simulated data — not live trading or real funds.

Every farmer — wherever they are in the world — deserves the same access to global cotton markets and transparent pricing that the largest merchants have enjoyed for generations.

We are not replacing cotton’s history. We are extending it. cotton.xyz combines the world’s most trusted cotton benchmark — ICE Cotton No. 2 — with always-on digital infrastructure so participants can hedge, trade, and plan without waiting for session bells or middlemen alone to set the tone.

Cotton through time

From the first harvest to the next chapter of open, global markets.

  1. Ancient

    First cultivation

    Indus Valley & Peru — among humanity’s oldest crops.

  2. Ancient

    Ancient trade

    Egypt & India — cotton bridges continents.

  3. Ancient

    Global diffusion

    Islamic world to Spain — routes mature.

  4. Medieval

    European expansion

    Mediterranean commerce reshaped by cotton imports.

  5. Industrial

    Cotton gin

    1793 — US production surges; industry accelerates.

  6. Industrial

    Factory age

    Mechanized mills — cotton defines modern trade.

  7. Markets

    NY Cotton Exchange

    1870 — centralized benchmark pricing begins.

  8. Markets

    Liverpool hub

    World trading capital linking growers to mills.

  9. Modern

    ICE Cotton

    1970 — global benchmark ICE Cotton No. 2.

  10. Digital

    Electronic era

    Screen trading — still session-bound.

  11. Today

    Access gap

    ~120M bales/year — many far from global pricing.

  12. Next

    cotton.xyz

    ICE Oracle when live, Order Book when not — 24/7 global access.

Then & now

For centuries

  • Local prices, distant benchmarks
  • Trading hours that ignore harvest urgency
  • Complex access through layers of intermediaries
  • Regional basis risk opaque to small holders

With cotton.xyz

  • Global ICE reference, reachable from anywhere
  • Markets that stay open — ICE Oracle when live, Order Book when it is not
  • Simple USDC settlement and email-first sign-in on testnet
  • A path toward origin-aware markets as the network grows

Who we serve

Our north star is the producer and the regional operator — not only the trading desk.

Farmers & growers

A fairer path to global benchmark pricing and hedging tools — without requiring a broker network or crypto expertise to begin learning the product.

Co-ops & merchants

Manage basis and benchmark risk around the clock — aligned to how cotton actually moves across borders and seasons.

Global participants

Speculators and funds add liquidity and depth — helping tighten spreads for everyone who depends on a functioning cotton market.

What we are building

  1. A cotton-only exchange — perpetual contracts on Arbitrum, collateral in USDC, designed for commodity users first.
  2. Trustworthy pricing — ICE Oracle when live, Order Book when it is not; built for nights, weekends, and harvest weeks.
  3. Access that scales — from testnet preview today toward mainnet, local languages, and regional origin markets over time.

Soft launch in progress. Technical architecture and research are described in our white paper.

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