Physical products.
Digitally trusted.
An encrypted, clone-resistant code gives every product a verifiable identity — confirmed in a single scan, with no extra hardware.
Your customers can't tell
what's real. Neither can you.
A counterfeit looks identical, sells through the same channels, and reaches the same hands — until it fails. And when it does, the broken trust comes back to your brand, not theirs.
$467 billion in counterfeit goods move through global trade every year — 2.3% of everything traded.
Source: OECD / EUIPO, Mapping Global Trade in Fakes 2025
products verified every year — so the people who make them and the people who buy them finally know what's real.
A code that shows
when it's been cloned.
Our verification looks beyond the image. It checks the code's unique identity and how it behaves — not just how it looks.
Copy-evident print
Fine bit-structures inside the seal are physically destroyed by copying — and our system sees it.
Invisible protection
Hidden data is woven into every layer of the code — unreadable to the eye, impossible to fake by sight.
Behaviour analysis
We analyse real-world scan patterns — location, timing and frequency — that a copy can't replicate.
Real-time detection
The moment a cloned code is scanned anywhere, it's flagged instantly across the network.
Its behaviour doesn't.
One platform.
Three layers.
authentic.network combines physical copy-evident technology, secure digital identities and smartphone verification into a single, governed system.
Physical mark
A copy-evident security feature applied to packaging or the product surface.
Digital identity
Each unit carries a unique, cryptographically bound serial linked to its passport.
Verification
Any standard smartphone verifies authenticity and reads the product's history.
From production line
to smartphone, in four steps.
Apply
The copy-evident mark is integrated into your existing packaging line.
Bind
Each unit receives a unique, cryptographically signed digital identity.
Activate
Identities are registered in the authentic.network registry at production.
Verify
Anyone scans with a standard smartphone and instantly confirms authenticity.
Outcomes our
customers operationalise.
One verifiable identity, turned into the business results that protect revenue, brand and compliance.
Brand
protection.
Detect and shut down counterfeit goods across every channel — online, retail and distribution — before they reach your customers.
Warranty
& service.
Authenticate units instantly at registration and service intake — cutting warranty fraud and protecting genuine customers.
Grey-market
control.
Trace diversion across regions and expose unauthorised resale — without changing your existing distribution model.
Compliance
& DPP.
Meet EU regulation with a verifiable identity that's ready for the Digital Product Passport — audit-ready from day one.
Customer
experience.
Open a verified channel to the end customer from the very first scan — loyalty, product information and trust, all in one tap.
Every method forces
a trade-off.
authentic.network was built to remove it — reliable enough to stop a counterfeiter, simple enough to reach every product.
| Approach | Hard to clone | Smartphone | No hardware | Low cost at scale | DPP-ready |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard QR code | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ |
| NFC | ✓ | ~ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ |
| RFID | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ~ |
| Hologram | ~ | ✗ | ✓ | ~ | ✗ |
| Blockchain-only | ~ | ~ | ~ | ✗ | ~ |
| authentic.network | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Proven where trust
is the product.
Built to a standard
most can't claim.
ISO 27001
Certified information-security management — the standard enterprise buyers require.
G20 Innovation Award
Recognised for secure digital infrastructure on a global stage.
Made in Germany
Engineered and operated in Germany, with GDPR-compliant data handling.
From 2027,
proof becomes law.
A passport is only as credible as the identity beneath it. authentic.network is the tamper-evident identity layer the DPP is built on — engineered for EU ESPR alignment.
What buyers ask first.
A standard QR code can be copied freely. The authentic.network code is encrypted and copy-evident — a reproduction degrades the printed structure, so it can be told apart from a genuine original.
No. There are no chips, readers or scanners to install. The code is applied as a label or printed directly into your existing process, and verified with a standard smartphone camera.
Yes. The platform protects over 200 million products every year across live customer rollouts, and is built to issue and verify identities at industrial scale.
Serialization assigns numbers but doesn't stop those numbers being copied onto fakes. authentic.network makes each identity verifiable and copy-evident, and connects to the systems you already run.
authentic.network provides the verifiable identity layer the Digital Product Passport requires, engineered for EU ESPR alignment. Specific obligations depend on your product group and its delegated act.
Manufacturers including Bosch, STIHL, LIQUI MOLY, Meyer Burger, Chillington and Ralph Martindale run rollouts on authentic.network, alongside government healthcare programs.