AS AN ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE, HERE IS A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SMALLHOLDER COFFEE FARMER: Our ‘Day in the Life’ begins at 5:30 am before sunrise, because there are some things that technology probably won’t change about farm life. It’s harvest season, so once our farmer reaches the section of coffee bushes that they’ll be picking from today, they take out their smartphone and log into his blockchain-powered traceability application. This login will associate all of the subsequent data collection they collected, which is linked to their unique, self-sovereign identity. By linking a farmer’s production to their identity in this way, buyers and consumers can be more assured of the veracity of claims made that the coffee they are buying is actually produced by individual farmers, who are treated and in turn treat their coffee with dignity and care. These well-established histories are verifiable yet pseudo-anonymized in order to protect the farmer’s identity. They provide the distinct advantage of verifying the farmer’s identity, work, and other information (such as how much they harvested or what they were paid). This information cannot be fabricated, as a profile picture can be. Once logged in, our farmer will take a few pictures to show where today’s cherries are originating from. The smartphone camera stands in for the eyes of the importer or verifier at a lower cost and in real-time. So, this is happening everyday, not just when travel permits. These images, along with a simultaneously captured geo-tag, will form the first chapter of the story that consumers see when they purchase our farmer’s coffee. The harvest is now going to continue undisturbed by technology until our farmer arrives at the washing station with their day’s yield. At the station, an attendant weighs our farmer’s bushels and then scans a QR code generated by our farmer’s app to log their origin. Linking this transaction in such a way adds additional information to the coffee’s story, while at the same time augments our farmer’s self-sovereign digital identity as part of his production history. This history can, over time, be used to increase our farmer’s credit- worthiness. The attendant now records the weight of the provided bushels, which immediately triggers a push notification to our farmer’s phone for their review. Once the farmer confirms both the day’s price and the quantity they’ve provided, a two-way transfer is executed on the Topl blockchain, with a digital twin of the coffee moving to the washing station and an e-money transfer to the farmer’s account. 14