Vestige

An object can exist for 100 years.

Its digital record lasts one receipt.

[ IDENTITY LAYER ]

Role Lead Designer & Engineer

Type Solo project · Provisional Patent Applied

Stack React · Solidity · ZK-SNARKs · Polygon · Node.js

Skills System design · Blockchain architecture · EU regulatory compliance · UX design

Impact

EU DPP 2026 enforcement baseline ·

Resale premium hypothesis: items with full archive command higher secondary market price

User Story

Alex · Milan · 34

A trunk. Handmade. Carried across 14 cities.

Tokyo. Paris. Lisbon. New York.

Every trip was a decision.

The brand's system recorded one thing:

a purchase. 2019.

OBSERVATION

A luxury object can exist for 100 years in reality. In the brand's digital system, its lifespan is one receipt.

Vestige · Competitor Research
Arianee
Enterprise DPP platform · 1.6M+ passports issued
Vestige
Consumer experience layer · Patent Applied
Positioning
Primary focus
Brand compliance (B2B SaaS)
Consumer memory (B2C)
Clients
Mugler · Breitling · Lacoste
Research prototype
Technology
Data privacy
Zero-party data model
ZK-SNARKs three-layer isolation
Supplier protection
Not addressed
Cryptographically isolated
Ownership transfer
2-click NFT transfer
Full archive travels with object
Consumer Experience
Interface
Product page · wallet
Ritual NFC scan · Moments archive
Emotional layer
Functional only
Object memory · human narrative
User contribution
Brand-authored only
Consumer co-authors the archive
The gap Vestige fills
Arianee solves the infrastructure problem. Vestige solves the experience problem — and the supplier exposure problem EU transparency hasn't addressed. A brand cannot reveal factory data to regulators without exposing it to competitors. ZK-proof satisfies both simultaneously.
Sources: Arianee.com · BCG × Arianee Tokenized DPP Report · Business of Fashion Nov 2023 · EU ESPR 2026

Vestige · EU Digital Product Passport — Regulatory Timeline
    Vestige · EU Digital Product Passport — Regulatory Timeline
  
ESPR passed
DPP registry
Delegated acts
Compliance window
Enforcement
✓
✓
→
2024
Jun 2026
2027
2027–28
2028–29
← already in effect
you are here
upcoming →
Enforcement Risk
Ban
Non-compliant products may be banned from EU.
Preparation Window
6
Fashion seasons left before delegated acts finalize.
Early Movers
Now
Mugler, luxury watch houses already building DPPs.
Vestige's Position

      Built ahead of enforcement. While most brands wait for clarity, Vestige is already operational — giving early-adopting brands an 18-month compliance infrastructure advantage.
    

      Sources: Business of Fashion, Feb 2026 · NRF · carbonfact.com, Jan 2026 · EU ESPR Regulation, 2024

      carbonfact.com/blog/policy/digital-product-passport-fashion · nrf.com/blog/digital-product-passports-take-the-runway
    

Reframe

How to prove it's authentic

→ How to let it remember what it experienced

Solution

DPP COMPLIANCE

Three-layer encrypted isolation.

EU requires full transparency — supplier secrets stay protected.

PROVENANCE BADGE

Compliance data becomes a consumer interaction point. Not a cost center.

MOMENT ARCHIVE

Every owner adds to the record. The object remembers who carried it, and where.

BUILD STATUS

✓ ZK-SNARKs three-layer isolation architecture operational

✓ Consumer / Regulator / Competitor access control implemented

✓ Moment Archive with on-chain recording demonstrable

○ Resale premium for items with full DPP archive vs. without

○ Transaction cycle and buyer inquiry rate

— Vestiaire Collective same-item sales as benchmark dataset

Provisional Patent Application filed

Future View

Urgency

EU DPP enforcement begins 2026. Starting now is already 18 months late.

Secondary Market

Brands that build archive infrastructure first will own pricing power in the secondary market.

Ownership

The brands that don't —

their story ends the first time the object changes hands.

→ OPEN LIVE DEMO