Trace Bean
Verifying Sustainable Coffee
About
The problem it solves **Your morning coffee tells a story.** It's the ritual that starts your day. The quiet moment before work. The reason for a catch-up with a friend. **But what if that story is built on a lie?** Right now, it is. It's a story broken—lost in paperwork, delayed at ports for **3+ days**, and vulnerable to fraud. This broken story has a staggering cost: while **9 out of 10** ASEAN consumers have encountered counterfeit goods, the supply chains behind them bleed **$17 billion** annually from inefficiency and opacity. At its core, this is a crisis of trust: - **For Consumers:** No way to verify authenticity or ethical origin. Every purchase is a gamble. - **For Businesses:** Manual processes create costly bottlenecks. Siloed data leads to stockouts, waste, and lost revenue. - **For the Entire Ecosystem:** The absence of a single, immutable record makes fraud rampant, draining over **$100 billion** globally each year. --- # **Trace Bean: The Truth Layer for Trust** We fix the broken story. We build the dedicated truth layer on the blockchain, replacing fragmentation with end-to-end digital traceability. 🌱 **From Farm to Cup:** Each batch is **tokenized** as an **unforgeable NFT**—a living passport that never lies. ⚡ **Slash Delays:** Smart contracts automate verification, cutting customs time by over **66%**—from days to hours. 🔗 **Unified, Not Siloed:** Partners share data in real time, securely, without losing control. 🛡️ **Kill Fraud:** An auditable, tamper-proof record makes counterfeit swaps and false claims impossible. **We don't just track beans—we restore trust. We turn supply chain vulnerability into verifiable value.** --- **From a Regional Challenge to the Global Standard for Verified Goods.** **Trace Bean — Verifying Sustainable Coffee.** CA on Lisk Sepolia Testnet: - Trace Bean: 0x0533183fb24E068ebaD578D828bf1C657739ab2f - User Registry: 0x5215EE62339a3B4D4416843Bd2E6cA5Bf9195942
How it's made
Challenges we ran into Building a bridge between blockchain and the coffee supply chain pushed us into unexpected, real-world problems. - **The Paper Can Lie:** Our biggest weakness wasn't in the code—it was on the packaging. **Anyone can copy a QR code and make fake labels.** If the tag on the bag isn't secure, our entire digital truth becomes useless. This kept us up at night. - **Teaching Tech From Zero:** The farmers, drivers, and warehouse workers we work with often use basic phones. **How do you explain crypto wallets to someone who's never downloaded an app?** We had to start from scratch—learning how they work before we could build for them. - **Everyone Keeps Secrets:** In the supply chain, **data is guarded like a treasure.** Farmers hide harvest numbers, shippers hide delivery times, shops hide sales data. Getting people to share wasn't a tech fix—it was a trust-building mission. - **What Works For One Farm Breaks For Fifty:** Tracking coffee from one farm is simple. **But what happens when beans from 50 farms get mixed together?** How do you trace a single bag when everything gets blended? Our perfect digital system met the messy reality of how things actually move. > *"Our real challenge wasn't the technology—it was getting the real world to trust it."*