Meta-requirement MR1: Provenance and traceability
Blockchain must provide insights into the provenance and traceability of data to disclose the sustainable origin of products.
Source paper
This meta-requirement is proposed by Meta-requirements for the Design of a Blockchain-enabled Multi-sided Platform for Sustainability and Circular Economy (Hanna Buyssens, Stijn Viaene, 2024).
Related meta-requirements
- Meta-requirement MR2: Smart contracts - The paper states that smart contracts "equally can facilitate increased traceability and provenance (MR1), enabling stakeholders to track and verify product origins and a product's sustainable attributes."
- Meta-requirement MR3: Tokenization - The paper states that "the tokenization process can facilitate the verification of provenance (MR1) of physical objects, thereby allowing users to examine the historical transactions associated with the asset."