Pyx Pulse 3 JUN 2025

Your insider look at global trade & sustainability transparency breakthroughs, including the United Nations Transparency Protocol.

June 03, 2025

UN Recommendation 49 Nears Global Approval

For years, businesses have been able to say what they like about how “green” or “ethical” their supply chains are. There’s been no easy way to check if it’s true.

But that’s about to change. UN/CEFACT Recommendation No. 49: Transparency at Scale – Fostering Sustainable Value Chains is up for formal review at the 31st UN/CEFACT Plenary in Geneva this July.

🌍 What’s a UN/CEFACT recommendation? We break it down in the blog

UNTP Explainer: What does this Protocol help solve?

This latest explainer unpacks the practical problems of trade and supply chain transparency— interoperability, incentives to privacy, standards overload, and more.

🔗 Pressing digital trust challenges & how the UNTP answers them 

Stay on Top of UNTP Progress

By popular request, we’re now posting regular UNTP Working Group highlights. Consider it your go-to resource for quick snapshots of what’s developing across pilots, governance, release updates, sector adoption, and tooling.

Look for monthly summaries on the Pyx blog, with quarterly wrap-ups in this newsletter.

Introducing Pyx Render Template Studio - A Free Public Utility from Pyx

Struggling with render templates for W3C Verifiable Credentials? We’re developing the Pyx Render Template Studio to help. Check out an early version of our new web application, which streamlines the process with three powerful features:

  • Transform templates into render method objects

  • Reverse objects back into templates

  • Preview changes in real-time with a dynamic, resizable live preview.

Say goodbye to clunky duct tape workflows and hello to faster development.
Try it out and let us know what features you’d like to see, while we work on finalising the code.

W3C Makes It Official:
Verifiable Credentials 2.0 Sets the Standard

W3C (only the international standards body for the World Wide Web) has officially set Verifiable Credentials 2.0 as the global benchmark for issuing and verifying digital credentials. It covers everything from product passports to sustainability and compliance claims.

This is a major step for supply chain transparency and the UN Transparency Protocol: less fragmentation, more trust, and a shared language for digital proof.

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