tokenstextiles
Tokenstextiles is an emerging concept that links digital tokens to textile items or designs to enable verifiable provenance, ownership, and rights management across the textile value chain. In this model, a token records information about a physical item or a digital pattern.
A token may be non-fungible, representing a specific lot, garment, or edition, or fungible, representing a class
Use cases include supply-chain provenance and anti-counterfeiting, retail authentication, proof of ownership for resale or rental,
Implementation often relies on established token standards on public blockchains, such as non-fungible tokens, with metadata
Challenges include uptake by industry, interoperability between platforms, costs of minting and maintenance, and environmental concerns
Overall, tokenstextiles aim to improve transparency, circularity, and value capture in textile supply chains, while enabling