BEV Digital
Rwanda's $2.1B FMCG market runs without a shared record of what moves through it. BEV Digital assigns every product a cryptographic identity at the factory and logs every handoff on an append-only ledger.
Four fifths of Rwanda's FMCG trade is invisible to the tax authority. Counterfeits can't be told from genuine stock, contaminated batches can't be traced to their holders, and small distributors with real trading histories stay permanently outside finance.
BEV Digital treats this as an infrastructure gap rather than a software problem. Each product receives an HMAC-SHA256 identity integrated into packaging at the design stage, GS1 Digital Link compliant, so no stickers or hardware are required. Every custody handoff writes a tamper-proof event to an append-only ledger, read through five role-based portals and three regulator APIs that clear in under two seconds.
The architecture is designed so the same ledger does four jobs at once: consumer authentication, 60-second recalls, progressive tax formalisation, and a credit score built from 180 days of scan history. A proof of concept with Inyange Industries is proposed to validate the model before national adoption is sought.