What it is made of. Who made it. How to look after it. What was repaired and when. And the proof that makes it worth something to the next person.
A product’s record starts with the people who made it and spends almost all its life with you. What you add, whether a repair, a proof of ownership or a resale, is what turns a specification into a history.
Yours are the years of use, every repair, and the moment you pass it on.
None of these need an account, an app, or trusting the shop that sold it to you.
Especially secondhand. A genuine item carries a record that traces back to the brand that made it, and you can confirm that yourself, standing there, without an expert.
For example. Buying a used designer bag privately and confirming its history in the time it takes to look at it.
The care instructions, the exact materials, what can be repaired and by whom. Not a symbol to interpret, but the real answer, still there long after the label has worn away.
For example. A wool coat that tells you which repairer the maker recommends, six years after you bought it.
Proving you own something and publishing your life are different things. A passerby scanning your bike sees the specification and its history, not your name, and that is enforced by how the record is built rather than by a setting.
For example. A stolen bike can be checked by anyone, while its owner’s details stay invisible to everyone but them.
A documented history is the difference between a used item and a provenanced one. The repairs, the ownership, the originality: everything a buyer would take on faith is already attached, and goes with the product.
For example. A collectible with four recorded owners and one documented restoration sells for what it is actually worth.
The tag, the care label and whatever the shop told you are three fragments of one story. Scanning the product gives you all of it, and lets you check the parts that matter.
The tag, Care label, Receipt, What you were told become one record, read back as Materials, Who made it, How to care, What it is worth.
What you would see if you scanned it today, in the order it would appear.
Nine years of a product’s life, readable from the label, with nothing to install.
You do not need any of this to use a passport. It is here because the honest answer to "why should I believe it?" is that you do not have to, and this is why.
The code on the label is an ordinary web link, following the GS1 Digital Link standard used by barcodes generally. Your camera opens it like any link, which is also why it will still work in ten years.
Each entry is added on top of the ones before it, and none can be removed without the gap being obvious. A brand can add to a product’s history; it cannot rewrite what it said when the product was made.
The check runs in your own browser, against public information, using a published method. You can run it on a record we did not choose for you, using somebody else’s software entirely.
Entries are attributable to the organisation that made them, through a published identity method called a BSV DID. Copying artwork is easy; producing a history attributable to the real maker is not.
The shape of the record follows the DPP Token Standard v1 and each life event uses the published native claim format. Other people can build readers for the same passports, which stops this being one company’s private scheme.
Every party reads the passport for something different. If you are here on behalf of somebody else in the chain, their page is the one to send them.
Record what you made, once, at the line. Every claim stays checkable as the product changes hands.
Read their pageWhere the story is authoredYour product’s story, told by the product itself. One page a customer opens from the label and checks for themselves.
Read their pageWhere the product changes handsKnow what is on your shelf before it arrives. Check who signed a supplier’s claims, and that nothing was changed, in seconds, then hand the record on at the till.
Read their pageAn example passport with a full life already behind it: made, sold, repaired, resold, and still readable.
