The Nature of Commerce Changed Today

By: Dan McMorris, Co-founder of PCN

For decades, organizations spent mountains of money on "visibility solutions"—software stacks, dashboards, consultancies promising to finally unlock the secrets of supply, credentialing, and risk. Yet even the biggest names—solutions built on the logic of centralization—have failed to deliver a true, trusted, and holistic story for modern supply chains. Meanwhile, small and medium businesses—the backbone of our economy and industrial base—are being told, "Expose your intellectual property! Share your processes!" All while they face the risk their crown jewels and secret sauce could be misappropriated, misused, or minimized.

Now there is another way.

The Provenance Chain™ Network (PCN) has just been awarded US Patent 12,387,226 for the universal Object Story of our Commercial Trust™ Protocol (CTP).  This goes beyond next-generation tech—it’s a step-change for every person, party, place, product, and process (the 5-Ps) that underpins our global economy. 

What makes CTP different?

1. For Large Organizations: CTP is not another "analytics layer" perched atop someone else’s silo. Our protocol captures immutable records—origin, custody, consumption, and conversion—for every object and event in your supply chain, federating trust but never centralizing secrets. Your data remains yours. There’s finally a way for visibility, traceability, and resilience to coexist with control, privacy, and property ownership rights. 

   
   

2. For Small Businesses: Imagine a world where you control your evidence, your credentials, your recipes, and your workforce’s qualifications. The CTP’s RICE™ Engine—Requirements, Incentives, Claims, Evidence—means you decide what to share (license), to whom, and when, allowing you to access new markets, contracts, and customers—without exposing your IP to risk.

   
   

3. For Trade Associations and Consortia: We’ve developed the CTP as a freemium platform, so trade groups can equip their members—large primes and mom-and-pops alike—with a simple, shared language for licensing, trust, and verification.

   
   

4. For Oversight Bodies: Complex standards like CMMC, UFLPA, and ITAR become frictionless with CTP Evaluations that verify compliance without ever dismantling competitive advantage. Evidence is selectively disclosed, verifiable, and audit-ready—at scale.

   
   

5. For the Blockchain & DLT Community: SIMBA, Hedera, Cardano, Origin Trail, XRP—many are pioneering technology that’s powerful for specific, individual use cases. But the commercial world needs a protocol, not just a point solution. The CTP is the invitation to convene: overlay others’ technology, plug into the framework, and collaborate on composable, interoperable solutions. The protocol is the table; come bring the value.

   
   

6. For the AI Community: Imagine a future where users don’t have to settle for either speed or accuracy—with the CTP’s non-hallucinogenic data now both can be achieved.

   
   

Supply chain resilience is not just a blockchain problem; not just a data problem; not just an AI problem. It’s a commerce problem.  Today commerce has been redefined in a way that allows owners and managers to operate their business without giving away their business.

The Tokenized Twin™ Digital Object Story offers a unified, patented framework for n-tier visibility, selective disclosure, and a marketplace of standards!

So join the movement. Whether you are a DIB supplier, a trade association, an oversight council, or a technology platform, the CTP opens the door to massive productivity and trusted commerce in the Intelligence Age. I invite you to stand with us, build with us, and help define the new global standard for commercial trust.

Today, we changed commerce together. Now let’s show the world what happens when trust becomes programmable, credibility becomes digital, and resilience is no longer just a hope—but a guarantee. 

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