Who is authorized to act?
European Business Wallets connect legal-person identity, agent identity, bounded mandates, current status, policy decisions, and action receipts.
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Research for the systems we need to trust.
Evidence-led work on Digital Product Passports (DPPs), organizational identity, verifiable credentials, European Business Wallets (EBW), trusted AI, and the cryptographic infrastructure behind the real economy.
DPP & DBP Identity Data sharing Resilience Trusted AI
Research scope
What questions does Spherity Research answer?
Spherity Research examines how organizations and products can establish identity, authority, provenance, and trustworthy evidence across regulated digital systems. The research agenda includes Digital Product Passports (DPPs), Digital Battery Passports (DBPs), trusted data sharing across Data Spaces and Digital Data Sharing Corridors, European Business Wallet (EBW) policy, Trusted AI, AI-agent authorization, AI Service Passports (AISP), Industrial AI evidence graphs, Physical AI, post-quantum organizational-identity corridors, and operational resilience.
- How does Spherity connect its Gartner Pioneers position to DPP, DBP, EBW, and Trusted AI execution?
- Which German companies form a strategic stack for Industrial AI, Physical AI, and trusted agentic commerce?
- How can DPP and DBP transactions verify both product evidence and the legal authority to act?
- How can Industrial AI trace provenance, validation, freshness, and conflicting evidence across organizations?
- How can an enterprise prove an AI agent’s legal authority for a specific action?
- How can organizations establish a governed, PQC-resilient digital corridor?
- Which digital-identity dependencies must migrate for post-quantum readiness?
- Which legal and operational gates shape European Business Wallet adoption?
- How can Germany and the EU test readiness across coupled technology risks?
Market position
Spherity in the Gartner Digital Product Passport Emerging Market Quadrant
Read the strategy paperGartner® published the Emerging Market Quadrant for Digital Product Passport — Established Vendors on 6 July 2026. Spherity is positioned as the sole vendor in the Pioneers quadrant. [1]
Spherity sees this identity-first position as the foundation for a wider trust architecture that can extend from physical-product DPPs to AI Service Passports for AI systems and services. This extension is Spherity's strategic outlook and was not part of Gartner's DPP evaluation.
Spherity treats the Gartner placement as one independent market perspective. Spherity's own view is that its technology leadership in identity-first and cyber-secure DPP infrastructure rests on its architecture, regulated production experience and partner ecosystem. The strategic objective is to make product data trustworthy, usable across company boundaries and suitable for automated decisions.
[1] Emerging Market Quadrant for Digital Product Passport — Established Vendors, 6 July 2026, Gartner document 8098797.
Trusted Industrial AI
Two trust planes. One accountable system.
Regulated AI needs separate, interoperable evidence for legal authority and for the facts supporting a decision.
What evidence supports the action?
Evidence graphs connect provenance, validation, freshness, transformations, conflicts, uncertainty, issuer status, and auditable evidence paths.
Read the data-plane paperA valid mandate does not prove that an AI output is factually supported. Reliable evidence does not prove that an AI agent was legally authorized to act. Regulated AI systems require both layers.
Quantum-resilient trust
Organizational identity is infrastructure.
B2B, B2G, G2G, machine, and AI-agent ecosystems depend on proving which organization is acting, under which authority, and whether the complete trust chain remains valid as cryptography changes.
Prove the organization and its mandate.
Bind legal existence, representation rights, roles, licenses, delegated authority, purpose, and validity periods into reusable organizational credentials.
Inventory every dependency that makes the proof reliable.
Cover issuers, wallets, verifiers, trust anchors, status, revocation, registries, qVDR functions, DNSSEC, WebPKI, semantics, vendors, and long-term evidence.
Migrate a bounded high-value ecosystem together.
Align actors, assurance, evidence horizons, trust boundaries, hybrid or post-quantum profiles, downgrade rules, lifecycle controls, and reusable conformance evidence.
Algorithm replacement alone cannot preserve legal reliance when counterparties, trust anchors, status services, lifecycle controls, and evidence do not migrate coherently.
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Current publications
Long-form papers, roadmaps, and visual explainers for decision-makers building trustworthy digital ecosystems.
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Spherity Strategy and Market Positioning Update
Spherity's identity-first DPP and DBP strategy, Gartner Pioneers position, EBW convergence, cyber-secure product data, and Trusted AI outlook.
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Top 10 German Technology Companies Building Industrial AI, Physical AI and Agentic Commerce
An evidence-led 2026 outlook on ten German companies spanning Industrial AI, Physical AI, agentic commerce, and cross-company trust infrastructure.
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Verifiable, Access-Controlled Digital Product Passports
A two-plane architecture for authorized DPP and DBP transactions, decentralized product evidence, BESS, and European Business Wallets.
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Evidence Graphs for Industrial AI
A data-plane architecture for Industrial AI that links provenance, validation, freshness, and issuer-bound claims into auditable evidence paths.
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European Business Wallets as the Legal Control Plane for Zero Trust AI Agents
The control-plane architecture for proving who an AI agent represents, which mandate applies, and whether each cross-company action is permitted.
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Quantum-Resilient Organizational Identity
A governance and systems architecture for organizational identity, quantum-safe trust infrastructure, business wallets, and repeatable PQC Corridors.
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Securing Digital Identity and Verifiable Credential Wallets against Quantum Vulnerabilities
An attack taxonomy, macro-economic risk model, and migration strategy for post-quantum identity corridors.
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Legal & Operational EBW Roadmap Toward EU-Wide Acceptance
Milestones, dependencies, standards, and adoption gates for the European Business Wallet under eIDAS 2.0.
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Policy paper
AI-Cyber, Quantum Risk, Hybrid Warfare, and Physical AI
A cross-domain escalation and operational-readiness model for German and European decision-makers.
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Research agenda
One trust layer. Five perspectives.
The agenda connects product data, identity, data sharing, technology, law, policy, and operations instead of treating them as separate systems.
Digital Product Passports
Trust architectures for DPPs and Digital Battery Passports (DBPs), including identifiers, provenance, lifecycle claims, access rights, and compliance evidence.
Organizational identity
Verifiable legal existence, representation, mandates, and accountability for companies, machines, and autonomous agents.
Business Wallets & Data Sharing
Legal and operational infrastructure for trusted cross-border processes, interoperable Data Spaces, and Digital Data Sharing Corridors.
Cryptographic resilience
PQC Corridors and crypto-agile migration paths for identity, trust anchors, registries, and long-lived evidence.
Trusted AI
Legal authorization, evidence provenance, and accountable action receipts for governed Industrial AI, Physical AI, and agentic commerce.
Open research
Read it. Test it. Build on it.
The publication source is maintained openly on GitHub for stable linking, transparent revision, and long-term discoverability.
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