Inspiration

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the fast-paced world of e-commerce has taken the acceleration of selling pharmaceuticals online to the next level.

Though 60% of pharmaceutical brands have seen an increase of revenue from their online business, they also have suffered an increase of 67% in online counterfeits as a result. WHO estimates that counterfeit medicines worth 89 billion USD are traded annually.

What it does

Pharma's League uses Affinidi's verifiable credentials to build a unified and trusted marketplace to combat the massive online trade in counterfeit pharmaceuticals.

How we built it

Affinidi API React AWS SES Cloud Firestore

Challenges we ran into

The challenge was non-technical in nature, as we sought to understand the business flow for our drug marketplace

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Unpacking a section of Affinidi's SSI VC API and customising the VC in our context.

What we learned

Became more socially aware of the issue of counterfeit drugs. Technically, unpacked a portion of Affinidi's API and become more knoweledgeable about SSIs.

What's next for Pharma's League

Secure funding, onboard resellers/issuers and build the actual marketplace platform(only the verification flow is done). Refactor VC schema into NatIDNumCredentialOrganizationV1, which is more suitable in our project context.

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