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DSX QR
A signed QR code on the ISO/IEC 20248 framework — certificates, permits, transcripts, lab reports, invoices. Scanning returns the payload and a pass/fail on integrity.
Verification infrastructure · Australia & Thailand · since 2017
DSX signs the data itself — into a QR code or an NFC tag. Anyone can check it in a second, offline, without asking the issuer and without trusting us.
01 — Platform
Every DSX product writes the same thing: a compact, digitally signed data structure — our DigSig Data Description (DDD) — into a carrier a person or a scanner can read. The signature is verified against a published public key, so tampering is detectable and the check needs no live connection to us.
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A signed QR code on the ISO/IEC 20248 framework — certificates, permits, transcripts, lab reports, invoices. Scanning returns the payload and a pass/fail on integrity.
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The same structure written to NFC tags — we work with NXP NTAG for phone-native reading. ID and access cards, asset tags, and binding an item to its record.
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The issuing and checking layer above both carriers: issue signed documents, publish keys, let any recipient verify — built for issuers who cannot control who checks, or how.
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Our flagship deployment: a mine-to-grid digital product passport for recovered critical metals. Read on.
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Read the carrier. The signature is checked against the issuer's published key — locally, in under a second.
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A pass means the data is exactly what the issuer signed — and identifies which issuer signed it.
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Release the shipment, admit the student, pay the invoice — with an auditable basis for the decision.
02 — Flagship project
A digital product passport for recovered critical metals.
A cryptographically verified chain of custody for spent industrial catalysts — HDS, SCR and sulfuric acid — through the recovery of vanadium, molybdenum, cobalt, nickel, tungsten and titanium.
Each drum, batch and output lot is physically bound to its ledger entry by an NFC tag carrying a DSX signature. That binding is the point: a passport that lives only in a database can be re-typed, and recycled-metal provenance is exactly where re-typing pays.
VeriV makes the physical item and its record inseparable — an anti-counterfeit passport for recovered critical minerals, not another register.
Request the VeriV briefFig. 01 — the physical binding
Tagged drum
Spent catalyst, signed at source
Recovery
Inputs and outputs reconciled by mass
Offtake
Buyer scans the lot and reads the chain
Chain of custody
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Arisings
Spent catalyst is tagged at the refinery. Origin, assay and hazard class signed at source.
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Transfer
Every custody handover is a signed event read from the tag, not a typed claim.
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Recovery
Process inputs and outputs are reconciled by mass, so recovered lots trace back to their feed.
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Offtake
The buyer scans the lot and reads a verified passport: source, route, recovery, custody.
Hazardous-waste movement and recovered-metal origin rely today on paperwork that is trivially altered. Signed custody gives an authority a check it can run itself.
Critical-mineral offtake increasingly requires provenance and embodied-carbon evidence. VeriV produces that evidence as a by-product of operating.
In development on the DSX verification stack. We are speaking with recyclers, refiners and authorities about controlled pilots.
03 — Standards & assurance
Interoperability is the whole value of a verification scheme: a signature only helps if a party you have never met can check it with tools they already have. Our position on every standard we touch is stated plainly — including what is complete and what is not.
| Framework | How DSX uses it | Status |
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| ISO/IEC 20248 | Digital signature data structure for barcodes and RFID. The basis of DSX QR and DSX RFID payloads. | System built on this framework |
| Standards Australia IT-034 | National committee for automatic identification and data capture. Aligns our work with Australian practice. | Aligned |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | Information security management for our issuing, key management and hosting operations. | Implementation in progress |
| DigSig Data Description | Our own compact data description and protocol layer, developed 2017–2019 and used across all products. | Proprietary, documented |
Australia
DSX is an advisory participant in the Australian Government's Industry Growth Program, which supports innovative SMEs commercialising in national priority areas — including critical minerals and low-emissions technology. Participation gives us structured advisory support as VeriV moves toward pilot.
Thailand
DSX takes part in SPARK CORP 2026, a programme convened with Thailand's National Innovation Agency (NIA) that pairs Thai corporates with international startups. It puts VeriV in front of the refining, petrochemical and industrial groups whose catalyst arisings it is designed to track.
04 — Company
2017—19
Research and development of the DigSig Data Description structure and protocols, the verification framework, and support across multiple programming languages — concluding in a successful first pilot deployment.
2020—24
We consolidated the modules, assessed real-world performance, and re-based the system on ISO/IEC 20248 and Standards Australia IT-034 — trading speed for interoperability and audit readiness.
2025—now
Building the production database framework for public launch of document verification, and developing VeriV with advisory support from the Industry Growth Program and corporate matching through SPARK CORP 2026.
Director
Leads the protocol work and the standards position. Our mission is to make trust checkable: secure, standards-compliant verification built on transparency and interoperability, so information can be exchanged with confidence.
Compliance Officer
Owns standards conformance, the ISO/IEC 27001 implementation, and the evidence trail behind every claim on this page — including how customer and custody data is handled.
Where verification is worth the effort
Permits, licences and public records anyone must be able to check without contacting the issuing agency.
Provenance and custody for recovered metals, where origin determines both price and market access.
Qualifications and transcripts verified by employers and registries in seconds, forgeries detected on sight.
Pharmaceuticals, calibration and test certificates — documents whose integrity carries a safety consequence.
05 — Contact
We work directly with the people accountable for the result — agency programme leads, procurement and compliance teams, plant and offtake managers, and investors assessing the technology.
A briefing is a 45-minute technical walkthrough: the signature format, what verification looks like in your process, and what a controlled pilot would involve.