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# Trade

If [Accounting](/accounting.md) facilitated trade is a protocol where accounting serves the function of storage, retrieval, and verification of the integrity of information — then trade is the user interface through which we agree to interconnect and create that information. By the transactions created through this interface, we determine how we progressively update our network state.