One year ago, Family Labs was incorporated here in Australia. It then took almost 527 days to prepare the Universal Goods Protocol for LUKSO mainnet. This is the roadmap for what comes next: four milestones that take the protocol from its V1 launch through to full community decentralisation.
Protocol V1 Launch: June 2026
In June 2026, the Universal Goods Protocol goes live on LUKSO. It is open infrastructure that gives every physical product a secure, verifiable digital identity, the foundation of an EU-compliant Digital Product Passport.
The timing is not incidental. The EU is mandating Digital Product Passports across product categories, covering roughly 12.4 billion products a year. Most of the market is responding by building compliance SaaS tools. We took a different path and built open infrastructure designed to last generations. Compliance is the trigger, but durable, interoperable identity for physical goods is the outcome.
Source + Settle: July 2026
On 23 July 2026, Source + Settle brings programmable settlement to B2B trade. Cross-border supplier payments today take three to five days to clear and lose three to seven per cent of value to intermediaries along the way.
By leveraging Stablecoin as our settlement provider, Source + Settle is designed to save clients two to three per cent annually. More importantly, payment and product data can finally live in the same system. That is what turns traceability into something verifiable: settlement and provenance, programmed together rather than reconciled after the fact.
Scout, the AI Supplier Agent: August 2026
On 27 August 2026, we introduce Scout, our proprietary AI agent that automates and orchestrates Digital Product Passport compliance. Compliance teams currently spend countless hours per supplier, per product line, chasing the data a passport requires.
Scout contacts suppliers, gathers the data, validates it, and structures it into the passport autonomously. Your team reviews outcomes instead of chasing inputs. It is the difference between a compliance function that scales linearly with headcount and one that scales with the protocol.
TGE and Decentralisation: 2027 to 2028
Across 2027 and 2028, governance of the protocol transitions to the community, stewarded by the Universal Goods Foundation. Infrastructure this foundational should not belong to one company. The tokenomics and distribution model are still being designed, and we will share more as that work progresses.
“Most of the market is building compliance SaaS tools. We built an open infrastructure that will last generations.”
That is the roadmap: launch the open infrastructure, make settlement and product data programmable in one system, automate compliance with an AI agent, and then hand the protocol to the community as a public good. If you are preparing for EU Digital Product Passport requirements, or you want to build on the protocol, we would love to talk.
James Albarracin is the Founder & CEO of Family Labs, the company behind the Universal Goods Protocol, open infrastructure that tokenises physical products into programmable digital assets via EU-compliant Digital Product Passports.