Ledger Consortium is Europe's №1 evidence-grade infrastructure for the EU Digital Product Passport and document notarization: a governed distributed ledger operated by institutions, where every claim becomes verifiable proof.
A governed model, operated with Italy's institutional economy
The regulatory wave
The EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) makes the DPP mandatory for most products sold in Europe. The companies that industrialize verifiable product data first will own the compliance conversation, and the customer's trust.
18 July 2024
Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 establishes the Digital Product Passport as the EU's core instrument for product transparency, circularity and market surveillance.
In forceApril 2025
The Commission prioritizes textiles & apparel, furniture, tyres, mattresses, iron & steel and aluminium, putting fashion, luxury and manufacturing first in line for DPP obligations.
Adopted2026
Sector-specific DPP requirements start phasing in, with iron & steel among the first. In parallel, CBAM importers must start purchasing certificates based on embedded emissions. Verified supply chain data becomes a border requirement.
Happening now18 February 2027
Under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, every EV, LMT and industrial battery above 2 kWh placed on the EU market must carry a Digital Product Passport. The first hard DPP deadline is already on the calendar.
Hard deadline2027 → 2030
Delegated acts extend passport requirements category by category through 2030, with textiles and electronics among the earliest. Waiting for your delegated act to land is not a strategy. It's a queue.
Phasing inOur technical standard
Ledger Consortium adopts the UN Transparency Protocol (UNTP), the open standard developed by UN/CEFACT under UNECE, as its native credential model. Your passports aren't a vendor format. They're the emerging global grammar of supply chain trust, anchored to our evidence ledger.
Product identity, characteristics and sustainability claims for serialized items or batches, issued as a W3C Verifiable Credential, resolvable from a QR or NFC tag.
"type": ["DigitalProductPassport"], "credentialSubject": { "product": "Aurelia Bag · Batch FI-0424", "claims": ["leather.vegTanned", "CO2e:12.4kg"] }
Third-party attestations from accredited certification bodies, cryptographically bound to the product claims they verify. Our home turf: Ledger Consortium was born inside an accredited CAB.
"type": ["DigitalConformityCredential"], "issuer": "did:web:certifica.srl", "assessment": { "standard": "REACH", "result": "conformant" }
Make, Move and Modify events that chain input materials to finished goods across facilities: the verifiable "what, when, where, who" of your value chain.
"type": ["DigitalTraceabilityEvent"], "event": "MakeEvent", "inputProduct": "hide:IT-TSC-118", "outputProduct": "bag:FI-0424"
Bindings between decentralized identifiers and authoritative registers (business registries, accreditation bodies, chambers of commerce) so verifiers know the issuer is who it claims to be.
"type": ["DigitalIdentityAnchor"], "registeredId": "VAT:IT12520420964", "register": "IT Business Register"
Why we bet on UNTP
Developed at UN/CEFACT, free to implement, owned by no vendor. Your passports never become hostages of a supplier's file format.
Passport, conformity, traceability and identity are one credential grammar, designed together: evidence links across companies and borders without translation layers.
W3C Verifiable Credentials and DIDs: any system can check a signature and a revocation status without calling us, and without trusting us.
UNTP implements UNECE Recommendation No. 49 and maps onto CEN/CENELEC JTC 24 work: complying with the EU rulebook becomes an export, not a rebuild.
UNTP is developed openly by UN/CEFACT and operationalizes UNECE Recommendation No. 49, "Transparency at Scale". Ledger Consortium contributes pilot-grade implementations on the current specification and tracks it to v1.0, so your passport data model matures with the standard instead of against it.
How the technology works
Only cryptographic proofs and metadata are written to the ledger. Content stays exactly where you decide, with clear governance and full auditability.
Documents, datasets or product records are converted into unique cryptographic fingerprints. Nothing leaves your perimeter.
Proofs and metadata are recorded on the governed distributed ledger, validated by independent, accountable consortium operators.
Every record is time-stamped and hash-linked to its history, so versions and updates stay traceable over time.
Auditors, regulators and customers verify integrity independently, without accessing your databases or trusting a single vendor.
Design principle
Storage stays on your servers or trusted environments; the ledger acts as an independent evidence layer for integrity and time of existence. No uncontrolled public replication. Full data sovereignty. GDPR-aligned by architecture, not by disclaimer.
The platform
Use Ledger Consortium as a certification layer inside the workflows you already run: for documents, for products, for entire systems.
Documents
Give contracts, certificates and technical documentation an integrity proof and a certain date. Audit-ready by default.
Products
Structured, machine-readable UNTP passports carrying compliance, sustainability and lifecycle data, served from a QR or NFC tag.
Integration
API-first integration into ERP, PLM, QA and document systems. Certify processes and datasets automatically, under your policies.
Traceability, watched live
Scroll through the making of Aurora nº 001247 and watch its evidence trail build itself. This is what UNTP traceability means in practice.
Lot CON-2026-014, a 100% certified by-product of the food industry. The trail starts before the first cut: reception is recorded as a traceability event, not a spreadsheet row.
DTE · receive · anchored ✓A chrome-free vegetable cycle at an LWG Gold tannery. The cutting patterns are laid out on the finished hide. Every panel of the future bag already has a provenance.
DTE · transform · anchored ✓Manual cutting, machine stitching, hand finishing, 4.5 hours per piece. The make event chains raw material lots to serial AUR-2026-001247, one verifiable link.
DTE · make · anchored ✓Accredited lab tests on the finished piece; the maker's ISO 9001 conformity credential, issued by an accredited body, is cryptographically bound to the claims. Not marketing copy: attestation.
DCC · linked ✓QR on the tag, NFC in the lining. Everything you just scrolled resolves to anchored evidence: for the customer at the counter and the auditor ten years from now.
DPP · issued ✓Digital Product Passport
Anyone can print a QR code. Ledger Consortium anchors every declared attribute to a tamper-evident proof layer, so auditors, regulators and customers can check what was declared, and when, for the entire life of the product.
Versioning and update history anchored as durable proofs. Repairs, resale, recycling: all verifiable.
Public, partner, auditor and authority views with role-based access. Trade secrets stay secret.
DCC credentials issued by accredited bodies link every claim to real third-party assessment, not marketing copy.
Every attribute is structured data: a W3C Verifiable Credential in JSON-LD, not a PDF. Software verifies it and acts on it directly. Customs systems clear goods, marketplaces filter on verified claims, auditors reconcile thousands of passports in seconds. A document asks for a reader; a credential feeds machines.
Interactive simulation with specimen data. UNTP-aligned structure; the specification is in pre-release, evolving toward v1.0.
Digital Conformity Credential
Third-party certification is only as strong as its verifiability. Here is a familiar ISO 9001 certificate, reissued as a UNTP Digital Conformity Credential: signed by the certification body, bound to its accreditation, anchored to the ledger. Then try to forge it.
This is to certify that the quality management system of
Registered office · Via dei Conciatori 18, 50127 Firenze (FI),
Italy
Production site · Via dell'Artigianato 22, 50026 San Casciano in Val di Pesa (FI),
Italy
has been assessed and found to conform to the requirements of
Quality Management Systems - Requirements
Design, manufacturing and distribution of fine leather goods and accessories
Tap a link in the chain: each one is machine-verifiable, none of it is PDF prose.
The SHA-256 digest is computed live in your browser and compared with the digest anchored at issuance (block #183417, 27 Apr 2026 10:45 UTC). Change one character and the proof breaks.
Beyond the passport
Product passports are what regulation demands today. Underneath sits the reason clients choose us: a proprietary evidence ledger, built from zero, that can certify anything you can document.
The Digital Product Passport is the visible part: mandated by the ESPR, read by customers and market surveillance. Most providers stop here. For us it is one application of a deeper layer.
DPP · ESPRCertificates, lab reports, ESG datasets, contracts, design files, photographs, audit trails, AI training data. If it matters to your business, it can be hashed, anchored and proven for decades. One ledger for every certification workflow you run.
DOCUMENTS · PHOTOS · DATA · IPLedger Consortium runs on a proprietary distributed ledger designed in-house from the first commit: our own consensus algorithm, engineered for regulated evidence rather than speculation. Not a fork, not a licence, not somebody else's roadmap. That independence is what lets it bend to use cases public chains cannot touch.
PROPRIETARY COREWe design and operate dedicated ledger consortia for single clients and industry groups: your governance, validators you trust, your data model, your rules of access. Whatever project you have in mind, from art provenance to food chains to public registries, we can build it with you.
AD HOC CONSORTIACertification models
"Blockchain certification" built on public chains was designed for speculation. Regulated evidence needs governance, accountability and data sovereignty, so we built for that instead.
Legal value & compliance
Built to support enterprise and institutional evidence requirements in Italy and the EU: integrity, certain date, auditability and data protection by design, so registrations can stand up where it matters.
Supports integrity and "certain date" for digital documents under the Italian Digital Administration Code (CAD), with DLT recognition in Italian law (DL 135/2018, Law 12/2019) strengthening the evidentiary framing.
Designed around eIDAS concepts (timestamps, seals, signatures) for EU-wide recognition of integrity and time-of-existence proofs across borders and jurisdictions.
Content stays off-ledger and under the data owner's control, avoiding the uncontrolled replication that complicates erasure and restriction. Designed in line with EDPB Guidelines 02/2025 on blockchain and GDPR.
UNTP credentials are architecturally interoperable with the ESPR passport framework and the CEN/CENELEC JTC 24 standardization work. Your DPP program evolves with the rules, not after them.
Packages & costs
Two clear lines: prepaid notarization packages and configurable DPP programs. Enterprise-friendly costs that your CFO can actually budget.
Document notarization
Purchase credits based on document size and expected volume, and use them across all notarization workflows.
Digital Product Passports
Tailored to complexity and volume: data model, integrations, lifecycle updates and optional validation by consortium participants.
FAQ
For enterprises, institutions and regulated environments. No crypto jargon, no evasive footnotes.
A Digital Product Passport is a structured, machine-readable record describing a product's identity, composition, compliance and lifecycle. Under the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781), it will become mandatory for most product categories placed on the EU market, phased in through delegated acts.
The ESPR entered into force on 18 July 2024. The first Working Plan (April 2025) prioritizes textiles and apparel, furniture, tyres, mattresses, iron & steel and aluminium; sector-specific delegated acts phase in from 2026 through 2030. The battery passport is already mandatory from 18 February 2027 under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542. Pilot now, comply on schedule.
The UN Transparency Protocol is the open technical standard developed by UN/CEFACT under UNECE, operationalizing Recommendation No. 49 on transparency at scale. It defines interoperable supply chain credentials (DPP, conformity, traceability, identity) issued as W3C Verifiable Credentials. We adopted it because your product data should live in a global, open grammar of trust, not a vendor's proprietary format.
No and no. Ledger Consortium is a governed, permissioned distributed ledger with controlled decentralization, operated by accountable institutions. No tokens, no mining, no volatility, no accounting ambiguity, and no uncontrolled public replication of your data.
On your servers or trusted environments. The ledger stores cryptographic proofs and metadata only, acting as an independent evidence layer for integrity and time of existence. That is what makes erasure, restriction and purpose limitation actually enforceable, in line with EDPB 02/2025 guidance.
The ledger provides evidentiary proof of integrity and time of existence through hash-linked, timestamped records. This enables independent verification of what existed and when, supporting audits and disputes, within an architecture designed around the Italian CAD, DLT recognition in Italian law (DL 135/2018, Law 12/2019) and eIDAS concepts.
Document notarization runs on prepaid packages based on document size and volume, with no variable "gas fees". DPP programs are configured on complexity and volume: data model, templates, QR/NFC generation, ERP/PLM integrations, lifecycle update logic and optional validation workflows aligned with consortium governance.
With a pilot. We define partners, governance and a concrete scope (document notarization, a DPP pilot on a real product line, or an integrated certification workflow), then scale what works to industrial rollout.
Start with a pilot
Book a briefing with the Ledger Consortium team. We'll map your use case, your regulatory exposure and a concrete pilot scope, in one call.
