What rules may apply
- Documentary conditions for release or payment
- Origin and compliance requirements
- Inspection outcomes
- Jurisdiction-dependent requirements
Represented as workflow conditions—not legal or regulatory determinations.
Use Case / Supply Chain & Trade
Coordinate goods, documents and custody across borders.
Shipment records, trade documents, custody handoffs and documentary conditions.
USE-CASE MATURITYARCHITECTURE USE CASE
Novera architecture has been mapped conceptually to the use case, but this is not a production product or deployment.
Configures the same primitives
How maturity is defined - NovaIDMVP MOCK
- NovaRegistryMVP
- NovaDeedMVP MOCK
01 · The coordination problem
Many systems. One asset state.
A trade moves goods through exporters, carriers, inspectors, customs and importers, each producing documents and custody events—while payment often depends on those documents.
Novera's architecture could keep shipment state, documents and custody hand-offs coherent across parties, without operating logistics, customs or trade finance.
02 · Participants
Who takes part—and who stays authoritative.
- Exporter
The goods, the commercial invoice and export declarations.
- Importer
Acceptance of the goods and import obligations.
- Carrier / freight forwarderExternal authority
Custody in transit and transport documents.
- Customs and inspection authoritiesExternal authority
Clearance and inspection outcomes.
- Banks / trade-finance providersExternal authority
Documentary payment and trade finance.
04 · State to coordinate
Six stages. State accumulates around the asset.
Step through the same Novera lifecycle used by every asset class. Each stage names the primitive involved and where Novera stops.
- IdentityExporter, importer and carrier state
STAGE 01 / 06 · NovaID
Trading parties are represented
NovaID could reference exporter, importer and carrier participant state.
Who is participating?
Boundary Does not independently perform regulated identity verification.
Conceptual model · Visitor-controlled · No live data
05 · Primitive mapping
A configuration of NovaID, NovaRegistry and NovaDeed.
Not a separate product. The same three primitives—with the same component status—applied to this asset lifecycle.
Signature workflow
Documents follow the goods.
Each hand-off produces documents and evidence. A coordination layer would keep them attached to the shipment's state.
- 01Contract
Exporter and importer state; shipment record created.
- 02Dispatch
Goods handed to the carrier; custody event recorded.
- 03Documents
Invoice, packing-list and transport-document references attached.
- 04Inspection
An external inspection outcome is referenced.
- 05Clearance
Customs clearance referenced from the authority.
- 06Delivery
Importer receipt recorded; payment finalizes externally.
06 · 07 · 08 · Policy, evidence, settlement
Rules, proof and the final boundary.
What supports each transition
- Commercial invoice and packing-list references
- Transport-document references
- Inspection and clearance references
- Custody hand-off events
Referenced from its source, not certified by Novera.
Where Novera stops
Trade payment and any documentary credit settle through banks and trade-finance providers; Novera would reference document state at the interface.
- Handled externally by
- Banks, trade-finance providers, payment providers
09 · What Novera does not replace
Coordinate state. Preserve the authority.
Novera does not operate logistics, customs, trade-finance or settlement infrastructure.
- REMAINS AUTHORITATIVECustoms and border authorities
- REMAINS AUTHORITATIVECarriers and logistics providers
- REMAINS AUTHORITATIVEBanks and trade-finance institutions
- REMAINS AUTHORITATIVEInspection bodies
10 · MATURITYARCHITECTURE USE CASE
Mapped conceptually · not a product or deployment.
Different assets · One control layer
The asset changes. The architecture remains.
Compare how the same primitives map to other asset lifecycles, or review the architecture behind them.