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ExpertiseUpdated on 28 January 2026

Digital & Battery Passports: Secure, Innovative Finance for Circular Economy

Head of innovation at UST

Barcelona / Madrid, Spain

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Digital Product & Battery Passports for Circular Economy

UST has delivered digital product passports (DPP) and battery passports (BPP) in Horizon and commercial initiatives, focusing on secure, compliant solutions that maximise value. Our DPP is fully blockchain-compatible and demonstrated in practice.

A recurring challenge in circularity is greenlighting capital investment for future benefit when upstream frontline industry cannot bear global market risk, downstream purchasers cannot pay upfront, and financiers—commonly the solution to this in other asset-backed or future-value markets—cannot assess intrinsic value (and their exposure) until delivery. For example, an EV battery at exchange may be fully functional—or merely scrap.

Our DLT lab, recognised internationally (including running the Bank of England’s CBDC trial), has a solution based on seminal work in Digintrace.

By connecting DPPs to innovative financial instruments via DLT, we can align risk appetite, capital availability, and time preference, making circularity financially viable at scale—turning environmental vision into economic common sense.

We are keen to explore collaborations to bring circular economy solutions to industrial and financial reality.

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