In 2019, the IDA, the state’s inward investment agency, announced that TradeIX, the award-winning blockchain technology platform, was expanding its global headquarters in Dublin by adding 70 new jobs across engineering, sales, customer service, and product development. Founded just three years before, and incorporated in Ireland, the IDA proclaimed that TradeIX was challenging “the status quo of today’s siloed and manual-intensive trade finance solutions, by bringing innovation to banks and their corporate clients”. The optimism was not misplaced. TradeIX rebranded as the Marco Polo Network and pivoted into new lines of business. Indeed, in November 2022, just four months ago,…