VeChain and its partner Rekord are deploying a Digital Product Passport (DPP) infrastructure at an industrial scale, designed to help manufacturers comply with the European Union's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). The ESPR entered into force on July 18, 2024, establishing a framework that can require a DPP as a digital identity record for products, components, and materials on the EU market.
The compliance timeline is accelerating. The European Commission is expected to deploy a central DPP registry by July 2026, ahead of early enforcement phases. Sector-specific timelines are forming, with batteries being 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 linked to products via QR codes, NFC, or RFID. Rekord acts as an API-first "trust layer" that anchors proofs on the VeChainThor blockchain, allowing enterprises to secure logs and product events on-chain without overhauling existing systems.
Industrial-scale activity is already underway. A January 2026 post revealed an expectation of more than 100,000 DPP events per month handled on VeChainThor. Separate reporting on a collaboration with the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) described a production-scale setup processing over 100,000 events in December 2025.
The network has reported a significant surge in enterprise transactions, with millions processed in recent days. VeChain's transaction model bundles multiple "sub-transactions" into one, reducing fees per action and supporting higher throughput. VeChainThor’s dual-token design ensures predictable fees for high-frequency recording, and its fee delegation model means end users do not need to hold crypto assets to interact with DPP applications.
This real-world utility is reflected in VeChain's growth metrics, including 100% network uptime since 2017, over 530 million on-chain transactions, and the VeBetter ecosystem boasting over 50 apps and 5.2 million users since its June 2024 mainnet launch. At the time of reporting, the VET token was trading at $0.008072, up 8.38% over 24 hours.
