ITEM Systems has released its 2025 Corporate Roadmap, detailing strategic initiatives to advance non-fungible item technology and expand market presence. Additionally, the team has identified products they seek to roll out in the coming seven months that will leverage NFIs to assert authenticity across different verticals.
Strategic Focus Areas
The ITEM Systems team outlines four primary campaigns it intends to embark over the remainder of 2025. These campaigns will leverage software and hardware to expand the footprint of NFI technology. The development team wants to provide SDKs and developer tooling, templates for dApps, and physical goods containing NFI chips, such as plastic cards and artboards.
The roadmap outlines four primary campaigns:
- Token listing and protocol support: This initiative focuses on formalizing infrastructure to facilitate production-grade deployments. Key actions include publishing comprehensive documentation, releasing TypeScript and Java SDKs for the Hash-Time Locked Signature and Integer-Locked Signature protocols, implementing firmware lockdowns, updating registries for retail products, and enhancing contracts to support new features.
- Intelligence and tooling: ITEM Systems plans to support community proliferation by offering a subsidized developer version of its product, complete with quickstart documentation, SDKs for HTLS and ILS protocols, and dApp templates to streamline integration.
- Brand and experience: The company aims to address issues of authenticity in art and collectibles through its smArtBoard product—a multi-ply artboard designed to be price-competitive while providing self-sovereign authenticity features and dApp integrations.
- Retail products: Efforts will be directed toward introducing wallet components to ITEM Systems’ toolkits, enabling user registration, interaction caching, and social profiles across the product stack. Additionally, the AeroGlyph card, previously utilized in events like TOKEN2049 Singapore and WebX in 2024, will be distributed to support applications within the ITEM Systems ecosystem.
Market Applications
Since 2023, the ITEM Systems team has deployed its digitally and physically intertwined technology at events and through several collaborations. Examples include the DENVER WALLS mural festival, Hobby Hangout trading card show, the town of Santos, Brazil, and premiere cryptocurrency conferences like TOKEN2019, Consensus, and Paris Blockchain Week.
After these various events that showcased several different proofs-of-concept of NFI usage, ITEM Systems has identified three key verticals where the team believes NFI technology can be effectively applied:
- Experiential and gaming: Enhancing self-custodial features in scavenger hunts and GameFi configurations, with plans to introduce new NFI configurations and partnerships for more immersive experiences.
- Secure access control: Building upon the OneBand ring concept introduced at Consensus 2023, the company seeks to explore applications in fractional real estate and timesharing.
- Art, luxury goods, and collectibles: Leveraging cryptographic authenticity to transform the lifecycle of physical assets, providing secure digital links and mechanisms to counteract illicit secondary markets.
Several of the team’s outreach initiatives will involve tapping into these verticals and industries over the remainder of 2025.
Upcoming Engagement
An AMA session is scheduled for early June, offering ecosystem participants and interested individuals an opportunity to engage directly with the ITEM Systems team.
The full announcement can be found at the link below:
https://obj.item.systems/IS_Roadmap_2025.pdf
