Robinhood Chain · Early access

Scan the box.
Own the company
that made it.

A receipt tells you where you paid. A barcode tells you who made it — the left half of every code on your shelf is a company, printed there by the company itself. Point a camera at it and a sliver of that company's stock lands in your wallet.

Scanner · bed 01Reading
DoritosNacho Cheese · 9.25 oz
0028400645270
GTIN
028400645270
GS1 prefix
028400
Licensee
Frito-Lay, Inc.
Listed parent
PepsiCo

Pays on listing

+PEP

Reward

$0.25

Listed on a US exchange. Waiting on a tokenized share.

DORITOSpays in+PEP·TIDEpays in+PG·COCA-COLApays in+KO·DURACELLpays in+BRK.B·CHEERIOSpays in+GIS·KIRKLAND SIGNATUREpays in+COST·OREOpays in+MDLZ·DOVEpays in+UL·SNICKERSpays in$BPR·GATORADEpays in+PEP·KLEENEXpays in+KMB·HEINZ KETCHUPpays in+KHC·DORITOSpays in+PEP·TIDEpays in+PG·COCA-COLApays in+KO·DURACELLpays in+BRK.B·CHEERIOSpays in+GIS·KIRKLAND SIGNATUREpays in+COST·OREOpays in+MDLZ·DOVEpays in+UL·SNICKERSpays in$BPR·GATORADEpays in+PEP·KLEENEXpays in+KMB·HEINZ KETCHUPpays in+KHC·
LOT 01

The left half of a barcode
is a company.

Not a guess about a company. The company itself: GS1 licenses that block of digits to one brand owner, and the owner prints it on everything it makes. A receipt has to be read. This has to be looked up.

0049000004632

The company

049000 is licensed to The Coca-Cola Company — on every can they make.

The product

Assigned by Coca-Cola, to Coca-Cola's own rules. Which flavour is none of our business.

Not read. Resolved.

There is no handwriting to interpret and no merchant line to match. Thirteen digits go in, one licensee comes out, and the same code gives the same answer every time.

The company printed it.

A GS1 prefix is not our label for a brand. It is the brand's registered identifier for itself, printed by the brand, at its own expense.

The second hop is the work.

Frito-Lay is not a ticker. PepsiCo is. The prefix names a licensee; the map carries it up to whatever is listed above it — sometimes three owners up.

56
brands mapped
32
parents behind them
3
paying today
11
prefixes unverified

Counted from the map in this build, not from a pitch deck.

LOT 02

Three steps.
Nothing to buy.

You are not signing up for a loyalty scheme and you are not spending anything. You are taking an inventory of a house you already paid for.

  1. 01Live camera only

    Aim

    Open the app and point it at the barcode on something you already own. There is no upload button and no camera roll — the code has to be in front of you, on the box, now.

  2. 02No guessing involved

    Resolve

    The check digit is verified, the company prefix is looked up, and the licensee is carried up to whatever is listed above it. If the prefix is not in the map, you are told that, not given a best guess.

  3. 03Fractional, tokenized

    Own

    A tokenized fractional share of the parent lands in your wallet, issued and custodied by a licensed third party. One barcode pays once, to one wallet, ever.

The whole rule$0.25 per barcode you have never scanned · first one pays $2.00 · 20 a day · $20 lifetime, or $100 holding $BPR
LOT 03

56 brands.
32 companies.

Every name below is a different package on a different shelf, bought on a different day, in a different aisle. Turn them over and most of your house belongs to a dozen boardrooms.

Showing brands

DoritosSnacks
PEP× 6 on this shelf
Lay'sSnacks
PEP× 6 on this shelf
CheetosSnacks
PEP× 6 on this shelf
OreoSnacks
MDLZ× 3 on this shelf
RitzSnacks
MDLZ× 3 on this shelf
Chips Ahoy!Snacks
MDLZ× 3 on this shelf
Hershey'sSnacks
HSY× 2 on this shelf
Reese'sSnacks
HSY× 2 on this shelf
SnickersSnacks
PRIVATE× 2 on this shelf
M&M'sSnacks
PRIVATE× 2 on this shelf
PringlesSnacks
K× 2 on this shelf
Cheez-ItSnacks
K× 2 on this shelf
Coca-ColaDrinks
KO× 3 on this shelf
SpriteDrinks
KO× 3 on this shelf
SmartwaterDrinks
KO× 3 on this shelf
PepsiDrinks
PEP× 6 on this shelf
GatoradeDrinks
PEP× 6 on this shelf
Dr PepperDrinks
KDP× 2 on this shelf
SnappleDrinks
KDP× 2 on this shelf
BudweiserDrinks
BUDonce here
CoorsDrinks
TAPonce here
NespressoDrinks
NSRGYonce here
CheeriosBreakfast
GIS× 2 on this shelf
Nature ValleyBreakfast
GIS× 2 on this shelf
Frosted FlakesBreakfast
KLGonce here
Quaker OatsBreakfast
PEP× 6 on this shelf
Grape-NutsBreakfast
POSTonce here
JifBreakfast
SJMonce here
Kraft Mac & CheeseHousehold
KHC× 2 on this shelf
Heinz KetchupHousehold
KHC× 2 on this shelf
Campbell's SoupHousehold
CPBonce here
Hunt'sHousehold
CAGonce here
DuracellHousehold
BRK.Bonce here
EnergizerHousehold
ENRonce here
Kirkland SignatureHousehold
COSTonce here
Great ValueHousehold
WMTonce here
365 by Whole FoodsHousehold
AMZN× 2 on this shelf
Good & GatherHousehold
TGTonce here
Trader Joe'sHousehold
PRIVATEonce here
Amazon BasicsHousehold
AMZN× 2 on this shelf
AppleHousehold
AAPLonce here
TideCleaning
PG× 6 on this shelf
BountyCleaning
PG× 6 on this shelf
DawnCleaning
PG× 6 on this shelf
CloroxCleaning
CLX× 2 on this shelf
GladCleaning
CLX× 2 on this shelf
Arm & HammerCleaning
CHDonce here
KleenexCleaning
KMB× 2 on this shelf
ScottCleaning
KMB× 2 on this shelf
CrestBath
PG× 6 on this shelf
GilletteBath
PG× 6 on this shelf
PampersBath
PG× 6 on this shelf
ColgateBath
CLonce here
DoveBath
ULonce here
Band-AidBath
KVUE× 2 on this shelf
ListerineBath
KVUE× 2 on this shelf

Owners, by how much shelf they hold

  • PEP6
  • PG6
  • KO3
  • MDLZ3
  • AMZN2
  • GIS2
  • KHC2
  • HSY2
  • KMB2
  • CLX2
  • KDP2
  • K2
  • KVUE2
  • Mars, Incorporated2
  • COST1
  • AAPL1
  • CL1
  • CPB1
  • CAG1
  • KLG1
  • CHD1
  • POST1
  • WMT1
  • TGT1
  • BUD1
  • TAP1
  • UL1
  • NSRGY1
  • ENR1
  • SJM1
  • BRK.B1
  • Trader Joe's1

Two of them cannot be owned at any price. Mars has been family-held since 1911 and Trader Joe's sits inside a German family trust — scan those and $BPR is paid instead, because there is no share to send.

LOT 04

Ownership Facts,
printed on the side.

The one panel every shopper already knows how to read, pointed at the only ingredient nobody lists: who ends up with the money.

Ownership Facts

1 household scanned

Serving size1 shelf (56 items)

Amount per household

Companies32

% of shelf

  • PepsiCo PEP11%
  • Procter & Gamble PG11%
  • The Coca-Cola Company KO5%
  • Mondelez International MDLZ5%
  • Amazon AMZN4%
  • General Mills GIS4%
  • Kraft Heinz KHC4%
  • The Hershey Company HSY4%
  • Kimberly-Clark KMB4%
  • The Clorox Company CLX4%
  • Keurig Dr Pepper KDP4%
  • Kellanova K4%
  • Kenvue KVUE4%
  • Costco Wholesale COST2%
  • Apple AAPL2%
  • Colgate-Palmolive CL2%
  • The Campbell's Company CPB2%
  • Conagra Brands CAG2%
  • WK Kellogg Co KLG2%
  • Church & Dwight CHD2%
  • Post Holdings POST2%
  • Walmart WMT2%
  • Target TGT2%
  • Anheuser-Busch InBev BUD2%
  • Molson Coors TAP2%
  • Unilever UL2%
  • Nestlé NSRGY2%
  • Energizer Holdings ENR2%
  • The J. M. Smucker Company SJM2%
  • Berkshire Hathaway BRK.B2%
  • Not listed anywhere6%

* % of shelf is the share of scanned items whose listed parent is this company. It is not a share of what you spent, and it is emphatically not a share of the company — that part you have to be paid.

Read it the way you read the back of a cereal box.

A nutrition panel exists because the ingredients are not obvious from the front of the pack. Neither is this. The front says Tide, Bounty, Dawn, Crest, Gillette and Pampers — six brands, six aisles, six decisions. The back says Procter & Gamble, once, with your money in it.

The one nobody guesses

Duracell resolves to Berkshire Hathaway. Not a licensing deal — Berkshire bought the company outright in 2016, so the batteries in your drawer are a BRK.B holding wearing a copper top.

The one that cannot pay

Mars, Incorporated and Trader Joe's are private. There is no share to send, at any price, and the panel counts them at 6% rather than quietly leaving them out.

The one that pays today

Only 3 of these 32 have a tokenized share on Robinhood Chain right now: AMZN, COST, AAPL. The rest are mapped and waiting on a listing.

LOT 05

The reward is stock,
so the rules are boring.

Anything that pays in shares gets attacked. The defence here is mostly arithmetic: make each scan small, make the ceiling low, make every code pay exactly once — and the cleverness stops being necessary.

  1. 01

    Live camera only.

    There is no upload button. The code has to be in front of the lens, on a physical package, in the moment. A screenshot, a saved photo or a barcode on a screen cannot even be submitted.

  2. 02

    One code. One wallet. Once.

    A GTIN pays a given wallet a single time, ever. Rescanning the same shelf next week pays nothing, and neither does a second angle, a second phone or a second account on the same code.

  3. 03

    The cap is the fraud model.

    A scan is worth $0.25 and a wallet tops out at $20 without holding anything. Standing in an aisle photographing stock you do not own is a long afternoon for pocket change — a ceiling stops more abuse than any detector, and it is a rule we can publish.

  4. 04

    We never see the purchase.

    A barcode is not a receipt. There is no merchant, no total, no date and no card — nothing about where you shop or what you paid ever reaches us, because the product does not need it to work.

And the part we do not publish

Every frame is checked for the things that separate a package from a picture of one. Which things, and in what order, is not written down here. That is the point of it.

LOT 06

Three pay today.
The pantry is waiting.

A reward can only be paid in a stock that has been tokenized, and that list is short. Rather than dress it up: here is exactly what lands in a wallet this week, and here is everything mapped, resolving correctly, and waiting on somebody else to list it.

Paying out nowTokenized on Robinhood Chain

COST

Costco Wholesale

Kirkland Signature

AMZN

Amazon

365 · Amazon Basics

AAPL

Apple

Apple hardware

Mapped and waiting27 listed parents · resolves, cannot pay yet
KOThe Coca-Cola CompanyPEPPepsiCoPGProcter & GambleMDLZMondelez InternationalGISGeneral MillsKHCKraft HeinzHSYThe Hershey CompanyCLColgate-PalmoliveKMBKimberly-ClarkCLXThe Clorox CompanyCPBThe Campbell's CompanyCAGConagra BrandsKDPKeurig Dr PepperKKellanovaKLGWK Kellogg CoKVUEKenvueCHDChurch & DwightPOSTPost HoldingsWMTWalmartTGTTargetBUDAnheuser-Busch InBevTAPMolson CoorsULUnileverNSRGYNestléENREnergizer HoldingsSJMThe J. M. Smucker CompanyBRK.BBerkshire HathawayKOThe Coca-Cola CompanyPEPPepsiCoPGProcter & GambleMDLZMondelez InternationalGISGeneral MillsKHCKraft HeinzHSYThe Hershey CompanyCLColgate-PalmoliveKMBKimberly-ClarkCLXThe Clorox CompanyCPBThe Campbell's CompanyCAGConagra BrandsKDPKeurig Dr PepperKKellanovaKLGWK Kellogg CoKVUEKenvueCHDChurch & DwightPOSTPost HoldingsWMTWalmartTGTTargetBUDAnheuser-Busch InBevTAPMolson CoorsULUnileverNSRGYNestléENREnergizer HoldingsSJMThe J. M. Smucker CompanyBRK.BBerkshire Hathaway

Mars, Incorporated

No ticker

Family-held since 1911. No stock exists at any price.

Trader Joe's

No ticker

Held by the Albrecht family trust behind Aldi Nord.

LOT 07

Drag it.
Count your house.

The average home carries a few hundred branded items. Every one of them has a code on it, and every code has an owner. Here is what an inventory is worth, under the exact rule the app runs.

120
1a full kitchen400

$0.25 a code, your first pays $2.00, 20 a day, $20 in total. Holding $BPR moves the ceiling and nothing else — the rate is the same for everyone.

Inventory tagIllustrative
Items counted
120
Codes that pay
ceiling reached73
Days to scan
4
Distinct tickers
31

Paid in stock

$20.00

Mostly in

  • PEP11
  • MDLZ6
  • KO6
  • PG6
  • PRIVATE5
  • HSY4
  • K4
  • KDP2

Ticker mix is taken from the map in this build, walked in order. Your cupboard is not this tidy.

LOT 08

Same rate for everyone.
Only the ceiling moves.

Holding $BPR does not pay you more per code, and there is no tier where a scan is worth more than anyone else's. It raises how much of your own house you are allowed to finish counting.

Paper

Free · hold nothing

Per code
$0.25
Limit
20 a day
Lifetime
$20
Extra

The kitchen counter and the bathroom cabinet.

Poly

Most people

Hold 100K $BPR · 0.01% of supply

Per code
$0.25
Limit
60 a day
Lifetime
$100
Extra
Priority resolve

Enough ceiling for the whole house, garage included.

Foil

Hold 500K $BPR · 0.05% of supply

Per code
$0.25
Limit
60 a day
Lifetime
$100
Extra
Request a prefix · public shelf

Missing brand? Foil holders send it to the front of the map.

Every wallet's first code pays $2.00 on any tier. $BPR is not deployed and holdings are not yet checked against anything.

LOT 09

The obvious ones.

Asked in the order people actually ask them.

  • You get a tokenized fractional share of the listed parent, issued and custodied by a licensed third party — the same instrument, in the same wallet, whoever you are. It is a security: it moves, and it can go down. Availability depends on where you live.