Digital Product Passport Transform Fashion Industry — Scan to Own
Digital Product Passports (DPPs) streamline various customer-centric processes, enabling authentication, ownership transfer, and access to services like resale and repair with heightened ease.
In the fashion ecosystem, implementing a DPP is made straightforward through QR code labels. These QR codes act as a bridge, allowing users to scan them using a smart device, seamlessly navigating to detailed product information.
However, the entire process operates with customer anonymity. For the Scan to Own feature, customer authentication within the Web3 becomes a mandatory action to facilitate a secure web3 transfer.Let me explain in more detail the Scan to Own challanges into the Fashion Industry.
In order to facilitate the ownership and transfer of physical apparel, it is imperative to convert each item into a unique record on the Sui blockchain, where the underlying architecture treats everything as an object.
Sui was designed from the ground up to redefine the possibilities of digital asset ownership. A fundamental part of the redesign, and therefore a significant difference between Sui and other Layer 1 blockchains, is its object-centric data model.
How Sui Handles Asset Ownership
On Sui, objects are the basic unit of data storage. Developers define, create, and manage these programmable objects that represent user-level assets. An object has distinct attributes, including ownership, whose values can be updated based on the governing logic of the smart contract that created it. However, even though smart contracts create objects, they don’t store the objects. Objects and their attributes are stored directly on-chain in the user’s account and can be directly accessed and controlled by the owner.
Typed Objects
Each Sui object must have the following two characteristics (has key and UID), and when viewed on an explorer has five characteristics visible (owner, object ID, type, version, last transaction digest block). Builders can customize objects by including other fields.
The ability to add, remove, and augment the information in fields over time allows digital assets on Sui to be dynamic rather than static as they are on other blockchains. Information about the asset can accumulate over time, adding value, context, and utility.
Scan-to-Own Fashion Exprience
The garment item is represented as an object within the Sui Blockchain, each having a unique ID. This functionality transforms the record into a distinctive universal object within the Sui Blockchain framework. The apparel object, once created in the Sui Blockchain, is assigned an owner, typically the brand responsible for its creation.
The use of on-chain information provides the flexibility to implement a variety of strategies when users scan their garments with an authentication scanner.
Web3 Scanner and zkLogin enhance the enrollment process on the platform, facilitating seamless scanning and enabling ownership to transfer between the apparel brand and the customer. In addition, the object model supported on the Sui Blockchain accommodates complex structures for each garment, enhancing the platform’s ability to manage intricate and detailed information about each garment.
Most assets on Sui are owned by a single address, which is recorded as a data value for the object. These are referred to as “owned objects.” Some assets have shared ownership, meaning multiple accounts must authenticate a transaction that changes data values related to the object.
In the context of the Sui Blockchain’s object model, objects can possess ownership relationships with other objects, enabling them to amalgamate into novel and unique assets known as composable assets. Concurrently, there exist immutable objects that remain unalterable and locked.
To illustrate, consider an apparel item linked with an object warranty, defining the lifecycle of the garment. This object model provides the flexibility to construct diverse methods for transferring ownership and supports a more intricate structure compared to simple Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). The result is a dynamic and sophisticated framework that enhances the representation and functionality of assets within the blockchain.
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