The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) requires that States Parties report annually on the transfer of chemicals listed under the Convention as part of ongoing efforts to prevent the re-emergence of chemical weapons programs. States report aggregate national data to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), where the Technical Directorate does the challenging work of matching imports with exports.
The Monitoring and Tracking Chemicals (MATCH) project is a prototype software system that will attempt to address fundamental challenges to reconciling transfer data for commonly traded Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 chemicals by establishing a secure, authoritative distributed ledger to simulate transfers between hypothetical States Parties.
The MATCH project began in September 2021 and the second iteration of project development will conclude in January 2025. The MATCH 2.0 proof-of-concept is being developed with financial contribution by Global Affairs Canada’s Weapons Threat Reduction Program.
MATCH ‘2.0’ expands and refines Stimson’s DLT proof-of-concept as a basis for demonstration and discussion with chemical industry and national authorities
January 25, 2024
MATCH demonstrates how blockchain can reconcile discrepancies in dual-use chemical trade and reduce the risk of chemical weapons proliferation
July 25, 2023
Elimination of the world’s last declared chemical weapons stockpile still leaves plenty of work to do to prevent proliferation
July 21, 2023
An overview of how the MATCH proof-of-concept applies DLT to identify and reduce discrepancies in dual-use chemical trade
June 29, 2023
Discrepancies in declared quantities of dual-use chemicals transferred internationally are a growing problem – but blockchain technology may offer a solution
March 30, 2023
The MATCH prototype shows how blockchain technology can be used to track international transfers of dual-use chemicals
March 9, 2023
Introduction to the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT), or blockchain, to reduce discrepancies in declared dual-use chemical trade.
October 28, 2022
Amgard 1045 is one of the most commonly traded Schedule 2 chemicals
April 21, 2022
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