NEW REPORT: MATCH 2.0: A New Ledger for Nonproliferation

Using Distributed Ledger Technology to resolve chemical trade discrepancies under the Chemical Weapons Convention
By  Braden Holt  • Steve Lipnick  • Christina McAllister  • Bill Pugh  • Cindy Vestergaard  • Jim Wimberley

Every year, States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention declare to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons their trade in dual-use chemicals—substances with legitimate industrial uses that can also be weaponized. Yet year after year, these declarations don’t add up. In reporting for 2023, three-quarters of declared dual-use chemical transfers had discrepancies, representing a risk that some chemicals are unaccounted for and could potentially have been diverted for use as chemical weapons.

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Editor’s Note: Three external authors are from the developers contracted to develop the MATCH 2.0 platform. Steve Lipnick, VP of Business Development, and Jim Wimberley, Senior Solutions Engineer, at DataTrails, the DLT developer of MATCH 2.0, and Bill Pugh, CEO of True North, which developed MATCH 2.0’s user interface.
By Cindy Vestergaard, Senior Fellow and Director, Converging Technologies and Global Security Program