Shippers and truckers transact directly — bids, escrow, and payment settled on-chain in USDC. No brokers. No factoring. No waiting.
How It Works
Set the origin, destination, rate, and pickup window. Deposit 5% of the rate into smart-contract escrow to confirm intent.
Carriers place competitive bids. The shipper picks one and escrows the full payment. The trucker locks in with a matching 5% commitment — skin in the game on both sides. Parties work together from here on out.
Proof of delivery triggers automatic USDC release from escrow to the trucker's wallet. No invoice. No net-30. No factoring.
Built For Both Sides
No 20% broker cuts. No chasing invoices. Know exactly what the Shipper is paying, treat them right, and collect USDC within 24 hours of confirmed delivery.
See the flow →Post a load in seconds. Know your carrier and save money doing it. Help clean up the freight industry and ensure more reliable and professional service for you with our unique, visible-to-all ratings system.
See the flow →Get the App
Point your phone camera at the code (or visit decentralfreight.com/app), then add it to your home screen:
iPhone: Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen
Android: Chrome → tap Install app when prompted
Open the App →Decades of trade groups promising reform and delivering nothing. We got tired of waiting — so we built the fix ourselves.
After decades of industry talk and zero action, DecentralFreight ends the era of brokers quietly skimming unknown amounts from your rate. We stopped waiting on someone else to fix it.
Our platform fee undercuts the traditional brokerage cut by a minimum of 50% — full stop.
Lower fees aren't a zero-sum game. You and the shipper both keep more of the rate that used to disappear into a middleman's pocket.
Real, settled rates recorded immutably on-chain — visible to everyone, not locked behind DAT's proprietary black box or a broker's.
No more on-time, claim-free track record fragmented across a hundred disconnected databases. One on-chain history, visible to every shipper nationwide, no matter who you've hauled for on the platform.
Every load you run earns you a real say in how this platform evolves — not just a user, a stakeholder.
Proof of delivery releases USDC straight to your wallet. No invoicing system needed. No net-30. No factoring fees eating your margin.
A platform designed to put savings back into your operation — not into a brokerage's pocket.
You and your carrier both benefit immediately from a platform fee that's a minimum of 50% lower than the traditional brokerage cut.
Real settled freight rates, recorded on-chain — a transparent benchmark for your costs instead of a black-box quote from an intermediary.
When a carrier discounts their rate to reposition out of your market, that savings comes straight to you — not to a brokerage sitting in the middle.
Stop setting up new payment processes for every carrier that shows up at your dock. USDC escrow is baked into the platform for every load.
Position your company on the leading edge of freight technology — with the PR upside that comes with being an early mover.
Every carrier's on-time, claim-free history is visible before you book — not buried in a database you never get to see.
When someone says "crypto," they're picturing a casino. Fair enough — a lot of it is. But the thing under the casino is just a shared ledger that nobody can quietly edit. That's the part we use. Here's the difference, line by line.
Blockchain is the boring part: a receipt nobody can forge and nobody can delete.
That's all we needed. So that's all we used.
This was the last real objection, and it's gone. DecentralFreight is an approved Coinbase on-ramp and off-ramp partner — so moving money between your bank account and your wallet costs nothing. Not a percentage. Nothing.
It lives in the Wallet tab of the app. Add Funds pulls dollars in from your bank or debit card; Cash Out sends them right back. Get paid on a Thursday delivery and have real dollars in your checking account the same day — no factoring company, no 3% haircut, no net-45.
Compare that to what you're doing now: a factor takes 2–5% of every single load, forever. This takes nothing, ever.
Real order screen from the app — funding a DecentralFreight wallet straight from a bank account. Coinbase fee: Free. Network fee: Free. Cashing out runs the same flow in reverse.
The objection to crypto isn't really about digital versus physical — that battle was decided decades ago. The real question is whether you control your money, or someone else does.
When was the last time money physically moved in one of your business transactions?
Your bank sends an ACH. Checks clear electronically. Fuel cards post to an account. At every step, what moves is a number in a database — a record on a centralized server you have no control over.
The cash economy, for commercial freight, is already gone. You're living in a digital financial system right now, whether the word "crypto" makes you comfortable or not.
"When you write a check, no cash moves. A number changes in a database. You're already in the digital economy — you just didn't get to choose which one."
Every transaction on the blockchain is verified by a network of nodes (ie small, individual contributors) — no central authority required.
Every dollar in your account is a digital entry managed by an institution you have no influence over. USDC is still a dollar — pegged 1:1, — but it moves at the speed of the internet without asking a bank's permission. Funds commit to a load the moment it's posted and release automatically on verified delivery. No invoice chasing.
Drivers have watched factoring companies take 3% off every load just for the crime of needing payment before net-45. Self-custody crypto picks up the argument where sound money left it — a wallet whose keys only you hold, that no bank can freeze, no broker can delay. The funds move when you authorize them. Full stop.
"The digital economy isn't coming. It's here. The only thing still up for grabs is whether the digital money you earn sits in a system designed for you — or for the institutions that built it."
The word "wallet" in crypto means something specific: a set of keys that proves you own funds at a given address on the blockchain. Nobody else has those keys — no bank, no broker, no platform. If you hold the keys, you hold the money.
DecentralFreight is built so that drivers don't need to understand any of that to use it. The wallet is embedded in the app — it works like Venmo. But unlike Venmo, the funds are yours in a way that's cryptographically enforced, not just promised in a terms of service document that some legal team can rewrite.
"Normal" and "smart" are two very different things — and the difference becomes painfully clear the moment something goes wrong.
The moment a driver drops your freight, their clock is already running on the next expense.
Your payment terms might be set to net-60 — and somewhere in that gap, a small carrier or a single owner-operator who bet everything on a used Peterbilt is quietly carrying your freight bill on their back.
"The trucker didn't factor your invoice because they wanted to. They did it because your payment terms left them no other choice."
That 2–5% factoring fee doesn't come from nowhere. It comes out of the margin that was supposed to keep a carrier's operation viable — multiplied across thousands of loads a year.
Centralized: payment routed through brokers and factoring companies, one gatekeeper, one cut. Decentralized: direct from shipper to carrier, settled by smart contract on delivery.
Every broker and factoring company in the chain is a centralized node — a single gatekeeper that can delay, skim, or freeze your payment...with DAT at the center of it all telling the market what the rates are. DecentralFreight removes them entirely.
"In an uncertain market, your payment history is your credit score with every carrier you've ever worked with — whether you know it or not."
Good carriers remember who treated them right. In a tight capacity environment, the shippers with a reputation for fast, clean payment get their calls answered first. The ones with net-60 terms get ghosted.
There's also a practical risk: when your own cash position is uncertain, carrying large deferred payables is a liability. Paying on delivery keeps your books clean and your obligations current.
"You and your staff work hard to produce and ship the products you provide to the world, the carrier earns their pay fighting reckless drivers, 60mph wind gusts, winter storms, rising fuel costs, and a once professional industry now flooded with cheap foreign labor that tarnishes stand-up players. Let's start encouraging the pros to return."
Net-30 and factoring aren't laws of physics — they're habits from an era of paper invoices and slow bank wires.
That era is over. When a driver drops your freight and the BOL is signed, the job is done. Payment should happen the same way the delivery did: immediately, verifiably, without a middleman in between.
Get in Touch
Three we get asked constantly — answered properly, not in marketing shorthand.
The Truck You Booked Is the Truck That Shows Up.
Cargo theft runs on two soft spots: an identity nobody can check, and money somebody else is holding. We built a marketplace with neither.
Read the article → 02 Digital MoneyYou're Already Using Digital Money. The Only Question Is Whose.
Your bank already moves your money as a number in a database. That battle was decided decades ago. The only live question is who controls the database.
Read the article → 03 EscrowWhat Is a Blockchain, and Why Does Freight Need One?
Nobody — not a bank, not a broker, not us. The smart contract is the escrow agent, the payment processor, and the referee. Here's exactly how it holds and releases funds.
Read the article →
1. Have your wallet ready. Easiest: create a Base smart wallet right inside our app — tap "Sign in with Base" and you're set in seconds with Face ID or fingerprint. You can also use email and 2FA. Nothing to download, no seed phrase. (Coinbase Wallet and MetaMask work too.)
2. Sign up. Carriers: connect in the app and the application form appears with your wallet already attached — approval within 1–2 business days. Shippers: use the sign-up form here on the site.
3. On your phone? Install the app: decentralfreight.com/app