VeChain and Rekord Build EU Digital Product Passport at Industrial Scale

• VeChain and Rekord are deploying DPP infrastructure aligned with the EU’s ESPR, which entered into force on July 18, 2024.
• The EU is expected to deploy a central Digital Product Passport registry by July 2026, ahead of early DPP-related compliance phases scheduled for 2027.

VeChain and Rekord are deploying Digital Product Passport (DPP) infrastructure designed for manufacturers preparing for the European Union’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). ESPR entered into force on July 18, 2024. It establishes a framework for product rules that can require a DPP as a digital identity record for products, components, and materials placed on the EU market.

The compliance timeline is tightening ahead of early enforcement phases. By July 2026, the European Commission is expected to deploy a central DPP registry to support storage and access to product passport identifiers and related data. In parallel, product-specific timelines are forming across sectors, with batteries as an early category where passport-style requirements become mandatory in February 2027 under the EU Batteries Regulation.

The companies’ approach centers on turning factory, logistics, and sustainability records into verifiable digital evidence that can be linked to products through QR codes, NFC, or RFID. Rekord is an API-first “trust layer” that anchors proofs on VeChainThor, allowing enterprises to secure logs and product events on-chain without rebuilding existing systems.

The network reported that enterprise partners generated millions of transactions on VeChainThor in the past few days. As we previously covered, the network’s transaction model can bundle multiple “sub-transactions” into one transaction, which reduces fees per action and supports higher throughput.

VeChain and Rekord Target Compliance Use Cases

Industrial-scale activity has already been reported around the stack’s throughput. A January 2026 post revealed an expectation of more than 100,000 DPP events per month handled on VeChainThor. Separate reporting on the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) collaboration has also described a production-scale setup processing more than 100,000 events in December 2025.

The system maps enterprise data streams into on-chain proofs rather than forcing all business data to be public. VeChainThor’s dual-token design will keep transaction fees predictable for high-frequency recording, and its fee delegation model ensures end users do not need to hold crypto assets to interact with DPP applications.

VeChain recently broke down how it’s ushering in an era of utility with real-world apps, citing 100% network uptime since 2017 and more than 530 million on-chain transactions. CNF also reported that the VeBetter ecosystem has over 50 apps, about 5.2 million users, and nearly 50 million transactions since its June 2024 mainnet launch.

At the time of reporting, VET traded at $0.008072, up 8.38% over the past 24 hours. Its market cap stood at $693.4 million, while 24-hour trading volume was $22.59 million, up 29%.