authentic.network wins the G20 Innovation Award

We are pleased to share a special success story from our investment portfolio: our partner authentic.network, in which Peppermint holds a 12 percent stake, has been awarded the G20 Innovation Award at the G20 Digital Innovation Summit in Cape Town.

In front of representatives of the G20 countries, leading technology companies such as Google, IBM, and Meta, as well as international organizations, authentic.network impressed with its solution to one of the world’s biggest problems: product counterfeiting.

The scale of the problem is enormous:

• approx. USD 500 billion in revenue lost per year
• 70 million jobs lost over the past ten years
• severe consequences for safety, trust, and human lives

The authentic.network solution
The company combines QR codes with a decentralized, blockchain-based security layer and integrates uncopyable security features in four-color printing. This turns every smartphone into an authentication tool.
The mission is clear: “Security is a human right.”

European technology power on the world stage
The appearance in Cape Town generated great resonance: talks with governments, international organizations, and global companies, as well as contacts from more than 20 economies, demonstrate the enormous potential of this technology.

We are proud that Peppermint is part of this success story and can witness how innovation turns into real global impact.