Enter Wholechain, a platform built on blockchain aimed at helping fragmented food and agriculture supply chains trace products’ steps from their source to their final destination. Often called a virtual distributed ledger system, blockchain allows for a chain of connected and timestamped records, or blocks, that are linked using cryptography. “We provide a way for the whole supply chain to capture and provide data,” says co-founder Jason Berryhill. The latter, a joint venture with food distributor ARKK Food Company, uses the blockchain platform which is the foundation for Wholechain. Thus, data collection starts with fishers, who capture data using their mobile device.

Source: Forbes November 19, 2019 17:03 UTC