Cardano partners with Blockforce to anchor 500K supply chain records for Brazilian exporters

The Cardano Foundation and Brazilian blockchain firm Blockforce have gone live with a supply chain verification system that has already anchored more than 500,000 records from Brazilian exporters onto the Cardano blockchain. The system is designed to solve a very specific, very expensive problem: proving to European regulators that your leather jacket didn’t contribute to deforestation. The first major deployment is with Azzas 2154, Latin America’s largest fashion conglomerate, which is using the platform to trace its leather supply chain across more than 6,200 suppliers. The system has already processed over 95,000 invoices in production. How the dual-ledger architecture works The platform uses a design that splits responsibilities between two different blockchain layers. Commercially sensitive data, including supplier identities, contract terms, and pricing, lives on a permissioned Hyperledger Fabric network. Only authorized parties can access it. Cardano’s public blockchain, meanwhile, serves as the verification layer, storing only cryptographic proofs of those records. This means an EU auditor can independently verify that a batch of Brazilian leather was sourced in compliance ...