Resources · Supply Chain & Logistics

Provenance and Counterfeit

The research behind the supply chain keynote. What proving an item is real actually costs, the standards that exist, and the pilots that worked. Sam co-founded Chronicled, which convened the MediLedger consortium.

Updated September 2026
The scale of the problem
OECD & EUIPO · 2025 · $467bn in 2021, 2.3% of global tradeMapping Global Trade in Fakes 2025: global trends and enforcement challenges→OECD press release · May 2025 · China and Hong Kong account for ~62% of seizuresGlobal trade in fake goods reached USD 467 billion→
What was actually built
US Food and Drug Administration · February 2020 · Chronicled led the MediLedger working groupDSCSA pilot project program report→Ethereum Improvement Proposals · Sam's early blockchain protocol work and patents at Chronicled, open sourced into the Ethereum standards, predate and parallel this standardEIP-721: Non-Fungible Token Standard→
Standards and enforcement
GS1 · the identification layer most global supply chains already run onGS1 standards for traceability→IACC · the enforcement side of the same problemInternational AntiCounterfeiting Coalition→

This list backs the supply chain & logistics keynote. Sources are external and open in a new tab. Nothing here is gated.

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