<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-06-22T07:57:45Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/CF0EA265-DD7B-443F-8640-CE9767955507" ns1:id="CF0EA265-DD7B-443F-8640-CE9767955507"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/B27D15C9-A8C2-4E6B-B4C7-B41EE0BAB45E" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/8063256D-C343-4C9F-BAB6-C2493B84D7FD" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/8063256D-C343-4C9F-BAB6-C2493B84D7FD" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2027-03-30T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/9D6DD0A2-499F-4C2E-8C46-07C44BC96AA1" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2025-03-31T23:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">10140645</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>Information systems with decentralized blockchain, encryption and 2D code (ID2D)</ns2:title><ns2:status>Active</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Collaborative R&amp;D</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>Companies face increasingly stringent information transparency and information exchange needs. Including manufacturing suppliers that need to provide production process environmental information to manufacturers, and manufacturers that need to provide transparency from their supply chain to the final customer. Needs underpinned by new legislation for UK companies to operate and export abroad, especially to the EU, such as the EU Ecodesign for Sustainale Products Regulation.

Standard role and e-mail based authentication solutions are insufficient for these new information exchange needs. This approach is prone to hacking and as a result IP and product information theft. Improved digital trust is needed for information exchanges and transparency. Our project seeks to solve this by delivering a cyber fraud proof solution that delivers the digital trust for information sharing use cases for companies in the UK, EU and globally, based on a service portal for combined organisation &amp;amp; product identity, management and verification. Developed from decentralised identifier &amp;amp; blockchain technology &amp;amp; cybersecure 2D data-carriers.

Our innovation focuses on a disruptive technology approach, by building a new globally accessible cloud infrastructure for identity verification. To allow public user queries, and automated API based querying, to validate the identity of an organisation in combination with a product. In addition to centralised lookup and verification options, companies will be offered a decentralised management solution for their organisation and product identities in the portal. We will deploy decentralised ledger-based stores of identifiers using W3C Decentralised Identifier (DID) ledger architecture, emerging only since 2022\. DID:eth system eliminates the DNS and URI based routing weaknesses and provides a secure and reputable framework. Once registered the DID:web or DID:eth wallet containing information is secure and cannot be changed. Manufacturers will be offered to store tokens from Singapore partner ECOQCODE data carriers in their DID wallet also, so that any party can verify their 2D product data carriers are authentic. Providing a combined integrated technological solution for decentralised identifier management for products.

Decentralised authentication offerings based on decentralised identifiers eliminates the need for central data storage, reducing the risk by 50% cyber identity fraud that can result in IP and knowledge theft (Deloitte 2020; Indico 2022). At 85% of attacks being phishing attacks, with an average estimated cost of &amp;pound;510 for all businesses, and &amp;pound;10,830 pounds per medium and large business (UK DSIT 2024). A 50% reduction would provide total potential benefits close to &amp;pound;1.4 billion for the UK economy.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>