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Field notes on authentication.
Technical writing and analysis on Intelligent Material® authentication, the Tag & Detect platform, and how physical products are proven genuine.
How do you prove a physical product isn't a counterfeit?
It's a question every brand, regulator, and supply chain has to answer. There are many solutions, each with their own applications and caveats. This is a look at what authentication actually means and how the field approaches it.
John Wolfe · April 2026 · 6 min readRead the note →Anti-counterfeiting technology has a counterfeiting problem.
Most of the authentication features used on consumer products are also sold on the same wholesale marketplaces as the products they're meant to protect. A look at how the four most common technologies work, and how each is being replicated in the open.
John Wolfe · April 2026 · 6 min readRead the note →Banknote security has three layers. You only see one.
Banknote security is the most successful authentication system ever built. Counterfeit rates run in single digits per million notes. Most of the reasons are invisible by design, and they map onto every other industry now trying to authenticate physical products.
John Wolfe · April 2026 · 7 min readRead the note →Defend product integrity.
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