The ORIGYN Digital Certificate

ORIGYN Foundation
3 min readApr 13, 2023

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A pioneering technology to deploy the world’s most powerful digital certificates — fully on the blockchain

ORIGYN Foundation transforms the certification industry with immutable, customizable, fully “on-chain” digital certificates.

A Certificate as Valuable as the Assets Inside

ORIGYN offers a full suite of certificate management solutions to protect authenticity and provenance (whether assets are natively digital or physical) and provide new opportunities and advantages to creators, buyers, sellers and owners.

How does it work? ORIGYN’s certification technology takes important business data — images, PDFs, object data, records, videos, NDAs, intellectual property and more — and secures this information inside a secure, forgery-proof, customizable and permanent digital certificate.

FederItaly Digital Certificate Powered by ORIGYN

The Object as its Own Proof of Authenticity

Using ultra-high-resolution, 360-degree photographs to capture unique characteristics of an object (combined with provenance records, service and purchase data, product details and more), the biometric offering of the ORIGYN Digital Certificate differentiates physical assets to such a high degree of singularity that the ORIGYN ecosystem guarantees their authenticity.

Only the ORIGYN Biometric Digital Certificate proves the authenticity of an asset using the physical characteristics of the object without the use of external proxies — no QR codes, barcodes, microchips or add-ons. Instead, the item’s unique biometric characteristics distinguish the object inside the certificate and enable ORIGYN to guarantee its authenticity. Through the Biometric Digital Certificate, the object becomes its own proof of authenticity.

Beyond a Certificate of Authenticity

ORIGYN Digital Certificates offer more than a proof of authenticity. They make the process of buying and selling valuable objects, as well as storing important data and documents, safer and easier. They provide new services and better security to consumers, and the benefits don’t stop there.

  • Object Proof: Proves authenticity and provenance through the object’s unique biometric characteristics *
  • Biometric Matching: Links the product with a 360-degree biometric image, which can then be irrefutably matched with the physical object at any point in its lifecycle*
  • Immutability: Offers a fraud-resistance and forgery-proof certificate to store documents, data and product information — for an object’s lifetime
  • Trust: Brings proof of authenticity to the process of buying and selling products on the secondary market
  • Traceability: Gives customers a window into the life of products — from their creation, servicing and transfers to the major life events they helped produce
  • Efficiency: Improves the processes and operations that organize products and manufactured goods, such as data accuracy, management and inventory intake
  • Value: Offers customers new services and opportunities to engage with their products
  • Easy-to-Use: Enables consumers to access and use blockchain technology in a simple, seamless and intuitive way

*A feature of ORIGYN Biometric Digital Certificates

A Superior Blockchain

ORIGYN leverages the Internet Computer (IC), the fastest blockchain processor in the world. The IC offers superior scalability, affordability and speed, with a smaller environmental footprint. It is the only solution with the properties required to affordably and securely issue reliable, tamperproof certificates that hold significant and varied types of data on the blockchain.

Discover the differences:

Layer-1 Performance Comparison from CoinCodex

Building Trust in What Matters Most

The ORIGYN open protocol fosters the creation of powerful digital certificates that validate provenance and its supporting creative and manufacturing processes, while safeguarding the authentication of both physical and digital products in an immutable and irrefutable manner. ORIGYN is currently developing its network of certifiers and partners around the world, which combine their industry influence and expertise to certify authenticity and provenance, as well as participate in governance of the protocol.

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