Building Blockchain-Powered Product Traceability for EU Compliance
The EU's Ecodesign Regulation for Sustainable Products (ESPR) mandates Digital Product Passports (DPPs) by 2030 for companies selling in Europe. This requires tracking products from manufacturing through end-of-life—materials, supply chain, certifications, and recycling instructions. The regulation affects high-impact industries first: electronics, textiles, construction, metals, and batteries.
The opportunity: Provide thousands of companies with essential, compliant, blockchain-based DPP solutions.
Our Solution
Crossmint is developing a fully managed, accessible infrastructure to enable companies to implement DPPs without blockchain expertise. We're building on proven technology—already serving 40,000+ companies and developers, like MoneyGram, Deloitte, and H. Moser.
Core Components
Digital Wallets for DPPs - Wallet infrastructure for businesses and users to securely manage their Digital Product Passports.
Tokenization of Digital Product Passports - Non-transferable (soulbound) NFTs representing unique DPPs with granular access controls
Enterprise Backend - Microservices architecture supporting real-time updates, compatible with EU standards
Dashboards - Dashboards for issuers to manage their fleet of DPPs.
Market Context
Crossmint offers infrastructure for enterprises to integrate blockchain primitives like stablecoins, wallets, and tokenized DPPs. Crossmint participated in the EU's CIRPASS-2 project, developing DPP frameworks for data interoperability.
Technical Approach
- Decentralized by design - Meets ESPR requirement for distributed data systems
- Standards-compliant - JSON-LD, W3C Verifiable Credentials, GS1 Digital Link
- Industrial scale - Battle-tested by some of the leading institutions in the world
- White-label & modular - Customizable APIs and SDKs for any industry workflow
- Zero crypto friction - Users never interact with wallets or blockchain complexity
Project Deliverables
5-month development timeline (May-September 2025)
- Digital Product Passport model and management APIs
- Dashboard for users to manage their Digital Product Passports
- Scalable infrastructure for deployment at scale
- Full technical documentation and integration guides
Why This Matters
DPPs represent a fundamental shift in product transparency, circular economy, and regulatory compliance. Companies need infrastructure partners who can deliver blockchain solutions without the complexity. Crossmint's proven track record with Fortune 500 companies positions us to capture this market as mandatory compliance approaches.
Funding Acknowledgment
The project ‘Development of a fully managed and accessible infrastructure to support Digital Product Passport (DPP) initiatives’ has been subsidized by the Territorial Technological Specialization Networks program within the framework of the PRTR – Funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU.
