The Hashgraph Group has launched TrackTrace, a Hedera-based platform designed to help enterprises prepare for the EU’s Digital Product Passport (DPP) regime under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). TrackTrace is being positioned as an enterprise-grade compliance layer that turns product transparency into a verifiable, audit-ready workflow.
The launch is framed around the ESPR’s transparency obligations, which the company notes have been in force since July 2024, with DPP requirements expected to roll out in phases from 2027. The value proposition is straightforward: move from pilot reporting to continuous, tamper-resistant traceability before sector deadlines make DPP a day-to-day operating requirement.
How TrackTrace Builds Verifiable Product Passports
TrackTrace records granular product events on Hedera and anchors each entry with cryptographic hashes to preserve an immutable audit trail and reduce the risk of retroactive edits. By anchoring product records on a distributed ledger, the platform aims to harden provenance evidence against manipulation and greenwashing claims.
A second layer is identity: TrackTrace integrates The Hashgraph Group’s IDTrust, using Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) to assign cryptographic identities to products, participants, and supply-chain events. This identity model is intended to authenticate who is making each claim while enabling selective disclosure of required information without broadly exposing sensitive commercial data.
The platform also embeds AI-driven agents to automate data aggregation, generate DPP-compliant outputs (including QR code issuance), run real-time carbon calculations, and flag anomalies across ERP, IoT, and supplier inputs. TrackTrace’s automation pitch is that it can convert fragmented operational data into regulator-ready evidence while keeping disclosure permissioned for auditors and authorized third parties.
The Hashgraph Group further emphasizes Hedera’s energy profile, consensus security, and governance model as features meant to lower operational risk for high-frequency enterprise logging and compliance reporting. The product narrative leans on Hedera’s enterprise-facing design choices to support continuous compliance workloads without compromising integrity or availability.
Operational Readiness Ahead of 2027 Deadlines
In practice, TrackTrace will be judged on implementation realities: how cleanly it integrates into existing enterprise systems, how well anomaly detection avoids false positives, and how consistently it supports third-party attestations and audits. Adoption shifts the burden onto issuers, manufacturers, and service providers to tighten data quality, identity governance, and evidence retention to a standard regulators can test.
The Hashgraph Group has also signaled partnerships with professional services firms to help companies map TrackTrace outputs to regulatory reporting expectations as mandates approach. The real KPI will be whether trial deployments become persistent, auditable product-data streams in time for batteries in February 2027 and expanded coverage to textiles, apparel, iron, and steel from July 2027.