🏷️Link - Authentic Phygitals

Link Tags come in a range of shapes, sizes and materials to fit into any product, including:

• Iron-on & sew-on patches for clothing, shoes and accessories

• embeddable inlays for toys, paper and hard products

• Customizable stickers, plastic and paper cards

Each product can be made to order and fully branded with color and print, with optional weather and heat proofing across our entire range of tags.

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Link offers several physical-to-digital flows that ensure the entire customer journey feels native to your brand.

Instantly launch a fully-customizable Portal and offer a rich digital experience connected to Link phygitals. Portals can even be mapped to your brand's custom domain.

Want even more control? Use Secure Forwarding & API to bring Link's authentication into your own web and in-app experiences.

Link's proprietary phygital authentication and fan engagement solutions are built from the ground up for high performance and availability, leveraging latest in web technologies and deployed to a global edge network that ensures quick load times and snappy responses wherever your customers are.

Link Tags guarantee physical authenticity and cannot be copied or duplicated like simple NFC tags. Each tag stores a unique 128-bit secret that can only be accessed using an encryption key that is unique for every tag and stored securely. Every time a tag is tapped, a unique signature is generated, that is then verified as authentic on Bounce servers.

By including this authentication signature as part of the NFC's URL, Link can verify the authenticity of a phygital collectible without requiring any specialized apps, simply open the prompted web page and your Link tag is automatically verified as part of the user experience.

Link Tags can do more than authenticate a phygital, they can also verify any user accessing connected digital experiences is the current holder of the physical asset. By keep track on how often they're tapped, Link Tags & servers can guarantee that a claim page or experience are launched by the most recent tap, preventing what is known as "replay attacks" (when a tap response is stored before a phygital is transferred).

Phygital collectibles exist in the real world, whether on a rack or shelf in a store, or worn by your customers on the street. Link Tags feature two innovative security features that prevent a digital collectible from being claimed without a purchase or tranferred without permission.

2FA - In addition to their secret key, each Link tag stores a password that can be used as a two-factor authentication method when a phygital collectible is first claimed, just like when receiving a code to complete an email login. This prevents anyone from claiming a phygital in-store without a valid code.

Binds - Once a Link phygital is claimed, the creator and/or owner can choose to bind it to prevent transfers. This means that the next person to tap the Tag could only claim it if the current owner releases the bind and enables a transfer. A similar mechanic is available for digital-first transfers, binding the digital double automatically until the phsysical is claimed.

Tamper Proof - Link Tags feature internal protection against tampering. Any attempt to extract a tag, peal a sticker or access the NFC chip will result in the permanent disabling of the tag. The Link service can detect this, alert you to tamper attempts in real time and automatically disable access to connected digital content and experiences.

Bounce Web Portals, Secure Forwarding, SDKs & APIs are all designed to manage all the complexity of authentication and ownership verification automatically. Trust experiences and rewards are delivered to verified owners without dealing with worrying about integration or compromising user experience.

Link Tags come in a variety of formats, from stickers and cards to iron-on and sewn patches, and bare inlays that can be embedded into any product.

Most tags can be tailored to specific size, shape and color, with support for full-color branding and dynamic QR codes and serial numbers (with min. MOQ).

Learn more about Link Tag variants and customization:

Link Tag variants

Link Tags are manufactured and pre-programmed in batches, with a unique ID assigned to each tag and linked to our digital asset management.

It's easy to assign a batch of Link Tags to an inventory SKU and product variants, track delivery and activation, and associate groups with retail locations, customers, and dynamic variables & traits of linked digital assets (NFT IDs, limited in-platform assets, etc.).

Each tag is individually programmed and encrypted with a unique encryption key.

From a no-code Web Portal to versatile in-game asset SDKs, Bounce provides a range of digital integration flows that allow you to craft unique and engaging phygital experiences that are tailored to your brand and product's digital expansion strategy.

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Integration Overview

Creating phygital products requires complex interactions between physical and digital aspects of the manufacturing, retail and marketing. Our upcoming retail integrations are designed to make going phygital as painless as possible for your brand and your team.

Upcoming features include:

• E-commerce & PoS support for account linking, content gating and security

• CRM & loyalty integrations with a range of engagement & loyalty providers

• Supply-chain integration for tag batch allocation, security and tracking

• Support for Digital Product Passport (DPP) standards

Reach out [email protected] to share your ideas and request specific features