# Trace by Gate2Chain (Case Study) {% embed url="" %} Companies face increasing pressure to demonstrate sustainable and ethical practices throughout their supply chains, but lack the tools to provide verifiable proof to consumers and stakeholders. [TRACE by Gate2Chain](https://bsv-case-studies.bsvblockchain.org/supply-chain/trace-by-gate2chain), developed in partnership with IBM, addresses critical supply chain challenges across **luxury goods, food, and fashion industries**. The platform tackles rampant **counterfeiting and product theft, lack of transparency in product sourcing and ownership, inability to verify sustainability or ethical claims, and complex siloed supply chains with inefficient record-keeping**. Traditional centralized systems have failed due to **susceptibility to data tampering or inaccessibility, high costs and limited scalability, and no native mechanisms for immutable digital records or ownership verification**. ### Digital Twins on BSV Blockchain Trace leverages BSV blockchain's massively scalable protocol and extremely low transaction fees to create digital twins for products including watches, garments, and food ingredients, with blockchain-stamped records for ownership, origin, and sustainability credentials. * **Tokenization creates digital twins** for any product, providing unique blockchain-based identities * **Data logging records ownership, origin, and sustainability credentials** with immutable blockchain timestamps * **Smart contracts track events, updates, and ownership changes** throughout the supply chain * **API integration connects to ERP and CRM systems** without disrupting existing workflows * **Eliminates counterfeit-related revenue loss** by securing high-value items like $1.2M watches * **Increases consumer trust** in ethical sourcing and sustainability through verifiable records * **Streamlines compliance with EU digital product passport regulations** replacing manual documents with immutable blockchain certificates "If an item is stolen, marking the digital twin as stolen renders the item useless to the thief, much like a stolen credit card becomes ineffective." — Bart Olivares, CEO, Gate2Chain --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://hub.bsvblockchain.org/higher-learning/bsv-academy/the-business-case-for-blockchain-in-supply-chain/case-studies-and-pocs-blockchain-for-supply-chain/trace-by-gate2chain-case-study.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.