Blockticity Brings $7.7B in Authenticated Trade Records to Walrus
Blockticity is extending more than 1 million authenticated trade records, representing over $7.7 billion in real-world assets, onto Walrus, strengthening the verifiability of evidence supporting global trade
Blockticity provides an authentication layer for global supply chains. The platform transforms trade documentation into tamper-evident, independently verifiable evidence that can be linked to products and shipments throughout their lifecycle. Blockticity currently authenticates more than 1 million trade records representing over $7.7 billion in real-world assets across multiple global supply chains.
Key takeaways
- Blockticity transforms more than 1 million trade documents representing over $7.7 billion in real-world assets into tamper-evident, independently verifiable evidence, addressing the risk of document alteration and fraud.
- Much of the $25 trillion global cargo trade still depends on paper documents supporting origin, quality, custody, and compliance claims. Regulatory frameworks such as EUDR, CBAM, and Digital Product Passports are increasing the need for trusted, auditable supply chain evidence.
- Walrus adds another layer of resilience to Blockticity’s infrastructure, supporting the preservation and verification of authenticated evidence, while keeping sensitive commercial data private.
The authentication layer for global trade
Blockticity is extending more than 1 million authenticated trade documents onto Walrus, strengthening the resilience and verifiability of evidence supporting global trade. These are the records that help goods cross borders, including Certificates of Analysis (COAs), Certificates of Conformance (COCs), Certificates of Origin, laboratory reports, and transportation records that provide evidence of what a shipment is, where it came from, and whether it meets applicable requirements.
Blockticity serves as the Authentication pillar within a standards-based Conformity Assessment framework built around Track and Trace, Authentication, Validation, and Oversight. Rather than relying on self-reported documentation alone, Blockticity transforms critical supply chain records into tamper-evident, independently verifiable evidence that can remain linked to a product or shipment throughout its lifecycle.
The $25 trillion trust problem
Trade documents often need to remain verifiable long after the systems that created them have changed or disappeared. A certificate issued today could be required a decade later during a customs, tax, EUDR, CBAM, or other regulatory review. Buyers, customs authorities, auditors, manufacturers, and logistics providers also rarely operate on the same technology infrastructure, making independent verification and interoperability increasingly important.
Much of the industry still runs on paper, with around 4 billion paper documents circulating through the $25 trillion cargo trade at any one time. Paper is also among the easiest things to falsify. Of the fraud cases behind the $4.7 trillion the ACFE estimates organizations lose each year, 33% involved alteration of physical documents, followed closely by alteration of digital documents (28%).
Governments and markets are beginning to demand stronger evidence.
Digital Product Passports, increased customs enforcement, and emerging traceability requirements are moving compliance beyond self-reported PDFs toward authenticated, machine-verifiable evidence. Blockticity's standards-based approach provides the authentication foundation for that transition.
Enter Walrus: Public proof, preserving privacy
For Blockticity, integrating Walrus strengthens two important elements of its Authentication pillar.
The first is public proof. Blockticity creates authenticated, tamper-evident records of COAs, COCs, Certificates of Origin, laboratory reports, and other trade documents. By extending cryptographic proofs of those records onto Walrus, an authorized stakeholder can independently confirm that the evidence presented today matches the record originally authenticated by Blockticity, without relying solely on Blockticity's infrastructure.
The second is privacy. Global trade documents often contain commercially sensitive information that should not be exposed on a public network. Walrus and its access-control architecture can protect sensitive content while preserving the ability to independently verify the integrity of the underlying authenticated record.
No other data platform offers both at once.
"Markets don't need another self-reporting system. They need trusted evidence," said Mike Coner, CEO of Blockticity. "Blockticity authenticates the documents behind a product or shipment so governments, businesses, and trading partners can independently verify the evidence. Walrus strengthens that foundation by helping preserve the integrity of those authenticated records across independent infrastructure without exposing sensitive commercial information."
"Regulated industries are the clearest test of verifiable data. A trade certificate has to convince a customs officer in another jurisdiction, a decade from now, with no one left to vouch for it," said Kostas Chalkias, Co-Founder and Chief Cryptographer at Mysten Labs, original contributor to Walrus. "Walrus makes that a property of the data itself: proof anyone can check, with contents that only authorized parties can view."
Live today
Blockticity's first authenticated trade documents are live on Walrus, with mirroring underway toward more than 15TB of authenticated records and supporting evidence across five commercial verticals.
An open-source multi-chain verifier is also live, enabling governments, businesses, and trading partners to independently verify the integrity of Blockticity-authenticated records across multiple networks.
Builders working with data that must stay verifiable and confidential can start at walrus.xyz. Learn more about Blockticity at blockticity.io.
FAQs
Why did Blockticity build on Walrus?
Blockticity needed authenticated trade documents and supporting evidence to remain independently verifiable over long regulatory and commercial retention periods while protecting confidential information. Walrus adds decentralized data infrastructure that strengthens the availability and integrity verification of Blockticity-authenticated records, while policy-based access controls protect sensitive content. This supports Blockticity's role as the Authentication pillar within a standards-based Conformity Assessment framework without requiring stakeholders to rely solely on Blockticity's infrastructure to verify document integrity.
How does the deployment work technically?
Blockticity authenticates trade documents and creates tamper-evident digital records linked to the underlying product or shipment. Production records are then stored on Walrus as the decentralized data layer, with cloud infrastructure retained for disaster recovery and regulated archival purposes. Sensitive metadata is encrypted and controlled through onchain access policies, while cryptographic fingerprints provide independent evidence that the authenticated record has not been altered.
What is Blockticity storing on Walrus?
Blockticity is storing authenticated trade documents and supporting evidence, including Certificates of Analysis (COAs), Certificates of Conformance (COCs), Certificates of Origin, related trade records, and encrypted metadata. The deployment is designed to mirror more than 1 million authenticated records representing over $7.7 billion in real-world assets across multiple commercial supply chains, with the data footprint expected to exceed 15TB.
How is this different from storing documents on IPFS, Arweave, or a cloud provider?
Blockticity's requirements extend beyond document storage. Its standards-based Conformity Assessment architecture requires authenticated evidence to remain tamper-evident, accessible, independently verifiable, and appropriately protected throughout its retention period. Walrus provides the decentralized infrastructure layer for data availability, integrity verification, and controlled access, complementing Blockticity's existing authentication and archival infrastructure.
About Walrus
Walrus is a Verifiable Data Platform for builders in AI and onchain finance. No more fragile foundations: Walrus finally makes it possible to verify where data came from, prove it hasn't been tampered with, and know it's always available, without compromising on speed. It is the foundation for applications where unverifiable data can cause irrecoverable losses. The more we trust AI and onchain finance with our money and decisions, the more mission-critical this becomes. Created by the ex-Meta engineers behind Sui.
About Blockticity
Blockticity is building trusted digital infrastructure for global commerce through digital document authentication and standards-based conformity assessment. The platform makes trade documents tamper-evident, independently verifiable, and audit-ready across global supply chains. Members of the Blockticity team serve as volunteer participants in ASTM International Committee F49.06. Today, Blockticity protects more than $7.7 billion in real-world assets across 15+ countries on four continents.
