- Rekord AG is piloting digital product passports (DPP) on VeChain.
- According to the company, the system processed over 100,000 transactions in the first month.
Rekord AG is taking the EU regulation on the environmentally friendly design of sustainable products (ESPR) as a trigger for a structural restructuring of product data and is using VeChain in a pilot project to test Digital Product Passports (DPP) in practice as verifiable, constantly updated data interfaces.
In an XPost On January 8th, Rekord AG, which is developing a blockchain-based platform for data verification, writes that the EU regulation calls for a shift from selective sustainability reports to long-term, reliable evidence along the supply chain:
“The ESPR provides a clear direction for product data. Sustainability information is no longer seen as something that is disclosed periodically,” writes the Swiss company. “They become a verified operational asset that must continually withstand as products move through supply chains and markets.”
Rekord argues that the expectation is not just for greater transparency, but for the ability to substantiate, test and re-test claims over time. DPPs are not just a “label”, but a kind of access level to a system of product information.
“Digital product passports are often treated as static outputs: a QR code, a digital label, something that is published once, once requirements are met,” Rekord says. “In practice, a DPP works best as an interface to a system of record for product information.”
According to the company, ERPs, PIMs, supplier portals and certification systems will continue to operate. Rekord AG wants to convert the data created there into “verifiable, time-bound evidence”. According to the company, material composition, manufacturing steps, supplier attestations, certificates and lifecycle metrics are recorded as events, tied to the source, time-stamped and contextualized.
In order to make the verification status visible, Rekord AG has developed the “Trust Explorer”. Regulators could check compliance without relying solely on manual audits; Companies could evaluate supplier statements more consistently; Partners could relate to shared evidence.
VeChain pilot: 100,000 transactions in the first month
The proof-of-scale record becomes more concrete: In an initial pilot with VeChain, the system processed more than 100,000 transactions in the first month:
“In Rekord’s initial pilot phase with VeChain, the system processed over 100,000 transactions in the first month without impacting performance. Operational data streams were anchored and verified in real-time, demonstrating Rekord’s ability to support large amounts of data in complex supply chains.”
At the same time, the company emphasizes that the pilot also validated the multi-chain capability:
“As digital product passports increasingly span heterogeneous infrastructures, the ability to anchor and reconcile product data across different supply chains becomes essential. Rekord’s architecture is designed to manage this complexity while ensuring consistency and traceability.”
With the cooperation, VeChain is further expanding its real adaptation in the economy. In 2019, the project caused a stir with a collaboration with BMW in the context of supply chain transparency and data verification. VeChain also worked with Walmart in 2020. It was about testing blockchain-supported traceability as well as product and origin data along the supply chain.
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