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 with deforestation regulations without ever seeing the exporter’s supplier list or contract details.

The cost economics are notable too. By using a batching protocol called uVerify, Blockforce has achieved a 92% reduction in per-record anchoring costs. The contracted volume between the parties stipulates 6.5 million records by 2030.

Why this matters now: the EU compliance clock

The EU’s deforestation regulation requires companies selling into European markets to prove their products aren’t linked to deforestation. Separate corporate sustainability reporting mandates add another layer of documentation burden. For Brazilian exporters, especially in industries like fashion, agriculture, and leather goods, these rules are effectively a market access tax.

The contracted scope extends well beyond fashion. The parties have outlined plans to expand into automotive and pharmaceutical supply chains.

Cardano’s enterprise positioning

For Cardano, this partnership represents a tangible enterprise use case at meaningful scale. The Cardano Foundation had previously engaged in Brazil-focused industrial blockchain initiatives, but anchoring half a million records in production is a different order of magnitude from pilot programs and proof-of-concept demos.

The 6.5 million record contract through 2030 gives Cardano a multi-year pipeline of on-chain activity tied to real economic output. The automotive and pharmaceutical expansion targets will be worth watching closely, since those sectors involve far more complex regulatory environments and far larger documentation volumes than fashion.

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