EcoVadis, the world's largest provider of corporate sustainability ratings, has awarded Peppermint a Gold Medal for sustainable, ethical and responsible business practices. This puts Peppermint in the top five percent of all companies assessed.

Together with co-founder Christoph Jentzsch, who is considered a pioneer in the blockchain and DAO community, the startup has developed a new type of crypto-optical code. With its help, physical objects can be transferred into the digital world using NFT. The digitalisation of physical objects is to be revolutionised with the easy-to-use product - gummy - and thus set new standards in the web3 and in virtual trade.